Smaller lands mean that you spend far less time traveling from one location to another and more time actually playing the game. Also, the terrain works to direct players to key locations on the map and ensures that players from opposing factions can easily find each other and spend their game time crossing swards and scouring the map in the hopes of finding one opponent. In some MMORPGs you can camp in a remote spot won the map and not see another player for hours, but in Warhammer Online you'll never feel that isolated.Warhammer Online brings MMORPG gamers a very welcome change to all of this. From the very beginning you not only feel like you're right in the middle of a great war, but that you have an active role in it.

As its name indicates, Warhammer Online is set in the Warhammer universe created for the populas table top miniature game.The classes all have some unique aspects, but in general fall into the usual archetypical categories of DPS, ranged DPS, tank, and healer. The setting is a fantasy world in which the lands of The Empire and its allies are under siege by the forces of Chaos . Your first choice in the game will be the selection of which side that you want to take in the war, followed by your race and character class.  After mixing and matching the various hairstyles and facial features available, all that's left to do is to name your character and enter the game.