I really like the potential of this game. If the developers had put a bit more effort into this, this series could go toe-to-toe with the best strategy games out there. Of course, the problem is that the effort was a half-hearted one. I personally do not regret the purchase, but I do hope that Namco will give up the Warhammer license and allow another developer/publisher to have a crack at it.
First, the good things. The game looks great. A lot of care has been taken in the making of models and environments. The gritty Warhammer world comes out clearly in the visuals. The voice acting is pretty good as well. I like the hero dynamics and the big battles, even though they have a chaotic mob feel to them. The game ships with a number of maps, so you can play skirmishes after finishing the campaign, which is focused on the two new races (orcs and dark elves). I found the game to be very stable on my computer, which is not always the case with PC games nowadays.
Okay, the stuff that I didn’t like. Where to begin: Unit animations, while improved over the original game, still do not give you the sense that visceral combat is taking place. Also, there is a lack of gameplay modes in single-player (just the campaign and skirmish). While the campaign is decent, it is quite hard in several missions, even on the normal difficulty level. And you cannot save the game within a mission. Thus, if you fail a mission (and you will), you have to start over. A map editor did not ship with the game, thus modding is not really supported. The game just feels a bit sterile and empty in other ways that are hard to describe.
After having played games such as Battle for Middle Earth 2 and Dawn of War, this game left me frustrated about all of its unrealized potential. The developer has not been known for releasing many patches or providing other support, so I do not imagine that the game will be improved upon in the future.
If you liked the original game (Mark of Chaos), Battle March is more of the same. There is not much here for those, like me, who primarily play single-player beyond the campaign. The game can be played on-line, but I am not sure that there’s much of a community. In sum, there are better strategy games out there.
3.5 stars
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The designers of this game did everything that they could to make it fun. Unfortunately, you cannot dictate fun to people who play online. It is a good game with nice features and exciting realm versus realm fighting. But the rules are rather restrictive, the end game fighting is repetitive. Most nights the ‘war’ is an endless excersise in keep-swapping with zergs basically chasing each other’s tails. I had hoped to see lots of open field warfare and there is some, but most fighting is channeled into keep fights – which can be fun, if that’s what you’re into.
Me, I’ll be moving on to a less restrictive ‘sandbox’ type pvp game. But this game will provide several months of fun for anyone who is new to the genre.
Warhammer Online is a great PvP game. You can get in to PvPing right at level 1 and level up through PvP.
Conceptually, Warhammer Online is a stellar game. With a PvP and casual driven experience in the forefront, this is a game that seeks to entertain. Unfortunately, the develops decided to recycle their 9 year old game engine that was previously used in Dark Age of Camelot. The engine lacks many things that make a game such as World of Warcraft addictive and enjoyable. Not only is it hard to tell what abilities you’re using when you use them, but the game runs very poorly even on good computers. The worst part is that even though it runs poorly the graphics aren’t appreciable. The audio is above average but music isn’t utilized nearly enough. A very average MMORPG experience that I cannot recommend personally.
Ok i am going to review this game not just on a current quick play. I’ll go in depth as much as i can so bear with me please.
I will be the first to say this game has had many issues and has been fighting an uphill battle on a hill made of ice. I know.. i stayed none the less (largly due to i beat GW and GW2 isnt out yet… and i am a mythic loyalist despite their many many many faults). They have had serious issues with bugs, balance and grinding, among other things. thankfully much of it has been fixed and more is coming, very soon! I won’t sit here and tell you it’s the perfect game because it’s not but i will tell you whats wrong has been wrong and whats been fixed and is being fixed now or in the future.
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First thing, i’ve been on WAR for over a year now and i am dead sick of people comparing it to WoW. It is NOT WoW get over it.
1. wow has been out for years… multiple expansions and time to fix stuff. WAR has been out barely a year. Compare WoW at 1 year to WAR at one year. At 1 year WAR has more content and fewer bugs than WoW… looks promising to me but most people have gotten so used to zombifying to an old game that has been in the market for years they are to impatient to wait for a new game to fix itself thus slowing down the fixing process when everyone impatiently leaves thus preventing the compony from having enough money to support all of its employies…
2. It is PvP primarily not PvE primary… so dont bother grinding for PvE and then complaining it’s a grind fest… it isn’t you can start PvP right off the bat, no grind and if you so choose you dont even have to touch PvE at all, as you can level in PvP as well.
Ok it’s been a year what now what then?
