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: World of Warcraft
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Blizzard Entertainment
EAN: 0020626722124
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Label: Blizzard Entertainment
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Sales Rank: 328
Studio: Blizzard Entertainment

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From Amazon.com:
World of Warcraft didn't invent the online role-playing genre, but it certainly benefits from the missteps of other titles that have come before. A mind-boggling array of improvements in graphics, gameplay, networking, and interface--really every category--makes this game the crown prince of the genre, a great starting place for newbies, and a challenge to any other MMORPG currently in the works.

Inside the human camp
The game's beautifully rendered locations are filled with small details, such as flying birds and flowing water.
A History of Conflict
WoW takes place just four years after the real-time strategy Warcraft series, which chronicles a 25 year struggle between the Alliance (humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves) and the Horde (orcs, tauren, trolls, and undead). Even though there's tons of accumulated story to the series, new players should not be daunted. The background is there for you to explore, but you don't have to tread a lot of Azeroth history to get into the action.
The makers boast 2,000 existing quests with more being added, many of them noncombat in nature.


The game looks magnificent. There's plenty of detail and variety to the landscapes and interiors, and the artwork has a refreshingly playful style. There's not a lot of variety in the character creation process, but with all the skills and proficiencies to combine in the game, WoW focuses its customization not on the appearance of your character but rather on the character of your character. The game lets you adopt any two trade skills, regardless of character race or class, and combine those skills in useful ways. If you choose skinning and leatherworking, for example, you can fashion bags from the carcasses of monsters you defeat, which will allow you to carry even more inventory items.

Expanded Commerce
You can sell the items you make, find, and loot through a variety of outlets. Like any role-playing game, WoW has merchants who will buy your cast-off items for fixed prices, but you can also sell to other players at your own price through in-game chat or by leaving it with one of the auction houses located across the map. This virtual free market is a game within the game, like Monopoly somehow inserted into the middle of Chess. Heck, you can even send items C.O.D. to other players via the game's mail system.

In-game quest log
The game's Quest Log keeps track of up to 20 quests at a time.
In other online role-playing games, starting players have to invest dozens of hours whacking at small prey and doing other odd jobs one at a time to gradually "level up" to more interesting challenges. WoW lets players accept a variety of quests--up to 20 at a time without penalty for abandoning any of them before they're complete. The makers boast 2,000 existing quests with more being added, many of them noncombat in nature. Where some games only grant experience through battle, WoW grants experience for exploring and fulfilling quests too.

A Level Playing Field
There's also a built-in handicap for casual players where your character enters a rest state when you log off from the game. The longer you're logged off (up to a week), the bigger the experience bonus you'll get when you return to battle. An enemy tagging feature--the player who lands the first attack on an enemy claims the loot for himself or his party--prevents onlookers from swooping in and pilfering items from a monster that you brought down. That resolves a common complaint of other titles.

WoW interface
Icons and pop-ups help put complex controls easily within reach.
Most games severely penalize players when they die in-game, usually by shaving experience points, funds, or both. In WoW, death just relocates your ghost to the nearest graveyard, and the only penalty is the time it takes you to get back to resurrect your character's corpse.

All of this makes for a very complicated game, but the well-designed interface puts all the game's elements into icons either visible framing the action or within a simple keystroke. The enemy's artificial intelligence is quite strong too: Monsters will join nearby fights to aid their comrades, switch targets strategically midbattle, and ambush players. The map system fills in details on places you've visited, so you always know where you are and where you've been.

Overall, World of Warcraft is a game that's easy to learn, challenging to master, beautiful to watch, and tons of fun to play. --Porter B. Hall

Amazon.com Product Description:
For the first time, players can experience the lands of WarCraft's Azeroth from a new, in-depth perspective. As heroes, they explore familiar battlefields, discover new lands, and take on epic quests and challenges in Blizzard's massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Blizzard has taken care to make the game accessible and fun both for hard-core 60-hour-a-week players and for more casual adventurers.

