World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack

About four years ago, Blizzard Entertainment launched a game entitled World of Warcraft, which is a massive online RPG that abruptly took the spotlight from former heavyweight on the genre, Sony Online’s EverQuest. The game went on to receive a degree of success that only some have expected. Currently, there are about 11 million subscribers to the game worldwide. Of course, it’s not conclusive, as determining the actual cultural impact of the game cannot be easily measured. It has been on the spotlight repeatedly and has countless Internet memes. The game even became the focus and got a close-up in an episode of South Park; it definitely became a hot topic in discussions about online games since its debut.

The second expansion to Blizzard’s game, Wrath of the Lich King is something that snatched up a great player base in great quantities. Blizzard has quite a release schedule that introduces a new expansion roughly every two years. It differs from what Sony did to EverQuest which had its 15th expansion after about 10 years. In a Blizzard expansion, you get to have an incredible amount of content, a number of the more major features being a new level cap, a fresh continent, a new player class addition since the launch of the game, and an assurance that it will all work out perfectly.

The previous expansion, The Burning Crusade, gave a few additions for new players of the game back in January 2007 that had two new playable races and came with levels 1-20 starting zones. This new expansion is focused more on high players. The level cap has been raised to 80, and the additional continent of Northrend is not accessible unless you obtain a character with a higher level.

So if you’re a newbie to the game, you may be required to learn the original release content first, as well as familiarize yourself to the territory from the first expansion. These two are actually prerequisites in playing Lich King. Not to worry, Blizzard increased the leveling process to 70, which is a lot faster since patches were published prior to the Lich King’s arrival. Those who just recently became active with the game don’t have to spend as much time in the territory of the original release or Outland from the Burning Crusade, as those who played the game when it just came out in the market.

The Wrath of the Lich King really tweaked the play style of World of Warcraft to become even more accessible, addictive, and deeper. Fans of the game have every reason to rejoice with the improvements done by Blizzard given that it discloses to the higher level population a great amount of content to play and even bumps up the overall look of the world. If you’re spending a lot of time in the virtual world, that world might as well be gorgeous. The whole presentation of the game is really first-rate. The graphics need a little bit more enhancements as with the sounds in the game.

The gameplay, which has already become familiar to many people, is made even more appealing by Blizzard. This definitely is a great expansion to a very famous game!