Because it's WAR - and WAR never changes.
I have played Lineage 2 for quite a while, have tried World of Warcraft and also tried Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Not too many, but again I guess enough to judge or at least compare this to previous names. I am not going to go too deep in the review - I will just try to give you a taste of what the game is like through my looking glass.
The strength of a great on-line game is I guess is it's ability to suck in more and more players. To do thins careful decisions have to be made on not only the style of the game, but on it's system requirements and as it seems on the data of it's arrival - which was a little unfortunate in this case.
Warhammer online is centered around war. The main strength of the game is PvP, or to be a little more precise, RvR where the two realms - Order and Destruction battle against each other. Part of the Achievement system, the whole Renown levels are centered around this, not to mention the very important RvR regions of the map and the so called "Scenarios" that I guess just hit the bull's-eye on massive RvR gameplay.
I have not played too much of the scenarios, but I guess most people would agree that they are definitely one of the most fun to play parts of the game. You can apply to Scenario queues using a red WAR icon on you HUD. There you will given the choice to select from a number of available Scenarios - and when enough players apply for that game, you are teleported to the battlefield, that is kind of like a team dathmatch or a Capture the Flag. It's incredibly fun to play.
There are also a large number of quests in the game. I am only level 9, but I already have an Achievement reward "The Quest Hunter" - that you get when you have completed 100 quests. These achievements you can set as your title in game, and they will appear under your name for all other players to see.
Another unique part of the game is your Book - the Tome of Knowledge that stores everything you can lay your eyes upon. The beasts you have encountered, your achivements, your rewards, the current and closed quests, everything you saw and you unlocked in game. It is kind of fun just to riffle through.
Now for a little technical part. As I said, the game was intended to run on most computers, and you can tell that if you try to play.
The sounds are OK, but nothing special, just as with the graphics.
The game runs great, but that's that.
Loading times are surprisingly low [maybe it's just my PC, but it's 1 year old already]. After a few clicks I am already in game. Here I could choose a race I wanted to play, and a profession and could do a little customisation that was quite satisfying to my taste. By the way, you can get special dyes in game, with which you can dye your clothes/armor to different colors - another way to customise your character.
The server I joined, that is a core server for beginners was not too overpopulated and if that is considered a popular server, I wonder if the others would feel empty.....
Anyway - I am sure I will spend a lot of time playing this game.
Recommend: I would definitely recommend this game to anyone new to MMOs.
Also Recommend: I would recommend this game to people who are playing or have played other MMOs, and want a taste of a PvP [RvR] oriented RPG.
The game is just centered around WAR... because, you know - WAR never changes.