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Though massively multiplayer online role-playing games have been around for years, it has taken this long for the genre?s breakthrough hit to finally emerge. Here is the online role-playing game you should play, no matter who you are. This is because World of Warcraft brings out all the best aspects of this style of gaming, if not many of the best aspects of gaming in general. It also features many of the specific characteristics that have made Blizzard Entertainment?s previous games so entertaining, memorable, long-lasting, and successful. Of course, the company?s past track record did not guarantee that World of Warcraft could have turned out this well. Such high quality simply cannot be expected, nor should it be missed. ----Read Full review
From Gamespot |
When Blizzard first announced that it was working on a massively multiplayer online game (MMO), the first thought that ran through my mind was "Why? Blizzard has no experience in this area. What can they bring that?s going to be fresh, new, or different?" It?s not until I began seriously playing the final version of World of Warcraft, though, that I realized just how foolish a question that was. Blizzard?s particular genius has never been in breaking new ground; it?s watching the mistakes other people make and learning from them. Blizzard games have the cache they do because they?re polished and refined until they gleam. ----Read Full review
From Gamespy |
MMOs are a strange beast. They are designed to make you play as much as possible, yet addictiveness does not always equal fun. In the field of pyschology, there are several kinds of rewards systems, and the one that seems to be the most successful is the random reward introduced at a random time. Sometimes you click the button, and nothing happens. Sometimes you click and get the food pellet. It?s this mechanism that fuels the slots in Vegas, and when you walk away empty, as is statistically inevitable over a long enough stretch of time, you tell yourself that the overall value was the experience itself, since you come away with nothing tangible. MMOs take away your time and they never deliver a discreet conclusion.----Read Full review
From IGN |
The sign of a truly great expansion pack is when, having played it, you realize you could never go back to the original game. After all, truly great expansion packs don?t just add new content--they add real depth, and fundamentally make the core game better. Blizzard Entertainment knows the drill when it comes to delivering these sorts of products. Its follow-up releases for 1998?s Starcraft and 2000?s Diablo II were so effective and so good that many, many people are still playing both of those games today, all these years later. Given Blizzard?s track record with expansion packs, it?s understandable that fans of the company?s games would have very high expectations for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Last year?s real-time strategy game was a very tough act to follow on any number of levels, and yet Blizzard has delivered a terrific, full-featured expansion for Warcraft III that makes an alreadyoutstanding game significantly more so. ---- Read Full review
From Gamespot |
Unless you live in the extreme north, when you mention the word Blizzard to gamers, they invariably recite the litany of quality products the company has released in its successful history. Compelling gameplay, stunning cinematics, and a great story all come together in one critically acclaimed title after another. With the release of The Frozen Throne, that line of succession continues. ---- Read Full review
From Gamespy |
Following the release of Warcraft III by one year to the day, Blizzard?s newest expansion pack, called The Frozen Throne, had a lot to live up to considering where it comes from. Not only has the developer managed to create a bevy of brilliant and popular games, but it also has followed each of these titles up with an equally impressive expansion pack. Thankfully, Blizzard?s trademark for quality doesn?t seem to be slipping in the least. If The Frozen Throne expansion pack fails to satisfy fans of Warcraft III, I?d be a bit surprised----Read Full review
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