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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
Published by: Vivendi Universal |
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - Game Review (PC)
By Emanuel Avram
Published: March 13, 2007
Print ...And it was a glooooorious day of Tuesday, in the year of 2006 month of July, day 16, that the nicely colored package arrived to my address, making practically jealous a lot of friends of mine!
You have conquered every mountain. Vanquished every foe. But the battle... has just begun! Two bold new races. Hundreds of epic quests. Uncharted Dungeons. Explore the shattered realm of Outland. Flying mounts. Socketed items. Jewel crafting. New spells. New abilities. All up to level 70. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade: ...a new world awaits...
"Several years have passed since the Burning Legion's defeat at the Battle of Mount Hyjal - and the races of Azeroth have continued to rebuild their once shattered kingdoms. With renewed strength, the heroes of the Horde and Alliance have begun to explore the broken lands beyond the Dark Portal. What dangers or rewards await mortal champions in Draenor? And what will the Alliance and Horde do when they discover that the demons they thought vanquished have returned to renew their terrible Burning Crusade?"
YOU are NOT prepared
And neither was Blizzard. After several hours (yes, several...) of installing and patching (the torrent system that blizzard is still using for patches is very very slow especially when you need it most: patch day or, even worse, expansion), the game finally finished installing and downloading and applying patches (two patches already, and the game wasn't even out yet).
Fantastic introduction movie that presents the two new races: the Draenei and the Blood Elfs, and some fighting scenes in the new introduced continent: the Outland. One of the best FMVs I've ever seen in my life, hat down.
Being impressed, but with previous bad experiences (Warhammer: Mark of Chaos has a fantastic intro movie, but the game is not that good...), I awaited patiently to see what happens next. Well the next thing that surprised me was the new login screen. It shows the imposing Dark Portal, but on the new Outland side. Looks great. The “menu” music has been changed (I could say just reworked but that would be an understatement). I liked most of the music in the World of Warcraft, but the songs from the expansion are one of the best soundtrack songs I ever heard in my life. And the excellent music scores don't stop with the menu, the whole expansion continent has a really great soundtrack. Another A+ for Blizzard.
Burning Crusade login screen. Pretty.
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