IGN's Tom McNamara reviews the state of play on the recently implemented role-playing (RP) player versus player (PvP) servers in World of Warcraft, giving game-play on the new server type a healthy 9.1 rating.When it comes to RPGs, actual roleplaying is something us computer dorks don't get to do very often. Usually it boils down to certain types of dialog responses, and sometimes you can choose a "good" way to finish a quest, or an "evil" one. Online roleplaying games are a different story, though. And rather than mash everyone together, you'll have servers (or "shards," or what-have-you) that are dedicated to just dorking it up. World of Warcraft has had a few RP servers up from the beginning, but it wasn't until recently that they added Player Versus Player RP servers. And in my endless quest for gaming goodness, I decided to roll a new character and see what the whole hubbub was about, since I'd never really been into the whole RP thing, but I like PvP -- and mostly for fighting even-leveled players, thankyouverymuch. |