First with the deathmatch. We learnt something very quickly: the people who had been playing the beta for a lot longer than us possessed some mad skills. In typical 'stab first, ask questions later' style we sprinted at an opposing team member, sword aloft and tried to cleft them in twain. Suddenly black tentacles, like a tank of eels, covered us and we were frozen still. Lightning then burnt our character within an inch of death and just when we thought we might be able to bugger off and hide, a bunch of zombies killed us.

As our team had lost all the positions one can resurrect from we just had to sit patiently and watch the rest of the match play out. Most impressive was the fact there seemed a real team dynamic going on. Our death was actually delivered by two players working in tandem, first freezing and then frying our poor barbarian.