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Review Of World Of Warcraft:
A Game Of Worldwide Appeal for Every Gamer
What do William Shatner, Verne Troyer, Chuck Norris and Ozzy Osborne all have in common? They are all featured in advertisements as players of a massively popular, worldwide, role playing game called World Of Warcraft! With ten million subscribers worldwide, World of Warcraft has passed up all other MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) to date with subscribers voting the game into The Guiness Book Of World Records for most popular MMORPG in 2010. I believe this worldwide success rate can be attributed to a few main key elements of the game play. From the amazing graphics and multi cultural facets of characters and classes to the diversity of game play, this game is a joyride of an adventure for everyone.
Between the diverse options for characters to create to the vivid world environments, it is easy to escape into the exciting adventure of World Of Warcraft! Upon entering the game, you are presented with two opposing groups, the ‘Alliance’ and the ‘Horde’, which contain various races of people from the comical, bomb crafting, little gnomes to the earthy, spiritual, huge tauren ,a ‘cow-like’ character who greets you with a hearty, “ How!” The starting worlds are depicted behind the characters available to choose from and vary greatly also. The classic human city, Stormwind, has large statues of heroes and stone castles held up by grand pillars, whereas the blood elf city, Silvermoon, holds a more romantic feeling with its giant sprawling trees erupting from the curving paths of its flooring and golden gem encrusted walls. The environments can also vary from the primitive orc and troll’s desert city of Orgimmar, with its dusty floors and makeshift tent buildings, to the dark castle of the blacksmithing dwarfs called Iron Forge, which sits atop beautiful snowy pine forests. Each race of character comes with a story of their world and a unique personality in World Of Warcraft.
A Game Of Worldwide Appeal for Every Gamer
What do William Shatner, Verne Troyer, Chuck Norris and Ozzy Osborne all have in common? They are all featured in advertisements as players of a massively popular, worldwide, role playing game called World Of Warcraft! With ten million subscribers worldwide, World of Warcraft has passed up all other MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) to date with subscribers voting the game into The Guiness Book Of World Records for most popular MMORPG in 2010. I believe this worldwide success rate can be attributed to a few main key elements of the game play. From the amazing graphics and multi cultural facets of characters and classes to the diversity of game play, this game is a joyride of an adventure for everyone.
Between the diverse options for characters to create to the vivid world environments, it is easy to escape into the exciting adventure of World Of Warcraft! Upon entering the game, you are presented with two opposing groups, the ‘Alliance’ and the ‘Horde’, which contain various races of people from the comical, bomb crafting, little gnomes to the earthy, spiritual, huge tauren ,a ‘cow-like’ character who greets you with a hearty, “ How!” The starting worlds are depicted behind the characters available to choose from and vary greatly also. The classic human city, Stormwind, has large statues of heroes and stone castles held up by grand pillars, whereas the blood elf city, Silvermoon, holds a more romantic feeling with its giant sprawling trees erupting from the curving paths of its flooring and golden gem encrusted walls. The environments can also vary from the primitive orc and troll’s desert city of Orgimmar, with its dusty floors and makeshift tent buildings, to the dark castle of the blacksmithing dwarfs called Iron Forge, which sits atop beautiful snowy pine forests. Each race of character comes with a story of their world and a unique personality in World Of Warcraft.
Classes within the races allow you to choose your special abilities and preferred style of battling your foes as you earn experience points and increase the level of your character in World of Warcraft. There are classes which use magical abilities to cast everything from bolts of lightning to fire balls from a distance at monsters such as the mage and warlock classes or the more ‘up close and personal style’ of the warrior who battles head on and can use a shield to protect himself from degrees of damage. Also, some classes such as priests and shaman can heal themselves and other players around them. In general, the classes focus on one of three aspects of a character. Your character’s talents can focus primarily in dealing damage, tanking(taking damage well), or healing. I have found my preferred style to be ‘tanking’ as I seem to die much more frequently when playing the other classes.
Along with choosing a race and class in World of Warcraft, you can decide how you would prefer to increase the level of your character. If the challenge of spontaneous battles with the opposing faction gets your blood pumping you will enjoy a PVP server( player versus player), where the opposing players can sneak up and attack at any given moment and you have the option of getting the jump on them as well. If you prefer to focus more on the multitude of quests and dungeons available to complete and receive special awards you can play on a realm considered PVE(player versus environment). Lastly, for a true immersion into the fantasy world there is an option to play on a RP( role playing) server which can be PVP or PVE. In this version, players are expected to always ‘stay in character’ throughout the experience of the game. If you play a troll be ready to talk like a troll in chat!
World of Warcraft’s mass appeal across the world makes it a one of a kind online gaming experience. With nearly as many fantasy cultures as real cultures in our world it is not a surprise that it attracts players from so many different countries. The flexibility of character appearance and abilities as well as the amusing personalities bring life to the creation of characters and the beauty of the graphics draw you into a fun fantasy world that everyone can enjoy.
World of Warcraft’s mass appeal across the world makes it a one of a kind online gaming experience. With nearly as many fantasy cultures as real cultures in our world it is not a surprise that it attracts players from so many different countries. The flexibility of character appearance and abilities as well as the amusing personalities bring life to the creation of characters and the beauty of the graphics draw you into a fun fantasy world that everyone can enjoy.
Works Cited:
Guinness Book Of World Records. “World Of Warcraft.” Web. Guinnessworldrecords.com 1 Oct 2010, 20 April 2013
IGN. “Mists Of Pandora Pushes Subs Over 10 Million.” Web. Ign.com 12 Oct 2012, 20 April 2013
Guinness Book Of World Records. “World Of Warcraft.” Web. Guinnessworldrecords.com 1 Oct 2010, 20 April 2013
IGN. “Mists Of Pandora Pushes Subs Over 10 Million.” Web. Ign.com 12 Oct 2012, 20 April 2013