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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Rip Off
The game came in fine condition, but the license was was already used, so the game could not be registered and played. An online game is pretty useless without a license. I assumed that if it was for sale, it had some value, but I was wrong.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - COMPLETLY INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE! THIS GAME IS SO ADDICTING I AM READY TO KILL MYSELF OVER IT! YOU WILL NEVER MAKE A BETTER PURCHASE IN ALL OF YOUR LIFE!!!


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - World Of War crap
Wow is a fun game if your 12 years old.The graphics are to cartoonish,game play to easy.Plus the main reason i don't like WOW is that the players are rude and obnoxious.Final Fantasy XI is a much better game with more story and variety that WOW could never have.I played WOW for 2 hours on friends account and fell asleep right away. WOW = BORING!!!
Another thing about is that your stuck with one job too!! ;; At least in Final Fantasy XI you have a subjob that helps alot and one character has access to more then 15 jobs as well as keeping all your rank points and everything! WOW sucks!!! NUFF SAID!!!!!


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - don't waste your money on this game
This game is pure garbage until from start to finish. While the game is easy enough for anyone to play (including people that aren't 13+ years of age as the game suggests). The cartoony graphics are fun to look at and the weird little dances the avatars do are amusing to watch, but why should that really matter. I've played lots of video games and have better features to rate on a game on than cheap graphics and ease of play. To start off my complaints I'll mention this game is extremely buggy. Bugged mobs and quests scattered all over the place, and every time they patch it they create 50 more bugs to patch the next time around. I feel so sorry for the people that gave good reviews to this game, because I have no doubt in my mind they are already addicted to this game. Hell, almost everyone on campus I know that plays this game isn't satisfied with a few leisure hours of game play. Most or them play this game for hours each night to level their character to 60 (70 if you have the expansion). I should know I went through the same thing and it was fun at first because my friends helped me learn how to play this game, but in my two years of playing this game I have learned its nothing but a bunch of lil 15 year old kids and immature adults doing but ripping on each other all night. Every single time I played this game I would hear the word newb about 50 times as after all that seems to be an elite WoWer's worst fear. Don't be fooled the word "newb" in this game has nothing to do wiht being but is a lame term everyone uses on each other in an attempt to insult each other's intelligence and you'll hear it every time you ask a simple question about the game when you're signed in. This is in addition to numerous racial comments and other forms of language and abuse of the policies that either don't get dealt with by the GMs or never get reported. Believe me, I've tried reporting as much harrassment as I can about this game but when it takes an average 4 hours to get a response for a single abusive player its hardly worth it. Once I hit max level I did get into raiding which took me an entire night and on rare occasions longer, but I never really got much of anything out of it. After all the time I've wasted playing this game and taking abuse from unruly players I only wish I could get my time back blizzard --- think I could get a refund? People, I know it seems like internet is the future of just about everything here but really there are so much better ways than this game to entertain yourself. Play basketball or a fun nintendo game with your friends, but don't join the bandwagon of teh 10,000,000 walking zombies that devote their life only to bettering their characters til the next expansion of this game. Its not worth it.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A highly addictive and surprisingly beautiful game.
My friends had played this game for a month or so, and I finally gave in. So there I am, a tiny little level one without the slightest idea as to what the hell I was supposed to do. Luckily, the beginning levels do a good job of teaching you how to play the game and at the same time make you feel important to the workings of the world. That's part of what makes this game so great, you feel like an important hero, but at the same time know you're not the only one out there. In fact, the farther you advance in the game, the more you start to work with those other people, making you feel more and more like a soldier or drone than a hero, which kind of took away from the fun of the game for me. Also, the world and scenery are perfect. Its familiar enough for you to relate to it and make it believable, but different enough to make you feel like you're in a whole new fantastic world. They also give you enough rewards along the way to keep you leveling to 60, like my favorite, the mounts. i had an awesome raptor for my troll. Once you hit level 60 your journey is far from over, there is PvP, raiding, professions and more. So there is something there for just about everyone, although I did a little of everything. I give you one warning, if you plan to get to 60 and make something of yourself like become high warlord or down Nefarion, prepare to take the time out of your social life. This game had a lot of heart put into its development and it shows, there's just some kind of magic to the game.

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