From the perspective of someone who has played a combined amount of time of around 2 hours in WoW and watched plenty of people play Ever Crack or Conan... it really looks just like WoW.  I'm sure the subtle mechanics are most likely better and/or general things to do may not be as monotonous, but still. 

When i saw this thread, i was really interested in seeing what it looked like... especially from someone who likes the game so much and seems to feel it is the best things since sliced bread, I would figure you would choose a video that best demonstrates what you like from it.  However, from a person who doesn't play MMOs, this gameplay video didn't really make me want to play Warhammer.

::be gentle::

This isn't a gameplay video, but it is a warhammer cinematic. Still think the orc smashing the guys face into the stairs repeatedly is funny.

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/home/flash/WAR_cinematic_08.html

I freakin love it. I was in the Preview Weekend for the pre-order customers this past Friday through Monday. On sunday, I played the RvR for 10 hours straight. We had 100vs100 man battles going down, and not much of the zergfests either, which was fantastic. The keep warfare is by far the best though. I really wish I would have recorded some of the fights. The siege weapons are extremely fun to use (especially the boiling oil... does so much dmg). Player collisions in PvP make the biggest difference in gameplay though compared to WoW pvp.

I will reiterate though. Warhammer gameplay is NOTHING like WoW. The PvP portion of it is far superior, but the PvE is somewhat lacking. The best part of WAR PvE that you'll see are the Public Quests. Extremely innovatve and extremely fun. There ARE PvE raids, but I haven't seen or done them yet. The rest of the general overland PvE is mostly soloable and, while still enjoyable, is greatly overshadowed by the RvR. The crown jewel of this game is simply the RvR and the capital city sieges of end game.

WAR is a super fast-paced MMO. You're immediately thrown into a chaotic world from the get go.

And then there is the Tome of Knowledge. It may very well eclipse every other compilation of game achievements. Lord of The Rings Online had something similar called the Book of Deeds. The ToK goes above and beyond that. I can't even correctly describe it. But I can say the ToK tracks EVERYTHING. And there are unlocks and achievements for EVERYTHING. During the preview weekend, I got to lvl 15, and I unlocked almost 300 achievements. This is what I mean by everything: You click on your character 100 times, you get a title called "Ow My Eye". You add 5 people to your friends list, you get the title "The Friendly". You die 10 times, you get "The Snuffed". Die 10 times to a monster, you get "Run Away!". Die 10/100/1000 times to a certain player class. Going through a public quest naked merits a Tome unlock. I could literally go on till my fingers bled. You can use the /tell command ten times to earn "The Talker."

And it's not just titles. Like in the first 2 mins of playing a Chaos Chosen, I killed a zombie, and I unlocked a 30-step achievement line. step 1 was kill 1 zombie, step 2 was kill 25, step 3 was this weird obscure thing called the Zombie Hunter but saw no info on it. Later on, around lvl 7 I found this plaque on the wall of a dungeon when I clicked on it and read it, it gave me the update that I had all but forgotten about. The Tome of Knowledge greatly promotes exploration and opens of a VAST amount of content and the WANT to see that content. Because with every unlock you open up and/or complete.. you get a small amount of xp. So like with sending 10 /tells, yup... you get xp from that. The thing is kickass. I'm predicting there will be people dedicating their play time to unlocking everything. I'd really like to see that.

I could go on and on about how kickass the game is, but you'd just have to try it yourself. Open Beta starts on Sept. 7th, but I won't be playing then. I don't want to burn myself out. If anyone wants to check it out then, let me know. You can DL the open beta client here: http://torrent2.eamythic.com/WarBeta.torrent  (~10gb)

So this open world RvR (Realm vs. Realm, ie, Alliance vs. Horde, ie, Good vs. Evil, correct?) means that I could just be running through the countryside on my way to do a quest or something, and come upon a full-scale battle between the sides happening out in the open and not tucked away in a dungeon somewhere that I'm never going to see? That's how it should've been always been. Good to see someone is finally getting the balls to attempt that.

I'm curious if there will be servers where one side pretty much controls everything whenever they can... Like in WoW my server has a 2:1 Horde:Alliance ratio, and I play Alliance. This would kind of be really unfair in WO, and realistically it could mean that to be successful on a server you'd have to join the side that is already stacked... I'm really curious about balance issues and how they have things to go back and forth (I'm sure if one side has everything for too long they'll give stuff back to the other side so that whole side doesn't get screwed forever...)

I may (or may not) give it a try (or attempt.)

Your decisiveness (or lack thereof) is incredibly (read: not really) compelling and your respect (also known as mockery) for my previous post is equally as awesome (read: crappy).