World of Warcraft Battle Chest | 
| From: Blizzard Entertainment
List Price: $39.99
Buy Used: $16.65
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Rating:  99 reviews
Sales Rank: 639
Platforms: Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Battle Chest
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 72619
Model: 020626726191
UPC: 020626726191
EAN: 0020626726191
ASIN: B000H96C9M
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Includes both the World of Warcraft base sku and the Burning Crusade expansion pack | | • | Official Battle Chest strategy guides: one for Burning Crusade and one for World of Warcraft | | • | Game manuals | | • | WOW guest pass (14-day trial) | | • | Blizzard catalog included |
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Product Description
World of Warcraft Battle Chest PC Defend the world of Azeroth from the demonic Burning Legion and the dark forces of the Undead Lich King in the ultimate WarCraft III collection. In addition to full versions of WC III: Reign of Chaos and WC III: The Frozen Throne, this massive box set contains two official strategy guides from Brady Games to aid you in your quest. The ultimate collection of the best-selling Blizzard strategy games. Includes 2002 Game of the Year, Warcraft III: The Reign of Chaos Includes Warcraft III Expansion: The Frozen Throne Contains strategy guides from Brady Games for both titles to help players dominate the battlefield. Perfect for entering the epic war between the races of Azeroth and the demonic Burning Legion.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 99
 It's Wow.. November 16, 2009
Steffan Long (Dixon, CA USA)
It's World of Warcraft, the most played MMORPG in the world..
If your looking to play Wow, then this box set it a good place to start, comes with Wow, and the first expansion. Although, you could save yourself some money and buy the game from Blizzard (downloadable content), if you prefer.
 Addicted October 30, 2009
Sarah B. Wood (Stow, Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you love RPG's and have a lot of free time on your hands, this is the game for you. I tried the 10-day trial and then purchased the full copy here on Amazon. It didn't take long for me to become addicted. As my nerd friends and I like to say though, it's not an addicition, it's a commitment. My only advice is as soon as you realize you want the full version, order online and order early. I had to wait a few days for it to arrive in the mail and couldn't play, all because I wanted free shipping. If I had to do it over again, I would've paid for quicker delivery. So find some nerds, start a guild, and never leave your house again! And who knows? You may be so focused on playing that you forget to eat and lose some weight. God knows we all could use a little of that....
 Simply a great product--and therein lies the danger October 27, 2009
T. Stewart
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
All those commercials from Blizzard about how 10+ million people have played WoW are true--and for good reason. WoW is probably one of the funnest games ever made, and certainly one of the best money-makers. There is fun to be had, satisfaction to be felt from the many accomplishments available, and certainly there are friendships to be made. But the big question... at what cost?
If you think that $12-$15 a month is a good price to pay in order to enjoy this game, I'd have to agree with you. The problem is, however, that you'll be giving up a lot more than $15 if you want to enjoy everything this game has to offer. In my own experience--and from the observation of friends--I have seen marriages & families suffer, friendships end, jobs lost, classes failed, social skills forfeited, physical health plummet, and talents go to waste. All of which happens as a direct result of the time people spend on this game. And this happens to some degree or another to everyone who decides to commit to this game.
Are there tens of millions of people who have enjoyed this game? Yes! But what Blizzard doesn't tell you is that many of those same millions now regret the day they ever installed the trial version or paid their first $15 monthly fee. Is this the only game that has caused this sort of problem? No, of course not. And if you think I'm some kind of anti-video-game zealot, you're wrong. I've liked video games of all kinds since I was a kid. There's just something different about this game than others--many games can hook you, but this one above all others has elements that suck you in and keep you hooked much MUCH longer. The danger of addiction is every bit as real as any of the worst substances that any reasonable person would never dream of taking into their body. And the consequences, though maybe not as quick to cause devastation as some drugs (etc...), are so subtle that they are often not detected or acknowledged until it is far too late.
I can't lie... I loved this game for a long time. But that's just the problem. I loved the game more than I loved almost anything else in my life for a time. And what do I have to show for it? More empty yesterdays than I'd ever like to admit.
