Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Binding: Video Game Brand: Blizzard Entertainment EAN: 3348542207158 Label: Blizzard Entertainment Manufacturer: Blizzard Entertainment Manufacturer Maximum Age: 18 years Manufacturer Minimum Age: 132 months Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Release Date: January 16, 2007 Sales Rank: 220 Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk ReviewThere are currently over eight million people playing World of WarCraft worldwide, a staggering number which makes it not only the most popular massively multiplayer online game but also the best selling PC game ever, beating even The Sims. It’s easy to imagine then why this expansion has been so keenly awaited by so many people. At first, the additions may seem relatively minor to anyone that hasn’t played the game before, but for fans that have been exploring and battling through every inch of the game world for the last two years, the chance to open up a whole new continent is like all your virtual Christmases come at once.
The other obvious new addition to the expansion is two new races for you to play as, each inverting the normal abilities and appearances of the opposing Alliance and Horde factions: the Blood Elves are bad guys and the Minotaur-like Draenei are goodies. Importantly all characters using the expansion pack can now rise to level 70 instead of 60, the access this gives to new weapons, armour and dungeons being of great importance to long time players. There’s also the prospect of flying animal mounts to get around the newly enlarged world more quickly.
Admittedly none of these features, including the new spells, talents and hundreds of new monsters, quests and items makes any real change to the basic gameplay or the now slightly dated looking graphics, but clearly there’s a very large number of people who don’t believe that needs changing. HARRISON DENT
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Seriously addictive
McDonalds of the gaming world, only more addictive. Starts off as fun, but its far less cutsey cash cow nature soon reveals itself.
Rating: - An excellent addition to WoW
Let me just start by answering a previous reviewer by saying that the reason the graphics do not rival the likes of Crysis or Bioshock is to make the game accessible to as many players as possible. Not everyone has PCs that are on the cutting edge and so the idea was to have as many players in the world as possible at any given time so as to help each other out.
Anyway, as for the expansion pack it introduces two extra races, an extra profession but more important is the level rise to ... Read More
Rating: - Best game ever
World of Warcraft is the best MMORPG game on market from allready 3 years.. NO DOUBT. If you want to be an actor on the TV you watch everyday, if you want to be the hero in the book you read from time to time, well this is the game you should buy, because will fill your free time and will replace your loved tv and best book.
Even if players had bigger expectations for this expansion from Blizzard, is acceptable and good enough.
Required: internet to play and around 9 euros/month.
Rating: - A QUALITY ADDITION TO THE WARCRAFT UNIVERSE
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is a well-made, entertaining expansion to the original game. Blizzard is known for taking their time with their games, and this one is no different; they announced the release of "Crusade" way back in October 2005, and it wasn't 15 months later, on January 18, 2007 that it was released in stores. Nonetheless, as all of Blizzard's games prove to be, it was well worth the wait.
I have few complaints. Queues, lag, bugs, and server crashes were inevitable when ... Read More
Rating: - Addictive at first...
Well I have to agree 100% with another post on here that says you spend so much time doing the same thing over n over again in the hope you will find a special item (armour, weapon, spell ect) that after a couple of weeks you'll be bored out of your mind.
When I stared playing I was addicted straight away, but once I realised how many times I was doing the same thing over n over again and generally just wasting time, my attention span vanished; I bought the new FM2008 instead which is awesome...but that's ... Read More
- Seriously addictive
- An excellent addition to WoW
- Addictive at first...