Empire

First on the agenda of the presentation: Empire. Just about all MMOs have this race as a playable option, so coming up with a unique and interesting implementation of them is a tough one to pull off. In Warhammer, humans are at the social stage of what you would compare to as the Middle Ages psychologically, and technologically at the stage of what seems to be the 1800?s mixed with our all time favorite: magic. Humans are under the belief that the end of the world could come any day in the form of fires, comets falling from the sky, famine and disease or the ever threatening annihilation by forces of Chaos.

And that is what is presented to you when you start the game as a human. After loading the game as a level 1 Human Bright Wizard I found myself in a small human village surrounded by the other players in the room. The interface reminded me distinctly of at least half a dozen other MMO?s, all borrowing what clearly works from none other than the industry giant itself: World of Warcraft. Apart from a few differences, this was familiar territory for me so immersing myself in the game play rather than the UI was to be my first focus. Brilliant!

Over the past several months and throughout the entire presentation there is a key phrase that has been repeated endlessly: In Warhammer, war is everywhere. The first piece of the world that I was presented with was just that, an Empire village which was in the process of being attacked by a mass amount of Chaos soldiers. Around me there were tons of NPC?s offering quests and purpose for the game play. I could hear that in the distance there were cannons being fired, and there was smoke in the sky from something that was burning. One of my first quests took hold of this quite firmly. Simply, "go east and recruit some farmers to help you fight off the forces of chaos"

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