

In the murky depths of Nottingham, a company called Climax is working with Games Workshop to bring you the game that will be known as Warhammer Online. The type of questions that often make programmers kick themselves as they realise they will either have to start over or just plod on and release whatever godforsaken mess they've created anyway (this is the rule rather than the exception as you will no doubt know if you have played any online RPG when it was first released).

The ones that make development teams cringe when they realise they've 'forgotten' the most fundamental element of their overall game design. But as ever, trained sceptics like yours truly are asking all the usual questions before the game has been completed. As one of the biggest names in pen-and-paper role-playing makes its first entrance into the online gaming arena, hopes are high that this will result in an intriguing addition to the genre.
