Transcript Game Evaluation

Game Evaluation
World of Warcraft:
The Burning Crusade
CIS 487
Alex Zammitt
Basic Information
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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
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$14.99 – One Month Recurring
$41.97 – Three Months Recurring ($13.99 per month)
$77.94 – Six Months Recurring ($12.99 per month)
System Requirements
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System Requirements for PC
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OS: Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4) or Windows XP (Service
Pack 2)
Processor: Intel Pentium3 800MHz or AMD Athlon 800MHz
Memory:
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Minimum: 512 MB RAM
Recommended: 1GB RAM
Video:
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Minimum: 32MB 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform
and Lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or above
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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
System Requirements
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System Requirements for Mac
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OS: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer
Processor:
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Memory:
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Minimum: 933MHz G4/G5
Recommended: 1.8GHz G5/Intel
Minimum: 512MB RAM
Recommended: 1GB DDR RAM
Video:
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Minimum: NVIDIA or ATI graphics processor with 32MB VRAM
Recommended: 64MB VRAM
Installation
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Original World of Warcraft must be
installed first and fully updated
5 CDs
 Many updates need to be downloaded
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Burning Crusade
4 CDs
 A few patch upgrades need to be download
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May take a few hours
Expansion Feature Overview
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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
Artwork of New Races
Draenei
Blood Elf
New Zone – The Outland
Player vs. Player Arena
Arena sizes: 2 vs. 2, 3 vs. 3, 5 vs. 5
 Win games to improve your team’s rating
 Points are awarded each week based on
your team’s rating
 Turn in points for powerful weapons and
armor
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New Dungeons and Raids
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Many new 5-man dungeons to explore
“Heroic Mode” dungeons
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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
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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Player’s Role
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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
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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
Manual
The Burning Crusade’s 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
Customized User Interface
Game Review
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What’s fun about the expansion?
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What’s bad about the expansion?
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2v2, 3v3, 5v5 Arena’s
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
A complete fresh start, anything accomplished before the
expansion doesn’t 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
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The Burning Crusade is rated T for Teen
13 years +
Game Review (continued)
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How does this game compare to other games in
the same genre?
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Focus on interacting with other “live” players
Similar leveling system found in many online roleplaying games
Similar features of other online games (Quests,
experience, leveling, killing monsters for experience,
magic)
Design mistakes and bugs
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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
Game Play Screen Shot
Screen Shots (Continued)
Screen Shots (Continued)
Summary
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Pros
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Cons
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Reuse of old graphics for creatures and armor
Flying mounts only usable in the new zones
Is the game worth purchasing?
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Lots of new content to explore
Flying Mounts
New PvP features (Arena system)
Yes! Many hours/days/months of game play
How could the game be improved?
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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.
The End
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Any questions?