Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (officially abbreviated as WAR) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting. It was developed by Mythic Entertainment and was simultaneously released in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand on September 18, 2008. The game revolved around the continual worldwide conflict that the Warhammer Fantasy setting is known for, and the game is geared toward ongoing, constant war laced with dark humour.

A spin-off, Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes, was a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game. It entered open beta on April 10, 2012 but was shut down before it left the beta on March 29, 2013. On September 18, 2013, it was announced by Mythic that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning would shut down on December 18, 2013, due to the licence agreement with Games Workshop coming to an end. The shutdown took place as planned.

Gameplay

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning featured Mythic's Realm versus Realm (RvR) combat system, originally developed in Dark Age of Camelot. This took place within three different racial pairings: Dwarfs vs. Greenskins, Empire vs. Chaos, and High Elves vs. Dark Elves. Although there were only two races per pairing, players could travel to either of the other two pairings to help fight with their friends and allies. There were four types of RvR combat: Skirmishes (random world encounters), Battlefields (objective-driven battles in RvR-specific areas), Scenarios (instanced, point-based battles against the opposing faction), and Campaigns (invading enemy lands and capital cities). In RvR players fight other players and, to a lesser extent, non-player characters.

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium is video game that was to be based on Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 setting. It was under development by Vigil Games until THQ's closure. Originally announced in March 2007, further information was released as well as a teaser trailer at E3 2010. Originally planned to be a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Vigil Games announced that they would be dropping the MMO components of the game in order to focus on a single-player game with a more traditional multiplayer experience. With THQ's foreclosure, the future of Dark Millennium is uncertain.

Gameplay

The game was to feature relatively in-depth fire-fights with player-formed squads as well as cover and flanking mechanics. However, being true to the setting, war and battles would have been a big feature of Warhammer 40,000 Online and Vigil Games were promising to deliver battlegrounds of epic proportions. Controllable vehicles would have been a key aspect to the game; the developers have said that they would have been multifunctional and that some were able to sport multiple pilots.