World of Warcraft: Battle Chest: Mac/Windows

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World of Warcraft: Battle Chest: Mac/Windows

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the farther you advance in the game, the more you start to work with those other people, making you feel more and more like a soldier or drone than a hero, which kind of took away from the fun of the game for me. Also, the world and scenery are perfect. Its familiar enough for you to relate to it and make it believable, but different enough to make you feel like you're in a whole new fantastic world. They also give you enough rewards along the way to keep you leveling to 60, like my favorite, the mounts. i had an awesome raptor for my troll. Once you hit level 60 your journey is far from over, there is PvP, raiding, professions and more. So there is something there for just about everyone, although I did a little of everything. I give you one warning, if you plan to get to 60 and make something of yourself like become high warlord or down Nefarion, prepare to take the time out of your social life. This game had a lot of heart put into its development and it shows, there's just some kind of magic to the game.
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World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
Complete letdown considering how great the original was. Its become a monotonous gear race.

I was really excited about this, I even had it pre-ordered. When i first started it up after the long install process I made a blood elf to check out the new Silvermoon area. I actually thought it was quite beautiful, the art design for it reminded me a lot of Fable. I goofed around on my Blood Elf mage until level 12 then went onto my troll priest to start the grind to 70. The leveling process wasn't as painful as i was worried it would be, and actually went by rather quickly. The new environments were pretty cool looking, my favorites being Nagrand and Zangarmarsh. The rest were actually pretty bland. The brief time I spent leveling managed to make me feel like a lone hero again, but that feeling soon went away as I hit 70 and began raiding and saving money for my epic mount. Eye of the storm was a disappointment and the rest of the battlegrounds were overrun with idiots who just spent all day AFK to get honor points. I soon noticed it became extraordinarily easy to get epic pieces of gear. There was no more challenge, in the original if you saw someone with epics you knew they accomplished something, in BC, if you saw someone without epics they either just hit 70 or are completely incompetent at playing their class. The flying mounts were neat but you couldn't even use them in Azeroth. Oh and of course the raid bosses are as boring and robotic as ever, they don't even have the epic feeling the ones from the original had. So here I am, a level 70 troll shadow priest with a netherdrake, full frozen shadoweave and other epics from kara, and my raid group is on High Astromancer Solarion. Its everyone's dream right? Wrong, I was having less fun being on top of the world in BC than I was being in the middle in the original. This is an expansion with nothing but more of the same but without any of the epic feel to it. It doesn't feel special like the original. I have now quit the game because its just become a monotonous gear race.

World of Warcraft: Battle Chest: Mac/Windows

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on a dungeon quest, sometimes you have to rush through reading the backstory of a quest that is within the dungeon itself because several in the group want to move on.

Because of the extreme amount of ganking that goes on in WOW, its best if you can travel in a group most of the time to dissuade any would be gankers.

WOW isn't like Fallout where some of the decisions you can make in the game actually affects the outcome of the story. Ultimately it boils down to fighting critters and other players and getting better stuff to fight tougher players and critters.

The books provide some assistance for first time players to WOW, but what really helps are the maps. However, it would have been nicer if the Alliance and Horde locations were made more distinguishable on each map.

The Battlechest is a great buy for newcomers to WOW. The game, the expansion, and the Strat Guides are a great deal. For the same price of just purchasing WOW at my local electronics store, I was able to purchase the Battlechest. Quite a deal.

With the visually stunning environments, I can see why WOW is such a popular game. However, for me personally, the game gets repetitive after a while.