Warhammer Online - 1st Impression

Being a seasoned player of many online games spanning from Final Fantasy to COH/COV, Lord of the Rings Online, and of course World of Warcraft, I have great expectations of Warhammer online, which was launched yesterday.

First off, the intro cinematics was pretty well done. It is really an eye candy, with the opposing forces fighting, and one scene led to another very fluidly. It creates an excitement of what to expect in the game. So, the cinematics end, and you are led to the character creation screen. I would say customization is not at all innovative or class leading. You have a choice of gender, some choices of hair, face, beard, and not much else. I was hoping for more here.

When the game starts, you start off in a town. I will not go into the specifics, you can read a review if that is what you want. I will tell you more of my personal impression. The graphics are okay, but not great. It is not that realistic looking like you get in Lord of the Rings online. The character don't seem to have any expressions on their faces. All dead looking, and they do not blink. As far as presentation and graphics are concerned, this is a minus one for me.

Server load times and queue times are terrible as well. I might try it for one month and see whether I'll stay for this MMORPG or not. There is always World of Warcraft to go back to.

For the initial gameplay so far, Ihave only got to level 6 on my character, and it is rather slow grinding at the moment, and quests are not that all interesting. I will update when I get more in depth in the game later.