My impressions so far:

Graphix: The overall graphics are pretty good. Nothing special though but better then WoW for example. The landscapes are kind of bland in some area's.

Sound/Music: Nothing special but does the job.

Animations: Character animations and combat animations are sub par in my opinion. Combat looks like battle chess. That disapointed me. Furthermore animations in the distance are really choppy.

Classes: Classes are pretty nice overall. Order needs some more oompf to make it more popular. They should ad the Slayer and Knight of the white wolf or Knights Panther for order to make order more "cool".

Combat: Not that great. Together with the animations it feels clunky and slow. I dont like the same GC on all abilities. I would like to see some more variation on cooldowns.

PVE: Nothing special. he PQ  en Tome of knowledge system brings some orginality to the game. I like that part very much.

PVP:  They did that right IMO. It has some really strong points. I am somewhat curious if the endgame city capturing will work.

Chat/Gui: They could really approve the chat system. I like the GUI though.

Technical: Sometimes the game crashes when I log out.

Why do I have to accept terms of service every time I log in. Its annoying as hell!!!

Overall the game is pretty good but nothing special.

BOOORRRINNGGG!!!!!!!!!

Wheres the bitching whining moaning grunting elaboration in how horrible everything is.........

Just because your name is 'yellowstain', doesn't mean your posts have to live up to that mantle....

way to change the topic ... were not talking about me were talking about this lame honest review that doesnt help anyone decide anything.

Honest evaluation:

I like the game. The pvp is fun!

In mmo's I hate the grind.......oh well...at least I can grind with pvp.

ill need a few more weeks of playing till i can come to any conclusion ......its a mixed bag at the minute..but this realm v realm i(great)s what DAOC should have been when they made that but couldnt quite do it it those days

As many people say animations do need optimizing. The thing that is annoying me most is the fact that when i fight a mob and it will use knock back this mob will always stuck and i cannot hit it... this happens some times without the knock back mobs get stuck all the time ....

other than that this game is to much fun for me it reminds me the first time i played wow when i was online all the time! :)

I agree with you. But of all post-WoW period games I think WAR might be one that might turn out good. What stuns me in WAR is that it reminds me lot of WoW, in positive sense. Public Quests are great idea, so is PvP scenarios in low level and its pretty solid game. There is no big bugs and stuff like was in AoC. I have to say so far experiment has been very good, lot of fun and lot of stuff to do.

There is one diffrence between wow and warhammer, Warhammer has the potential to be great... wow was great... but never will be again.

I'd love to know what you consider "special", personally I found your review pretty bland.

Originally posted by Bodde

My impressions so far:

Graphix: The overall graphics are pretty good. Nothing special though but better then WoW for example. The landscapes are kind of bland in some area's.

I think the graphics are pretty good. If you aim too high like say VG you rule out alot of players

Sound/Music: Nothing special but does the job.

I thought the sound/music to be quite good, music does not drone on and on all the time and playing as Greenskin you hear some great banter going on... "Shut it git face". It helps make the NPC world less waxwork.

Animations: Character animations and combat animations are sub par in my opinion. Combat looks like battle chess. That disapointed me. Furthermore animations in the distance are really choppy.

The issue here is probably due to compromises being made for RvR i.e loads of people on screen. The choppy distance animations do spoil a bit but perhaps a price worth paying?

Classes: Classes are pretty nice overall. Order needs some more oompf to make it more popular. They should ad the Slayer and Knight of the white wolf or Knights Panther for order to make order more "cool".

Not branched out much yet, not sure if I should "taste it all in one sitting or not"

Combat: Not that great. Together with the animations it feels clunky and slow. I dont like the same GC on all abilities. I would like to see some more variation on cooldowns.

Combat can feel slower than say..WOW but I found combat engaging so far. Compared to VG (again) which felt wooden and dull WAR combat is quite robust.

PVE: Nothing special. he PQ  en Tome of knowledge system brings some orginality to the game. I like that part very much.

While in total agreement with you one must take into account of where we are on the evolutionary scale of things. Until we have Quantum, or Biochemical processors and fibre optics in every house we are not going to see anything revolutionary, it's like the music industry there comes a point when there are no new combinations of notes!

Tome of Knowledge is brilliant idea

Public quests are another brilliant innovation, might become a pain but they are voluntary

PVP:  They did that right IMO. It has some really strong points. I am somewhat curious if the endgame city capturing will work.

Indeed, well put. Strong points include: RvR (BG) etc from the word go. Level adjustment in RvR combat to give you better matching stats, but not skills/spells so you still have an advantage over a lower player.

Chat/Gui: They could really approve the chat system. I like the GUI though.

Agreed.

Technical: Sometimes the game crashes when I log out.

I see a few annoying bugs that need attention; Squigs vanish and then come back later, HP bar hides itself, but reveals on mouseover at random intervals (not a feature I hope), mob pathing/location fixing.

Why do I have to accept terms of service every time I log in. Its annoying as hell!!!

Arrrrggggh.... But they have spoken about this issue and are working on it, but for now it stays --it's a legal issue --

 

Overall the game is pretty good but nothing special.

I rate it very good and evolutionary