WAR is a game, rather than a lifestyle.
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

This is not to, in any way, devalue those people who plough many more hours a week into WAR, head their own 100 player guild and who arrived at Rank 40 two weeks ago. It's just that we can't review that hardcore experience of WAR, because that's not how we played it. This is, in effect, a review for those who are up for a good game no matter what shape it comes in but are probably a little hesitant when it comes to monthly subscription fees.

Rather than recapping all the basics of WAR, allow us to gently prod you in the direction the first impressions posted a few weeks ago. While there have been constant tweaks and updates since then, it's still fundamentally the same game. It's a very young MMORPG, just nudging 6 weeks old at the time of writing, but that's certainly enough time to get a good sense of where WAR is heading.

So while the edifice that is WAR is the same for everyone, it's quite possible for any two players to experience it in vastly different ways. Further than that, it's extremely likely that anyone playing WAR will have wildly different experiences from day to day. Monday evening could be an 8, Tuesday afternoon a 6, Friday night a 9, followed by a depressing 5 on Saturday morning. What, then, does that number down the bottom actually mean? Let's call it the number that indicates what kind of experience most people are most likely to have, more often than not. In this case, we're going to consider 'most people' to be those who can generally spare 10 or so hours a week to put into the game, who have a friend or two that they might play alongside every now and again.