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World_of_Warcraft_Wrath_of_the_Lich_King-TL
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Developer(s) Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher(s) Activision Blizzard
Series Warcraft
Platform(s) Mac OS X, Windows
Release date(s) EU / NA November 13, 2008
AU November 14, 2008
Genre(s) MMORPG
Mode(s) Online
Rating(s) ESRB: T
Media DVD, online patch
Input methods Keyboard, mouse
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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is the second expansion for the
massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft,
following The Burning Crusade. It is set in the land of Northrend, home of the
Lich King, Arthas Menethil/Ner'zhul. It was confirmed on the first day of
BlizzCon 2007, August 3, 2007.
The expansion began beta testing on July 17, 2008, while opt-in beta test keys
were sent out starting on August 4, 2008. Wrath of the Lich King was released
on November 13, 2008 at 12:01 as part of a midnight release event.
Features
Some of the features announced at BlizzCon 2007 include:
* Level cap raised to 80
* Battle with the Lich King at the Frozen Throne
* One new playable class: Death Knight
* A new continent: Northrend
* The creation of a new profession: Inscription
* Profession level cap raised to 450
* New items, quests, dungeons, creatures, spells and weapons
* Siege weapons and destructible buildings (for PvP)
* New character-customization options, including new hairstyles
* First completely PvP zone (regardless of what kind of server you play on)
* Improved Graphics Engine (applied to shaders, flame effects, water
appearance and detailed shadows)
* New factions including the Tuskarr (Walrus-men), Frenzyheart
(Wolverine-men), The Oracles (evolved form of murlocs) and the Taunka,
a racial cousin to the Tauren
Graphical improvements
Blizzard has announced that they will be revamping World of Warcraft's
graphics engine to some degree with the release of the new expansion. For example,
the developers are experimenting with a new shader to use in areas containing
ice, also new fire effects has been added to seem more realistic, and shadows
in the game has been improved to seem more realistic.
System Requirements
PC:
* Windows XP SP3 or Vista SP1 (Windows 2000 no longer supported)
* Pentium 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1.5 GHz (up from 800 MHz Intel/AMD).
Dual-core recommended.
* RAM: 512 MB/1 GB for Vista, same as before. 1 GB/2 GB recommended.
* Video: GPU with hardware transform and lighting and 32 MB VRAM, same
as before. Recommended 128 MB VRAM.
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion set.
Mac:
* Mac OS X 10.4.11 (10.3 no longer supported)
* PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo. G4s are no longer supported.
Intel 1.8 GHz recommended.
* RAM: 1 GB, up from 512 MB. 2 GB recommended.
* Video: Hardware transform and lighting, 64 MB VRAM. 128 MB VRAM
recommended.
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion set.
Game play is dial up compatible but since the patch upgrades for World of
Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion total over 1GB to download, broadband
without a bandwidth limit is recommended.
"The New Plague" World Event
In the buildup to release for Wrath, Blizzard introduced in-game events much
as in the lead-up to the previous expansion: The Burning Crusade. Immediately
noticable were several new Non-Player Character's released into World of
Warcraft in each major city, starting zone, and outpost by the name of "Argent
Healer". These new characters are to help fight the New Plague that has been
released in Azeroth from "Conspicous Crates" found in Booty Bay, a neutral
faction city. Upon a player examining the crates, they would become infected
with a disease. After 10 minutes, or until the player was killed, the Player
would automatically resurrect as a zombie, and in turn, have his ability's
changed to those to help spread the infection. As time progressed, the time
limit to become infected grew shorter and the infection spread far and wide.
Sporadic invasions of undead also occured at set intervals.
Open play
Wrath of the Lich King was announced at BlizzCon 2007, and one zone and
dungeon was playable hands-on to the participants there. Subsequently, a
more complete version was available for play at BlizzCon 2008.
The 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational (June 28 and 29 2008) also
offered hands-on play of Wrath.
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