Takes the RPG out of MMORPG

User Rating: 7 | Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning PC
Everything outside PVP is ZZzzzzZ. There's a complete lack of orginality in the game world. Every tier and zone looks the same. Just the aesthetics are different. IE Grass here, snow over there, green trees here, black trees over there, warcamp with orcs here, warcamp with elves over there. I think Mythic just copied and pasted one tier into 16 tiers and then changed the textures. There's no motivation at all for exploration. Because if you've seen one tier you've pretty much seen them all.

PVE whilst not being terrible is unorginal. It's WOW pve but without the interesting scenery and seamless area transition which didn't break up immersion. There's no dungeons so there's no way to actually group up with people and socialise. And there's no social hubs. the game world does not feel majestic because everything is segregated into tiers which leads to a unfathomable sense of organization but also seperation. MOBS are mostly all the same. IE Oppising races with a few random mobs thrown in here and there.

Itimization is boring. Everyone looks the same. And there's a lack of items to actually pick and choose from and customize your character with.

Visually the game is sub par. Especially in the animations department. One aspect I enjoyed of WOW was watching PVP videos. But I don't see this really taking off with WAR, as the presentation of this game is fairly abysmal. WAR pvp videos are just not visually pleasing to watch.

PVP is fun.. But again even PVP has its faults. All through t2, 95% of the time all that was played was Mourkhan Temple. T3 = TA. It is enjoyable tp PVP but at the moment this is simply WOW arena. RVR? from what I've seen of Outside RVR it was overhyped big time.

Music, there's a complete lack of music in this video game which only contributes to lack of immersion. To sum it up imagine watching LOTR without any music at all.

Anyway /rant off. The game needs a very content packed expansion imo to make it interesting to play.