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 - Complete letdown considering how great the original was. Its become a monotonous gear race.I was really excited about this, I even had it pre-ordered. When i first started it up after the long install process I made a blood elf to check out the new Silvermoon area. I actually thought it was quite beautiful, the art design for it reminded me a lot of Fable. I goofed around on my Blood Elf mage until level 12 then went onto my troll priest to start the grind to 70. The leveling process wasn't as painful as i was worried it would be, and actually went by rather quickly. The new environments were pretty cool looking, my favorites being Nagrand and Zangarmarsh. The rest were actually pretty bland. The brief time I spent leveling managed to make me feel like a lone hero again, but that feeling soon went away as I hit 70 and began raiding and saving money for my epic mount. Eye of the storm was a disappointment and the rest of the battlegrounds were overrun with idiots who just spent all day AFK to get honor points. I soon noticed it became extraordinarily easy to get epic pieces of gear. There was no more challenge, in the original if you saw someone with epics you knew they accomplished something, in BC, if you saw someone without epics they either just hit 70 or are completely incompetent at playing their class. The flying mounts were neat but you couldn't even use them in Azeroth. Oh and of course the raid bosses are as boring and robotic as ever, they don't even have the epic feeling the ones from the original had. So here I am, a level 70 troll shadow priest with a netherdrake, full frozen shadoweave and other epics from kara, and my raid group is on High Astromancer Solarion. Its everyone's dream right? Wrong, I was having less fun being on top of the world in BC than I was being in the middle in the original. This is an expansion with nothing but more of the same but without any of the epic feel to it. It doesn't feel special like the original. I have now quit the game because its just become a monotonous gear race. Rating:  - Just buy it...I'm addicted to WOW. I needed The Burning Crusade to get my character to level 70. The Outlands are awesome, the challenges are insane, lots of new cool stuff. Now Im just waiting for Wrath of the Lich King. But warning - you need a fast gaming computer to be able to play. I am in the process of upgrading my computer because I am experiencing lag issues after installing TBC. Rating:  - Same Quests different titlesI started off playing World of Warcraft at release only to quit a year later do to the lack of end game content for the casual gamer. Spending 30hrs a week in Molten Core or Black Wing Lair just was not my idea of fun. After some friends told me all the great things about the expansion I decided to reactivate my account and give it a try. To make this review short. The type of quests are the exact same that were prior to the release of this expansion. Go to this area, kill 200 of this monster to collect 6 pieces of certain item, rinse and repeat. The addition of 10man raid groups was a pleasant surprise, but even this still makes the end game fall short. The 10 man dungeons in this game have pretty much no impact on the main story line and are just stepping stones to the larger 25man main story dungeons. So pretty much what this means is unless you are in a hard core raiding guild it will take you at least a year, if ever, to see the main boss in this expansion. World of Warcraft does have some positive attributes to it, but I have never been the type to want to grind out dungeons repeatedly in the hope of the one item I needed from there would drop, and like I said unless you plan to spend every seven days a week, 5hrs a day raiding you will never see the end game content, or have the best items for your class. So to sum up, you pay for a game that you can never complete do to the hard core raiding atmosphere, the pvp system with the institution of resilence makes any button clicker able to kill you, and be prepared to enjoy the grind fest either in dungeons or in battlegrounds to get any items that may be helpful to your character. Rating: - Blizzard could have done betterI've played WOW for almost 2 years now and have to say that BC was not all that it could have been. Blizzard added much needed content and two new playable races (Blood Elves & Draeni), some additional quests (very cookie cutter quests, limmited in playability), new spells/talents from lvl 60-70 and Arenas. Cutting to the chase: Blizzard has desigend the game around gear & gold. Other players will judge you based on this (Uber gear/lots of gold - increases your charisma among players, cr@ppy gear and broke, players will ignore you and not want you involved in their end game content / Arena games. Arenas & End game content is great, but you need the gear/gold to get there. The item rewards from Arenas are better then anything a player can craft (the mats for crafting are outrageous, you will be grinding for hours, maybe days) so whats the point ? PVP is fun, but again, its all about gear. Fighting someone with better gear is a complete loss (prepare to get pwned). I play a 70 Priest w/almost all season 3 Arena gear, and can kill any other player, regardless of skill if my gear is better then theirs - Seems that Blizzard promotes this with resiliance (decreases the chance enemies can score a crit, decreases damage from crits. Prior to BC, if you got a purple item, it meant something. Now, purples are all too common from battlegrounds / arenas and instances. In the end, once you hit 70, you can't get any further in the game unless you are part of a progression guild (anything less, you will be wiping for hours in instances and wasting gold on repairs) or have a great arena team. WOW is just a time passer until Warhammer comes out :) Rating: - Pretty good, but replayability is very limited.For those of you who haven't played WoW, let me say that your first run through will be a blast. 1-70 is great, but after you max your level, the game will begin to become stale, yes, there are vast quantities of 'endgame' content, but it simply lacks the fun of the goal setting experience of MMO's. Your subsequent play throughs will be nearly identical to the first, aside from a select few side quests pertaining to your race, class, or allegiance. In summary, this game is quite fun and addictive, it has something for everyone, but it does stale fast upon completion, as the end-game content isn't nearly fun enough, or rewarding enough to warrant sticking with it for long after 70.
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