World of Warcraft | 
| From: Blizzard Entertainment
List Price: $19.99
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Seller: centralvalleybooks
Rating:  867 reviews
Sales Rank: 1067
Platforms: Mac, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows
Genre: online_massively_multiplayer_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Full Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.5
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MPN: 72212
UPC: 020626722124
EAN: 0020626722124
ASIN: B000067FDW
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | This game requires a monthly fee, and an internet connection to play | | • | Create and customize your own hero from the unique races and classes of the Warcraft universe | | • | Explore an expansive world with miles of forests, deserts, snow-blown mountains, and other exotic lands | | • | Visit huge cities and delve through dozens of vast dungeons | | • | Adventure together with thousands of other players in an enormous, persistent game world |
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Product Description
Vivendi (72212) World of Warcraft PC
From Amazon.com
World of Warcraft didn't invent the online role-playing genre, but it certainly benefits from the missteps of other titles that have come before. A mind-boggling array of improvements in graphics, gameplay, networking, and interface--really every category--makes this game the crown prince of the genre, a great starting place for newbies, and a challenge to any other MMORPG currently in the works.  | | The game's beautifully rendered locations are filled with small details, such as flying birds and flowing water. | A History of Conflict
WoW takes place just four years after the real-time strategy Warcraft series, which chronicles a 25 year struggle between the Alliance (humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves) and the Horde (orcs, tauren, trolls, and undead). Even though there's tons of accumulated story to the series, new players should not be daunted. The background is there for you to explore, but you don't have to tread a lot of Azeroth history to get into the action.
The makers boast 2,000 existing quests with more being added, many of them noncombat in nature.
| The game looks magnificent. There's plenty of detail and variety to the landscapes and interiors, and the artwork has a refreshingly playful style. There's not a lot of variety in the character creation process, but with all the skills and proficiencies to combine in the game, WoW focuses its customization not on the appearance of your character but rather on the character of your character. The game lets you adopt any two trade skills, regardless of character race or class, and combine those skills in useful ways. If you choose skinning and leatherworking, for example, you can fashion bags from the carcasses of monsters you defeat, which will allow you to carry even more inventory items. Expanded Commerce
You can sell the items you make, find, and loot through a variety of outlets. Like any role-playing game, WoW has merchants who will buy your cast-off items for fixed prices, but you can also sell to other players at your own price through in-game chat or by leaving it with one of the auction houses located across the map. This virtual free market is a game within the game, like Monopoly somehow inserted into the middle of Chess. Heck, you can even send items C.O.D. to other players via the game's mail system.  | | The game's Quest Log keeps track of up to 20 quests at a time. | In other online role-playing games, starting players have to invest dozens of hours whacking at small prey and doing other odd jobs one at a time to gradually "level up" to more interesting challenges. WoW lets players accept a variety of quests--up to 20 at a time without penalty for abandoning any of them before they're complete. The makers boast 2,000 existing quests with more being added, many of them noncombat in nature. Where some games only grant experience through battle, WoW grants experience for exploring and fulfilling quests too. A Level Playing Field
There's also a built-in handicap for casual players where your character enters a rest state when you log off from the game. The longer you're logged off (up to a week), the bigger the experience bonus you'll get when you return to battle. An enemy tagging feature--the player who lands the first attack on an enemy claims the loot for himself or his party--prevents onlookers from swooping in and pilfering items from a monster that you brought down. That resolves a common complaint of other titles.  | | Icons and pop-ups help put complex controls easily within reach. | Most games severely penalize players when they die in-game, usually by shaving experience points, funds, or both. In WoW, death just relocates your ghost to the nearest graveyard, and the only penalty is the time it takes you to get back to resurrect your character's corpse. All of this makes for a very complicated game, but the well-designed interface puts all the game's elements into icons either visible framing the action or within a simple keystroke. The enemy's artificial intelligence is quite strong too: Monsters will join nearby fights to aid their comrades, switch targets strategically midbattle, and ambush players. The map system fills in details on places you've visited, so you always know where you are and where you've been. Overall, World of Warcraft is a game that's easy to learn, challenging to master, beautiful to watch, and tons of fun to play. --Porter B. Hall
| System Requirements | | Minimum | Recommended | | Operating System | PC: Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista (with latest Service Packs)
Mac: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or newer | | CPU | PC: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlong XP 1500+
Mac: PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo processor | PC: Dual-core processor, such as Intel Pentium D or AmD Athlong 64 X2
Mac: Intel 1.8 GHz processor or better | | Graphics Hardware | PC: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transfor and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM, such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce2 class card or better
Mac: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 64 MB VRAM, such as ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600 class card or better | PC: 3D Graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capabilities with 128 MB VRAM, such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better
Mac: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM, such as ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA 7600 class card or better. | | Memory | PC: 512 MB (1 GB for Vista)
Mac: 1 GB | PC: 1 GB (2 GB for Vista)
Mac: 2 GB | | Hard Drive Space | 15 GB of free space | | All Platform Requirements | Keyboard and mouse, required for controls. Other input devices not supported. Active broadband Internet connection required to play. |
Amazon.com Product Description
For the first time, players can experience the lands of WarCraft's Azeroth from a new, in-depth perspective. As heroes, they explore familiar battlefields, discover new lands, and take on epic quests and challenges in Blizzard's massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Blizzard has taken care to make the game accessible and fun both for hard-core 60-hour-a-week players and for more casual adventurers.