1. Ok there are still bugs but they aren’t all the same they are new bugs from new content. And they are fairly minor bugs that hardly effect gameplay. Not to mention i see bugs vanish every couple of weeks as they get fixed.
2. They have had more content added, not just simple oh hey here’s a new quest or armor piece but an entire expansion worth. Guess what. It’s free… as of right now WAR is aiming at making their expansions free, they have considered making a pay for expansion maybe (i stress maybe) somewhere down the road but likely keep it at free. Entire zones and classes have been added. And i expect new races even in the next year or… (hopefully not) two years.
3. Revamped: The game is being revamped based on player, not developer but player feedback. RvR and PvP has change drasticaly making it run smoother and quicker… no more wasting 24 hours to take a capitol city.
4. Revamped: Major complaint was class balance. This is gonna be fixed in the next month. They are putting through a major patch that will make the classes on order and destro sides mirror eachother more closely like they were meant to. Same skills diferent names and apearance… but same skills essentialy. Also crowd control is finaly being fixed and is no longer the mass spam nest it has been. It will be harder to get, have more requirements to trigger, and will be more limited class wise (most classes will lose most of their crowd control, tanks will gain crowd control making them better at their job).
Leveling and costomization did suck… end game was lacking and what was with the repetitiveness?
1. Ok if you are playing PvE and you were so sick of hitting that brick wall at one tier or another… they fixed it… leveling is much smoother like it was meant to be…
2. Customization is getting much better. There are more trophies, armor sets (and more armor set design variation), and even mounts. granted some are a little harder to get than others but that’s how it should be… some stuff easy some hard…
3. Even the repetetiveness as fallen down… now the live events are more frequent and more varied… dont worry though they aren’t one time only things… They plan to bring them back…
4. end game… the end game has been revamped so much… now things are easier so you can access more of the end game content, and more end game contect has been added (for example an entire continent of new stuff)
Ok the bugs, population and the graphics.
1. i hear people quit due to crappy graphics. that is no longer the case. the graphics are much much better than they were in clossed beta and early game… and rumors abound about another graphics update.
2. Graphics have been ironed out more solidly so there is far less lag… much much better.
3. Population issues are next to mute now. Before it was sad… the server was maxed on pop, and yet you could hardly find anyone. Well they finaly fixed it. They merged most of the servers into i believe 7 servers, and raised the pop cap tramendously. I never log on and find things feal dead… lots of RvR and PvP, or PvE its amazing!!!
4. The bugs are so much less than they once were… most of them are hardly even noticable much less effecting your play. Server stabability can get 50/50 right after a major update to the game but usualy gets fixed in 1-2 weeks… or at least lessened till they find a more permanent fix.
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In End Note… the game is tremendously much better than it was… much much better. I did dock a star due to the bugs and such we still have but with the fixes going through right now and as fast as they are working i know this game can pick itself back up. (as long as they don’t let EA rush them anymore). I would also like to note that they are under new management now, and the new management so far is much smarter… they have been more willing to tell us the players stuff straitforward with less beating around the proverbial bush. And they listen to the players much more than before. It is also promissing to note that another major compony is jumpin on the wagon and depending on how they handle things we may see things spead up as well on the game.. Looks promissing… can’t wait to see what happens in the next year after the last years performance.
This game was everything I expected and more. You tired of waiting week after week for raids in WoW?… Tired of having nothing to do after you’re geared out?.. Try this game. The pvp is great.
I was skeptical about buying collector’s, but I’m a fan of the 40k series so I JUST HAD TO, ya know? The hardcover graphic novel is now sitting on my shelf of prized possesions.
Price: There are several games that are almost exactly like Battle March. Halo Wars, Command & Conquer, Ninety-Nine Nights, and the list continues. This game is okay, but not worth paying more than 20.00 USD.
Graphics: Leaves something to be desired. The characters look like little underdrawn beings without true detail. Not much attention was given to the graphics or design of this game. A basic program obviously.
Gameplay: Nothing special or bad, standard military strategy game. If you beat Command & Conquer or Halo Wars…this ones in the bag.
Controls: Were easily understood. No issues here. Really simple to use.
Scenery: 2D at its best, you will find the game designers did not put much effort into the games scenery.
Overall: I bought it and regret buying it. A waste of my hard earned cash. I will no longer be buying any game that has Warhammer labeled on its cover. Some people may like these filler games, not me. They are filler games, because they take up space.
