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Cookie cutter MMO. Stale & Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for a good single player game, or enjoy sitting aorund for hours talking to people you don't know on the internet, WoW might be right for you. Otherwise steer clear and save yourself a boatload of cash.

Leveling up to 70 can be fun, there is enough to do to avoid grinding at least with your first character. Once you're there though, the game screeches to a bloody halt.

PvP is lackluster, pointless, and wholly unenjoyable.
Raids are enjoyable if you like sitting around for hours.
Every character in late game is identical both in equipment and abilities for a given class.
Blizzard also decided to completely ruin Warcraft's back story too.

Play something else.

Friends don't let friends play World of Warcraft

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is really, really addictive. The sad thing is it's only moderatly fun because it get's very repetitive. You will find yourself wasting tons of time on this game, and when you're not playing and you're at school or work, you will be thinking about playing it as soon as you get home. Buyer beware this game is worse than nicotine and crack combined. . . friends don't let friends play WoW . . .

A decent game.. Doesn't really break new ground..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: February 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As with most MOGs in this genre, like Dungeons and Dragons online, Runescape, Rappelz and a some others, WOW doesn't really break new ground. Ultimately, the game boils down to fighting stuff so that you can get better gear to fight more stuff. The graphics are amazing, but the fact that your character really has no effect on the in game environment aside from the fact that you can gank other players gets old after a while. I have a character that is almost level 50 and I've gotten tired of the same old grind.

Players of the game are diverse, and joining a guild helps alot with levelling. Sometimes the guild can help you out with the difficulties of say, purchasing a mount for your character to ride on. Yet, like any on-line community, WOW also has its share of jerks.

While the world can be beautiful to adventure in, and visually, some of the vistas that WOW provides are stunning, the interaction with the world isn't any different than other games in the genre.

When you're on a dungeon quest, sometimes you have to rush through reading the backstory of a quest that is within the dungeon itself because several in the group want to move on.

Because of the extreme amount of ganking that goes on in WOW, its best if you can travel in a group most of the time to dissuade any would be gankers.

WOW isn't like Fallout where some of the decisions you can make in the game actually affects the outcome of the story. Ultimately it boils down to fighting critters and other players and getting better stuff to fight tougher players and critters.

The books provide some assistance for first time players to WOW, but what really helps are the maps. However, it would have been nicer if the Alliance and Horde locations were made more distinguishable on each map.

The Battlechest is a great buy for newcomers to WOW. The game, the expansion, and the Strat Guides are a great deal. For the same price of just purchasing WOW at my local electronics store, I was able to purchase the Battlechest. Quite a deal.

With the visually stunning environments, I can see why WOW is such a popular game. However, for me personally, the game gets repetitive after a while.

Useful especially for adding a new account for a family member.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 44 / 46
Date: December 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my son, since I had only bought him WoW without the expansion.
With the assumption that you've decided you want to play WoW, all the way through to lvl 70, this is the pack for you. You get WoW and expansion, which would cost 50 bucks if bought separately. You also get two strategy guides, but the strategy guide for the expansion (see my review for it here World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Official Strategy Guide (World of Warcraft)) is terribly lacking, so we're really looking at one valuable guide, one crappy guide. What you also get, and not even the box mentions this, is the game on DVD! Oh, how many times I've installed and reinstalled the original WoW on multiple computers at home and at my friends place, swapping disks. Well, no more! Unless you were lucky and bought the original Collector's edition World of Warcraft Collector's Edition and World Of Warcraft Burning Crusade Collector's Edition, you're stuck with 4 CDs each instead of 1 DVD.
Overall, I would buy (in fact, I did).

Suprisingly addictive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 17 / 17
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this after doing a free 10 day trial from Blizzard. After about 3-4 days of the trial I was pretty hooked and decided it was worth the money to get the full version of the game. (Very limited differences in the trial version so it's definitely worth testing out before you buy the full version.)

I'm not usually into long play games like this, but after seeing a bunch of different things about the game (including a very funny South Park episode) I decided to check into it a bit further.

I will say the game is much more fun if you can play with people you know, but you don't have to. I've found almost every person I've met in the game to be very helpful and understanding to new players so it makes it easy to get into the game and get what you want out of it.

I'd encourage people to definitely do the trial software and see how you like it, but I'm confident most people that play video games will find some portion of this entertaining.

Good buy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is certainly the way to go if your looking into getting into the World of Warcraft.

This game doesn't really break into new grounds in terms of gameplay. Mostly with kill 7 "wolves or goblins" is what your going to be doing alot of the time. They do a fairly decent job of mixing it up so that it doesn't get too overly redundant.

Gameplay is very good and fairly easy to pick up. My only wish would be to make it a bit harder since it seems a bit too easy at times. The world is seamless without load screens (except for when traveling) which is very nice.

The only real problem I had was that at times the community gets very annoying. Lots of it can thankfully be blocked out via filters. As a whole it has more good players than bad.

While I don't play too much of it anymore. Have to split time with Horizons while stuck working six days a week. Sort of cramps your video game time. I'd certainly reccommend this game especially the $40 chest since your getting a good deal.

One of the best possible online games around.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for an immersive online experience, then you've come to the right place. As I'm sure many will tell you, World of Warcraft is not only very fun, but highly addictive, so be prepared to lose hours of you life to this game.