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 WoW is still the best November 3, 2009
Joanne H. Batjer (Raleigh, NC USA)
Have played this game for a very long time... 3 years and counting. Have tried many others with free trials and still cme back to this one.
 I'm sure others will disagree with me.. October 30, 2009
M. Kirichenko (Brooklyn, NY)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
But, this game is an absolute waste of time, in all senses of the word.
It is not fun, it is not addictive, the only thing it manages to do is simulate work while you're supposed to be enjoying your leisure time.
I completely regret making this purchase, and have canceled my account a LONG.. LONG.. LONG time ago.
Countless players tried to dissuade me from doing so while I was still playing - just wait until 60, just wait until 70, just wait until 80.. That's all that this game seems to be - a waiting game. Watching a bar roll across the screen as you dispatch a monster arbitrarily over and over again, then finish the quest that asked you to kill ten of that monster, only to get a tiny bit of vendor trash from it, sell it, buy better gear, get a skill, move onto the next area.
From Level One, the amount of time it takes to kill a single monster, stays consistent throughout the entire game. You basically just use more skills and smash more buttons while doing so - some players in the game equated this to 'skill', rather then sitting there and watching the equivalent of an interactive 'press the button now!' TV programme.
Playstyles between classes seem to be a 'color filter' over the same rigorous process. Instead of dispatching the ten Ettins you needed with a sword, you can use daggers, claws, arrows, or magic. The difference is essentially null.
Please, heed the advice of an old gaming enthusiast. Save your life, don't even start playing this game. Find something more valuable to do with your time. Read a book, write some fiction, read some philosophy - go to college, it'll do you some good. Just DON'T PLAY THIS GAME.
WOW October 17, 2009
John A. Griego
This game is cool and i would tell anybody to get it if they are into rpg and some online gaming
It's the biggest MMO for a reason... September 23, 2009
Mern (Four dimensional space)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I left this game back in 2004 to pursue other MMOs. Well I'm back after 5 years off and am I glad I returned. Not much for me to say that already hasn't been said.
Deep stories and engaging quests.
Fantastic character development.
I find the graphics to be very appealing.
An old system can run this just fine..My rig can run this at nearly 500 frames-per-second. So old or new, doesn't matter. It just looks good with major attention to detail.
I've been wanting to come back to this game for a long time, and as with you read up on reviews and in forums as to whats going on. And as with you have read over and over about all the childish nonsense that goes on and how the culture just makes for a miserable experience. Allow me to dispell some of that.
I rejoined expecting just a ton of BS and to not play for more than a few days. I also expected it to be dead dead dead. Any one who has played an MMO then quit, then comes back years later knows that lower level zones are barren for the most part which really sugz.
Well, this game is very active. Low level zones have a descent amount of people in them that are level appropriate, and usually a few high level players around to lend a hand.
Now as far as the brain-damaged teenie bopper crowed. Yes they are there BUT!!!! But...it's easy to squelch their idiotic babble. All you do is right click their name then chose ignore. BAM! You just muted an idiot! I've done this for the past couple of weeks and I must say that the bulk of the chatting I read is on subject and appropriate. My ignore list is HUGE. When in a mjor city just watch the chat, you can spot the 'tards from a mile away. Right click their name/ignore. Those that respond to the nonsense? Right click name/ignore. Works like magic! Even in doing so, I still manage to find plenty of good people to group with and have fun with. There is the occasional a-hole but that is by far not the norm.
Seems it's never a problem finding a high level to help out on something you have no business doing on your own. Or like a said, groups are fairly easy to come by.
Hats off to Blizzard for keeping this game alive. To me it's all new again and fun. Also kudos for having regular events and polishing this game every chance they get.
Now is the perfect time to rejoin or sign up for the first time. You'll have plenty of time to move through the current content and come next November, the entire world is going to be redone. So you'll see it pre and post "cataclysm".
One more thing, choose your sever wisely. They have data centers all over the country, choosing one near you might be a good idea. Also choosing one in your time zone is a good idea as a lot of things are planned on server time. Go online and look up where the data centers are and go from there. Blizzard does not share that information and you wont find it in game.
fun but it's live a drug September 1, 2009
Youyi Li (nyc)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
i love playing this game with my friends but once you start playing you dont have to stop so I wouldnt advise playing this game it'll mess up your life.
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