Blizzard is the BASF of the gaming world – they make things better. They didn’t invent real-time strategy games, they made them better. They didn’t invent the RPG, but they made it better. And now they’ve taken the MMORPG and made that better too. World of Warcraft is not a quantum leap forward for the genre – instead it takes everything that works well for MMORPG games and fine tunes it even further while alleviating a lot of the tedium and shortcomings as well. If you’ve ever considered getting into an MMORPG then now’s your chance because odds are that if you don’t find yourself enjoying World of Warcraft, then you won’t like any of the other games out there.

If you’ve played these types of games before then you’re familiar with some of their more frustrating aspects – and World of Warcraft has addressed just about every one of them...