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Review Date: January 13 2011Publisher: Blizzard EntertainmentDeveloper: Blizzard EntertainmentESRB Rating: TeenGenre: MMORPGThe evolution of Blizzard's blockbuster MMORPG has been a six-year spectacle that has been impossible to ignore. The remarkable...
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Blizzard puts the ‘war’ back in Warcraft Six years of hard work. Hundreds of thousands of man hours. Twelve million subscribers who have spent billions of hours hacking, slashing, grinding, looting, and every other vaguely dirty term you can think of...
Streamlined, storycentric questing; excellent new races and starting zones.
Mount Hyjal; an unbalanced new PvP zone; a new profession that’s mostly a waste of time.
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Anyone who has played World of Warcraft over the past six years knows the present game is a far different experience than what first pulled fans in. With the release of the newest expansion, Cataclysm, it is even a far different game than a month befor...
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It’s been a busy couple of months for World of Warcraft. First, patch 4.0 hit and dramatically changed the way every class played the game. Shortly afterwards, the Sundering hit, releasing Deathwing, leader of the black dragonflight, from his prison in...
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In the beginning Blizzard created Azeroth and it was good, pretty fine actually, but then along came time and progress and it started looking a bit haggard, but that’s what expansions are for. First we got to visit a fractured chunk of land floating pr...
In the beginning Blizzard created Azeroth and it was good, pretty fine actually, but then along came time and progress and it started looking a bit haggard, but that’s what expansions are for. First we got to visit a fractured chunk of land floating pr...
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It has been six years since players first stepped into Azeroth, and still no MMO has come close to challenging the dominance of World of Warcraft (WOW). Blizzard works tirelessly to constantly improve the game at all levels. WOW has been through so ma...
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This is the way the end of the world began: not with a whimper, but a bang. After six years of expansions and level increases, the two oldest continents in the World of Warcraft faded into pale, forgotten shadows of their former glory -- rarely visited...
Phasing techniques make for a cinematic leveling experience; excellent new zones; challenging dungeons and raids.
Archaeology is a chore; Tol Barad sucks if you're on the offensive side.
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1up.com
Updated: 2012-01-29 01:04:33
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So here I am, nearly a full year to the day since I quit World of Warcraft, and I find myself at the game's level cap once again. I'm running the same dungeon four times in a row in hopes that a specific piece of equipment will drop. I'm grinding reput...
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With the launch of the third expansion pack for Blizzard's hugely successful World of Warcraft, a lot has changed for its players, but for those on the outside, everything probably seems to be the same. This game continues to pull in millions of sub...
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World of Warcraft's newest expansion, Cataclysm, dropped on December 7, and brought a slew of big changes with it. The entirety of the continents in the original game have been altered significantly, creating a completely new leveling experience for...
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ign.com
Updated: 2012-01-29 01:04:37
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A couple months ago some weird stuff started happening in Azeroth. Sinister characters began to infiltrate the main cities, and as time progressed, giant, angry elementals began to wage war on the forces of the Horde and the Alliance. This was all the...
If you include the vast changes to the core game, Cataclysm is far and away the most impressive expansion to an MMO ever made, but if you just isolate what Cataclysm itself gets you, it's ultimately less content than Wrath of the Lich King. It's also b...
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It’s big. Oh god, it’s big.World of Warcraft is the world’s most successful subscription MMO. Orcs and humans, fighting dragons. It’s four games welded into one vast whole: a multiplayer cooperative RPG in which you quest. A competitive fantasy team b...
A triumph. Competitors beware: this is the best MMO in the world. Once you're hooked it's impossible to stop playing...
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Play.tm
Updated: 2012-01-29 01:04:48
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Destroying a world loved by 12 million people is quite a risky manoeuvre. One that perhaps only Blizzard would dare risk, knowing that its fans are that trusting of the World of Warcraft brand. A reboot is exactly what's needed from the aging but domin...
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World of Warcraft is one of the most successful gaming franchises of all time. Six years after its release, the game has increased its player base to an all-time high of 12,000,000 subscribers this year. World of Warcraft is a mind-bogglingly huge fan...
While I do have some criticisms of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, there's more than enough to keep me happy, and I'm certainly already hard at it, blasting through levels and exploring the new areas of the game (perhaps a little faster than I expected...
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Until recently it might have been considered hyperbole to say that World of Warcraft bears little resemblance to the game that it launched as six years ago. But now, following the recent releases of both a major free update and the eagerly anticipated...
New zones with satisfying stories and varied quests are the best to date, Fun and very different starter zones for new races, Guild leveling and rewards systems are great additions, Level and gear restrictions introduced for battlegrounds and dungeons respectively, Masterful use of phasing technology makes your actions feel impactful.
New archaeology profession isn't fun, Not enough zones to level a second character without repeating lots of content.
Cataclysm doesn't improve World of Warcraft as dramatically as the free update that preceded it did, but it's still a great expansion pack for anyone with high-level characters...
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Blizzard Entertainment has yet to fail me when it comes to World of Warcraft. The vast amount of sweat, blood, and tears that go into their prodigal game has made for six years and two expansion packs worth of addictive content, and after a week into...
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World of Warcraft is the world’s largest MMO, currently boasting over 11m subscribers, and it’s just released it’s latest expansion called Cataclysm. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the premise, the world has been sundered by a powerful drag...
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Following the world-rending events of the titular Cataclysm, World of Warcraft has seen a fundamental re-structuring that changes the way it's played. While it's not quite as impressive as previous expansions in this early state, World of Warcraft: Cat...
The overall game is much improved in terms of its overall design; Exciting new dungeons and raids to challenge players; PvP fans are taken care of with new battlegrounds and a new rated system; Two new character types and class combinations.
Not quite as impressive as previous expansions in terms of new locational content; The overhaul of the fundamental game mechanics have improved some character types, but others feel like they still need work.
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I have a confession to make. I'm a total "n00b," as it were, when it comes to World of Warcraft. I just never got around to playing the MMO that's had everyone talking for half a decade. The Cataclysm expansion is going to change all that. I'm going t...
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Ready for the launch of Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion tomorrow? Is your PC? We test 24 different graphics cards from AMD and...
If you're a regular Tom's Hardware reader, a performance evaluation like this is par for the course. If you're new here, your head is probably spinning after seeing all of those bar and line charts, along with the talk of scaling, bottlenecks, and code...
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