by Karen Hertzberg on Aug 22, 2007
Convention Season Means
Gaming Goodness
If you're like a lot of other gamers who have a serious jones for
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, then you probably can't get enough
info about the game. Never fear, this year's gaming convention season made for plenty of
Warhammer info dumps (with more to come with this week's big events,
the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany and Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in
Seattle, WA). The MMO Gamer just published some "juicy bits" from its
visit with Warhammer's lead animator, Jeremy Dale, at GenCon:
As players progress further into the game, the subject of quests
definitely comes to mind. In Warhammer, players will find a plethora of
quests - and during those quests, the choices and decisions that the
player makes will actually influence the way that the game world
responds. Unlike many other games where completing a repeatable quest
adds a few measly [ insert small cash coin here ], Warhammer takes your
increasing fame and notoriety and allows the creatures and opposing
mobs to respond - in force. Kill the privates and a corporal comes out;
kill him and a big ‘ol beastie or event pops out. This
certainly goes a long way to keep the game fresh for higher-level
players and not just the new kids in the starting zone.
Read more
at The MMO Gamer, and watch for our continuing Warhammer coverage from
Leipzig and PAX.