Now I'm not a crazy MMO fan, but I do enjoy the games. I've played a fair amount of both WoW and CoH, but I've been watching a particular game as of late.

Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning (long name eh?) might become my most looked forward to game of 2008. Not because I particularly have any great fanaticism with Warhammer, but because the game looks fantastic.

By far the best part of this game is the class diversity. Of course in ever race there is a tank, a spellcaster, and then a ranged class or a buffer. But the thing is, even the Tank is different from normal Tanks in some way. What Warhammer Online is doing is effectively allowing every race to have the same Class that shares a basic principle but a lot of variability.

Of course it has the standard MMO stuff, with a big emphasis on PVP and their motto "War is all around you" and seems to be, balance wise, pretty solid.

On a stylistic note, the Chaos army has to have some of the coolest and most original looking characters in the whole game. The Chaos Marauder might possibly be the greatest character class I've ever seen. Not to mention that the spellcaster gets to fly around on a demonic disk the whole time. Cool!

I very much look forward to the game, and by my estimation it won't end up being one of those "looks great but plays awful" projects. As a testament to that, check out some of the podcasts and informational videos. Check it out!

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