 "I Want My Money Back!!" | 2009-06-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: AW6RXAHTUBQBE |
| So i bought this game about 2 weeks after I bought the original. I have to say that I really don't care for this expansion. Just like many others have said you spend most of your time going from A to B and it takes you hours to finish quests unless you have someone helping you. I really don't have the time to devote 2 hours let alone the 6-8 or even more some people spend playing this game. If you want a game thats pretty much a big time waster than this is the one for you. I wish I could take the game back and get the $60 I spent on it and the original. Although blizzard seems to have a decent concept I still think that it lacks in allot of places. |
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 "Well done but dangerous." | 2009-05-31 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2BGZCNY34OGYT |
The graphics are well-done and the quests are fun. Blizzard did a good job on this game.
In spite of this I must give it a low rating.
If you are a person who loves to complete things, please do not begin playing this game. Thre is literally no end. The only people who can accomplish a lot and get the best stuff are those who play 12+ hours a day. I am not exaggerating here. I am a recovering addict of World of Warcraft. I got to a place where I was bored but compelled to play, neglecting everything that was important in life.
[...] It's a great community of people. |
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 "One of the biggest worlds just got bigger" | 2009-05-18 |
| - Reviewed By canadian3 |
Ever since I got my new laptop, I've now surrounded myself with PC games and their expansions and whether or not something's worth the purchase since I've gone years dealing entirely with the console market. Naturally one of the first I got was World of Warcraft, one of the world's top MMO's available and seeing as how level caps and new races get added for the expansions, getting Burning Crusade offers some content to warrant a purchase for those looking to get the most of the game. And unlike Wrath of the Lich King's, the content here can be accessed right from the get-go and seeing as how there's been a couple of improvements, Burning Crusade is worth a purchase for these reasons though the main game by itself has enough content for everyone too.
Added to the World of Warcraft character choices are 2 new races: the draenei, who start off on Azuremyst Isle with the previously inaccessible ability to be a shaman while the other race, the blood elves, start on Sunstrider Isle near Silvermoon City with the ability to become a paladin. Both starting areas are quite beautiful in their art direction as the blood elves area can best be described as "autumnal" with lots of orange and forest areas giving a great Fall season feel whereas the draenei as a more sci-fi element with glowing crystals and bizarre places such as rivers that are entirely in red. Thanks to a higher polygon count, the characters models as well look a bit more attractive (especially the ladies) and some trade cities such as the Exodar are quite stunning visually.
The other addition is adding jewelcrafting as a profession which allows you craft trinkets such as rings and jewellery that can be added to weaponry for bonuses. It's a cool addition though with many other professions it's really up to you which one you want to put your time on. Skinning has become a huge moneymaker for my travels while my Mage has been benefitting from Tailoring so even though there's jewelcrafting, it's another choice for your character though with enough time and cash into levelling up jewelcrafting, you can create some pretty nifty stuff. The level bump for the professions as well as been bumped up so let's you become way more proficient than was previously allowed.
But arguably the biggest addition to the land itself outside of the 2 races starting areas is the continent of Outland with new zones for you to explore and level up in which is helpful considering the level cap has been moved to 70 instead of just the 60 level cap the original cap had. With some new PvP additions, it would seem that the Burning Crusade would be truly exceptional however a couple of minor things drag it down. Having played through both quest zones for draenei and blood elves, it's kind of hard not to see some parallels from a mission where you fly back and forth from a hippogryph but that's kind of the nature of the races anyway and you can't do anything from either the "kill 10 of these/collect 8 of these/talk to him or her" quests but I quite liked the storylines for both though.
Strange thing actually is thanks to the massive patch download I had to do to play the original game, I guess Burning Crusade went with it since mine came on a DVD-ROM and it barely installed anything, I just upgraded my account to Burning Crusade on the launcher, inputted the product key and kaboom, I'm ready to play which was quite cool though it partially made me feel like I spent 40$ for the product key rather than the game content on the disc but oh well.
While one can say Burning Crusade is more for the hardcore since you don't necessarily need this game unless you want the new races and level cap but for those wanting to invest more time in World of Warcraft, Burning Crusade makes an excellent addition...and considering how great the main game is anyway, you'll probably feel like buying it on principle. |
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| "Best online expeirience" | 2009-05-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3AEEM8L9N8PU8 |
| i checked every MMO in the industry and none has been as good to me as World of Warcraft has been. Cant find a game with a more solid story line, the new stuff we see every few months and the way blizzard interacts with us, the players, on how to better up the overall expirience of the game. |
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 "A waste of time if you are over 13" | 2009-05-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: A17FW3I6CJW3S0 |
I played this game for a while (3 years...) and stopped playing before the last expansion was released because it got so tedious. Never really had any problems with the game or the expansion, besides it becoming a very tedious and repetitive game after a while. My cousin recently started playing the game and I told him that I have some accounts (I actually have 3) and he can have them. This may be against Blizzard rules - they are full of nonsense when it comes to sharing an account. Anyway, I decided to re-activate the accounts, but it needed a re-install from scratch because I removed it from my PC. TWO DAYS and about 3GB of downloads later, I finally had the original game installed. Then I installed the expansion pack from the disks that I had. However, when I tried to activate the expansion it went into some installation error and would not budge. One of my three accounts did not have the BC expansion so I actually bought it online from Blizzard, hoping that I would be able to download the correct/latest version to install, but no luck.
After hours of feeble attempts I tried to get a support number for Blizzard, but they clearly only support people in Western Europe - the rest of the world does not seem to exist. So, the on-line form seems to be the only option. In order to do the on-line form, you have to run all kinds of diagnostics and attach files, and then do a screen shot of the error message. Just filling out the form took the best part of 30 minutes. Blizzard support sucks. I know they will probably not respond with any reasonable answer, and why should they, with 10 million people playing the game?
I would not waste my time with this game. The main problem for the EU version is that it is hosted in France - the most useless country in Europe, if not the world. They should move it to Holland or Sweden or somewhere where people actually have intelligence. For now, stay away and don't waste your time and money. |
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| "lol wut?" | 2009-03-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1BCRVXXH585WO |
OK - look, noboby is going to read this. WOW is wildly popular and deservingly so. There are millions of write ups, reviews, walk throughs, and younameits all over the web. I just can't review this product.
Consumer - only buy this game if you want to waste your life away. |
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