Wow Gold -- Excellent Online Game

I had seen the title "World of Warcraft" around the Internet but never gave it much attention, so I never really knew what the game was all about. I assumed it was based on modern world war battles which does not interest me. So, I continued to play Zelda, which I really like, on the Gamecube and Wii.

Recently, I bought a laptop and downloaded the latest graphics driver from the AMD/ATI website. The driver package included a trial version of WOW. I decided I'd give it a try, mainly just to see if the laptop would play the game well (it's a MSI gaming machine).

After I installed the game, I began to play, and much to my amazement, was very similar in scope to the Zelda games. It's definitely a hundred times more complex than Zelda (in world size, scope, actions, roles, abilities, graphics, etc., etc.). The graphics are amazing. My daughter also installed the trial game on her laptop the same day. We usually sit next to each other and play on the same Realm.

Since the trial was only ten days and we knew that this game is something we would continue playing, we decided to purchase a couple of retail copies at a local brick and mortar. After we installed the game, we could not play until the next day. It literally took most of the wee hours to download about 3-4Gigs worth of patches. Keep this in mind when you buy the game. Blizzard keeps things updated, so be prepared to wait for updates to complete. After all the required, latest patches are automatically installed, any new patches download in the background, so, your game is not interrupted. If you know someone who plays this game, you can backup the patches from their PC and place them on your PC. WOW will recognize this and not download them again.

The game is about finding items, completing quests, building up your level. All of this involves killing things, including hogs, robots, wolves, bears, weird creatures, and humans. Certain obtained abilities cause blood splats but it's really not that bad. You can choose characters which fight with knives, swords, axes and rods, or you can choose characters which use spells. The latter is good for those who don't like the violent acts of swords and axes. Read on the Internet about the character you like best because once you create the character, it can't be changed into something else. You can have lots of characters under your account. Right now I play a Human Warrior but I also have a Night Elf Hunter, Dwarf Paladin and Human Mage character which I play sometimes.

About PC's: I'm playing on a AMD Turion X2 64 laptop with 4G RAM, Vista 64bit and a dedicated ATI Radeon 3850 graphics card. No issues at all. My daughter has a $400 laptop which has a AMD Athlon 64 X2, Vista 32 bits, 3G RAM and a non-dedicated Nvidia GForce 7000M card. She can play the game with no problems but there is a very slight lag when panning while moving forward (i.e., moving right and left while going forward).

If you like role playing games such as Zelda, get this game. You'll like it even more. Have and good one.