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World of Warcraft
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IGN
I played a ton of Dark Age of Camelot shortly after it launched, and I find myself reminded of it negatively every day that I play World of Warcraft. To discuss the differences in favor of WoW would be an article in itself, but I'll try to keep to the
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GameSpy
Time, Quests, and Main
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GamePro
World of Warcraft tosses out what's bad and focuses on what's good about MMORPGs.
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Gaming Age
A fantastically beautiful and exceedingly friendly MMORPG. It's also nice to finally have a good-looking 3d RPG that doesn't suffer from terrible lag and massive server load-times.
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Yahoo! Games
The game is in impressive shape. It's become commonplace to ship MMORPGs with buggy clients, but Blizzard's program is very stable. The servers are almost as reliable -- four overloaded servers have experienced extended downtime at time of writing, but
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GameZone
The forest was lush, and vividly dressed in an array of colors. The tiny night elf hunter was not fooled though – danger lurked ahead. He checked the young night saber bounding beside him, the creature loyal to a fault. This was his
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Worth Playing
Unlike its competitors, World of Warcraft boasts a magnificently done quest system. Each quest you take a detailed explanation written into your Quest Journal that gives you enough information ingame to solve it. The sense of immersion is greatly
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Game Revolution
With its army of minor improvements and thoughtful touches, Blizzard has blessed all MMORPGers with the genre’s finest, most polished title to date. Whether you enjoy hardcore role-playing, shameless griefing or something in the middle, you will find
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1UP
Like "Warcraft III" before it, World of Warcraft is less about cataclysmic evolution and more about refinement.
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RPGFan
With fantastic art direction, technical stability, a compelling storytelling, addictive and enjoyable gameplay – we have the recipe for success.
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Amped IGO
Many gamers have worried that the MMORPG genre became stagnant before it ever had a real chance to take off, and they certainly have a valid point. Many MMO's with great promise are simply recycled versions of Everquest, with a few tweaks
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Games are Fun
Now, we're a good near 7 or 8 years since I really played MMORPGs, and I decided to try out WoW, more on a whim than anything else. Now I'm suffering through WoW withdrawal symptoms. Seriously, I am feeling like a heroin addict trying to live without his
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GamersMark
I began hearing from other gamers about the hype Blizzard was setting on a new type of Medieval/Fantasy MMORPG game in the works. That time frame for games always intrigued me. The WarCraft RTS series combined intense game play with a killer storyline.
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Quandary
In fact, apart from the world itself, the great attraction of World of Warcraft for me is the community. Making friends and helping each other out is especially enjoyable.
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Jaded Gamer
Wow! This game looks great! Sure, it's yet another MMOG with the tired fantasy theme, but somehow Blizzard has made it feel unique and somewhat fresh. And getting to play an undead warlock is beyond rad. Can't wait til I get powerful enough to take on
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Gamers Europe
For each part of the game there is trade off: the concept works well but to MMORPG outsiders some of the things seem, well, epically pedantic.
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Frag Land
But let's put aside the technical aspects and look at the game itself. World of Warcraft is the first MMORPG that really appealed to me. After having been bored to death with Everquest 2 after a couple of hours, I wasn't too hopefull that I would
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GamerDad
From the earliest mainframe computers, people have been making and playing fantasy games of swords and sorcery. The computer commands to place a cursor anywhere you want on the screen were initially developed in order to create the first graphical
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Just RPG
While the interface is well thought out and has a very appealing look and feel, it lacks the customizability of the controls. The various actions for your character can be made into buttons to be placed on a ‘hot-bar’ or ‘quick-bar,’ however
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Loaded Inc
This game has kept me glued to the screen longer than any other MMORPG and that's down to the fun-factor.
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Just Adventure
Incredibly addicting... They’ve just cleaned up your standard Dungeons and Dragons style online RPG and made it super fun, extremely refined, and exceedingly accessible to gamers of all levels.
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Armchair Empire
With the dust settling now on World of Warcraft, it is becoming more and more obvious that this is by far the best MMORPG currently on the market.
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Silicon Fusion
From here you are on your own, or not as you wish. You can solo or group or join a guild to help you advance, levelling is easy within the first few levels but becomes much harder around the tenth level and grouping will become needed. There are tons of
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Gameplanet
The game is divided into two distinct factions, the Horde and the Alliance. The Horde has such charming races as the trolls, undead, orcs and the tauren (cow-like characters), and the Alliance features humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves. Each has various
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Boomtown
There’s always a hesitation in giving something 10 since you are essentially saying that it’s perfect but as things stand now that’s exactly what World of Warcraft deserves.
