I was one of the original devs on this game, and its awesome to see it revived and thriving,

My mother loved this game so much and even got to know the devs so well that when she passed away they even had a large funeral ceremony for her and a gravestone with her main characters name is now in the graveyard.

With the success of games like Vermintide 1 + 2 and Total War: Warhammer 1-3, I feel like the world is ready for Warhammer Online 2.

This game is so massively underrated. The PVP is so much fun

The damaging being done to you is because your heat build up is at 100. It's your class's special mechanic. As you cast spells, it builds up heat. The more heat, the more damage your spells do, but the greater chance of the spells triggering backlash (dealing damage to you). You should have at least one ability that will drain your heat. I play a Dark Elf Sorcerer and while our class special mechanics are differently named, they're essentially the same mechanic because they work the same way. In fact, every class in the game has a class on the opposite faction that it's basically a twin of. High Elf Archmages and Goblin Shamans both have to balance out damage and healing spells. Chaos Chosen and Human Knights of the Blazing Sun both have auras. Dwarf Engineers and Chaos Magus can both use turrets (actual turrets for the engineer, stationary daemons for the magus). And so on and so fourth. The game is largely a PVP focus MMO first. So a lot of the PvE stuff isn't really worked on as much as as the PVP stuff. You'll most likely never see a Cash Shop in Return of Reckoning, even way into the future, since the only reason they're able to remain open instead of being sued into oblivion by EA/BioWare is because the game itself is completely free. You can donate to them, but there's now buying anything since they technically can't make money off the game. They're dedicated fans doing this because they want to, not because they're seeking to make money. And it really shows.

When private sever for closed game is more popular than 95% of MMOs on the market.

While this game isn’t perfect, it’s honestly one of the best online experiences I’ve had. Leading warbands and fighting enemy warbands is the best feeling in the world, especially when you can celebrate victories with the people around you!

From purely technical standpoint, I adored double target system. Made playing a healer uniquely more enjoyable experience :)

I come back to this game every few years and never ever regret my time. It's always great and for a PvP game incredibly low toxicity.

I probably shouldn't have, but I laughed when you hugged the chest in the PQ early on. Oh the early days! I'm glad you enjoyed your time with us Mitch and look forward to seeing Mr Cheeto on the battlefield in the future!

As a lifelong fan of all things Warhammer (I am 50) this game was an absolute joy when it came out and kept me entertained for years. The PvP on this game is probably the most fun I have ever had playing with other people. This game recreated the Warhammer I knew and loved in such an accurate and downright loving way that I will never forget the fun I had playing it. Wonderful video sir, bravo!

You really hit the nail on the head with the thought that this is the last bastion of what the genre once was. Most MMOs these days focus way too hard on monetization rather than creating an enjoyable experience.

The taunt system in pvp, along with character collision is great

What makes the fan server so interesting, is that the guy running it refuses to take donations.. but there is a reason for it. The game was released by EA, and as long as he doesn't receive any money for it, they don't care. But if he receives just a single cent, then they might start to care and go after him.

I remember having the time of my life as a Chaos Zealot. Healing always felt so rewarding since the combat is so brutal. And the fact that, given the right load out, you could out-damage some DPS casters? A truly beautiful experience.

So much more to the game…guilds, communities, keeps & forts, city and land of the dead, live events, and can’t forget fashion-hammer plus much much more. Been playing for years, and still having a blast. Thanks for sharing and see you in the lakes!

Have to say I am amazed by the speed with which you are producing these videos, without compromising the incredibly high standard of your work. The amount of time you spend researching and playing through is evident, and your editing, scripting and cinematography are all of such a high standard. Add to that your comedy value, and your obvious attention to detail, I defy anyone not to be incredibly impressed. You deserve way more subs, and if anyone deserves their channel to blow up based on talent it is you!

Played this game since 2008 and am still enjoying it due to the massive open battles, and synergy that can be made with specifically designed warband compositions. Yes the game has it flaws and the commentary is about right. The people playing make the game great by adapting and changing methods for winning in different terrains and features like wide open field to choke point and sieges. Remember this is a team game that can be played solo - so the highest levels of victory will come from joining a guild and playing in organised groups, but fun can be had in solo/duo situations. Thanks for making this vid!

This MMO was so underrated on launch. The pvp to this day is still the best pvp MMO experience Ive ever had (unless you count foxhole which I'm addicted to

Oh man I still have my special edition box from 2008 with the art book and figurine etc, I was super hyped + into this game when new, and didn't know about this until I saw this video! I am downloading it now - thank you!!!

Big thanks for the Return of Reckoning team for keeping this awesome game alive and better!

