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World Of Warcraft: Wrath Of The Lich King
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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Game Review (PC)
By Emanuel Avram
Published: January 19, 2009
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Even from the intro movie for the second expansion of the most popular MMORPG of all times - to date, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, we can see that Blizzard has made close to dramatic changes to the game in a lot of places, and those changes include game mechanics.
In this third great cinematic done in the most pure Blizzard artistic way, we do not see the conflict between different classes and the traditional war between the Alliance and the Horde. But this is not because they have magically resolved their conflicts. But because a greater threat emerges from the frozen north of Azeroth.
Story thus far...
We see the mighty prince Arthas, once a warrior of the light, who's now been perverted into the feared, undead Lich King, raising from his frozen throne in Northrend from where we left him at the end of Warcraft III, and using the powers of his Frostmourne sword on the ground to summon Sindragosa, his trusty frost wyrm. With a powerful roar, Sindragosa lifts off and flies over Arthas' great undead army, agitating and animating their spirits and inciting their will to fight - and destroy the rest of the known world.
On the background, along with the beautiful epic music (and I hope I'm not gonna use epic too many times in this article - that's twice...) we hear the words that were once said to a much younger and promising human prince Arthas by his beloved father, King Terenas Menethil II. His words are quoted at the beginning of my article. Obviously, against his best intentions, things didn't turn out quite as he would have liked...
As you may suspect, Northrend, that little big continent that popped up on the world map after patch 3.0, is the theatre of war for the next stage of Warcraft history. Arthas - the Lich King is back with a vengeance, determined to conquest the world and subdue everyone to his undead controlling power. And since you find the whole mindless undead drone aspect too smelly and boring, you decide you should fight for your freedom - with countless hours of high level instances and more elemental and reputation fun grinding.
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