Posted by
MortiS-the-Lost on
Sep 14, 2008; 7:35pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/WAR-is-coming-tp1089122.html
A new trailer has just been relased for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and it all looks very shiny! But is just a cinematic and doesn't feature any actual game-play footage, so there's nothing to really judge the actual game by here. I have been following the development of the game for the last 2 years or so though and for the moment I will say this: Warhammer Age of Reckoning (or WAR if all those big words are just too much for you) dose look like a great game and is definitely going to be better than World of Warcraft (then again cleaning a urinal using only your lips and tongue is better than WoW). Even from that I haven't really found out much about the game but I have downloaded some nice concept art and watching Paul Barnett explain the Warhammer background is always fun. Anyway back to the new cinematic which unfortunately dose not feature Paul Barnett talking about Chaos and custard.
I'm not sure who voiced the intro but it's sounds like Zoë Wanamaker trying to do an impression of Cate Blanchett's One Ring speech from the beginning of 'Fellowship'. The camera pans past several bits of promotional artwork which the men of the empire have gone to all the trouble of getting printed on their banners at the T-shirt Works in Middenheim while 'Zoë-Cate Wanamaker-Blanchett' talks about a great alliance of Elves, Men and Dwarfs. Then just as your wondering if you might be watching the LotR Online trailer by mistake the camera zooms through a conveniently blown hole in the wall and over an army of Orcs and Chaos Warriors. (during this bit the narrator even uses the words “... forged in the fire of ...”) finally the camera reaches a Goblin on the war-torn hill site. This is a Squig Herder - one of the playable characters in the game.

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“I you choose you, Gobbla!”It's at this point I have to quickly check to see if some one has spiked my cup of tea with LSD. Let me explain - The Goblin throws a smoke bomb at the ground in front of him and
Summons a Squig Pok-e-mon style. then as I reel in shock from that, the Goblin proceeds to beat the Squig with what I assume to be the fabled 'ugly stick' and the Squig grows to 3 times it's initial size. The giant Squig then swallows the goblin and the goblin rides across the battle field inside the Squig's mouth as if it where a suit of power armour. And every fan of Warhammer Goblins falls into a catatonic state. WTF? What happened to herding Squigs into battle with pitch forks? Or riding them by clinging on to horns? I don't know maybe this is just what a Night Goblin
thinks is happening while he's tripping out on Madcap-Mushrooms.

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NO Mythic! Bad Mythic!Fortunately a passing Bright Wizard also disapproves of this blatant disregard for the background material and sets the abomination on fire. The Bright Wizard flames a bunch of orcs and then gets stabbed my a Mutated Marauder who in turn is shot by an Blond Elf Chick. Annoyed, the Marauder follows the Blondie Elf into a back street, where they have a bit a of sword fight and then the Blondie Elf just shoots him anyway.
Then a much hotter looking Dark Elf turns up casting Chillwind at everyone and freezes the High Elf's feet to the ground.

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Ooh! yea! she's a baaad Elf But before Sexy Elf can kill Legolas's younger sister the Horn of Gondor sounds in the background signaling lunch break or something. The Bright Wizard (who I thought was dead) rather kindly thaws out the Blondie Elf's legs and all the characters gather round a large gateway as a Chaos Chosen who looks like Sauron with horns walks out followed by a Greater Demon of Tzeentch that has a bit of trouble fitting through the arch. The End. Please note there
are Dwarfs in this trailer but if you blink you might miss them.

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Blink and you'll miss themhttp://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/home/flash/WAR_cinematic_08.htmlAlso as a bonus check out this preview trailer for the original Warhammer Online game which GW pulled the plug on a few years back.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EkQvPQJ1_Dk
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~The ravings of a single mad Goblin is bad enough, but such a power-hungry, malice-filled creature as Mortis can never hope to be understood~