This Game is a worth a look, if you are a fan of MMORPG this game should be played

User Rating: 9.5 | Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning PC
By Yenkin | Review Date:
It is hard to talk about the bad things in Warhammer. Quite frankly the only fault I can find so far in my brief stint playing is the annoying fact that you have to acknowledge the EULA every time you log on. As well as sit through the opening splash screens. You should at least be able to hit Esc after the first time through.

If you have played Wow, EQ, LOTRO and other online role playing game jumping into the game is a breeze. Create a character from one of two sides; select a character race and class. Fill in a few details on how your character should look then hit play. You are popped into your races beginning area, talk to the guy with the book over his head and start playing.

While most of us who play MMORPG, will recognize the usual array of Kill "X", Go Talk to "Y" type of quests in the PvE quest lines of the game. This game is about PvP or in Warhammer terms RvR Realm Vs. Realm. Once you do a couple of beginner quests you are quickly immersed into your first RvR battle.

Talk about easy to get into unlike wow where you have to find a Battlemaster, here you just click the icon, join the queue and when it is your turn you are teleported to the appropriate instance. Another feature I like when you are done, you are put back to the spot where you joined.

You can earn renown and experience on the battlefield killing the opposite faction. With enough renown items will open up and you can start equipping your fledgling warrior with better equipment. The third piece of the game is the public quests, what a great idea.

Public quests are areas where you just walk in and start working on the quest. They are a series of harder and harder encounters eventually leading up to the Ultimate Bad Guy mob. As you play the public quest you accumulate contribution points. If you have a full bar of contribution points when the bad guy drops you get a nice item. The more contribution the nicer the item how cool is that. Not only that you can drop by the Rally Master and pick out an item as well.

There are so many things right with this game I would have trouble giving anything less than 10, however for some reason my Video Card loses its digital signal and resets now and again, not really horrible but can take me out of play for 10 – 15 seconds while the machine auto detects the card and goes on. This could be a simple driver issue, or I will just go out and upgrade the video card.
Either way this is a keeper

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