The Warhammer mythos is one that was spawned from table top miniature combat.
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

Many hours were spent painting armies of finely detailed 25mm lead alloy figures to fight them over equally detailed terrain. The Warhammer World was always going to be a natural for transitioning onto the PC gaming platform, however intial forays were restricted to standard wargame and strategy games. The release of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning marks the first move to online gaming.It has been years in development by EA Mythic, and it has been eagerly anticipated by Warhammer and MMO fans alike. It is fair to say that a lot of this has been driven by players seeking an alternative to Blizzard's hugely successful World of Warcraft.

Installation for our copy of the game was a nightmare, and an inexcusable nightmare at that. A trawl through the internet revealed that this was not an uncommon problem, and after a new version of the patch executable together with a 200MB update we were finally into the game. The absence of a robust game loader is inexcusable.

In doing this review we are aware that there are fundamental differences between the games, but it is necessary to compare where similarities do exist - if only to add to the debate on whether this is the "WoW-killer" that fans claim it to be.It's worth noting that this game has had a lot of build up.