Eternal Crusade, the latest game released with a WH40k setting, advertises itself as an MMO. While it’s clearly “multi-player” and “online” (the “massively” is up for debate), it’s not an MMO in any traditional sense of the term. Players are provided four character slots on their account, where they can select one of four factions: Eldar, Space Marine, Chaos Space Marine, or Ork. They are then further prompted to select a “Chapter,” which is a subfaction flavor to all you Warhammer buffs out there, but in this game only seems to have a cosmetic effect of determining your armor color. Eldar characters additionally have a male/female choice. After creating a character, players are presented with a menu which is their entire gateway into the game. The menu basically allows access to several different queues for various game modes. Most of these are competitive (this is Warhammer, after all!), but one of them is cooperative.

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