Rage3D.com’s side-by-side comparison of Everquest II vs World of Warcraft: A Year in Review — a fairly detailed and objective comparison of the two games on noob levels, interfaces, PvP, crafting, guilds, soloability, etc. Kinda all the stuff we really care about but reviews rarely cover.

From the Warcraft whorums, WoW Players Flee to EQII. My take from reading a few of those mini-reviews, there’s some strong opinions on EQII. I never gave EQII much of a chance, other than a brief run around the island trial for a few days, so I won’t instigate a WoW vs. EQII argument (just yet), but I will say this much: that trial blew hard. Two words: rogue sneak. Whoever did the animation for rogue sneak is having a good laugh right now. (Think: waddling around as if one was wearing a loaded diaper.) Is there an improved sneak where rogues won’t waddle? I have no idea, but five levels of that was five too many for me. (As with all Warcraft forum links, the thread will expire and disappear into the Internet Trash Bin. READ IT NOW.)