Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Reviews

A couple more reviews of Mythic’s Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning reached the ‘net over the weekend. First up is Voodoo Extreme, where they cover character levels 21-30 and award that particular segment of the game a 4.5/5:

Mount Gunbad, WAR’s lowest level dungeon, is an ideal place to go to deck yourself out in level 20-30 blue and grape con drops. Pretty much all of the mobs are either champion or hero caliber, so you need at least a full group to take on the more interesting challenges inside. There are a bunch of higher-than-normal exp quests for Gunbad as well, so as long as your healers aren’t busy picking mushrooms when they should be keeping people alive, it’s a great place to take a break from the everyday grind. The dungeon looting system is the same as public quests, so it’s in your best interest to do your best if you want a bigger roll modifier (and a better chance to win something tasty from the golden chest at the end of each stage). Another little twist is that Mt. Gunbad is open to all of the realms, so besides encountering harder than usual monsters, you might run across better build groups of enemy characters also.

Then there’s Big Download, which doesn’t appear to have given a score:

The game’s short list of weaknesses does little to keep players from falling deep into the world of WAR, where there’s near non-stop action. There’s so much to do and the game’s interconnected features are all within easy access. Nothing about the game feels like an endless grind that we often experience with other MMO’s. The careers are well balanced, and even though low hit point characters still crumble under the onslaught of melee types, every character makes a major contribution to the success of RvR skirmishes. In short, WAR is everywhere, and we can’t help getting caught up in it.