World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack | 
| From: Blizzard Entertainment
Category: Video Games
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Format: CD
Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac, Windows XP
Genre: online_massively_multiplayer_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
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Number Of Items: 1
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Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4
MPN: 020626728195
Model: 020626728195
UPC: 020626728195
EAN: 0020626728195
Release Date: November 13, 2008
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| • | This expansion pack REQUIRES the original World of Warcraft game and The Burning Crusade expansion pack in order to run | | • | World of Warcraft: Wrath of King Lich expansion pack for PC and Mac opens the new continent of Northrend | | • | Death Knight is Warcraft's first hero class and is available for any player with at least a level-55 character | | • | Northrend offers new environments, including Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, Borean Tundra, and Howling Fjord | | • | New creatures inhabit the icy continent, such as Nerubian Viziniers, Plague Eruptors, Shoveltusks and Flesh Giants |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Fans of World of Warcraft, prepare for Blizzard Entertainment's next installment -- World of Warcraft: Wrath of King Lich. In this latest expansion, something is afoot in the cold, harsh northlands. The Lich King Arthas has set in motion events that could lead to the extinction of all life on Azeroth. The necromantic power of the plague and legions of undead armies threaten to sweep across the land. Only the mightiest heroes can oppose the Lich King and end his reign of terror. 
The tuskarr, a walrus-like race of nomadic fisherman, inhabit the icy Borean Tundra. View larger. | 
Half-giant warriors, the vrykul, once inhabited the land. View larger. | 
You'll enjoy exploring Northrend and all its environments and dungeons. View larger. | 
Explore Northrend and battle the Lich King with World of Warcraft's first hero class character -- The Death Knight. View larger. | 
One of many new environments, Dragonblight is an arctic wasteland surrounded by dense forests. View larger. | 
Many strange and terrifying creatures inhabit this frozen continent. View larger. | Enter the Death Knight
This expansion adds a host of content to the already massive existing game world. Players will achieve soaring levels of power, explore Northrend (the vast icy continent of the Lich King), and battle high-level heroes to determine the ultimate fate of Azeroth. As you face the dangers of the frigid, harsh north, prepare to master the dark necromantic powers of the Death Night -- World of Warcraft's first Hero class. No longer servants of the Lich King, the Death Knights begin their new calling as experienced, formidable adversaries. Each is heavily armed, armored, and in possession of a deadly arsenal of forbidden magic. If you have a World of Warcraft account with a character of at least level 55, you will be able to create a new level-55 Death Knight of any race (if on a PvP realm, the Death Knight must be the same faction as your existing character). And upon entering the new world, your Death Knight will begin to quest to level 80, gaining potent new abilities and talents along the way. This expansion allows for only one Death Knight per realm, per account. New Environments in Northrend Await
Journey through the remote, diverse lands of Northrend and explore Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, Borean Tundra, and Howling Fjord. Named for bones of perished dragons and majestic shrines to the fallen creatures, Dragonblight is an arctic wasteland surrounded by dense forests. Not everything is frozen in Northrend. The lush mountains of Grizzly Hills are the ancestral home to the furbolgs, who have grown accustomed to relative peace. Although their tranquility is being challenged by trappers, goblins, and ice trolls, Grizzly Hills remains a vast and dangerous wilderness. The southwestern tip of Northrend is home to the sprawling Borean Tundra. The Horde has established a dominant presence in this icy portion of the continent and has formed a bond with the tuskarr, a walrus-like race of nomadic fisherman. Magical energy is afoot in the region, and it has caused increased tension. High above the Great Sea at the southeastern tip of Northrend lies the Howling Fjord. Ancient mythology holds that a race of half-giant warriors, the vrykul, once inhabited the land, founding a prosperous civilization. They mysteriously vanished, leaving deserted villages and abandoned temples. In present times, the Alliance and the Horde have come to Howling Fjord to confront the Lich King. Strangely, this has prompted the return of the vrykul, who are attacking the Alliance and Horde settlements. Howling Fjord presents a difficult challenge on two fronts: withstanding the vrykul's onslaught and battling the evil Lich King. A Multitude of Monsters
Strange and terrifying creatures inhabit the frozen continent of Northrend, such as Nerubian Viziniers, Plague Eruptors, Shoveltusks and Flesh Giants, to name just a few. Half-spider, half-humanoid, the viziniers utilize sorcery and high intelligence to emerge as the rulers of Nerubians' underground kingdom. The Plague Eruptors are walking corpses created by the Lich King's evil experiments to spread horror and chaos across the living world. Massive curved antlers make it easy to identify the Shoveltusks. These grumpy beasts are very dangerous, territorial, and best left alone. The Flesh Giants are nothing short of nightmarish abominations. Cobbled together from the pieces of giant body parts, the Flesh Giants employ tremendous strength to carry out the Lich King's wishes. The World of Warcraft: Wrath of King Lich expansion pack allows you to engage in epic siege warfare. The pack presents the first Hero class and allows you to transform your Death Knight's look with character customization that even include hairstyles and dances. You'll enjoy exploring the Northrend and all its environments and dungeons, filled with some of the deadliest creatures -- and greatest treasures -- on all of Azeroth.