Ahh just sat down for lunch break and this video was posted. Some things just line up.

That was truly a well crafted video. And, thanks for the support.

I have been trying this, haven't got very far yet, so it's exciting to see you review this game! As always, you bring the comedy as well as excellent observation to your videos, and they're a delight to watch 😁

I worked the original release of this title at GOA games. It was fantastic fun but they just tried to do too much in too little time. There were faction capitals designed for each race, and each was to have invasion mechanics, it just wasn't feasible in the time frame available. At launch the final city sieges still weren't working properly (I remember the looks of "Oh crap" when we ran the final internal test before launch and couldn't get a single full raid in to the instance), but the game just had to ship. The first players were knocking on the doors of Altdorf within the month, and it was still not working reliably. Without the end game content to give real emphasis to the RVR system, things started to fade. I was on a boat less than a year later going home with my redundancy in hand as GOA shut doors for the final time. A damn shame.

It's cool to hear there are people out there willing to put that much effort into making the game what it is today. I swear your the only one that opens up my eyes to games that I could and probably should be experiencing. And that was a close call when you ran into the Colonel! 😂

2:32 Thats actually so refreshing to see after the constant spamming from Star Trek and Neverwinter

wowza 8:56 seeing the Scenario score screen really hit me HARD in the nostalgia

Was hoping you would cover this game! Loved the video, cheers Mitch!

I absolutely loved that game. The best PvP ever. I was really sorry when it closed down.

This tattoo in my profile pic was inspired from a shield I had in that game back in the day.

The gameplay itself is very fun, and 1-39 during new player surges is incredible. Lots of small skirmish action, some big blobs, and lots of coordinated and experienced groups. The feeling of character progression is great and every class now has its place in RVR. Endgame is a bit of a different vibe and anyone that's done city sieges and played with gravord/zunig or haojin will know what I mean.

Over a decade later and Warhammer is still the best PvP around.

I played this for hours on end with my guild back in the day. I was one of the highest Ironbreakers on the server, but the server was destruction dominated, numbers-wise. We used to have so much fun with a small group of people running around in flagged zones, taking objectives, getting chased by enemy groups twice our size and either wiping them out or playing cat and mouse due to being super coordinated over vent. Much fun was had

I felt like I was playing the game for the first time again :') humorous video and extremely thorough. Definitely earned my sub.

WAR is one of my 3 favourite mmos of all time and I was really sad when it was shut down. Then some time after the code went open source, the RoR team took it and started re-created a server from scratch, bit by bit. When I started playing on it, not even Tier 3 was released yet and still the pleasure of roaming the world and doing scenarios and open RvR again was thrilling. Now the team has pretty much rebuilt the whole game and is now creating new content for it regularly, which is amazing. Thanks for your video which is really fun to watch and a great tribute to this game :)

8:00 Other way around, actually! You went into the T1 zone after you'd leveled beyond it.

Mitch as always your content has made my day. Thank you very much mate!

"I can't take you seriously with a name like that, so ONWARD SIR CHEETO!" Love your vids :)

RoR rocks. My Godfather was on the art team that created Age of Reckoning and I still have the boxed copy that he gave me. I have so many great memories from WAR and I've loved playing RoR for a number of years now. Great game.

Oooooh! You covered this! Fantastic. Eager to see your thoughts. I loved the original game so much.

Great video as always. I especially loved the comments on the community aspects. My first MMO was Dark Age of Camelot and we had such a great community back in the day. You really got to know people. It's just not like that anymore.

I played this on release and was top Disciple of Khaine on my server. It was a blast.

Great to see new content on this game. One of my all time favourites, and always a pleasure to be able to pick up exactly where I left off.

Thank you for this video. Have been a Warhammer Online fan for 15 years and still love the game

So many good memories when this game launched. We had over 50 people in one ventrilo coordinating the biggest comeback Order ever did on the server. The game put statues of the best pvp players in town and I was able to get my statue up there as a warrior priest.

Loved this game back in the day! Absolute best guild experience I've had in an MMO. First game where I was a raid leader. So many great memories 😃

My fondest PVP memories from any MMO (having been a longtime hardcore WoW player) are from Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning stomping around as a Chosen, twisting auras and dueling Warrior Priests.

Items are race and class locked to not compromise the integrity of each factions aesthetic. Lorewise you would never, ever see a dwarf using a dark elf weapon or a human wearing chaos armor. Every class looks the way they should. Most, if not all of them, are based on their table top model counterparts.

I remember one of the last few experiences I had with this game (while it was still officially online) was battling against an open world Tomb Kings boss in a desert in this game.

