World of Warcraft Reviews
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World of Warcraft, like any MMO, is a tough game to score. Your play experience will have no concrete resolution, and content and character class balancing will make for a slightly different experience from one month to the next. And WoW had some debilitating issues at launch trying to handle the record-breaking number of people filing in for subscriptions. After having written about the extremely long queues, they have dwindled to almost nothing, even at peak playing times, and the game has become much more stable. I still get the occasional crash, but WoW still has a polish that puts most other MMO launches to shame. Almost a victim of its own popularity, World of Warcraft quickly found its feet, serving up no fewer than eighty-eight servers across the country, with more likely on the way.
If you're new to massively multiplayer online games, or PC gaming, and want to see what the fuss is about, WoW is an excellent place to start. If you're a hardcore grognard who takes masochistic pleasure in grinding away on the same monsters in the same camp for hours at a time, you'll be better served elsewhere. If you're in between, I think World of Warcraft is the MMO we've all been waiting for. It does not blow away the genre, but it does hone it to near-perfection. I think the biggest problem you'll have is managing to play it in moderation.
And the second is at Gamers.com with no overall score:
World of WarCraft doesn't so much usher in a new style of MMORPGs, but rather address issues that plagued others and corrects them. While there are many changes that improve the quality of gameplay tremendously, such as the quest driven system as well as the need for cooperation between players to accomplish various tasks, are all bundled in an extremely well put together world that has a visual style worth upgrading to enjoy even more. World of WarCraft will keep you enthralled for hours upon end, saying my now favorite phrase: "Yeah, I'll do that after one more quest."
