Choas Chosen (Tank)

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is an MMORPG based on the Warhammer Fantasy world from Games Workshop. You chose a race on one of two sides; Order (comprised of The Empire, the Dwarfs, and the High Elves) or Chaos (Greenskins, Chaos, and Dark Elves).  Both sides offer the same basic careers (classes), but these are heavily distinguished between races as well such as Sorcerers  for the Dark Elves, or Engineers for the Empire, with some very specialized abilities, as with other games, engineers can deploy turrets and other fortifications, sorcerers on the other hand are able to heavy damage to their enemies at the risk of killing themselves. Character customization in Warhammer Online isn’t overly extensive, but you can add tattoos and other miscellany to your character to help distinguish you from the rest. Combat is at the heart of Warhammer Online, and engaging in battle is the main way to level in Warhammer Online.

Orc Choppa from Warhammer Online

The singleplayer quests in Warhammer Online are fairly varied and entertaining at times (in one a Goblin asks you to save him by finding an alternate source of food for a ravenous Orc), but after a few they begin to feel generic, but luckily they’re never predictable. The rewards for quests in Warhammer Online make them worth doing (some of the best armour is rewarded by quests), but the main reason to do them is to get the titles added to your name that come with success, such as “The Fearless”. On the other hand, the multiplayer quests are Warhammer Online’s strongpoint. The game lets you join any quest being completed by players at any stage (if level appropriate), and the more you do in that quest, the greater the share of loot you get upon completion, the battles in these quests are intense and chaotic, and very entertaining, and every quest is altered to make it seem like a new quest, which keeps the game fresh and interesting.

Human Runepriest

Combat in Warhammer online is superb, early on in the game a quest encourages you to join one of the games high action PVP scenarios, and once enough players have signed up to the quest, your spirited away to the battlefield, where you’ll compete against other teams of players in traditional game modes like Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, King of the Hill, and every other classic mode available.

Warhammer Online is one of the best looking MMO games to date, and has been optimized to run on a huge variety of machines. The animations aren’t always smooth, but the textures are vibrant and detailed to make up for it. Warhammer Online has excellent particle effects, that brighten the world and really engage you with the combat. Overall, Warhammer Online is a fresh offering to the MMO genre, and removes a lot of the grind associated with other MMO games, the combat is always chaotic, and is always fun, I would recommend it to anyone just starting off in the MMO game world.