The graphics aren't amazing, but that's understandable considering the age and scope of the game. Having said that, the graphics do their job, and they can still hold up compared to modern most MMOs. Frame-rate is fairly solid as long as you have at least 1 GB of RAM on your computer. I'd also recommend a video card equal to or more powerful than a ATI Radeon 9600 or Nvidia 6200. You could get away with less, but expect raids to be very laggy if you run them with hardware any weaker than what I mentioned. Also, prepare to devote lots of Hard Drive space to this game, its patches and expansions really add up. Now that we're done talking about the technical aspect, we can talk about visual design. This is what holds the game's look together and allows it to still hold up to current MMOs. If you've played a Warcraft RTS before its exactly like that, but from the perspective of one lowly character. Some may favor a more realistic look, but I enjoy the one Blizzard has created. The original continents, Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms from the original game, have a look of familiarity to them, but at the same time are very diverse and beautiful looking. My favorite zones from the original game are Tanaris, Un'Goro Crater, and Stranglethorn Vale. The areas in The Burning Crusade expansion pack are much more other worldly in their looks, some of my favorites from Outland are Nagrand, Zangarmarsh, and Terokkar Forest.

The sound is perfect for this game. Its the traditional epic soundtrack of Warcraft games past but much more diverse and particular to the cultures of whatever zone you happen to be in. It can be very epic and tense during boss fights during raids, but also relaxing while you're gazing out at The Great Sea or traveling across the sands of Tanaris, either way it immerses you fully into the world.

Now for the all important game-play. I'll start with the basics. In past Warcraft games you have been the controller of mighty armies, well, its a bit different now. Now, you are but one of the many players online, fighting to get to the top of the food chain. You play from a third person perspective, and the combat is fairly simple. You target your enemy, and then you merely click on the attack or spell that you would like to use from your action bar. The beginning tutorial missions do a good job of explains how to play, and how the game works in general. Of course to get good at the game you will learn about timing, strafing, which spells and attacks to use, and most importantly cooperation and teamwork. While there is plenty of solo work to do in this game, most of the end content for both the original game and the expansion requires good teamwork. So if you don't get along well with others, this is probably not the game for you. Something related to this, one of the things that I think makes this game so great, is that the game makes you feel important like a hero or something, but you still are only a small piece of the pie, you must still work with other to accomplish your goals.

Ok, so now that I've explained the basics I'll explain the differences between the original game and the expansion pack, but first I'll explain what experience I have with both so you know how far into the content I have dealt with. In the original game I cleared MC, ZG, Onyxia's Lair, up to Buru The Gorger in AQ 20, and up to Broodlord Lashlayer in Blackwing Layer. As for the Burning Crusade I cleared Karazhan, Magtheridon's Lair, Doom Lord Kazzak, and up to High Astromancer Solarion in Tempest Keep. Now, having said all that, I guess now is a good a time as ever to tell you I stopped raiding in September of 2007, and stopped playing altogether in Febuary of 2008. Even WoW gets boring after a while, and I didn't like what The Burning Crusade was turning the game into. I loved the original game, everything you did felt important and epics were genuinely special and hard to come by. Now everyone and their mother can have whatever gear they want, and there's no more attunements or anything, nothing is special or sacred anymore. Lets move beyond my feelings of the expansion, and talk about how it built on the original game. There's a whole new continent, two new races, several new raids, the horde got Paladins and the alliance got Shamans, and there's a whole new profession called jewelcrafting along with a socketing system. Lets not forget about my favorite additon, flying mounts. Riding on my Cobalt Netherdrake was really cool, and just about as fast as a flight path. Technically the expansion was a large improvement, but it just felt like it lacked the heart and soul that made the original so special.

I loved this game, but everything gets old at some point. If you're looking for a solid, never ending online experience I'd highly recommend it, although you may never see the light of day again.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This game is only playable online, and requires a monthly fee, see Blizzard for details. Parents be warned, there's some people in this game you may not want your children to meet.

Ok deal, good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Deal:
The price is a deal, because you are getting both wow and the expansion right + 2 guides. Well to tell you the truth the guides arent worth much. They tell you some WOW edicate, and some general information. All of this information is available on the internet and probably in the manual. If this battlechest wasnt cheaper than the WOW and the expansion alone, then I wouldnt recommend it.
The Game:
No matter what anyone says this game is still a grind. Grind to get your levels. Eventually you are going to be required to group with others, so be prepared to. These seem to be the really only bad qualities. The good side is that it has more features than most mmos. There are battlegrounds to fight other players, tons of variety in monsters, very pretty scenery, tons of variety in every way. Besides these factors, the world is huge, and once you travel to a place you can fly a griffin back (really cheap), which save huge amounts of time.

Awesome gift set!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: October 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the best deal if you want to get someone started on WoW as a gift for any occasion! I love the idea that it has 2 of the strategy guides and both sets of the game. I just wished they threw in an extra dungeon guide or pre-paid game card. :P

Battlechest is good value for your money

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 28 / 31
Date: November 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you are thinking about starting World of Warcraft (WoW) then it won't be long before you will want the upgrade burning crusades so I recomend just getting the Battle chest because you will save money and get an additional two books. If you are unsure about playing the game you can always download the 10 day free trial software to see if you like the game but be warned that this is a huge game and will take a long time to download (>4 gig.

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