World of Warcraft : Overview and Review

Overview
Four years have passed since the aftermath of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and a great tension now smolders throughout the ravaged world of Azeroth. As the battle-worn races begin to rebuild their shattered kingdoms, new threats, both ancient and ominous, arise to plague the world once again.

World of Warcraft is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. Being "Massively Multiplayer," World of Warcraft allows thousands of players to interact within the same world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory.

A dedicated live team will create a constant stream of new adventures to undertake, lands to explore, and monsters to vanquish. This content ensures that the game will never be the same from month to month, and will continue to offer new challenges and adventures for years to come.

Game Features:

Adventure together with thousands of other players simultaneously.

Create and customize your own hero from the unique races and classes of the Warcraft universe.

Explore an expansive world with miles of forests, deserts, snow-blown mountains, and other exotic lands.

Visit huge cities and delve through dozens of vast dungeons.

Enjoy hundreds of hours of gameplay with new quests, items, and adventures every month.

Review

World of Warcarft. If you have any interest in multiplayer online games and can afford the 14.95 per month subscription fee then you definatly have to take a look at this one. The gameplay is smooth, graphics are beautiful, the content is great, and much more. The quest system is pretty good and deserves mention as well. You do not have to spend any time 'Grinding' out levels unless you want to. There are plenty of quests to drive you and give you goals to accomplish.

I have a fairly large history of mmorpg games that I have gone through and this will always remain in a top 3 position for me. There are some complaints that the 'end-game' does not hold a player's interest as it could. Blizzard is constantly working on new content of course to apease the high level players, but part of the large population of high level players is from the fact that this has one of the fastest level progression structures I have ever seen. If you are a hardcore player you can reach maximum level 60 within a couple months easy. I have been in games where at the same pace it would take you a good 15 months to reach that. In fact one game it took me 4 years but that was because of my own pace.

The atmosphere that WoW brings is top notch. The PvP optional side is a great plus if you have the need to fight intelligent foes. There are also pure PvP enabled servers too where you really have to be careful! WoW builds on a huge following and I believe currently has over 3 million subscribers, more than any game I know of ever reaching. The challenge will be for Blizzard to hold on to it's player base over time.

This game is great fun and I give it a solid 8.5 out of 10. It definatly has some room to grow and I expect Blizzard to improve this into an even better game as time goes on.