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Warhammer Online Screenshots: Axes and Trees

by Nick Breckon, Feb 22, 2008 8:11am PST

EA Mythic's fantasy MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is still somewhere out there in the beta-testing background. To prove it, Mythic released a few new images of the game today.

These screenshots depict the classic tale of a man cruelly separated from his nature, a simple lumberjack forced to live out his days hacking limbs from men rather than trees. Truly tragic.

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Man...lack of shadows really ruins the immersion. Granted, it's an MMO and shadows would make it unplayable, but still. Those screen shots looks so naked. I guess newer gen graphics have spoiled me.

Feb 22, 2008 8:15am PST

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if gameplay is there.. the graphics are good enough

RvR was really fun in DAoC... i played it for so long because of the good PvP

Feb 22, 2008 11:06pm PST

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if gameplay is there.. the graphics are good enough RvR was really fun in DAoC... i played it for so ... : virtualsinner
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- Yeah. Good, meaningful and interactive PvP would have me hooked for a long time, I'm sure. Both my friend... : fffortune

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It looks like WoW with less detail. Yes, I know the IP is older than WoW, but still.

Feb 22, 2008 11:18am PST

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It looks like WoW with less detail. Yes, I know the IP is older than WoW, but still. : Visceral Monkey
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- What does the IP have to do with anything? : Pink0r
- It actually looks like a notch above WoW but still simplified down. Personally, I like the look of it so ... : bad_fish

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I've been in beta for awhile now. Personally I find the graphics to be wonderful. It doesn't remind me of cartoons like WoW did, and the world feels much more natural than any other MMO I have played in the past.

Feb 22, 2008 1:30pm PST

I've been in beta for awhile now. Personally I find the graphics to be wonderful. It doesn't remind me ... : Hello Cthulu

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These screens don't impress me much...

Hopefully this game wins in the massive war aspect...

Feb 22, 2008 11:51am PST

These screens don't impress me much... Hopefully this game wins in the massive war aspect... : ShadowRam

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i want to know when they are entering the next phase of beta.

Feb 22, 2008 10:58am PST

i want to know when they are entering the next phase of beta. : maulla

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Mythic: make your lighting system work.

Feb 22, 2008 10:15am PST

Mythic: make your lighting system work. : yAak

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By: Link. x Show Full Post

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I'm still skeptical. The game has no sure release date and whispers here and there from testers don't make it sound any better than it was in the earlier beta stages. We'll see.

Feb 22, 2008 9:03am PST

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I'm still skeptical. The game has no sure release date and whispers here and there from testers don't mak... : Link.
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  It is A LOT better than it was in previous betas. Those testers are crazy. : pancake humper
  - Right now the world is more or less static, and this is shit my friend and I'm bored of that game, in the... : FTY

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They should have made Warhammer 40k instead.

Feb 22, 2008 9:48am PST

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They should have made Warhammer 40k instead. : FushigiDenki
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  I believe its getting made.. but not by Mythic : happynoodle
  - http://www.gamespot.com/news/6166560.html : happynoodle

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I used to be pretty excited for this, but these screenshots look .. Vanguardy. Or EverQuesty.

It looked like the early shots were more stylized a la WoW but ... the Poser and 3D Max sculptures plopped down on repeat-texture ground just doesn't look very good to me :/ This shot is particularly blargh: http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=9263&id=114417

Oh well. Next! Someone make me an MMO that looks like TF2 pls.

Feb 22, 2008 9:22am PST

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I used to be pretty excited for this, but these screenshots look .. Vanguardy. Or EverQuesty. It look... : Damodred
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- Actually now that I looked at some of my WoW shots, it might be the utter lack of lighting. Nevermind! :P : Damodred

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http://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?/images/sshots/Screenshot/9263/9263_47bef24c50922.jpg

Uhm. I really hope this is a LoD issue.

The ground looks so flat.

Feb 22, 2008 8:21am PST

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- Are you sure you posted the right screenshot? : deathofrats
- In between the slopes and hills or are you preferring the rocky graphic sides to be more jagged and rough... : Darkslayne

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I hope they put as much love into the trees that WoW did. As strange as it sounds, the variety of trees and attention to making them different for every zone really helped immersion.

Feb 22, 2008 8:18am PST

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I hope they put as much love into the trees that WoW did. As strange as it sounds, the variety of trees ... : deathofrats
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- Agreed. I love me some trees. Parts of the game were really quite pretty. : zakazi
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  WAR's graphics have less personality in them than a zone or two in WoW, so far, though that ship design i... : Link.
  - Due to the whole immersive aspect of an MMO, I'd say in some regards it is even more important. : Darkslayne

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