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Amazon Minimum Age: 144 monthsBinding: DVD-ROM Brand: Blizzard Entertainment EAN: 0020626722124 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Item Dimensions: Label: Blizzard Entertainment Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product. Manufacturer: Blizzard Entertainment MPN: 72212 Platform: Macintosh, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Release Date: November 23, 2004 Studio: Blizzard Entertainment Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Vivendi (72212) World of Warcraft PC 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.
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 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.
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.
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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Rip OffThe 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:  - 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: - World Of War crapWow 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 ... Read More Rating: - don't waste your money on this gameThis 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. ... Read More Rating: - 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 ... Read More |
