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Traditionally, World of Warcraft expansions have upped the level cap, added new high-level regions to explore, and maybe a few new crafting professions and a new race or two. The Cataclysm expansion goes way further. In lore terms, the world of Azeroth...
As if we needed more proof that Blizzard’s at the top of its game...
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The new WoW: Cataclysm content has arrived after the previously released WoW: The Stattering content patch literally changed the world – now with the latest expansion pack, there are two new playable races in the World of Warcraft!The dilemma that many...
Both new playable race starting areas end with you actively choosing to continue on with your character’s life. This adds a degree of emotional connection between the player and character that will probably prevent me from ever typing in “DELETE.” Both...
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The facts speak for themselves: 3.3 million units sold in 24 hours, beating the previous fastest selling video games title (which, unsurprisingly, was the last World of Warcraft expansion...) Whether you think that the mother of all MMORPGs is the be...
Although expectations for this latest expansion were sky high, Blizzard has managed a minor miracle by daringly destroying and remoulding the Warcraft world while hooking new and returning players with their new races and gameplay upgrades...
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WoW used to be all about the end-game for me, so much so that raiding was, for a couple of years, one of the only reasons I logged on to play. Now that Cataclysm has arrived, I’m far less convinced that I’ll be spending much time raiding at all. With the...
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We were nearly out, damn it. We were so close. We had friends. We had a decent job. We hadn't (recently) left any children to die during one of our 22-hour marathon binges. We were finally free. And then Cataclysm happened. Now the mere act of writing...
Streamlined, storycentric questing reduces “the grind”, Two fantastic new races with starting areas to match, Highlevel content that rewards teamwork and skill...
The new PvP zone, Tol Barad if you're an attacker, Archaeology's rarely fun and frequently timeconsuming, The rare quest that don't make use of phasing tech or a clever premise...
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Cataclysm has set out to reimagine Blizzard's highly successful World of Warcraft from the ground up. Has this bold step paid dividends?...
Redesigned classic zones breathe new life into Azeroth. Improved game mechanics. New dungeon and raid experiences. New rated battlegrounds. Goblins and worgen.
Slightly less engaging higher level areas than earlier expansions. As you'd expect, some aspects feel like a work in progress.
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To anyone who’s never played an MMO before, explaining the inherent difficulties of a ‘review’, expansion pack or otherwise, of pretty much any entry to the genre can be exceedingly difficult. Because outside of experienced MMO players, there’s just no...
A worthy addition to the Warcraft canon and easily enough reason to return to the World Of Warcraft if you’ve spent some time away, but probably pretty annoying if you had an all-purple WOTLK character. 8.6/10Print this pageComments (0)Share this pageN...
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There was a time when I was wildly hooked on a little game you may have heard of: World of Warcraft. I played it on a daily basis, forgoing meals and a decent amount of sleep just to spend more time with the game.Sounds crazy, but the MMORPG is highl...
World-changing storyline, streamlined questing system, goblins and Worgens are fun additions...
Requires previous expansion packs to run, dangerously addictive...
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While Blizzard may well have been around for nearly 20 years, and had all sorts of success in that time (by any other measure), few would dare claim that World of Warcraft isnt the out-and-out success story of the organization. Almost instantly ecli...
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Product Code: 3348542232464 World of Warcraft is one of the most successful gaming franchises of all time. Six years after its release, the game has increased its player base to an all-time high of 12,000,000 subscribers this year. World of Warcraft...
While I do have some criticisms of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, there's more than enough to keep me happy, and I'm certainly already hard at it, blasting through levels and exploring the new areas of the game (perhaps a little faster than I expected...
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Traditionally, World of Warcraft expansions have upped the level cap, added new high-level regions to explore, and maybe a few new crafting professions and a new race or two. The Cataclysm expansion goes way further. In lore terms, the world of Azeroth ha...
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Review Date: January 13 2011Publisher: Blizzard EntertainmentDeveloper: Blizzard EntertainmentESRB Rating: TeenGenre: MMORPGThe evolution of Blizzard's blockbuster MMORPG has been a six-year spectacle that has been impossible to ignore. The remarkable...
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Blizzard puts the ‘war’ back in Warcraft Six years of hard work. Hundreds of thousands of man hours. Twelve million subscribers who have spent billions of hours hacking, slashing, grinding, looting, and every other vaguely dirty term you can think of...
Streamlined, storycentric questing; excellent new races and starting zones.
Mount Hyjal; an unbalanced new PvP zone; a new profession that’s mostly a waste of time.
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Anyone who has played World of Warcraft over the past six years knows the present game is a far different experience than what first pulled fans in. With the release of the newest expansion, Cataclysm, it is even a far different game than a month befor...
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It’s been a busy couple of months for World of Warcraft. First, patch 4.0 hit and dramatically changed the way every class played the game. Shortly afterwards, the Sundering hit, releasing Deathwing, leader of the black dragonflight, from his prison in...
