Anyone who has played role-playing games with pen, paper and dice over the last 25 years will be very familiar with the name Warhammer. On 18 September the name will reach many who do not know it when its newest incarnation, the massively multiplayer version Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (WAR), is officially launched.
At first blush the PC game, set in the same quasi-medieval setting of the Warhammer fantasy world, resembles many other massively multiplayer online games (MMOs).
Playing it involves creating characters that carry out quests (go here, kill this, find that) that gradually turn a weakling into a hero.
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The current king of MMOs is World of Warcraft (WoW) which, its creators claim, has more than 10 million regular players.
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