Yes! This, City of Heroes (which has a community server) and Matrix Online.

Man, the 2020’s truly is the Renaissance of Warhammer Fantasy!

Loved the PvP/RvR back in the day when it was hopping. Unfortunately the private server's latency is pretty rough for me. I began to wonder whether the server was located in a cave in Kazakhstan a few times.

Great video once again! Makes me want to get back into it. Another community run MMO that’s worth a look is City of Heroes Homecoming.

I remember getting out of the tutorial fighting the that giant world boss with 15 other level 3s felt epic. And later going trough the vampire infected lands with my templar. I loved it, i always had difficulty feeling good with a class in an mmorpg, but the Templar and the Engineer just feels at home. The game was so good.

I played a squid herder back in the original release... so I clicked on your video. First time viewing a MitchManix vid - wow! The production and comedy is well done.

Just finding this channel today and uhhhhh I love you. 5:50 that kill with 65 hp left 🥵 Would love to see an Everquest p99 video, but that would probably be waaayyy too time consuming. Just leveling alone takes forever.

The pvp was really really nice in this game, RVR was really cool in his time and i keep good memories of this game. The choices of races/classes was nice too !

I got this video in recommended. I played Warhammer Online long time ago and it was fun. The pvp was fun and public events were fun. Its nice to see, that fans are keeping this game alive :)

While the game certainly is PVP focussed, I really liked the Almanach. Exploration and farming and lore and actual useable rewards, all in one. Good stuff, and hard to find elsewhere.

Ugh, I sunk so much time into this the entire time it was out. Was one of the first Shadow Warriors to get a statue on Praag, and was the bane of Witch Elves everywhere.

This is one of the few MMO's ever that got me hooked. I've played it during it's official life like a mad man. Met some good people there some of which I keep in touch with to this day. My english improved dramatically during that time. If you want to learn a new language just get hooked on a MMO and switch to . Anyway, my chosen was decked out in full sovereign gear, 80+ rr (but not well past it because the later added 90/100 rr sets werent as cool looking as 80 gear was but I was slowly getting there)...my toon looked amazing. Artist who concepted armour designs was/is truly blessed by the old gods. Too bad it was handled the way it was. But it was loved enough for players to try and save it by themselves. As soon as it was announced officialy that the devs will pull the plug, community banded toegether and took certain steps to save the game. That action was probably the main (or one of) reason why you can still play this amazing game today. The best thing for me was that no matter what you chose to do in the game it progressed your character/gave it experience. You never want to touch any of the pve/questing/mob grinding? Well you can queue up for scenarios (battlegrounds in wow) or just walk to open pvp zone and kill some people to gain exp and items. You could progress your character through questing without ever grinding any mobs (there was plenty of quests to do that)and do some cool Public Quests. You could explore the vast world and see every nook and cranny of it. If you were a fan of Warhammer universe like I am you were just anxious to visit and see as much as possible. Contested Dwarven keeps and underground mines. Cities overrun by chaos cultists/armies. Karl Franz battling it out with Tcharzanek during the city siege. The amazing Inevitable City and Altdorf. Beastmen roaming the forests. Dark elves raiding the coasts of Ulthuan. Even the land of the Dead with it's sea of dunes was open. TL;DR this game is great even now and devs working on it are constantly updating, balancing and even adding new stuff and events. Warhammer Online has a passionate community that took great care and put much love and effort to keep it going. May it run forever.

What a great video. I'm going back to RoR thanks to you, friend! Your voice is very relaxing and calming to listen to, as well. Definitely gonna rewatch tonight before sleep.

The turning on the horse gets me every time lol

Stumbled across your channel with this video. Awesome content man. You absolutely earn a sub. As a life long mmo'er I agree with your stance on the genre. Keep it up!

Thank you for making these videos, subbed !

03:40 I'm glad to see that I am not the only MMO player who tries to /hug fellow helpful players with mixed results...

I need this in updated form RIGHT NOW

It's interesting to see this game again and to see what the community have done with it. I held off on getting this game forever back in the day, because I already had 2 World of Warcraft accounts, didn't really want to be paying for 3 MMORPG accounts. Eventually, they announced they were dropping the monthly fee and going free to play, which happen to coincide with me find a copy for like... five bucks at JB HI-FI. I of course, picked it up, knowing they were going free to play and I loved every moment I got to actually spend in the game... unfortunately, that was not a lot of time as, roughly a month or two later, they announced that the servers were shutting down for good. Tempted to give this a go.

