Warhammer Online, one of the most anticipation mmo this year. In a post of mmogamer, Steven Crews shared his impressions of Warhammer Online. "You only get one chance to make a first impression." He said.

You only get one chance to make a first impression..

It was August of last year when I got my first good look at Warhammer Online, after being dispatched to cover it during Games Day LA¡­ which was actually not in LA at all, but in Ontario, a city about as far away from LA as you can get before you start running into the guys from Deliverance.

In the interest of full disclosure, I had perhaps not been following the game's development as closely as I should have, considering the fact that I was about to conduct a twenty minute interview on the subject.

Aside from a brief stopover at the official site to sign up for beta, I had, in fact, purposefully tried to not look at any screenshots, watch any videos, or read so much as a single article regarding the game, anywhere.

This was not for any lack of interest in my part. WAR was, and continues to be, one of my most eagerly anticipated games. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, launch day will undoubtedly find me logging in the moment the live servers come up for the first time.

Rather, it was due to a policy I'd been forced to adopt after a number of..incidents.. in which my high hopes for certain games¡ªwhich shall remain nameless¡ªwere subsequently dashed by the cold truths of harsh reality.

As a result, I now make it a point to not believe a single shred of hype surrounding a game until I've logged in to see it in action for myself.

This policy has served me well as a gamer; I can never be disappointed if I have no preconceived expectations to be broken. But, I now found it was not serving me particularly well as I walked into an interview blind, with only a list of generalist questions in my head and the hope that more specifics would come to me once I'd gotten some game time under my belt.

Still, I decided that I could turn this situation to my advantage. How many opportunities does one have to offer up a truly genuine, unsullied first impression on a title of Warhammer's caliber?

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