I bought this game for my nephew (who is 14) and he played it over at my house. First off…the graphics in the first scene to start the game were great. They were like the pictures that Amazon has shown. But then the game started and the graphics changed. On my parents standard tube tv they were horrible. On my plasma, they were better, but still not very good at all. And then the cutscenes during the games were hideous!…even on my plasma. I have no idea why they wouldn’t use the same type of graphics for all the cutscenes. Now he hasn’t played a whole lot of it, b/c he doesn’t even like the game play…but maybe it includes some more good graphics later.
The game play…so lousy. It was boring, and so repetitive. It is a war/battle sim…and not a good one. Granted, like I said before, he hasn’t played very far into the game. But that was because he got so bored, and disliked the graphics (especially the HORRIBLE cutscenes) that he had no desire to play it any further. I’ve played battle sims before, and I couldn’t even watch this one for very long.
The voices…INCREDIBLY annoying. They repeat the same thing 5 times in a row…and the same voice cuts itself off. I had to turn the sound down while it was being played. And sometimes when they talk…it looks like the old Japanese voice overs where their mouths are moving and it doesn’t go with the voices at all. It reminded me of old school video games..and not good ones.
I would definitely recommend renting this game BEFORE you buy it. It may just save you $50-$60. Or if you really want to buy it to try it, definitely get it used. Its not worth the full price at all. You can get it used for around $20 on ebay if nothing else (I checked b/c he disliked it so much he doesn’t want to keep it).
I love this game for the PC. Great graphics, engaging and evolving story, and a good old crash your armies togehther RTS. This game makes for a very difficult transition to the XBox 360 the controls are very complex and without any real quick keys makes for an insanly difficult learning curve espically in the heat of battle trying to remember what controls do what. My advice if you want this game: get it for the PC.
I do not play video games, but my son-in-law received a game system for the X-box 360 for Christmas. He was in need of games, and when I saw this as a lightning deal, I got it for him, and he has really enjoyed it.
I thought this game had too much. it was not fun you had to learn 50 commands just to move your guys forward
I went into this game in May of 2008 thinking it could actually complete with warcraft. By the time I left in Jan of 2009. Funcom totally failed to live up to the hype and promises that were made. The first MMO with direct 10x was never released as of early jan of 2009. My biggest issue with it was when you got over level 70 not even 80, there wasnt really much out there to do. Oh the game itself wasnt bad if you dont mine quests up to the mid 50′s after that good luck. and as Somebody already pointed out the selling price of a used one is now .58 cents? Thats bad enough-now it is possible that Funcom maybe able to turn this around, but a month back on G4 the cable channel it was reported that Funcom had problems. For all who want to try this i would see what happens by June of this year, either go back to warcraft, try Lord of the Rings or wait for the next patch of MMO’s to be released Fallen Earth, Star Trek Online or Star Wars which supposely is due around 2011.
I honestly don’t get people who review MMOs this way. I guess the whole “If it’s not WOW, it’s crap” crowd is bigger than I thought.AOC offers many things that makes the comparison shallow at best. The graphics are astounding. The group missions are truly awe-inspiring and the guild and consequence system to deal with ganking is both elegant and fun.Don’t listen to other reviewers! With a game this cheap, you should check it out. I loved it!
Played the game durring launch , but left to wait until they patched the game. Came back to AOC last week, and i have to say im really impressed with the game so far. The community in AOC is really helpful if you want a group for PVE, or go out and kill other’s in PVP. The atmoshere of the game really brings you in with well written stories , and beautiful evnioroments that I keep catching myself wanting to explore more of the area from every propective. Music and sound is awesome to say the least. I have my speakers boming all the time. All the classes i have played so far have been fullfiling and interseting to play. I have only tried 3 classes so far Sin, ranger, and a Tempest Of Set. I have to say as a sin it is sooo fun to come out of nowhere and backstab other player’s or NPC’s with such high burst DPS. Fatalities if you get them off is so rewarding to watch. lol somthing about planting your blade in the back of someones head to end the fight is fun to watch. Again this is a very mature MMO. Im going to end this review with these remarks AOC is fun and you need to give it a try. If you played it before durring launch and left due to the quest killing bug’s. Give it a try again everything i can think of that was broken is fixed now. Content has been added for T8. Pvp ruleset has change to make sure ganker’s dont wait at spawn points. Community is strong.
If you value your money dont waste it on this product. The product deserves 0 stars out of five. Unfortunatly the lowest ranking you can give it in a review is 1.