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World Of Warcraft Battlechest (PC/Mac) | 
| From: Blizzard Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: £24.99
Buy New: £14.99
You Save: £10.00 (40%)
New (4) Used (2) from £14.99
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 337
Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows Xp
Genre: fantasy-strategy-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 7.8 x 1.3
EAN: 3348542214309
ASIN: B000WDZT9M
Release Date: October 19, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 World of Warcraft MMORPG January 5, 2009
I bought this pack just after the Lich King expansion pack (which I haven't needed yet) came out. I have thoroughly enjoyed levelling up my characters and exploring the game world as I learned my way about and how to play to a reasonable standard.
There is no doubt that the game maps are huge and it does take some time getting about. This is offset by the fun level of the travelling - flying over different maps on a gryphon or hippogriff can be very entertaining and WOW even has different skies and weather according to the time of day! In addition some of the quests can be quite amazing - the one where you kill Tethyr in Theramore is quite different from most of the questing within the game and great fun.
To be honest after the first week or so I stopped using the enclosed guides and I haven't yet got to the point of needing the Burning Crusade because my characters aren't high enough level. Despite all those web sites saying that you can level your character to 70 or 80 within a few days if you're new to the game it probably won't happen that fast. You're much better taking time to get to know the game areas and enjoy playing it. I've got to the stage of using online levelling guides some of the way and just grabbing every quest in sight and doing what I want the rest of the time.
WOW is very addictive and there are so many different things to do in it that it'll be some time before most players get bored with it. However before you start playing there will be very large downloads - mine were well over 1 GB in total and took several evenings to complete. Patience is the key here and once the downloads were complete and I was able to play I found it to be well worth the effort.
You don't have to pay to play right away - the game in this box is free for the first month and then your credit card will be charged or you can buy the 60 day credit card from Amazon or one of the WOW distributors in the high street. So you've plenty of time to decide for yourself.
 Pathetic December 21, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Do not buy !!!!! I have just bought this and have spent the past 4 hours just downloading patches. There is no way to stop this and I have just got a patch for 3.9 gigs so I wont be playing today. Dont buy for kids on christmas or you might have a roit.
 Huge downloads required December 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
World of Warcraft is a great game, no question about that.
In commenting on this well packaged and bargain priced box set I should point out to other fellow newbies that there is a VERY large learning curve involved before you can even begin seriously playing the game.
The books enclosed are comprehensive and detailed (although with tiny print) but by now made outdated by the many updates to the game. However, there is good support from the Blizzard website and a vast amount of material is available out there to inform you on the intricacies of WOW community.
And on the subject of updates, after installing the two DVD program disks, which was a quick and easy process, I was asked to perform a series of updates before I could begin playing the game, nearly two gigabytes of downloads. Not even fast updates - on my 8M broadband connection I was obtaining download speeds of around 100k from the Blizzard servers. The full series of downloads would take some six or seven hours as the rate fluctuated up and down.
When it is all over, the downloads and the study sessions, then WOW is an amazing experience. But you do have to ask yourself if it is all worth it.
Beware of Gamesbuyer! October 23, 2008
I ordered this from Gamesbuyer thinking it would arrive quicker than from IndigoStarfish. They offer "lightning fast delivery" and they even give the option of paying extra for 1 - 2 day delivery. A week later and i still dont have it. Order from indigostarfish!
Reasonable value August 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The games themselves have been well covered in other reviews, but one thing to bear in mind is that they are constantly evolving, having new content added, being adjusted in various ways. Including guide books in this box is nice for complete beginners, but they are largely out of date or incomplete. The Burning Crusade guide glosses over the bulk of that expansion and only covers the first zone in any great detail. If you want to explore the vast wealth of information to be found about this game then you really need to be using any of the myriad online websites about it (preferably not the ones selling gold and harbouring trojans and viruses!) or the official game discussion forums on wow-europe.com.
Unlike the original releases, this box set comes with a single DVD for each game rather than upto 5 CDs, so installing it is much simpler and less time consuming.
What they don't tell you is that the version on the discs is not the current one being played. There is no way it could be, it evolves so fast. At the moment World of Warcraft is at version 2.4.2 and, having just reinstalled the game from the Battlechest discs, I am now having to download a 1.1Gb (yes, Gb) patch. Depending on your connection speed, that could be quite a wait before you can play!
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