The verdict is from Gameplayer's MMO expert on this contendor for World of Warcraft's genre crown and the vibe is quite positive. In particular the site praises the realm vs. realm combat system and the public quest feature.
"Now we have Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, sporting the supremely apt acronym WAR. At first glance this game looks like a WoW clone if ever there was one, but it's not long before its differences become readily apparent. You see, the entire meta-goal within your WAR experience is the Realm versus Realm, or RvR, conflict between the forces of Order and Destruction."
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.
I picked up war a week ago and it has been a very fun casual gaming experience for me. I don't have alot of time on my hands between work and family but I find it very relaxing to hop on for an hour or two and just RVR and do a public quest or two.
Its entertaining and fun and I am in no big rush to power through the game like I have seen a few others doing.
If your just looking for an entertaining experience I highly recommend giving this game a go, read the quests also, don't just accept and
"pound them out" because they are often very funny.
In one quest I had to go into the town right outside the starting area and just bring the rain on this small village of humans (I was a marauder, a mutating badass).
The public quest system is awesome. I really don't like having to communicate with people to play a game. I just want to play, but WoW really began to suck around level 20 when you went solo. WAR allows you to be solo even when you are doing group tasks.