Oh lol that horse! xD Great vid, Mitch :)

Hey I just discovered your channel and you're bloody hilarious. I love all of your vids so far and they've managed to make me laugh more than anything else has recently.

PvP as a bright wizard was so much fun, black ork tank was fun as well. I miss this game

So many good memories of this game.

I loved this game when it came out. I also love the fact that it has been resurrected!

9:13 LMFAO ya got me with that one 🤣

there is a quest that tells me to go to a certain spot and when I went there, there was nothing is the quest bugged?

The hug on the chest, yep. Felt that one.

Love this game, I remember telling my guild I had to take a break due to having new born right before it shut down, and all the times I'd wake up to play early with a smoke and coffee the missus would get super upset that we didn't wake up together, she passed away but such good memories, that's me sneaking in some gameplay every morning haha, there's a new server aside from return of reckoning called Interbellum which isn't out yet but seems to be modernizing off of the bones of warhammer and seems fairly promising, might release in year or more.

I remember joining and playing Black Orc on a RvR server. I was level 11 and getting smoked by a level 5 Rune Priest. The PvP was pretty insane though, ngl. I woulda stayed if I'd had more of my mmo people interested in it vs other games.

I remember got this when it came out and we made clan of over 50 people that i knew before. Only few played after several months due to back netcode in game

Childhood memory unlocked. I totally forgot I played this masterpiece.

Goblin Shaman was my jam back in the day! WAAAAAAAHHH!!!! Doing damage increases your healing and vice versa. Incredibly fun and potent in open world pvp.

I remember playing this for a few months prior to a 5 year run with eve online.

Had no idea this game existed. I’ll be jumping into this to try it out soon!

Great review. Downloading now, can't wait to jump back in :)

I played WAR for the first few months after it went live; this video is a fun trip back in time 15 years. "...vibrating around like a housewife's Tuesday alone-time" won a subscription from me.

This was my first MMORPG, played under the name Mycology. Wish I could find my old guildmates from those times!

This game had the best pvp and probably still does. Also a ton of hidden quest and stuff that was never published. Any active players know if avocetti is still playing and fatal is still around?

I really enjoyed this one, back in the day. The only annoying thing was that with the level gates, if one of your group was a level ahead (or even a partial level ahead), they could "level out" of the area's range. Having your tank become a chicken halfway through an encounter is hilarous in hindsight, but not exactly "fun" at the time, or helpful towards completing quests.

That game was amazing, I remember those crazy days spent trying to capture fronts and push toward the enemy capital. The buggy as hell events once you reached there. Morale skills spike in hallways, vacuum skills before they were fixed. So sad some of the issues in the game made it lose players too fast

Just found out about this game deff gonne try, it looks good.

Loved the game, especially the public quests which were a new thing back then and the optional open group feature would still be a nice addition today. Real shame how buggy it was released and that they were missing a lot of planned content. When it was still around, officially, I used to login and make a new character just for the low level pvp. Was always busy and fun. For the Empire! For Sigmar!

I played the heck out of this when it launched.. seriously underrated game

Where do I find this to download? I used to play a Squig Herder back in the day.

Got controller support? Thank you for the review

If I could get this to run on my computer, I'd be on it daily. It's just that good.

I played this game back when it was live so playing RoR was nostalgic for me. This really is a great game with its many bugs and flaws giving it character. It is truly fun to get involved in the RvR experience and you can pretty much get started right at the start. Nothing is stopping you from going to the pvp area at level 2 if you want. (Which is a fun way to level as a healer, just stand in back and spam heal as you level up :D) Hey, a tip. You are playing a "Bright Wizard" Their main mechanic is that their magic is tremendously powerful but as it builds up it deals more damage to your enemies but also deals damage to you! You have to "relieve the pressure" by using your ability to drop all your excess buildup in an instant attack. Once you do, you are back to 0% and will no longer harm yourself, but your damage ability also goes down again. It is a fun mechanic to master. Can you stay at max dealing maximum damage for one more spell? Or do you need to drop it now before you die? Can you get a healer to follow you around and heal you so you can stay at max pressure and deal sustained max damage. It gives you a lot of options. If you do not like that mechanic, the high elven archmage has a different one that does not damage you when you cast spells. It is by far my favorite class in the game as it heals and deals damage.

dose it have controller support and marcos ppl can play around?

I loved this game. And PVP was larger than life. I remember after I think AION coming out pulling a massive guild into it left our guild moving up in order of command on the field. Also what a great MMO that actually allowed you to look cool off the rip.

Myself and some old MMO buddies recently got max level in Return of Reckoning and it's been a blast. Thanks for the great video showing off the game and giving the developers praise, views, and downloads.