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World of Warcraft
Product By Blizzard Entertainment
(867 customers reviews)
Lowest Price : $9.98
Available From 70 Sellers
Technical Details
- This game requires a monthly fee, and an internet connection to play
- 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
- Adventure together with thousands of other players in an enormous, persistent game world
Product Description
Vivendi (72212) World of Warcraft PC
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World of Warcraft didn't invent the online role-playing genre, but it certainly benefits from the missteps of other titles that have come before. A mind-boggling array of improvements in graphics, gameplay, networking, and interface--really every category--makes this game the crown prince of the genre, a great starting place for newbies, and a challenge to any other MMORPG currently in the works.
The game's beautifully rendered locations are filled with small details, such as flying birds and flowing water.
A History of Conflict
WoW takes place just four years after the real-time strategy Warcraft series, which chronicles a 25 year struggle between the Alliance (humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves) and the Horde (orcs, tauren, trolls, and undead). Even though there's tons of accumulated story to the series, new players should not be daunted. The background is there for you to explore, but you don't have to tread a lot of Azeroth history to get into the action.
The makers boast 2,000 existing quests with more being added, many of them noncombat in nature.
The game looks magnificent. There's plenty of detail and variety to the landscapes and interiors, and the artwork has a refreshingly playful style. There's not a lot of variety in the character creation process, but with all the skills and proficiencies to combine in the game, WoW focuses its customization not on the appearance of your character but rather on the character of your character. The game lets you adopt any two trade skills, regardless of character race or class, and combine those skills in useful ways. If you choose skinning and leatherworking, for example, you can fashion bags from the carcasses of monsters you defeat, which will allow you to carry even more inventory items.
Expanded Commerce
You can sell the items you make, find, and loot through a variety of outlets. Like any role-playing game, WoW has merchants who will buy your cast-off items for fixed prices, but you can also sell to other players at your own price through in-game chat or by leaving it with one of the auction houses located across the map. This virtual free market is a game within the game, like Monopoly somehow inserted into the middle of Chess. Heck, you can even send items C.O.D. to other players via the game's mail system.
The game's Quest Log keeps track of up to 20 quests at a time.
In other online role-playing games, starting players have to invest dozens of hours whacking at small prey and doing other odd jobs one at a time to gradually "level up" to more interesting challenges. WoW lets players accept a variety of quests--up to 20 at a time without penalty for abandoning any of them before they're complete. The makers boast 2,000 existing quests with more being added, many of them noncombat in nature. Where some games only grant experience through battle, WoW grants experience for exploring and fulfilling quests too.
A Level Playing Field
There's also a built-in handicap for casual players where your character enters a rest state when you log off from the game. The longer you're logged off (up to a week), the bigger the experience bonus you'll get when you return to battle. An enemy tagging feature--the player who lands the first attack on an enemy claims the loot for himself or his party--prevents onlookers from swooping in and pilfering items from a monster that you brought down. That resolves a common complaint of other titles.
Icons and pop-ups help put complex controls easily within reach.
Most games severely penalize players when they die in-game, usually by shaving experience points, funds, or both. In WoW, death just relocates your ghost to the nearest graveyard, and the only penalty is the time it takes you to get back to resurrect your character's corpse.
All of this makes for a very complicated game, but the well-designed interface puts all the game's elements into icons either visible framing the action or within a simple keystroke. The enemy's artificial intelligence is quite strong too: Monsters will join nearby fights to aid their comrades, switch targets strategically midbattle, and ambush players. The map system fills in details on places you've visited, so you always know where you are and where you've been.
Overall, World of Warcraft is a game that's easy to learn, challenging to master, beautiful to watch, and tons of fun to play. --Porter B. Hall
System Requirements
Minimum
Recommended
Operating System
PC: Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista (with latest Service Packs)
Mac: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or newer
CPU
PC: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlong XP 1500+
Mac: PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo processor
PC: Dual-core processor, such as Intel Pentium D or AmD Athlong 64 X2
Mac: Intel 1.8 GHz processor or better
Graphics Hardware
PC: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transfor and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM, such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce2 class card or better
Mac: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 64 MB VRAM, such as ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600 class card or better
PC: 3D Graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capabilities with 128 MB VRAM, such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better
Mac: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM, such as ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA 7600 class card or better.
Memory
PC: 512 MB (1 GB for Vista)
Mac: 1 GB
PC: 1 GB (2 GB for Vista)
Mac: 2 GB
Hard Drive Space
15 GB of free space
All Platform Requirements
Keyboard and mouse, required for controls. Other input devices not supported. Active broadband Internet connection required to play.
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Customer Reviews
"DONT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" 2009-12-26
By Nash (NM, USA)
This is a horrible buy. I got the game as a christmas Gift. Never thinking that you could only play the game online and have to pay a fee to do so. I played warcraft in college with some buddies and enjoyed it greatly. But we never had to go online or pay a fee. That is what I thought this was just another cool and newer version of the game. Not a total ripoff of you money that you have to pay to play. I very disappointed with Bilzzard on this one. So unless you are willing to pay out money every month do not waste you time getting this product. I restate it is a total rip off.
"An Incredible Gaming Experience" 2009-12-15
By Paul D. Petroff (Michigan City, IN USA)
If you're looking for a captivating, exciting gaming experience then World of Warcraft is the perfect choice for you. This game is the industry standard for excellence in fantasy role-playing gaming. With numerous races and character classes to choose from coupled with literally thousands of quests to complete, World of Warcraft is a terrific way to spend hours of leisure time exploring the world of Azeroth--both as an Alliance and Horde character. Jump in a have a blast!
"WoW is still the best" 2009-11-03
By Joanne H. Batjer (Raleigh, NC USA)
Have played this game for a very long time... 3 years and counting. Have tried many others with free trials and still cme back to this one.
"I'm sure others will disagree with me.." 2009-10-30
By M. Kirichenko (Brooklyn, NY)
But, this game is an absolute waste of time, in all senses of the word.
It is not fun, it is not addictive, the only thing it manages to do is simulate work while you're supposed to be enjoying your leisure time.
I completely regret making this purchase, and have canceled my account a LONG.. LONG.. LONG time ago.
Countless players tried to dissuade me from doing so while I was still playing - just wait until 60, just wait until 70, just wait until 80.. That's all that this game seems to be - a waiting game. Watching a bar roll across the screen as you dispatch a monster arbitrarily over and over again, then finish the quest that asked you to kill ten of that monster, only to get a tiny bit of vendor trash from it, sell it, buy better gear, get a skill, move onto the next area.
From Level One, the amount of time it takes to kill a single monster, stays consistent throughout the entire game. You basically just use more skills and smash more buttons while doing so - some players in the game equated this to 'skill', rather then sitting there and watching the equivalent of an interactive 'press the button now!' TV programme.
Playstyles between classes seem to be a 'color filter' over the same rigorous process. Instead of dispatching the ten Ettins you needed with a sword, you can use daggers, claws, arrows, or magic. The difference is essentially null.
Please, heed the advice of an old gaming enthusiast. Save your life, don't even start playing this game. Find something more valuable to do with your time. Read a book, write some fiction, read some philosophy - go to college, it'll do you some good. Just DON'T PLAY THIS GAME.
"WOW" 2009-10-17
By John A. Griego
This game is cool and i would tell anybody to get it if they are into rpg and some online gaming
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