Game Evaluation

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Game Evaluation

• World of Warcraft
• The Burning Crusade
• CIS 487Alex Zammitt

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Basic Information

• Game Title World of Warcraft The Burning
  Crusade
• Company Blizzard Entertainment
• Genre Massively-multiplayer role playing game
• Price 29.99
• Requires Original World of Warcraft 19.99
• Monthly Subscription Options
• 14.99 One Month Recurring
• 41.97 Three Months Recurring (13.99 per
  month)
• 77.94 Six Months Recurring (12.99 per month)

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System Requirements

• System Requirements for PC
• OS Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4) or Windows XP
  (Service Pack 2)
• Processor Intel Pentium3 800MHz or AMD Athlon
  800MHz
• Memory
• Minimum 512 MB RAM
• Recommended 1GB RAM
• Video
• Minimum 32MB 3D graphics processor with Hardware
  Transform and Lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce
  2 class card or above
• Recommended 64MB VRAM 3D graphics processor with
  Vertex and Pixel Shader capability, such as an
  NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 class card or above
• Sound DirectX-compatible sound card

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System Requirements

• System Requirements for Mac
• OS Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer
• Processor
• Minimum 933MHz G4/G5
• Recommended 1.8GHz G5/Intel
• Memory
• Minimum 512MB RAM
• Recommended 1GB DDR RAM
• Video
• Minimum NVIDIA or ATI graphics processor with
  32MB VRAM
• Recommended 64MB VRAM

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Installation

• Original World of Warcraft must be installed
  first and fully updated
• 5 CDs
• Many updates need to be downloaded
• Burning Crusade
• 4 CDs
• A few patch upgrades need to be download
• May take a few hours

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Expansion Feature Overview

• New Zones
• New Races
• New Dungeons
• Level cap increased to 70
• New arena-based Player vs. Player Ladder System
• 3 New Cities
• Flying Mounts
• New profession Jewel crafting
• Socket items

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Artwork of New Races
Draenei
Blood Elf
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New Zone The Outland
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Player vs. Player Arena

• Arena sizes 2 vs. 2, 3 vs. 3, 5 vs. 5
• Win games to improve your teams rating
• Points are awarded each week based on your teams
  rating
• Turn in points for powerful weapons and armor

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New Dungeons and Raids

• Many new 5-man dungeons to explore
• Heroic Mode dungeons
• Dungeons originally designed for lower levels are
  retuned for players at the level cap.
• Features harder encounters and upgraded loot.
• Raid size reduced from 40 to 25 in the expansion
• New high level armor sets found with in raid
  dungeons

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Story Line

• "The Burning Crusade" refers to the Burning
  Legion's ongoing efforts to destroy life
  throughout the universe.
• To date, the Burning Legion's exploits have been
  documented in Warcraft III and in our War of the
  Ancients novel trilogy.
• As part of World of Warcraft The Burning
  Crusade, players are able to travel through the
  Dark Portal to confront the Legion on
  otherworldly battlefields.
• (From www.worldofwarcraft.com)

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Players Role

• Quest your way to level 70
• Use professions to aid your characters success
• Improve characters weapons and armor
• In a party there are 3 basic roles
• Tank His job is to protect other party members
  by making the creatures attack him
• Healers His job is to keep the party alive
• Damage dealers Kill things as quickly as
  possible

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Manual

• The Burning Crusades manual is only 20 pages
  long
• Majority of game play is learned through in game
  tutorials and hints

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Sound and Music

• Each zone has its own music
• Realistic background noises
• Many Bosses have their own voiceovers that are
  triggered throughout a fight

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User Interface Overview

• Simple
• Easy to find important information
• Fully customizable
• Blizzard supports and encourages players to
  develop custom add-ons to help game play and to
  customize their own interface.

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User Interface
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Customized User Interface
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Game Review

• Whats fun about the expansion?
• 2v2, 3v3, 5v5 Arenas
• Many new challenging raid encounters
• Being able to fly makes for easier travel
• Same feeling as the original but with lots of new
  content to explore
• Whats bad about the expansion?
• A complete fresh start, anything accomplished
  before the expansion doesnt really matter.
  (This could be a good thing for some players)
• A lot of the graphics are reused from the
  original World of Warcraft
• Appropriate Audience
• The Burning Crusade is rated T for Teen
• 13 years

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Game Review (continued)

• How does this game compare to other games in the
  same genre?
• Focus on interacting with other live players
• Similar leveling system found in many online
  role-playing games
• Similar features of other online games (Quests,
  experience, leveling, killing monsters for
  experience, magic)
• Design mistakes and bugs
• There are bugs and mistakes found within the game
• But the game is constantly improving, many of the
  bugs are fixed with patches shortly after they
  are reported

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Game Play Screen Shot
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Screen Shots (Continued)
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Screen Shots (Continued)
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Summary

• Pros
• Lots of new content to explore
• Flying Mounts
• New PvP features (Arena system)
• Cons
• Reuse of old graphics for creatures and armor
• Flying mounts only usable in the new zones
• Is the game worth purchasing?
• Yes! Many hours/days/months of game play
• How could the game be improved?
• In my opinion, the game is overall very solid
• Fixing the little bugs that exist and creating
  new content is the best way the developers can
  improve the game.

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The End

• Any questions?