cheap runescape 2007 gold The undead now conquering of Warcraft

The undead now conquering of Warcraft

A unique feeling of seeing land that no human eye has seen before! This exclamation wrote the explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1901 in his diary that he had just flown in a balloon for the first time parts of the Arctic.

The longing for exactly this feeling must be one of the reasons for the incredible success of the video game World of Warcraft. Who's pulling there through virtual landscapes, since this Thursday has a new venture imagine: Zusatzprogamm Wrath of the Lich King was released, to discover there is also an ice world, the continent of Northrend. There lives a dark king, once deceived by evil forces, and gathers his Death Knight around to strike back against the terrible world.

World of Warcraft is an online role-playing game and an unparalleled success story of the digital world. Over eleven million subscribers, the game has worldwide - this pays around 10 euros per month. Episodes of The Simpsons and South Park played in WoW. A movie is coming in 2009. Dominated the game a part of popular culture.

This even works with all age groups. Although the manufacturer Blizzard stubbornly holds all the details secret. As in England, but once leaked a few numbers, they confirmed: Just as many women as men play, many are over 30 years old, and lawyers, cashiers, teachers, almost all of society hide behind the dwarves, elves and wizards.

The fun of virtual self, wearing the loincloth, sword or wand, has to do with the current medieval enthusiasm. But it is more complex. It is often said about the game, it offers a world in which everything is simple: It is just blacksmith or fishing, learn to use a gun and something to riding. Good old times.

On closer inspection, is nonsense. The system of skills and professions in WoW is so widely spread as the shelving of the Occupational Information Centre BIS in the Agency. World of Warcraft is not far away, but close to the modern, capitalist everyday life.

At the same time however, it has created a ramified myth. It is the new reference for those who want fantasy. The Lich King about the newly occurring now, is already known from the previous game Warcraft 3 of 2003. Back in the ice world of Frozen Throne, he began to build his army of undead.

Knows the story of who was playing - which should apply to most fans. The Warcraft universe is a sprawling narrative. Only that it is not printed on the shelf, but is experienced playing. While Beowulf to Narnia modern and ancient legends always needed a central person, established with WoW Tell a distributed basis, of labor structures. It can only be experienced together.

Admittedly, even the cartographic representation of the fantasy world Azeroth in the far continents Rescheduled, Eastern Kingdoms and Outland fell apart, openly stolen from Tolkien. If the game is now expanded, and a new story comes to that. She turns ingredients including: a sword, laden with a curse, a king whose men are destroyed by evil forces and come back as undead grim, a terrible father murder. So a mishmash of Nibelung saga, Lord of the Rings, Celtic myths and the Pirates of the Caribbean.

The game is not only narrative but also simple game - and is constructed in this wise. It conveys the feeling of discovering something new and constantly strengthens its own character, that speaks to the real ambition. This World of Warcraft has an extreme addiction potential - now there are already clinics for problem gamblers, as in Mainz, and almost all patients suffer from World of Warcraft.

On the other hand, the game falls but more often on through serious and meaningful secondary aspects. A year ago, the programmers added a special task in which the characters could be affected by the disease, Tainted Blood, which made them unable to act. Due to an error, the disease jumped to players about who had nothing to do with the special task of spread and crippled the game. Real doctors were enthusiastic: The journal The Lancet discussed the benefits of play for epidemiolgische studies that Boston University started a project.

This spring, then a conference in the world of the game took place - on The value of virtual worlds. Several studies have investigated the cooperative behavior in the game. To succeed, players must unite what succeeds surprisingly well. The game was the subject of Hegel on the last week and at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a book published it.

The continuing fascination with the game, however, not explained. World of Warcraft is the most popular object of hatred in the games industry - because it steals all of the other show. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell railed recently, the zenith of WoW was finally exceeded. Had opened in the hundreds of German electric markets specially the night to Thursday and 3000 alone fans in Berlin-Mitte until midnight waiting on the game punishes him lies.

The current video game for the Christmas season is extremely limp. Several large-announced million dollar productions are somewhat disappointing, including putative hits like Spore, Little Big Planet, Fallout3, Far Cry 2 or James Bond. Many of these games push the technology to maximum performance and forget the thing itself - the story and the game mechanics.

World of Warcraft turns all this a long nose, by limiting itself. It looks pretty, but not photo-realistic, more like a lavishly drawn comic. It also runs on computers in the year before last. The manufacturer also can an online game constantly changing, and he has decided in this case to make it more accessible. If you like it simple, can hide the extensive system of weapons, skills and character and keep his game simple pleasant.

This also makes only sense the discoverer possible. One should look a try. Who wants rejoices in architecture and landscape design. In a meadow in the rare warm regions of Northrend, the shimmering red, tree-high statue of interesting inclined half-naked dancer out of the earth. In the world of dwarves new machines, strange apparatus, the pump and grind, colorful evidence of a strange rattle industrialism.

There is not only particularly timely for Berlin, the numerous castles, fortresses often gloomy mountains, sometimes radiating magnificent buildings. The game has been expanded to include ships and car-like wooden structures, and strange dragon-flight animals can acquire. Deep in forgotten lands you will open up, advertises the group games in a pompous trailer, and then see wonders beyond imagining.

However, the fact remains: There is no right life in the wrong. And also the video game can anyone save the bored everyday. The wonders that you see in the Lich King, but are usually fights with a particularly adventurous beings. They are more expensive than before and more story to tell. Groundbreaking new is nothing but that.

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