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In the beginning Blizzard created Azeroth and it was good, pretty fine actually, but then along came time and progress and it started looking a bit haggard, but that’s what expansions are for. First we got to visit a fractured chunk of land floating pr...
In the beginning Blizzard created Azeroth and it was good, pretty fine actually, but then along came time and progress and it started looking a bit haggard, but that’s what expansions are for. First we got to visit a fractured chunk of land floating pr...
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It has been six years since players first stepped into Azeroth, and still no MMO has come close to challenging the dominance of World of Warcraft (WOW). Blizzard works tirelessly to constantly improve the game at all levels. WOW has been through so ma...
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This is the way the end of the world began: not with a whimper, but a bang. After six years of expansions and level increases, the two oldest continents in the World of Warcraft faded into pale, forgotten shadows of their former glory -- rarely visited...
Phasing techniques make for a cinematic leveling experience; excellent new zones; challenging dungeons and raids.
Archaeology is a chore; Tol Barad sucks if you're on the offensive side.
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So here I am, nearly a full year to the day since I quit World of Warcraft, and I find myself at the game's level cap once again. I'm running the same dungeon four times in a row in hopes that a specific piece of equipment will drop. I'm grinding reput...
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With the launch of the third expansion pack for Blizzard's hugely successful World of Warcraft, a lot has changed for its players, but for those on the outside, everything probably seems to be the same. This game continues to pull in millions of sub...
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World of Warcraft's newest expansion, Cataclysm, dropped on December 7, and brought a slew of big changes with it. The entirety of the continents in the original game have been altered significantly, creating a completely new leveling experience for...
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A couple months ago some weird stuff started happening in Azeroth. Sinister characters began to infiltrate the main cities, and as time progressed, giant, angry elementals began to wage war on the forces of the Horde and the Alliance. This was all the...
If you include the vast changes to the core game, Cataclysm is far and away the most impressive expansion to an MMO ever made, but if you just isolate what Cataclysm itself gets you, it's ultimately less content than Wrath of the Lich King. It's also b...
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It’s big. Oh god, it’s big.World of Warcraft is the world’s most successful subscription MMO. Orcs and humans, fighting dragons. It’s four games welded into one vast whole: a multiplayer cooperative RPG in which you quest. A competitive fantasy team b...
A triumph. Competitors beware: this is the best MMO in the world. Once you're hooked it's impossible to stop playing...
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Destroying a world loved by 12 million people is quite a risky manoeuvre. One that perhaps only Blizzard would dare risk, knowing that its fans are that trusting of the World of Warcraft brand. A reboot is exactly what's needed from the aging but domin...
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World of Warcraft is one of the most successful gaming franchises of all time. Six years after its release, the game has increased its player base to an all-time high of 12,000,000 subscribers this year. World of Warcraft is a mind-bogglingly huge fan...
While I do have some criticisms of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, there's more than enough to keep me happy, and I'm certainly already hard at it, blasting through levels and exploring the new areas of the game (perhaps a little faster than I expected...
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Until recently it might have been considered hyperbole to say that World of Warcraft bears little resemblance to the game that it launched as six years ago. But now, following the recent releases of both a major free update and the eagerly anticipated...
New zones with satisfying stories and varied quests are the best to date, Fun and very different starter zones for new races, Guild leveling and rewards systems are great additions, Level and gear restrictions introduced for battlegrounds and dungeons respectively, Masterful use of phasing technology makes your actions feel impactful.
New archaeology profession isn't fun, Not enough zones to level a second character without repeating lots of content.
Cataclysm doesn't improve World of Warcraft as dramatically as the free update that preceded it did, but it's still a great expansion pack for anyone with high-level characters...
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Blizzard Entertainment has yet to fail me when it comes to World of Warcraft. The vast amount of sweat, blood, and tears that go into their prodigal game has made for six years and two expansion packs worth of addictive content, and after a week into...
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World of Warcraft is the world’s largest MMO, currently boasting over 11m subscribers, and it’s just released it’s latest expansion called Cataclysm. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the premise, the world has been sundered by a powerful drag...
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Following the world-rending events of the titular Cataclysm, World of Warcraft has seen a fundamental re-structuring that changes the way it's played. While it's not quite as impressive as previous expansions in this early state, World of Warcraft: Cat...
The overall game is much improved in terms of its overall design; Exciting new dungeons and raids to challenge players; PvP fans are taken care of with new battlegrounds and a new rated system; Two new character types and class combinations.
Not quite as impressive as previous expansions in terms of new locational content; The overhaul of the fundamental game mechanics have improved some character types, but others feel like they still need work.
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I have a confession to make. I'm a total "n00b," as it were, when it comes to World of Warcraft. I just never got around to playing the MMO that's had everyone talking for half a decade. The Cataclysm expansion is going to change all that. I'm going t...
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Ready for the launch of Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion tomorrow? Is your PC? We test 24 different graphics cards from AMD and...
If you're a regular Tom's Hardware reader, a performance evaluation like this is par for the course. If you're new here, your head is probably spinning after seeing all of those bar and line charts, along with the talk of scaling, bottlenecks, and code...
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