When I first heard World of Warcraft was in development, I was one of those who said, “A massively multiplayer Warcraft game? How’s that gonna work?” Don’t get me wrong; I played all of the RTS titles and loved them thoroughly. I just didn’t see how Blizzard’s boisterous, cartoonish, sometimes tongue-in-cheek universe was going to fit the MMORPG mold. To my surprise, however, World of Warcraft goes a long way toward breaking that mold.