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From Deep in the Archives Blizzards Brave New World

From Deep in the Archives Blizzards Brave New World

As everyone sort of mourns Blizzard putting World of Warcraft on the back burner, I came across an article Id copied from Computer Gaming World.  I dont have the date on my copies, unfortunately.

The headline "Is World of Warcraft the breakout online game everyones been waiting for? Blizzards Brave New World" is so much fun, and reminds us the game was once all shiny and new, with an uncertain future in a crowded market.

 

The article is written by Jeff Green and Thierry Nguyen (two writers I miss!).  Heres some of what they liked:

"...the game world is beautiful.  Blizzard has truly realized its goals with the games graphics; it really feels like youre inside the WarCraft strategy games.  The landscape and architecture boast Blizzards distinctive painterly, slightly surreal perspective--not quite realistic, but not overly cartoony either."

"...World of Warcraft opens almost as if its a single player RPG--giving you very specific goals, cool rewards, and an easy, gradual introduction to the world around you."

"World of Warcraft takes its quest interface almost straight from WarCraft III.  NPCs with quests to offer appear in the world with large yellow exclamation points above their heads, just like in the strategy game."

"Before we started playing, Blizzard told us that one of its goals was to achieve what it did in Diablo II--make World of Warcraft so fun that "level ups" come as a surprise.  Well be darned if that didnt happen a number of times throughout our two days of playing."

"World of Warcraft, more than any other MMORPG weve tried, plays much more like a single-player RPG--something Blizzard designed on purpose."


"...its that fun, it was everything that made Diablo and the WarCraft games so addictive, and more."

"The biggest worry all along might have been that Blizzard would be out of its depth here, in a tough genre in which it has no experience.  Instead, Blizzard has taken genre and done the best thing it could possibly have done: made a Blizzard game."

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