World of Warcraft
by Blizzard Entertainment
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Video Game Reviews of World of Warcraft
Customer Review: Don't be a stupid loser nerd that never gets laid
Summary: 1 Stars
Here's some real good advice for you.
Don't be some stupid loser that sits at your computer playing World of Warcraft for hours on end. Read books instead, or learn music, or exercise, or do homework, or go somewhere and meet people... Meet girls. Don't be some stupid loser nerd that never has sex and sits around playing WoW, thinking about your character as you fall asleep every night. Don't be that stupid loser. Do yourself a huge favor and leave that fate for someone else. Don't be a stupid loser.
Customer Review: Don't buy this game unless you have a motherlod of time in your hands
Summary: 5 Stars
Simply the most awesome MMO I ever played, WoW is a great way for you to get a bucket full of friends and lose hours and hours without noticing. Don't buy it if you are in college, you'll never deliver a paper in time or remember studying for a test again.Customer Review: Excellent Online Game
Summary: 5 Stars
I had seen the title "World of Warcraft" around the Internet but never gave it much attention, so I never really knew what the game was all about. I assumed it was based on modern world war battles which does not interest me. So, I continued to play Zelda, which I really like, on the Gamecube and Wii.
Recently, I bought a laptop and downloaded the latest graphics driver from the AMD/ATI website. The driver package included a trial version of WOW. I decided I'd give it a try, mainly just to see if the laptop would play the game well (it's a MSI gaming machine).
After I installed the game, I began to play, and much to my amazement, was very similar in scope to the Zelda games. It's definitely a hundred times more complex than Zelda (in world size, scope, actions, roles, abilities, graphics, etc., etc.). The graphics are amazing. My daughter also installed the trial game on her laptop the same day. We usually sit next to each other and play on the same Realm.
Since the trial was only ten days and we knew that this game is something we would continue playing, we decided to purchase a couple of retail copies at a local brick and mortar. After we installed the game, we could not play until the next day. It literally took most of the wee hours to download about 3-4Gigs worth of patches. Keep this in mind when you buy the game. Blizzard keeps things updated, so be prepared to wait for updates to complete. After all the required, latest patches are automatically installed, any new patches download in the background, so, your game is not interrupted. If you know someone who plays this game, you can backup the patches from their PC and place them on your PC. WOW will recognize this and not download them again.
The game is about finding items, completing quests, building up your level. All of this involves killing things, including hogs, robots, wolves, bears, weird creatures, and humans. Certain obtained abilities cause blood splats but it's really not that bad. You can choose characters which fight with knives, swords, axes and rods, or you can choose characters which use spells. The latter is good for those who don't like the violent acts of swords and axes. Read on the Internet about the character you like best because once you create the character, it can't be changed into something else. You can have lots of characters under your account. Right now I play a Human Warrior but I also have a Night Elf Hunter, Dwarf Paladin and Human Mage character which I play sometimes.
About PC's: I'm playing on a AMD Turion X2 64 laptop with 4G RAM, Vista 64bit and a dedicated ATI Radeon 3850 graphics card. No issues at all. My daughter has a $400 laptop which has a AMD Athlon 64 X2, Vista 32 bits, 3G RAM and a non-dedicated Nvidia GForce 7000M card. She can play the game with no problems but there is a very slight lag when panning while moving forward (i.e., moving right and left while going forward).
If you like role playing games such as Zelda, get this game. You'll like it even more. Have and good one.
Customer Review: EVERY GAME IS A RIP-OFF OF WOW! (for some reason)
Summary: 1 Stars
World Of Warcraft... a name so many know, and many use in daily conversation.
World Of Warhammer... something that had been announced by Games Workshop back in 2001, and then mysteriously disappeared. The license was dropped until EA Mythic picked it up, and by that time Blizzard had already copyrighted the "world of" title. This wasn't the first time Blizzard ripped off Games Workshop, either. In fact, the entire Warcraft franchise is supposed to originally be Warhammer.
Bringing me to my next point. I am an educated gamer, as many people who don't play WoW are. We seek out games that actually demand thought and interaction.
But, shock and horror, all of us "snobs" are suddenly slapped with the cold, hard reality that the WoW community constantly reminds us of: every other MMO in history and in production is a World Of Warcraft clone.
Now, there are set criteria that must be met in order for a game to be considered a WoW clone or rip-off. First off, the game MUST have a point-based character leveling system. Then, it must be a fantasy universe (elves, dark elves, dwarves, etc). If those two criteria are met, then we have to see if the comparing game has anything like raids, instances, and mounts.
Does this sound familiar? I thought so. By these standards, every fantasy MMO in history is a rip-off of WoW. In fact, there are so many rip-offs of the game that they can not all fit into the present and future! After all, according to an avid WoW player, i was informed that EverQuest was nothing but "an ugly, cheap WoW rip-off". That's right, a game created in 1999 is actually a dirty, cheap imitation of another MMO released in 2004. I knew it!
Well here's a real head-scratcher for you fanboys out there. If other games are such huge imitations of "the greatest game of all time", why am i having fun playing Vanguard and Warhammer Online, whereas i never got a second of enjoyment out of my three months in Azeroth?
World Of Warcraft has managed to appeal to every demographic in the world with its bright colors, its easy social tools, and its general mass appeal. However, many people will pick up this game, play it for a month, and then toss it.
Just like they say that marijuana is a gateway drug, WoW is a gateway game. You learn the basics from this game, realize there is more out there, and then dump its brightly-colored backside for something with more meaning, more depth, and better overall gameplay.
Have fun, those of you playing WoW. Us real gamers prefer to play something more challenging and more fun.
Customer Review: Worst popular MMORPG evah!
Summary: 1 Stars
Graphics are awful, grinding is awful and majority of the online community either are or act like pre-teen or teen mooks. One of the worst, yet inexplicably popular, games ever released. I cannot comprehend how anyone's life could be so tedious as to make this an attractive option. I also can't comprehend how the same company that brought us the elegant and timeless Diablo II came out with this wretched, sloppy mess. I know millions like it--but millions liked Brittney Spears and Pet Rocks, too. If you've never played before and you have some taste in games--STAY AWAY--don't waste your money like I did!