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Warhammer Online release date announced
Another fantasy MMORPG that’s hoping to recreate the runaway success of World of Warcraft
With its 25-year-old back story of various battles between orcs, elves and dwarves that’s been relived on the dining tables of teenage boys since 1983, it’s amazing that Games Workshop’s Warhammer Fantasy Battle world has been such a latecomer to the MMORPG party. However, EA has now announced that the eagerly anticipated Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is now on schedule for release on 18 September this year.
Rather than the usual player vs player systems, Warhammer Online adds a twist to the genre in the form of Realm vs Realm gameplay. This means that you’re never playing alone, as you’ll have an army of allied players to help you out. Your task will be to defend your Realm’s homeland, and eventually ‘join the siege of your opposing Realm's capital city.’
There’s now an air of excitement at the Mythic Entertainment studio where the game was developed, in conjunction with Orange’s game division, GOA. ‘Mark your calendars,’ exclaimed Mythic’s founder and general manager, Mark Jacobs, ‘September 18th is the Day of Reckoning.’ He added that ‘For the last three years, the entire team at Mythic has poured their hearts into making Warhammer Online the next great MMORPG. We are so excited to open up this world and share it with the fans that will live in it, quest in it, go to war in it and make it come alive.’
The standard retail version of the game will cost £39.69, which will include a 30-day subscription. On top of that, a further month will cost £10.31, three months will set you back £28.55 and six months will cost £52.34. As well as this, 60-day pre-paid Game Card packs for the game will be available from game retailers for £23.81.
Meanwhile, you can also get a head start if you can’t wait until 18 September, as from 28 August you’ll be able to pre-order the game. This pre-order edition of the game comes with a Warhammer Online Live Game Head Start key, which will get you access to the Warhammer Online world before the official release date, although we don’t know when you’ll be allowed on yet.
For more details, check out the Warhammer Online website, as well as the screenshots and trailer below.
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Um they have Sci-Fi ones There Tersila and Stargate (one im not sure what its called) also Matrix and EVE. RF is what ever you make of it it can be guns and meca or swords and sorcory but you know i think its just The old world is a good one (i wouldnt say no to a 40k version though)
Comment by Cool_CR at 5:59pm 5th September 2008
when will thay i mean all game makers stop making fanatsy mmorpg and get some grate sci-fi ones out there
Comment by russel_williams at 2:57pm 9th August 2008
yup, i have been waiting for this to come out, hope it plays well and im sure it will look great, i wonder how the combat will compare to Age of Conan, & World of Warcraft. God i love Dwarfs, Watch out Greenskins!!
Comment by blazinglory at 10:06pm 7th August 2008
I'm going to play down my excitement. Every new game gets hyped to death. I sure hope this is better than AoC. That was released unfinished.
Comment by Warrior24_7 at 7:42pm 7th August 2008
as the title says I'm in the closed beta and the game is close to wow but much better at getting you invloved in the whole war background, just hope they dont do a character wipe :o)
Comment by rikki at 5:23pm 6th August 2008
damn i love this game, got into it much easier that WoW. Beta characters only exist for the beta, so they'll be wiped of course.
Comment by malfranks2 at 10:04pm 6th August 2008
I have been trying to get into the who MMO scene for years now, but the right game/story/style and so forth has never been there for me. But i've always loved the lore of Warhammer, I like games with massive battles, the graphics look fantastic... this might be the one game that gets me into the MMO world. Then again, it may well just be a complete let down for me, again, just like AoC, WoW, Guild Wars, Lineage and all the others before it. http://diesellives.blogspot.com
Comment by mitchell2k7 at 9:58pm 6th August 2008
We've been sitting on that for about a month. And of course they will do a character wipe....sheesh people wake up.
Comment by Rkiver at 9:01pm 6th August 2008
as the title says I'm in the closed beta and the game is close to wow but much better at getting you invloved in the whole war background, just hope they dont do a character wipe :o)
Comment by rikki at 5:23pm 6th August 2008
Im fairly interested in this. Although Conan is very pretty with all its realistic water, etc (had to upgrade the PC though!) I still find I miss Warcraft. There was just something about the game I dont get from Conan. This could be the game then that gives me a 'true' alternative to WOW. Judging by the screenshots its wont be as much of a PC killer either. Maybe now WO:AOR has a release date Blizzard might give us something official on Lich King?
Comment by pveater at 3:52pm 6th August 2008
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