Vanguard is the first title released by Sigil Games, but years of experience underlie its development. Many of the team worked on Everquest, the first massively multiplayer game to bring online role-playing to the masses. Does this mean Vanguard is a masterpiece, destined to bring low the mighty World of Warcraft?


Well, no, not really. WoW has succeeded primarily because it’s easy. Everquest-lite, it eschews the long arduous grind for, um, a quick and simple grind. Vanguard, however, makes no concessions. It’s the Yorkie to Warcraft’s Milky Way – big, dense and proud of it – and clearly intended for a very different, and quite likely, smaller, audience.