Online Games Battle For Top Spot
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The importance of the final polish is also thought to be behind the delayed arrival of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Both were originally due in 2007 but now are expected before next summer.
Many see these as serious contenders to WoW because like that game they trade on a long history of earlier works.
Conan is familiar to many from Robert E Howard's original stories, the films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and the many contemporary novels that explored the world of the iconic barbarian.
Warhammer is the creation of UK firm Games Workshop and has many fans who played the tabletop game, the role-playing system, the earlier games and has read the books set in its world.
Perhaps more importantly the titles are attempting to move online gaming on from the mechanics established by Blizzard.
