After more than three years of development, Mythic’s “Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning”  has finally arrived to satiate the unquenchable appetites of online gamers the world over.Quite the prophecy, but the game — called “WAR” for short —  mostly delivers on the lofty goals promised early on by Mythic’s development team:  To craft an MMO that brings both hardcore and mainstream gamers together while avoiding the boring, “grinding” aspects that make most other games of the genre eventually feel like a second job.

Based off the Warhammer Fantasy tabletop warfare game and novel series created by Games Workshop, the new games has been touted by industry watchers as the massively multiplayer online title that could finally dethrone Blizzard's “World of Warcraft” as king of the mountain.