World of Warcraft is a MMORPG based in the Warcraft universe. The player creates a character choosing from 8 races and 9 classes. Most races start in their own part of the vast world. As the races move out from their starting locations, they can meet the other races if they choose to move out through the world. Both races and classes have unique abilities, skills, and spells to help them survive in the world.

The game offers professions for players to learn, if they want. You have the choice of 2 major professions, such as Alchemy, Herbalism, Skinning, and Tailoring, as well as the ability to have unlimited minor professions, such as Fishing and Cooking. Progressing in these skills allows you to make more things or have better results from the skills.

The gameplay is similar to most other MMORPG games, where you must go out into the world, complete quests, kill monsters, and level up your character. And, as often is the case, you also will want to find, make, or buy better equipment as you go along. There are multiple levels of equipment from normal to artifact based on rarity. The player can also join various guilds and parties.

You also can move quickly between areas by learning to ride a mount when your level is high enough, or taking another form of transport that you can't control movement for, such as train, griffon, and more.

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Alternate Titles

"魔兽世界" -- Chinese title (simplified)
"WoW" -- Common abbreviation

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	World of Warcraft	Windows	$0.15
	World of Warcraft	Macintosh	$0.15
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User Reviews

Amazingly simple yet amazingly addictive	Windows	Matt Neuteboom (941)
WoWtastic, at least for a while	Windows	Marko Poutiainen (1155)
Welcome to World of Grindcraft!	Windows	Vaelor (377)
The Definitive MMO experience.	Windows	Evan Agresti (7)
Vaelor made some good points, but there are redeeming factors	Windows	Pixelspeech (678)
Taking MMORPGs to a new level	Windows	Riamus (8138)
One of the best games of the past 10 years, just not great....	Macintosh	Sean Johanson (16)
Incredible game balance and FUN	Windows	Corey Cole (18)
My most played game ever! (And I've played games for decades)	Windows	nullitilium (5)
You'll turn that MOM tattoo to a WOW tattoo...	Windows	Lord Dayin (11)

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The Press Says

Just Adventure	Windows	Mar 15, 2005	A+	100
Joystick (French)	Windows	Feb, 2005	10 out of 10	100
AppleLinks.Com	Macintosh	Dec 17, 2004		100
PC Action	Windows	Mar 23, 2005	93 out of 100	93
Inside Mac Games (IMG)	Macintosh	Dec 06, 2004	9.25 out of 10	92
PC Powerplay	Windows	Mar, 2005	92 out of 100	92
GamePro (US)	Windows	Dec 16, 2004	4.5 out of 5	90
GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Jan, 2005	90 out of 100	90
Mac Gamer	Macintosh	Apr 28, 2005	85 out of 100	85
MMORPG.com	Macintosh	Sep 04, 2006	7.9 out of 10	79

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Forums

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WOW Instance Help	2	DJP Mom (11123) Jul 13, 2007

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Trivia

When playing a Horde character at level 40+ with 225/225 in your First Aid skill, travel to Hammerfall.
Go to the Trauma Surgeon in the building to the left of the entrance. He will give you a quest in which you can gain Artisan First Aid.
In this quest, you must run around and bandage dying patients. When dying, one of the patients says: "Goodbye cruel world.. I'm leaving you today. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye".
Those are the exact lyrics of the song "Goodbye Cruel World" of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" album.

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This entry was contributed by Riamus (8138) and Terok Nor (15629)