Computer and Video Games has posted a preview of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. If you can fight your way through the huge number of flash ads, it's worth the time. Starting the article with the eye popping "Has World of Warcraft met its match", the preview seeks to answer:
The time has come to take off the training wheels. Massively multiplayer roleplaying games, from EverQuest to World of Warcraft, from Guild Wars to Lord of the Rings Online and everything in between, have become the definitive PC genre.
Yet most of the new ones feel like clones; merely the next incremental step. We've yet to see a truly next-generation massively multiplayer game - a game that binds epic quests, amazing landscapes, deep and rich character development - and really funny hats - with the potential for huge battles between opposing factions.
Until now.
Enjoy!
