Is Lore a Bore?



With one of the most robust backgrounds for any MMO game ever
created, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has potential to be the
pinnacle of story telling. However, is the average player interested
enough to truly appreciate the efforts? RadarX looks at the pros and
cons of lore in MMO game worlds and points out why it can help and hurt
at the same time.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning boasts one of the
richest backdrops
of any MMO game to date, providing an immeasurable wealth of races,
locations, factions, and history from the Warhammer tabletop game.
Decades worth of material has been published from Games Workshop
creating an entire universe that can easily fit inside a virtual world
and there is no question it's perfect for a game. With such rich lore
an interesting question arises, how important is it to the average
player? Does it make or break a gaming experience? There appear to be
two sides to this coin, so let's start with the good.

• Op/Ed:
  Do We Need Lore in WAR?