Meta-review: Warhammer Online

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@Arcaria

Take a peek at these pics.

WoW:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/images/screenshots/ss29-hires.jpg

WAR:
http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/home/images/screenshots/WHandIB-01.jpg

Graphics have much improved in WAR beta recently.

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you are comparing 2 completely different scenes. war has higher poly models and game world and larger textures, but the weapon and armor textures are still ugly compared to wow. the spell detail is also not as great as wow.

after playing the war beta for a few days, i see nothing that would make me want to switch from wow, especially with the wotlk expack coming out in 2 months. war is a good game, but it all feels the same to me.

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Well, keep in mind that WoW is high fantasy - meaning glowing fantastic armor and over the top spell effects and creatures.

WAR is low fantasy - a bit more gritty realistic than high fantasy and less use of magic.

Not trying to convice anyone that WAR is better but its not fair to say the WAR's graphics suck - it seems that most of the complaints are geared toward the aesthetics of the art style more than the number of polygons.

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