November 2004 was a huge month for PC gamers. Games like Half-Life 2 obviously got a ton of attention, but for MMO fans, though, November was a month of absolute agony -- or glory, depending on how you look at it. In one corner, you have EverQuest II, the sequel to the undisputed heavyweight MMO champ EverQuest, the game that has probably caused more divorces than any other video game in the world. In the other, you have the challenger, World of Warcraft, the first MMO created by Blizzard Entertainment, the development house best known for StarCraft, Diablo, and the original Warcraft RTS games.

When they go head-to head, which of them comes out victorious? More importantly, which is more worth investing your money and time into? With our own Miguel "Chakumbele Lopez taking EQ2 and Allen "Delsyn" Rausch taking the side of WoW, we decided to find out. We've pulled out all the important features, examined them very carefully, and now they're tearing them apart monkey-knife-fight-style in our patented GameSpy Editorial Thunderdome.

Ready? Fight!