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Average Ratings

Addiction Level	9.5/10
Graphics	8.5/10
Value for Money	7.3/10
Reviewer Rating	8.3/10
Overall Rating	9.3/10

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By pinksheep on 3rd Dec 2006

pinksheep's Ratings

Addiction Level	10/10
Graphics	7/10
Multi-player	Yes
Value for money	5/10
Overall value	5/10
pinksheep's recommendation

Good Points

Loads of players online at any time, so there is a high level of interaction
Reasonable choice of different play styles, such as combat, missions and battlegrounds

Bad Points

Lack of character customisation - there are 300 people the same as you running around
Becomes repetitive quite quickly
The 'quality' of the chat may irritate on occasion

General Comments

World of Warcraft is one of the most popular MMORPG's on the market at the current time.

Once you have purchased the game and loaded it up for the first time you choose a server (called a Realm) to play on. Some of them have higher populations than others - the highest being plagued with 'lag', which can make gameplay awkward. The lowest lacking some of the interaction element. I recommend you go on the web and search for the Realms by population and choose a Medium population one to play on if there is one available.

There are a few types of server:
RP - role playing - where you stay 'in character' as you play
PVE - 'player versus environment' where other users can't attack your character - only the AI monsters
PVP - 'player versus player' where outside of your factions territory, other players can (and will) attack and kill your character

When you log in you choose a faction - Alliance (goodies) or Horde (baddies). Each Faction has 4 playable races. Alliance get Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Gnomes - Horde get Undead, Tauren, Orcs and Trolls. This is one of the downsides of the game - with such limited choice of characters to play, everyone looks the same. The expansion pack for this game coming out in January 2007 will add a further race to each side, but it is still quite limited.

There are 9 playable classes - warrior, mage, warlock, shaman, paladin, rogue, priest, druid, mage. You can also have 2 professions - which can involve creating things, like leather working or armour crafting.

It costs about £8 a month to play (less if you get a longer subscription).

Although, as I have mentioned, there is an expansion pack out quite soon - but the game does get repetitive. Equipment drops randomly in this game, and it can take quite some time doing the same bits of the game over and over to get an item you want for your character. As a consequence there have been problems with 'gold farmers' on nearly every server as far as I can tell, from reading the server and from personal experience on my own server.

It is also very addictive - not necessarily in a good way either. If you take a break of any length of time from this game, you find that you get 'left behind' by people you play with regularly in terms of the quality of your equipment.

The graphics are bright and the gameplay is smooth. The NPC quests are relatively varied and there is a nice mix of outdoor quests to do on the large maps, and dungeons to explore with bosses to kill.

I have quit playing and cancelled my subscription now, as the game has a tendency to 'eat your life', and I had seen some parts of the game so much I began to get bored. I will never forget how beautiful and large the game felt the first time I logged in and began to explore though.

Total Respect: +1