Warhammer is special for the flexibility it provides its players.
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

There are WAR players who have barely touched a player-vs.-player (PvE) quest and are playing solely on the frontlines via RvR combat. And this is a realm-vs.-realm (RvR) game at heart -- the various races are constantly fighting over contested territory in a never-ending struggle for supremacy. With that comes the responsibility of killing enemy players in these contested zones. The fights are frantic, confusing, intense, vicious and most importantly, a hell of a lot of fun. Charging headlong into a wall of Dwarfs with your screaming Black Orc and several Greenskin buddies is about as good as MMOs get. You can play the entire game, literally, by sticking to the designated RvR areas or by playing instanced "Scenarios" in which you must also kill enemy players.

Like much of the game, though, server population plays a huge factor in the amount of fun you'll have. RvR combat is great if you play on a popular sever, and it's worth waiting in line in order to play on a high-population server. Without that heavy population, and since the game world is huge, many designated RvR zones are completely barren. It's sort of sad-looking, really, when you wander into an area that should be teeming with players only to see a couple of enemies. In one admittedly funny situation, I wandered into an RvR zone, came across an enemy Dwarf player, and we looked at each other and decided, "Why bother?" In other zones, the action is hot and heavy, but a lot of people are opting to play the 15-minute scenarios in order to earn their Renown bonuses. This is less of a problem on high-population servers -- if you are into RvR you should steer clear of low-population servers at all cost.