Game Focus writes: "Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has finally been released and at a great time for many MMORPG players. If they finally tired of the fast click action of Age of Conan or their hundredth raid in World of Warcraft they now have a new rich and exciting game to play, but there are two main points I have to stress before I go down with the actual review."
Pros
+ Its WARHAMMER!!!!
+ Took the best RvR from Dark Age of Camelot and brought it into Warhammer
+ Game runs very stable and at a very high frame rate
+ Very stable game, never crashes
+ Once the game pace picks up, it becomes very fun and well designed
+ Great level design work for most of the game
+ Audio is well done but we need more voice work
+ Public quests are fantastic
+ General quests are great
+ You can solo and still contribute to the side you have chosen
+ Mini-Games (shoot the scorpion/ballista or cannon) are fun, but a bit too basic
+ Some very funny moments from launching yourself to the top of a castle via a catapult to exploring a tower with your friends, the game has plenty
+ You do not level super fast and hit the end game in a few days like oh so many newer MMORPGs
+ Achievements, bragging rights, titles, detailed in game book, great map, UI editor and so many more cool and wonderful things about the game.
+ Launch was very stable and any bugs are killed very quickly
Cons
- Game starts out slow for every race, but after a few hours it opens up and becomes fairly fun
- Graphics remind me too much of World of Warcraft for overall art design, which is not surprising as WoW stole much from the Warhammer Universe, but I was hoping for a more unique look so basically the game is not that pretty
- Many characters look the same as you do at earlier levels
- Sometimes you have to wait way too long to kill a key mob to continue a quest if the area is full of players
- More dungeons are needed
- Realm versus Realm is excellent but the "Timmy's" can ruin a good fight
Let nostalgia take you back to the lands you once roamed until they were cruelly taken offline and away from us. MMOGames list the top 10 MMOs that died and left us with a hole in our hearts.
I agree when it comes to The Sims Online. That game was really fun and nothing has even come close to it. I still crave a new Sims with online multiplayer. Blows my mind they haven't done anything like that since The Sims Online or even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2.
Kevin from Denkiphile: "The first I’d ever heard of Titan was at the height of my World of Warcraft career, which was also the same time that several games, touted as WoW-killers, came onto the market and failed miserably. It made sense to me at the time that the only thing that could kill WoW was Blizzard themselves, but this also eventually changed with the advent of session-based, microtransaction-supported games like League of Legends. Titan was supposed to revolutionize and revitalize the MMO genre, but it certainly was not the first to crash and burn before its first flight. Here are some MMOs whose ambitions flew them too close to the sun."
The closing of multiplayer services can happen for a number of reasons. Sometimes there just aren’t enough people using a product to justify keeping it running while in others it could be down to complicated legal wrangling, like expiring licensing agreements, or even a desire to bring out a new installment.
One thing is clear though – many of these discontinued games simply don’t deserve to die, to be cut down in their prime leaving players without a viable alternative and waste all that time the audience invested in them. With that in mind, this article will count down the 12 games least deserving of being shut down, the ones that players the world over wished had kept going.