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Game Helper
WoW takes place about four years after the events in Warcraft III. Many of the locales and battlefields from that game are recreated, and several of the more important characters make appearances as well. The most significant aspect of those events is
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TotalVideoGames
In World of Warcraft, players assume the roles of legendary heroes and interact with thousands of other players online as they explore and adventure across a vast world. Whether journeying together or questing on their own, players will engage in heroic
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IC-Games
I can't stress how great this game is. This is truly Blizzard's achievement. They have made a game that is fun for everyone and can not only appeal to the hardcore massively multiplayer online crowd, but to the casual gamer as well.
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Cyber Gaming Net
HonestGamers
It is an MMORPG at its finest and the first of such to intrigue me in such a fashion since Asheron's Call. As previously mentioned, it is the obsession you have while playing the hero or villain you have created in these games, that overshadows the
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Game Vortex
One of the few disappointments in WoW comes in the character creation department. While not as limiting as the system found in Final Fantasy XI, which limited you to a few pre-done models and maybe a hair-color change, there are still limits. The primary
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Gaming Nexus
And best of all, in this time of graphical resource-hogging, you don’t need a machine built by God to enjoy it.
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All RPG
Before we even start into how the game exactly plays we have to take a look at the heavy collector’s box (it really is heavy and it really is a box). The box itself is made to look like a book (a very big, bulky, heavy book) it even has a fake leather
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Game Industry News
Visually: Easy one first. Both games will just blow you away visually. You could literally spend hours just wandering around each game world gawking at what the developers have put in them in the way of graphics. EverQuest 2 is a series of interconnected
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GamePlasma
The first thing you will do upon logging in and picking a server is create your first character. As with all Warcraft games, there are two sides, Horde and Alliance. The race you pick determines your faction, and there are four for each side. On the
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UnderGroundOnline
WoW takes place in the land of Azeroth, the same world you saw from a top-down perspective in the original Warcraft series. Characters are divided into two opposing sides, the Alliance and the Horde. The Alliance is made up of the Tolkien-esque good
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Next Level Gaming
Blizzard’s first foray into the world of MMO gaming is Superb. They’ve managed to blend New and innovative ideas along with tried and true features in a smooth running game worthy of the Warcraft name.
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ActionTrip
The game's hardware requirements are high. Really. Take the Recommended settings, add 256MB of RAM and 500Mhz of CPU, and that's what I'd say is the Minimum hardware requirement for this game...Will a few technical issues keep you away from what is the
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2404 - PC Gaming
The raw mechanics of World of Warcraft are solid. All of the components of the user interface are geared to enhance the user's enjoyment of the rich environments. So many games feel as if seven different departments each generated a part of the game
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My Gamer
If you want a highly polished and lavishly designed MMORPG set across a sprawling fantasy world made popular by millions of devoted fans, then I strongly advise that you familiarize yourself with World of Warcraft immediately.
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JustPressPlay
World of Warcraft has been on the market for a few months now, and has the worlds 2nd largest playerbase, second to Lineage. With 1.5 Million subscribers and growing, there seems to be no end to the dominance WoW brings. Much to the dismay of recent MMOG
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All About Games UK
So what have I learnt over this period?
Well, firstly and most importantly, despite my best efforts, I don't have time for this game.
That's not to say it's bad - not at all.
I've just discovered that trying to run a website (including playing
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ThumbBandits
The life of a shaman is a grim one on WoW. Shaman are a unique class to the Horde side and are a jack of all trades yet masters of none. Shamans can cast spells, heal themselves and can hit real hard too. They have few weaknesses which makes attacking
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Jive Magazine
For those of you who have been hiding out in a cave, or who are new to the masochistic drug-like bliss of MMORPGs, World of Warcraft is the heir apparent to the MMORPG throne. Say goodbye to your social life because all of your free time and even some of
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Xequted
As solid an experience as can be found online. This game will absorb your life once you start playing, and crusty pizza boxes will become an all too common appearance around the house.
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PC Gamer
This is a review of world of warcraft.
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GameSpot
World of Warcraft is amazing in many ways, but above all, it's a really fun game.
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Detroit Free Press
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