Europeans have waited patiently (and not so patiently) for the retail version of World of Warcraft for months now. And fans have been devouring every morsel of information on the game from magazines and websites. Many of you have read articles about it, seen the screenshots or even played one of the numerous Betas (which I have).

Did it deserve all the hype and accolades that have been heaped on it the last year? Let me put it this way; in the final days of the beta; despite knowing that a character wipe was imminent I kept playing just for the fun of it. There, now you know that this will be yet another positive review.