From VE and UU: a post on GT's Wheel of Time messageboard that discusses how true Legend's Unreal engine powered game, Wheel of Time, will be to the Wheel of Time book series ... you can check out the entire thread right here.

We cannot possibly include everything RJ has detailed in his many thousands of pages of his books. There just is a limit to what we have the time and ability to do. More importantly is the issue of what will be fun. We could probably make a game where everything included is 100% loyal to everything in the books. However, the fun of the -game- would suffer.

We're not making a computer adaptation of a book. We're making a computer -game- based on books. And one requisite of being a game is that fun is involved. Like I have said before, there are deviations from the books, but every deviation has a lot of thought and discussion behind it. We all have read the books and are fans of them ourselves. We refer to books often when making everything for the game, so we're well aware of any and every deviation from the fiction that we make, and we don't do so lightly.