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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my husband, a certified WoW-junkie, and he absolutely loved it. After awhile, I, being the non-junkie, decided to try it out and was very impressed. The new races are extremely fun to play, there are more quests, money-making is easier than ever, and everyone I know who plays loves it. Two thumbs up.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Lots of additional content for the World of Warcraft. The Ghostlands is now my favorite 10-20 zone in the game. The Outlands is fun to explore, there is nothing more fun then your first time there on your first quest, you feel the ground shaking and get stomped into the ground by a level 70 Elite Fel Reaver. Coolest game ever.

A must have addition to World of Warcraft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Up front, this isn't a review on the actual game play. It's more of a tip for those who are looking into World of Warcraft and are wondering if they should invest in the expansion early.

I was told that unless you wanted to play one of the new races, that the expansion wasn't worth buying until you were getting close to level 60. Granted most of the material that comes with the expansion is level 58+, I found that it's worth having at the lower levels, even though I haven't tried EITHER of the new races, and don't have any high level characters yet. Basically, I bound my hearth to Shattrath, which has portals to all 4 main cities within your faction. There's also an enchanting trainer in Shattrath, so players won't find it necessary to travel to Uldaman just for training. Just these two things alone made the expansion worth buying!

A solid expansion that misses out on being a great one

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

World of Warcraft TBC is without a doubt, a solid and long anticipated expansion to the World of Warcraft series. The expansion adds an a bevy of new content for levels 60-70 in the mysterious lands of Outland. Additionally, jewelcrafting is introduced into the game, and while I haven't spent enough time on this new addition to the game, I have gotten my feat wet with it and it is surely a nice way to bolster the crafting elements of the game.

Perhaps the biggest addition that is introduced in TBC are the two new races, the Dranei and the Blood Elves. Both could not look better in the game, and the nice balance of classes in the races help keep the game enjoyable. The starting cities, particularly the Blood Elves' are absolutely breathtaking, literally you have to see it, screenshots do not nearly do it any justice. All in all, Blizzard could not have done a better job with these two new races.

The Burning Crusade expansion does nearly everything right from the over two year wait with the addition of new content, new races, raised level cap and jewelcrafting except for the fact that they have left out the addition of a new class for a game that desperately needed one or two. Don't get me wrong, the game is incredibly balanced with the current group of classes but with just eight at the moment, the game clearly lacks more substance and diversity. If you can ignore the fact that the addition of one or two new classes would have made this an absolute perfect expansion, then TBC is a virtually flawless expansion to an ever-growing World of Warcraft franchise.

Required for serious gamers.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you (unfortunately) play WoW, this expansion is now a requirement for any respectable player. It's the only way to get to level 70, the only way to get a lot of items and other such garbage.

However, if you're just starting out and you don't want to play one of the new races, there's no reason to get this game until you're ready to advance to the new lands. :)

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This expansion is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait for the new expansion: Wrath of the Lich King to be available. Most people question the $15 a month subscription, I know I did. Once you get to playing the game, the subscription is worth it and I don't mind paying it anymore. This is one hell of a game.

Same old same old...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 35
Date: January 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

More of the same, mind numbing content. Save your money and try a new game.

The expansion breathes new life into the game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well lots of players below have summed the expansion quite well. Since i dont have a 60 or even a level 50 yet so i dont exactly qualify for a total complete package review. However since I am playing one of the two new races offered in the game I can offer atleast a review on the opposite side of the spectrum.

First i didnt suffer a single installation or gameplay issues. I bought the game on the midnight it was officially released and I was able to install the game and jump right in on one of the new player vs envoirment servers. I am playing the new blood elf race offered for the horde which brings with it the Paladin class previously only available for the Alliance faction in the game.

The blood elf starting areas have almost jaw-dropping graphics associated with. It almost looks like the graphic engine was given an upgrade. The blood elf capital city of Silvermoon is perhaps the best looking city in the entire game even surpassing even the former champion Stormwind(the capital city of the human race) in terms of scope and architecture. The quests are abundant, well-layed out and actually follows a story-line for anyone in intrested in reading the texts of the quests. Otherwise its still the same kill 20 things there or go deliver this to someone. However, even this mundane almost universal mmo questline is again made 'fun' by the casual and the patented fun gameplay associated with this Blizzard World of warcraft mmo. You will never feel bored or get a feeling of grinding(reptition) with these quests.

After grinding the first ten levels in the colorful, pretty and scenic starting areas you will be moved into the new lvl 10-20 areas for the blood elf caled Ghostlands. The scenery changes almost to a brooding, dark, errie and sometimes even scary landscape. Feels right in place to showcase devastation the scourge assault bought to the high evles now called the blood elfs within the lore of this game. They are again abundant quests here to take you all the way to lvl 21 or even 22 if you prefer to grind.

I have heard the same good stuff about the new Alliance race called Draenei which gives alliance access to the powerful Shaman class previously only avialable to the Horde faction. The Draenei also have orginal new areas as well their own hugely magnificent capital city called Exodar. You can expierience new content all the way to lvl 20 here.

From there on the lvl 20-58 gameplay reverts back to the orginal world of warcraft gameplay. To me its all worth it as i always was a fan of the horde faction at the same time my favourite class Paladin was locked out for me. Now with the new race Blood elf i can expierience Paladin without having to change factions. I hope the same will go for people playing the Shaman class for the first time with the alliance faction.

Burning crusade brings a host of new pvp content also but mostly for people in lvl 60+ located in the new continent called Outland. They have new world pvp in form of capturable spawn points or areas which gives powerful buffs to the wining faction. The other new world pvp content is the capture and hold of a real time city. One of the fun pvp aspect is being able to do aerial bombarding runs on the city defenses among the regular frontal assualt strategy. Last but not least is a new instanced Battleground called Eye of the Storm that have been introduced. Its combination of capture the flag and capture the hill scenarios.

So all in all two-thumbs way up for Blizz. They have come up with a worthy expansion to the world's leading mmo out there. I still predict that World of warcraft along with the expansion Burning Crusade will be the reigning champion in the world of mmo for many more years to come.

Mitigated Disaster

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 56
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As I write this review the expansion has been live for 20 hours. Half the servers are down and the server with all my characters on (Argent Dawn) can't stay up more than 60 seconds. When it's up there are innumerable bugs like non-spawning mobs, unattackable mobs, ships disappearing dumping all of us in the sea off of Auberdine. Those servers that are able to stay up are so crowded that every mob that respawns is instantly attacked by half a dozen players.

It took over 90 minutes just to install the expansion because there are two updates required after installing the software on the CDs and the downloads are sloooowwwwww.

I don't think the people who gave this 5 stars actually played it in production. Maybe they played the beta which was much more controlled and stable. Your experience will not be so pleasant for several more days I suspect.

Blizzard really screwed up on this release. I give them a D-.

Update - Yesterday (Sunday) was the first day since the release that I didn't see any problems with disconnects or broken mobs. That's six days of problems. I changed the title to Mitigated Disaster because they seem to have eventually fixed all the problems.

Big disappointment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 22
Date: January 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After nearly a year of waiting, Blizzard finally released Burning Crusade. Maybe they should have delayed it again.
The new races just seem like they where rushed out. They look like they were sketched by 10 year olds. I truly expected better from Blizzard. Hopefully they will make a patch in the near future to fix the lack of effort that they put into this expansion.

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