Many have said and many more will say "I've just put too much time into this game to quit now!" Remember, this game will not last forever! Even if you decide to never quit and keep playing and playing... eventually Blizzard will shut down the servers for good, and you'll be left with nothing to show for all your time and commitment to their game. How much better it would be to quit now! If people who have lots of money invested in stocks that go down and down and that will never go up say "I've put too much into this to get out now!", they will one day have nothing to show for it.
How can you tell if you're addicted? Or at least suffering some of the consequences?
-Have you ever skipped school or work just to play?
-Have you ever ignored (accidentally or purposely) someone important in your life (family, etc...) because you were talking to someone in the game?
-How many times have you stayed up passed 2 am, when all the raids & instances are done, but you just can't log out?
-When you're at school or work, are you planning what you need to do to get X gear or to level X alt, or to train X skill?
-Do you think this is a stupid review? (I'd say this, above all the others, is a really big sign that you're addicted or could be addicted very soon)
Some will say that they're stronger than all this--and that you won't fall into the same trap as many people have. I hope you're right. If not, though, maybe you'll remember what I've said later on down the road, and my hope is that it may help you make the decision you need to make eventually.
Others will say "This is a stupid review! Rate the game, not your willpower!" My response is that I AM rating the game. It's tons of fun (4 stars in my opinion), but the game is specifically designed to suck you in and keep you in. Those particular aspects of the game cause me to give it the one-star rating I have. Harsh? Yea, maybe. But if you had seen what I've seen, you couldn't deny that it's a fair rating.
my wife loves it October 23, 2009
Jonathan Doyle (Frederick)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i dont like it but i dont like these types of games..
my wife LOVES it.. she plays non stop. this is an over all great deal.
Oh no, got it again. October 18, 2009
Winny (My Magnifying Monocle says i'm HERE)
Experience World of Warcraft ban twice now, and been playing since my father, his excellence, took me to that shanty mall on that November day. It was sold out everywhere, why had Toys R' Us failed a 15 year old on that day? And then that mall, sigh, what a day, the day. The day my life was absorbed into a video game throughout my high school life.
I rate it five stars, so is that bad then that I lost my life? Am I bad to lose my life? No, probably not. Who're you asking, the puritan or laid-back luke? Considering my private school was 20 miles away supporting the extreme stereotypes of Academics and Sports, well, World of Warcraft was the best escape my life could have then. It provided my own freedom and friends when life failed to share any interest in such fantasy. The students playing Magic the Gathering at my school, deemed the under the stairs kids.
So, before I get back to mid-terms and take my eyes off this new World of Warcraft Battle Chest to open at a time for unlimited escape, I want to reflect on what it means as a college student entering post adolescence.
World of Warcraft is just a way for any individual to enter their own community and immerse into it with their imagination. One can become addicted to anything, so must I mention you HAVE to plan at some point when to play, but who wants to marry and then whine within about 'oh the college days... ::sigh::', or 'my life was the greatest, until I got married. I can't do them anymore.' So then, what would you do at that point, let academic papers and peoples pressure push you into something? That peer pressure is what people use at parties to force alcohol down your throat.
There's two extremes, i'm not a spiritualist sharing the method of balance or the western rationalist measuring two items on the measuring tape; BUT, play in awareness.. Set your goals in game, and be aware of who you are at a stage when nothings putting a bind or unbind on you. People that don't play the game at all can say it will send you down a 'pit of fire and people that play too much can lose sight of their goals --- lose the point of what they're doing, then the fun goes in the basket... entering a process or a chain of simplicity in, "I want this, then that, then - oh, it's 2 AM."
In a timeline sense, World of Warcraft is just something new hitting mainstream, rap music was bad in the 90's, and who knows what's next or you can analyze what society has deemed bad in the past as it still mingles in the mainstream.
If you do buy, ENJOY your journey through the Worlds of Warcraft. Make friends, achieve some things, be yourself.. fulfill yourself. =D
There's my nit pick of positive psychology.
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