World of Warcraft

Here is my review on World of Warcraft, the massively multiplayer online role playing game from Blizzard Entertainment.

Blizzard has yet to fail me. They have once again succeeded in making an impeccable game. Like their previous games they take best things out of a certain genre and mix them together in a game and then adds lots of nice goodies. World of Warcraft provides nothing new in terms of MMORPG games, but takes the best from all the rest and make a brilliant game. In short it caters very much for the casual player, but also rewards hardcore players at the same time. If you log out at the local inn or Capital city, your Experience bar becomes what is called "rested". In other words your character rests while you are away with real-life duties. The "rested" status of your xp bar allows you to gain more xp from creatures. After a certain amount of xp your characters xp returns to normal. In other words you dont get anymore bonuses.

There are various races and classes you can choose from to quest in this epic world. The classes is race determined.
You dont see an Orc Paladin, do you?

There are certain realms (all replicas of the game world, which caters for every play-style) on each server.

WoW is very based on what is called Player-Versus-Player. The two opposing factions, Horde and Alliance are continually at war. They promote this by adding the Honor System. The Honor System tracks the amount of times you killed a player or NPC (Computer-Controlled players) of the opposing faction. The more you kill players of the opposing faction, the more you are rewarded for your actions. It also caters for people who doesnt want to stress with dealing with other players trying to take their head, while questing. There are realms which is called PvE (Player Versus Environment). You can only get killed by other players if you attack NPC's or want to duel. There are also RP realms where you are completely immersed in-game. There are strict naming restrictions, so that it doesnt break down the feeling of Role-Playing. You are also not allowed to talk about things outside the game.

How does it play with 56k? I have 56k and I am happy to say that it is completely playable. Although it might irritate some players with 1.5 second waits when opening your inventory, it really doesnt make a difference.

In the end, WoW caters for every player and is certainly a game for every person who is vaquely interested in online gaming.

One Word..........wow!

P.S. Sorry for waiting so long for the post, I have been playing too much WoW! I play on Frostwhisper-pvp on the Europe servers.

Happy gaming!