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Warhammer Online: MMO for Xbox 360?

by Ingrid on May 14th, 2006

The upcoming MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning was apparently running on an Xbox 360 at E3. Despite a lack of a formal announcement regarding a 360 version of the game, there’s much evidence that there will be one.

Visitors to the booth are being invited to get hands-on with the upcoming massively multiplayer online game, where they can check out one of the game’s areas on live servers and play alongside members of the development team who are playing from the company’s Virginia headquarters. What none of these players have realized, though, is that one of the “green-skins” questing alongside them is being controlled by a player not armed with a mouse and keyboard, but with a wireless Xbox 360 controller. That player is in a closely guarded room to the rear of Mythic’s booth.

We had an opportunity to see the PC and Xbox 360 versions of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning running alongside each other, and although the console demo lacked any kind of user interface, its widescreen, high-definition visuals were practically indistinguishable from those on the PC. Furthermore, the character on the Xbox 360 was interacting with PC players, and if it wasn’t for the fact that one of the games was running on a huge TV rather than a monitor, it would be difficult to tell them apart.

Mythic says the work done optimizing Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning for the Xbox 360 made the development team realize that they could use similar techniques in the PC game. So what started out as an experiment to get an MMO game running on a console has actually resulted in some improvements for the PC version.

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