WoW = WOW
All I can say is WOW! Sign me up now. I spent 5 hours or so playing WoW last night and would probably still be playing right now if they hadn't shutdown the server (it's beta testing so these things are to be expected).

As for the game itself, Blizzard has done it again. Taken the best aspects of all of their games and blended them together perfectly. This game is WarCraft 3 meets Diablo 2 with a touch of StarCraft Ghost. This game could very well be worth the monthly fee.

My favorite feature is one from Diablo 2, Quests. They give the game a sense of drive and forward movement. My least favorite feature is in the movement controls (and I haven't looked yet to see if this is an adjustable feature, so it may be easily correctable), the lack of mouse-look. The interface uses the standard WADS keys for movement, but in order to look up, down, left or right you have to click the left mouse button and drag the direction you want to look. But as I said I haven't looked to see if this is correctable.

In any case, CLEARLY I'll have to spent many more hours doing more "testing"
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