World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Reviews
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In these four years since its launch World of Warcraft has changed dramatically. We have to understand this and see it as a natural progression brought on by the game's phenomenal success. It's the very fact that WoW was able to communicate so well with the mainstream gamer (and even people who have never played video games before) that made it such an epic success (pardon the pun).
So why bite the hand that made you a superstar beyond belief, right?
Then Gameplanet with a score of 9.5/10:
Lots of other aspects of the game have either changed or been extended. There are new badges to collect (including cooking badges that can reward you with new recipes), new fishing spots and fish, new mounts, new profession recipes, to name just a few. The more you delve into the expansion you discover how big the change has been. The huge amount of sales and the huge queues on servers indicate how successful these changes have been.
If you have a World of Warcraft account then this expansion is a must have. It lives up to all expectations and a lot more.
Followed by VideoGamer with a score of 9/10:
With the release of Wrath of the Lich King, it's difficult to see how anyone will loosen World of Warcraft's stranglehold on the MMO genre. With its spectacular design, dazzling polish and ever-compulsive gameplay, World of Warcraft seems destined to remain the everyman's pick of PvE-focussed MMO for the foreseeable future, and with the implementation of new PvP mechanics, Blizzard is no doubt looking to tempt back players who jumped ship to Warhammer Online and Age of Conan as well. Time will tell whether it will succeed or not, but if Blizzard's approach to the genre over the last four years has taught us anything, it's that it plays for keeps. The competition needs to take note, because the bar just got raised that little bit higher...
