Personally, as a long time fan of the Warhammer universe, and a player of the Warhammer RPG and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, I'm pretty disappointed by what I've seen of Warhammer Online. The colorful cartoon art style is clearly derived from Warcraft and just looks way wrong for Warhammer to me. In addition, the focus on Goblinoids and Dwarves, and the fact that Skaven are not a playable race is a huge disappointment. Everything I've seen so far of Warhammer seems like the entire game is being designed around market research and focus groups to be as much like Warcraft as it possibly can. Mythic is going to have to do something more than "looks just like Warcraft, only the PvP is from DaoC!" to make me think they are doing the Warhammer franchise any justice.
Go look up some screenshots of the upcoming Warhammer: Mark of Chaos RTS if you want to see art and atmosphere by a company that is being true to Warhammer.
You for real? It would take forever for WHO to get 6 million users like WOW. (even though I only played trial of WOW, the vid of WHO is no near as good gamepaly as WOW).
It wont get near as GW with 2 million users, but thats what I think.
Comments
Personally, as a long time fan of the Warhammer universe, and a player of the Warhammer RPG and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, I'm pretty disappointed by what I've seen of Warhammer Online. The colorful cartoon art style is clearly derived from Warcraft and just looks way wrong for Warhammer to me. In addition, the focus on Goblinoids and Dwarves, and the fact that Skaven are not a playable race is a huge disappointment. Everything I've seen so far of Warhammer seems like the entire game is being designed around market research and focus groups to be as much like Warcraft as it possibly can. Mythic is going to have to do something more than "looks just like Warcraft, only the PvP is from DaoC!" to make me think they are doing the Warhammer franchise any justice.
Go look up some screenshots of the upcoming Warhammer: Mark of Chaos RTS if you want to see art and atmosphere by a company that is being true to Warhammer.
Warhammer will put EQ2 under and will take some people om WoW, but it sure wont end it.
BTW, those gameplay movies look just like WOW, cartoon graphics and all.
You for real? It would take forever for WHO to get 6 million users like WOW. (even though I only played trial of WOW, the vid of WHO is no near as good gamepaly as WOW).
It wont get near as GW with 2 million users, but thats what I think.