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Addictive, Fun Online Role-Playing Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

World of Warcraft is an excellent, but not ground-breaking, online fantasy role-playing game with the potential for unlimited fun. The gameplay is typical of the genre: you select a class and race, start at level one, go off on a lot of quests, gain experience and money, complete tougher quests, repeat. Where this game shines, though, is the online experience with other players.

Blizzard has succeeded in creating an online environment with great opportunities for interaction with other players. You can formally team up with other players in groups to complete individual quests, sharing loot and experience, or you can join guilds to have a larger group of friends ready and willing to help you out. Also, as often happens, you can informally help another player out with a battle or quest by simply helping them with a tough fight or casting a helpful spell on them.

So far I've found the other players, by and large, courteous and very helpful. I've had more experienced players spend lots of their time helping me out by showing me new areas or features, and almost all are willing to answer a question or two.

The gameplay is very well-done, with an intuitive but customizable interface. Often the quests aren't overly challenging, especially because of the poor AI of the bad guys, but they're still fun.

Finally, Blizzard has created a huge world in World of Warcraft, and populated it with two factions. Players at higher levels may raid the homelands of the other factions, while players at lower levels experience the thrill and terror of real (not AI) threats bearing down on them. The opportunity to interact with other players, both on friendly and deadly terms, gives this game unlimited potential for exploration and fun. This is a highly-addictive game!

#1 GAME !!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: October 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was the best game ive played when i played the stess test beta and it was the best MMORPG that ive ever played. I recommend this game to any1 cause it has the best graphics on a computer ive seen. It is has so many things you could do in it u could do quests at an endless amount. I have been watching this game for over a year cause i no its a kick a$$ game!!!

Horribly Overrated

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: November 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Please don't discount me as a random detractor or as a noob. I have plenty of end game experience on my 60 and my friends on theirs, and we share an opinion that this game is, in fact, fairly pointless and poorly done. Although it is fun for a while, you get dragged in and then when you reach 60 you suddenly have no options for how to advance. You can either become a mindless part of a guild in which you go on incredibly restrictive several hour raids in boring zones, or whither. Most experienced mmo players would ask what the alternative is, or disagree because they think there are other options within this game. The alternative is devising small raiding (20 person max) for the good gear so that players are part of a real group and also to put in more balanced content for crafting and pvp. Thank heaven for Lord of the Rings Online; wait for that, don't play this trash.

Internet subscription

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 45
Date: August 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I purchased the game I was not aware that it could not be
played except using a $15 per month internet subscription. I thought you would have the option of playing it without the monthly fee. The game itself may be and problably is a five star game.

Not all it's cracked up to be.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 32
Date: July 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

And I'm tired of you WOW fans getting on other MMOs and just spamming "*Game here* Sucks. WOW is so much better" Seriously what is it? Powerlevel and do what after that, run into mobs and watch them scatter? Insult other games? And you can't just play it for a short amount of time. What can you do in it for a 30 minutes. It takes about an hour to do the quests.

You only get my money once, Blizz

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 82
Date: December 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You can't play the game without a $15 per month fee.

Thanks but no thanks blizzard, go thieve somewhere else.

3 ppl in home, addicted to all the past blizz games. Bought Now I'm supposed to fork over $45.00 per month in addition to BUYING the game????

Blizz has lost their simple corporate mind.

See ya on thne other side, Blizz.
-Long Time Loyal Gamer

Easy to pick up and fun to play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Anyone with a background in RPGs will enjoy this game. If you've played Diablo II you'll pick it up really quickly. Runs smooth as silk and graphics look great even with a GeForce 7300LE. The size of the game is immense and lends itself to nearly eternal playability. This is both good and bad given the monthly charge to play. Still not on board with paying $15/mo to play a game, but giving a shot none-the-less because it's so engaging.

Dollar for dollar... best entertainment value in a game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

MMOs are the future of entertainment. WoW has been one of the big innovators in this field.

Consider the price of the monthly subscription relative to the price of a movie these days. (Hours entertainment per month)/(Monthly subscription... WoW wins. I play an hour or so nearly everyday and get more fun from this then any other game I have (PS3/Xbox360 owner.) For a relative small price, you get to "play" in a large, complex fantasy world with a good deal of activities, as often as you care to.

Best PvP system.

I think many of the complaints about this game tend to be the "this isn't an RP game" (You can completely ignore the RP content and play). Perhaps a better description is MMORPGE (E=Ennvironment).

MINUSES?

This can be a huge time sink of a game. Much more so then others. I mean, no one is saying "Give us your money" but understand if you are looking to be a serious WoWer, you'll be spending a good amount of time parked in front of your screen.

If you are a parent, be mindful of your child's playtime; it's a fast paced game with a hyper reward system which encourages a player to continuously strive to "improve" one's character. This game really has no end, which is good for value, but not so good for moderation. Also, your kids will be hanging out with adults in a non supervised environment.

If you read the message boards on the official site, there seems to be a lot of complaints about the bias towards Player vs Player (PvP) content. I would say these complaints are unfounded; the PvP content is minimal relative to the other areas of the game. However, no other MMO has it beat yet.

My only "real" complaint is the graphics. They should be better considering average present day computing power. Graphics are slightly cartoony, especially considering other current MMOs. No, it doesn't get in the way of game play; I've played some of the other more recent ones and better graphics = more fun.

All in all: Good, cheap fun.

guild wars is better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 59
Date: July 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

WoW is an ok game. yet the monthly fees r killer. guild wars is the game to play. it has no monthly fees and it is better than wow. it is the same type of game for alot less $.wow also gets very boring after the 1st couple of weeks. u will get tired of being robbed by higher lvl players that hav all the time in the world. in guild wars the max lvl is 20 so u hav a chance to play pvp fairly. u also dont see ne body when u r running around the world unless u team up or go into towns. there isnt much walking time either u can teleport straight to a town u hav been to it is great. wow all u do is walk all the time and get robbed it is not fun. take my advice and save money on a much better game.

Cyber Crack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has an amazingly rich environment and seemingly infinite things to do and items to collect. If you're a gamer looking for a new obsession, this is one that can last you years. Blizzard is always updating as well so you can be sure that you'll never run out of new things to discover and tasks to accomplish. On top of all this there are incredibly rich storylines connecting all parts of the game in this entire world you can enter with the click of the mouse. You'll be hooked from the first minute of gameplay.

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