| System Requirements | | Minimum | Recommended | | Operating System | PC: Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista (with latest Service Packs)
Mac: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or newer | | CPU | PC: Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlong XP 1500+
Mac: PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo processor | PC: Dual-core processor, such as Intel Pentium D or AmD Athlong 64 X2
Mac: Intel 1.8 GHz processor or better | | Graphics Hardware | PC: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transfor and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM, such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce2 class card or better
Mac: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 64 MB VRAM, such as ATI Radeon 9600 or NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4600 class card or better | PC: 3D Graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capabilities with 128 MB VRAM, such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better
Mac: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM, such as ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA 7600 class card or better. | | Memory | PC: 512 MB (1 GB for Vista)
Mac: 1 GB | PC: 1 GB (2 GB for Vista)
Mac: 2 GB | | Hard Drive Space | 15 GB of free space | | All Platform Requirements | Keyboard and mouse, required for controls. Other input devices not supported. Active broadband Internet connection required to play. |
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 good October 31, 2009
Cheng Qian (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The shipment is free and quite good. Though a little bit slow, but condition is good. If anyone wanna the free shipment, he has to buy it earlier than usual.
 Think hard before you buy October 27, 2009
M. Fairchild (Tennessee)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The World of Warcraft phenomenon certainly beckons enticingly to computer gamers. The huge world, many plot lines, multiple options for creating your own character and interacting with others - all wonderful, right? Well, yes, if it only worked.
Here's what happened to me. I started with a trial account, found it fun, signed up for a regular subscription, and had a pretty good time for about a month. And then came the first "patch." For the uninitiated, a "patch" in World of Warcraft isn't just a bug fix - it's a game overhaul, involving changes in the rules, in the quests and dungeons ("instances" in WoW terms) available, and, most problematic, in how the software works. Immediately I started having game problems, such as unpredictable shutdowns and computer freezes that required a hard reset. Tracking down the cause proved impossible. If you send a request for technical help you'll get a cookie-cutter list of things to do like uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Other players try to help on the online forums, but as the weeks went on I had more and more trouble, until, after the most recent patch, the game became impossible to play because of graphics and crash problems - on my 8-month-old, hardly bottom line laptop. I quit playing and allowed my subscription to lapse.
So, before you buy into the WoW system, where you'll pay up front for the program and continue to pay every month for a subscription you may or may not be able to access, think hard. The game will change at the whim of Blizzard. Other players' conduct can make a particular session unbearable. You may spend weeks developing a character only to find that the latest patch has drastically changed the rules that made that character attractive to you. And despite Blizzard's promise to keep the game playable without the very most recent hardware, patches that only disable a few tens of thousands of players aren't going to be modified by a company that boasts a subscriber base in the millions.
One last warning: the whole game will change quite drastically once the next expansion is issued, probably within the next few months. Even if you're not worried about hardware compatibility problems, since so much will change with the new expansion, you may want to wait and let that be released and allow time for the inevitable avalanche of bugs to be sorted out before you commit the time and money to play this game. The official World of Warcraft site has some preview information about the expansion you should take a look at.
It can be a lot of fun. If you can keep it running enough to play it. If you're willing to put up with constant changes. If you can tolerate the multi-player premise of the game, which can be a lot of fun or a lot of misery, depending on who the other players are. In the end, the answer to all those "ifs" for me was, "no."
So before you buy into this game, at least spend some time browsing the public forums on the official World of Warcraft website, especially the customer service and technical support forums, so you can get some idea of the problems other players have and that you, too, might face. And then think about the money and time involved, do searches on the specific hardware you own, especially the video card you have, to see what problems (or maybe lack of problems) others have had, and then think about it some more. It's painful to look back and see I've spent nearly $100 in software purchases and over $100 in subscription fees and am left with a game I can't play any more, because of the way Blizzard has chosen to change the software.
Worst PC Game Ever Created October 26, 2009
M. Escobar (seattle wa usa)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I attempted to try this game out to see what some of my nerdy friends where all ecstatic about and what consumed all their free time. Since I'm a gamer and enjoy just about everything except perhaps this game and a few others. This is so addictive for some because of its simplicity and it fills those people's voids of realistic social interactions. Now about the game, graphics are horrible cartoon like characters. When you customize you are only changing the color and a few minor things. Basically you look like everyone else with a different color pair of pants. When you play you are dealing with people who have poured their lives into this so for anyone who is a beginner well I feel sorry for you. You will just be called a "noob" and disregarded. I from start didn't like the fighting styles there is no movement just noises. I have played other MMO, RPG's. I am just sending a fore warning Do not purchase this game and become one of blizzards nerd raging minions. The game isn't fun at all. There are new games coming that have tons of more depth and enjoyment instead of year long grind fest that will continue with new DLC. Worst game ever made!
