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World of Warcraft Review
By Tyrael Odium
For use on the GameFaqs Web Page
I don't have a lot of experience with Massive Multiplayer Online
Role Playing Games (MMORPGS for short). In fact I have only ever
played 1 seriously (tibia, see my review), and I thought that it
was a good experience. I always wanted to play Everquest but my
mom wouldn't allow me because she didn't want to use her credit
card to pay a monthly subscription fee, (yet she uses that card
to get my yearly subscriptions to “Tips N' Tricks, and
Electronic Gaming Monthly”, but this is about World of Warcraft,
not my family problems). One of my friends bought the game on
its release day, and he went on and on about how good the game
is and how I should give it a shot, I then tried to explain to
him that I only have a dialup connection, and that I wouldn't be
allowed to use a credit card to play the game. That is when he
made his winning arguments, that it ran just fine on a dialup
connection (it really does), and that you can buy prepaid game
cards (in cash) at your local video game stores. So he managed
to drag me out to the closest Futureshop so that I can buy the
game, and I have been on it nonstop.
Graphics – 9/10
Though the graphics of the game may not be revolutionary like
the graphics on Half-Life 2 or Halo 2 are, these graphics are
really incredible (and they eat up my laptops processor and
graphics card like you wouldn't believe). The environments in
this game are just spectacular (unless you have the view
distance to the minimum, in which case you don't get to see
much), when you are flying on a gryphon sometime, just take a
look at your surroundings and you will know what I mean. You are
able to finally see all of the different units to scale
(finally), and it is a great experience, you get to stand beside
a catapult or siege tank and see that 1 grunt isn't as tall as
it, those things are monstrous. You can walk around inside of
town halls or barracks, and climb up scout towers (which are
actually HUGE unlike their strategy counterparts). All of the
characters have been done nearly flawlessly (this game still has
the occasional glitch, but hey they all do), the colors are all
accurate and all of the features on the characters are done
great. One part where normal RPGS tend to fail is with the NPCS
(non playable characters). In a normal RPG, the developers spend
all of this time working on the main characters and they make
all of the other minor characters (bob walking down the street
or whatnot) look not even half as good, but this game doesn't do
that here. All of the characters that you don't get to play as
look just as good as you, in fact, when I was still a noobies I
sometimes mistook a NPC from a real character. Even all of the
enemies have been done with that amount of detail (but remember
this is Blizzard, they specialize in making all of their games
great, for proof just go out and play them).
Sound – 8/10
The sound on the game is just vivid; it focuses more on the
sound effects than it does on music for you to listen to. There
are sounds for just about everything, you have great footstep
sounds, and your footsteps make different sounds depending on
what you are walking on, you have jokes to tell and the opposite
sex to try to attract, and the voice overs are beautiful for
both (and generally quite funny). A good majority of the
monsters have their own distinct set of sounds, and depending on
what they are doing they make different sounds, such as when
they are dying, attacking, fleeing, or just walking by. Your
weapons also sound really good, if you swing your sword, you
will hear it miss your opponent, and if it hits them, you will
hear it cut flesh. One thing that I was quite impressed with was
how all of the spells sounded, one reason is because there are
so many different spells in the game, and most of them were
given their own unique sound (that sounds terrific).... .
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