Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Hands-on
Date: 08-06-2008 Views:
KeyWord: Warhammer Online, WAR, MMO, EA
Summary: The website of Gamesradar has released an article of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, which developed by the renowned game company EA Mythic. EA Mythic has more than a little planned for WAR, and while you'll definitely recognize some elements from MMOs past...
Game Overview | Armies of WAR | Game Backstory | Zone Overview

Mount Gunbad is located in the Marshes of Madness, an area that was once a necromatic empire of the Morcane, but is now overrun by goblins. Longtime fans of the Warhammer series will see how the lore influences the stories behind the dungeons and the content within them. Here in Mount Gunbad, the atmosphere is a classic dark and cavernous setting, which seems fitting for our introductory dungeon. Each of the wings is governed by a theme of sorts, meaning you'll encounter different enemy types in each area. In this first wing, we're fighting night goblins and spiders, but Amatangelo tells me that we'll start seeing trolls and undead pop up in later wings.

While two people wouldn't actually be able to run this dungeon alone (thanks, invincibility cheat!), we're not as far from the requirement as you might expect: EA Mythic has designed the dungeons so that the maximum number of people you'll need to successfully complete them will be six. Bales explains, "We wanted to lower the barrier to entry so more people can enjoy the content that we have to offer. I've got a family, and many other people here [at EA Mythic] do as well, and we know how difficult it is to commit the time. Even if the dungeon crawl itself isn't several hours, the process of getting 40 people together can be a multi-hour experience, and we just didn't feel our game needed that."

After checking out some of the creatures in Mount Gunbad, including risen undead and redeye mixas, we reach the final section. Each wing of a dungeon has a boss at the end, and at the final stage of the dungeon, you'll enter a room and encounter the six-man end boss. In Mount Gunbad, this is a giant squig (a big fleshy ball with two gigantic mouths crammed with super-sharp teeth); he happens to have a Morcane artifact nearby that powers him up. That Morcane artifact also provides you with the boss battle's main challenge: if you let the squig stay too close to it he'll become empowered to erupt projectile vomit and other equally lovely substances, but keep him away too long and he becomes enraged, upping his damage-dealing level. It requires a careful balancing act to finally take him out.

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