Nice addition to WoW October 24, 2009
Melissa Oxendale (FL United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been playing for a long time, but we took a break just before this expansion came out. So by the time we came back everyone was 80.
A lot of new content was added to the game. Its still a great time sink and you still need friends to do a lot of the content.
Game quality and content has improved in a way I like October 21, 2009
Andrew J. Marks
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I played the game for two years now extensively. This new release is great but the online upgrades to it have been much better also. This review is primarily about what's better about this release over the first and second major releases of this game. There had been many inexplicable annoyances in the game which went uncorrected for many releases, but they were cleaned up over time in the release of Lich King and afterwards.
1. In player versus player, I see continued attempts, most successful, to balance classes and the different skill types within those classes. I am very happy about that and hope they continue. For people not familiar with the game, a class is chosen at the beginning which used to have a high impact on the level of success in large parts of the game. For example, it used to be that Paladins were horrible in player-versus-player, and rogues and warlocks were way overpowered. They are now competitive in the game.
2. The terrain is more navigation-friendly.
3. Quest chains are more fun now.
4. Player versus player: There is no longer a gross imbalance in battlegrounds due to the allowance of players to sit at one level and get all the maximum gear possible from that level, effectively making them 10 times more powerful, but from gear only, not skill. It is really more skill based now, but some battles still can be lopsided; they are just far fewer lopsided ones.
5. Queue times for battlegrounds are significantly lower, meaning less waiting and more fun.
6. Battlegrounds are much less lopsided than they used to be. There were major issues where one team would get like 40 players and the other would sit at 26 for a long time. Now, generally speaking, people are let in more evenly.
7. The graphics and sound are pretty nice.
8. The terrain of many zones more pleasing to the eye.
9. The release of dual spec was huge. This allows all players to have much more diversity in the roles they choose, reducing the boredom of a one role character and reducing class burnout.
10. Battleground experience is awesome, especially from levels 70-80, but for me, I pvped a lot at lower brackets too. This allowed one to increase levels by playing battlegrounds instead of what sometimes gets monotonous: questing (what some call 'grinding').
11. There are very few bugs. They have always been pretty low in quantity but this miracle easily goes unnoticed during enjoying playtime.
There have been many little things that make the game so much more tolerable. There are far more graveyards, making the extreme annoyance of a 5 minute run after death much less likely. One can sell back epic items accidentally purchased with non-monetary currency. Spending skill points has an 'Are you sure?' box so if you choose the wrong skill point, you don't have to spend a fortune to undo it. One does not have to travel the world to apply a glyph, which is skill item. Mounting takes 1.5 seconds now and was a lot longer before. Entering water does not dismount you! Awesome!
Game issues
- Imbalance between factions in battlegrounds. There are two factions which play each other in battlegrounds: Horde and Alliance. Horde have an extreme advantage in the game. Many people state that it is because 'kids' play alliance. That argument has never been substantiated by Blizzard, who are the only ones with the ages of players who play, and regardless, I don't care why. I want a fix done so games are generally fun, competitive and evenly matched. It has improved some, maybe due to other game changes, but it's still laughable at times.
- I just don't like raiding much. It is monotonous after awhile. Raiding is going with a group of players in a large dungeon. It takes hours to complete, sometimes over several 'runs' multiple days a week. That's nice, but after I do a dungeon and killed all of it's main monsters 20 times, I'm bored. Apparently, though, lots of people love to do that. I think they ache for more content but it's hard to churn out content. It probably costs a lot of money. That being said, Blizzard has improved content production rates a lot in my opinion. Communication in raids is typically is done verbally on a communication server so all players can talk to each other and get to know each other.
- Permanent 'ignore' list is way way too small. I want to permanently ignore a lot of people in this game. There are many extremely rude people playing this game. I'd break their face if they said some of that stuff in real life, but not only that, some people 'spam' or post the same or similar messages. They need to expand the ignore list to allow for 5,000 people, not 50. On the plus side, 'report spam' allows me to at least temporarily block these people, and that's unlimited in size.
- Crowd control (skill) in 5 mans is not required, even on heroic dungeons, the hardest type of content. It should be required. It was an awesome part of the game.
I can't think of any major issues at this time. As long as they churn out content, keep pvp class balance, and disallow for absurdly overpowered power in pvp, then I'm very happy.
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