The dwarfs, the empire, and the high elves on one side, and the green skins, dark elves, and chaos on the other side. For World of Warcraft there are as of now ten races splitting five to each side. On the alliance side there is the; the night elves, dawrfs, gnomes, humans, and the draenie.  The two games are based upon war torn fantasy realms, and both games allow you to choose between which sides you wish to be part of; the alliance and horde for world of Warcraft and the armies of order and destruction for Warhammer online age of reckoning.

In these factions you pick you can chose which character race you'd like to be in the factions. On the hordes side there are; orcs, trolls, tauren, undead, and the blood elves. As part of Heavy Metal, players will also gain access to Reiklan Factory. This new, instanced Scenario takes places on the grounds of an Empire tank factory, and will only be available for battle during the live event.To actually see which one is better we will just have to wait till WAR, (warhammer online age of reckoning), comes out in September 2008. We can however take a look at the similarities and difference Mythic Entertainment's project (WAR), has in common with blizzards master piece, WOW.