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World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade Review
User Submitted World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade Reviews
Date: 2010-01-14
WoW goes into the Outlands
The first expansion to the award winning, best selling, highly rated MMORPG World of WarCraft. "The Burning Crusade" takes players into the Outlands, the shattered world formerly known as Draenor - the home of the Orcs of the Horde and the Draenei of the Alliance.
TBC introduces players to two new races, the fallen high elves known as the "Blood Elves" and the "Draenei", as well as new classes available to players that weren't so before.
Players go beyond the previous level cap (maximum available character level) to the level of 70.
With new dungeons (instances), raids, battlegrounds, areas, and the Arena (where players can team together for team-based PvP action).
Most of Outlands lies in ruins, having been destroyed by the Orcs in their blood-pact which they made with demons long ago. Many of these demons still taint the Outlands, offering a bitter challenge to worthy players. The demons, now ruled over by the not-so-night elf - Illidan Stormrage, are not the only enemy that players will come in contact with, Illidan has made strong allies and taken hold of the Black Citadel since the end of the Alliance's third war with the Horde.
Aside from these new challenges and PvP Zones, player now can take wing and traverse the very skies on flying mounts. ]
Overall, I've given the first expansion a five for everything that it has brought to the World of WarCraft.
Date: 2009-07-16
Perfect if you have no life to begin with!
What can I say? This game is perfect if you have no girlfriend/boyfriend, job, social life, or basically any form of physical or social activity that differs you from that of a rusted lawn chair. This game does nothing but steal time away from you. If you have time to waste good, you'll be spending hours here. If you plan to leave the World of Warcraft to shower,eat,sleep,use the bathroom etc,you obviously don't belong there. This game does nothing but replace real life goals and accomplishments met through realife hardwork with digital goals that are met with the same amount of time applied. The difference being the accomplishments you wasted your time on in the game mean absolutely and I mean absolutely nothing! They have no value whatsover accept to other people like yourself trapped in the game.
I got so tired of people talking about what they do in this game like it's an actual accomplishment. You played since it's release? who cares? You have Tier whatever gear who cares? You have some magic mount no one else in the game has who cares? You have tons of fake game gold who cares? None of this stuff matters to people that live in the real world. Do you think anyone cares that I killed King Bowser back in 1989? Or that I upgraded my standard blaster to a missle blaster in Metroid in 1988? Or how about the time I found the secret ring in Sonic the Hedge Hog when I got my first Sega? NO ONE CARES A BOUT WHAT YOU ACCOMPLISHED IN A GAME! IT'S MEANINGLESS! IT HAS NO REAL WORLD VALUE!
Every inch of this game is festered with morons that simply can't understand that. At first I thought it was mostly just ignorant kids...but these are adults! Yes, grown adults! Acting like they are children. Some I even know of to have neglected their own children just to play the game. I brought The WoW the first game because it was new and I enjoyed it...but it was short lived with all the drama. I brought the Burning Crusade because my guild annoyed me until I did (I was the guild master). I had to always have the best armor and weapons to keep up with and lead these morons. It was a real pain in the behind. The game felt so much like a job.
All the expansion does is add more hours for you to waste getting better armor and more dungeons to drag yourself through for 10 exciting levels of doing the same quest over and over again. If you like living your life on par with that of a coat hanger... or maybe a lawnmower in the dead of winter. Than this game is perfect for you. However if you enjoy games that are fun and challenging and really exciting look away from this and never come back.
Date: 2009-06-11
I Want My Money Back!!
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.
Date: 2009-05-31
Well done but dangerous.
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.
Date: 2009-05-18
One of the biggest worlds just got bigger
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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