Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Disappointing"

When I first booted up World of Warcraft, I was expecting the game to end all games. Hyped up to the moon and back, it seemed like this was going to be a game I'd enjoy for years, being first enticed by MMORPG's by Jagex's Runescape. Sadly, this was not the case.

As I finished booting up the game and began creating my character, I was quickly disappointed by the lack of customisation and graphics, although easy to overlook as I've never been too sucked into graphics and the like myself. The real disappointment kicked in when I actually started playing. After several characters, trying different starting locations, classes and races it became apparent that this game was simply one of the most repetitive games out there. Even Runescape sported a wide variety of skills.

The combat wasn't too bad in itself, but the repetitious quests, similar enemies and boring story quickly grew old. After I finally had a character I was happy with, I slowly started to delve further into the game, hoping to curb my disappointment - sadly this did not happen.

I leveled, quested, joined guilds, tried to enjoy the admittedly nice amount of player interaction, but nothing did it for me.

Now, World of Warcraft is not necessarily a bad game, but at the price VS entertainment value, it's just not what I was expecting. Still worth a check out by MMORPG fanatics (although I'm sure most will have already seen the game inside out) and Warcraft nuts.

Gameplay: 6
Graphics: 7
Sound: 7
Replay Value: 4 (unless you somehow manage to get addicted)
Overall: 7

I tried to like this game - I really did, but sadly, Blizzards Magnus Opus, World of Warcraft, just didn't cut it.