Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Why recommended

• Features a persistent online fantasy world with a strong emphasis on faction-based conflict and large-scale player-versus-player combat, echoing the Realm vs. Realm focus of Warhammer Online.
• Criteria — RPG Elements are central, with extensive character customization, skill lines, gear progression, and a robust champion point system for long-term development.
• Criteria — Adventure is a core pillar, offering countless quests, dungeons, and zones to explore, each with its own narrative arcs and secrets to uncover, contributing to a Strong Story.

Why recommended

• Offers a dynamic world with events that evolve based on player actions, providing a sense of ongoing conflict and community similar to the war efforts in Warhammer Online.
• Criteria — RPG Elements are robust, featuring diverse professions, extensive trait lines, equipment customization, and an impactful crafting system to tailor character builds.
• Criteria — The game is built around Adventure, with a vast world to explore, jumping puzzles, hidden areas, and a personal story that branches based on player choices, providing a Strong Story.

Why recommended

• Features a compelling and critically acclaimed narrative that unfolds over hundreds of hours, providing a Strong Story with memorable characters and world-altering events.
• Criteria — RPG Elements are foundational, with a flexible class system allowing a single character to master all disciplines, extensive gear progression, and a deep crafting/gathering economy.
• Criteria — The game is a grand Adventure, taking players across diverse continents, through epic dungeons, and into challenging trials, all while progressing a central storyline.

Why recommended

• Criteria — Offers an unparalleled Strong Story for an MMORPG, with fully voiced dialogue, branching choices, and unique class storylines that feel like a single-player RPG within a persistent world.
• Criteria — Deep RPG Elements are present through extensive skill trees, companion customization, light/dark side alignment choices, and gear progression that impacts both combat and appearance.
• The game provides a vast galaxy to Adventure through, with numerous planets, flashpoints (dungeons), and operations (raids) that tie into the overarching narrative of the Galactic Republic versus the Sith Empire.