NY Times Reviews Vanguard

February 11, 2007

NY Times has an article up on Vanguard Saga of Heroes:

His new game, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, opened on Jan. 30. But in a surprising twist Mr. McQuaid isn’t pinning his hopes on appealing to World of Warcraft’s millions of casual players. Instead, Vanguard is a gamer’s game. While World of Warcraft uses a cartoony visual style that runs fine on slower computers, Vanguard can humble even the beefiest PC with its emphasis on fantasy realism and its huge, richly detailed virtual universe. Where the older game tries to impress with its accessibility, Vanguard is about more complexity, more choices. In short Mr. McQuaid is bucking the conventional wisdom of a $2 billion industry.

He says he’s going after “players who are looking for something deeper, more like a home.” He adds, “I don’t expect to get six or seven million players, but if we have 500,000 by the end of the year and keep growing after that, I’ll be happy.”

I’ve been playing Vanguard more than WoW lately. So far I’m satisfied with it.