As such, levelling is fast, clever and full of fun and variety, to the point that for once I actually felt sad when I dinged 100. The whole campaign has this kind of fun to it-the tacit acknowledgement both that game balance in single-player PvE is utterly irrelevant, and that players are more likely to stick around if they have a good time than if they simply feel grudgingly pot-committed. There’s little funnier than one-shotting a talky boss by simply calling an artillery strike on their head, because you are now the goddamn Commander of the goddamn Horde, the scourge of Illidan, Arthas, Deathwing and Hellscream, and you demand respect. Later, you get toys like a giant mech that shreds whole armies of enemies for 30 seconds, and an insanely destructive tank that’s yours until the health runs out or you go inside. Initially, you can summon a couple of soldiers to help. Along with your main Garrison you get a number of Outposts in the wide world, each of which offers a choice of two buildings and a super-ability for that zone. Nor has anyone else made it this fun to be in charge. You can certainly point to games that have done bits of it before, like The Old Republic’s follower system, but nobody has ever taken the pieces and polished them up so well.
Where once your achievements were brushed off so that some random guard in a nowhere outpost could have you go get him lunch, now you’re given proper respect wherever you go, from soldiers cheering as they see you approaching, to being awarded full control of your faction’s main Garrison. Despite that though, Blizzard is at pains to point out that while the threat is mighty, you’re now officially one of Azeroth’s heavy-hitters yourself. The army waiting at the start of Burning Crusade has nothing on this one, from its massed legions to a tank that earns its name “The Worldbreaker”. Now an Iron Horde powerful enough not to need to drink demon blood has risen to attack the present, drawing the greatest heroes of the modern age back through the Dark Portal to save the past.Īs you step out of the super-sized portal, you see this expansion means business. Pandaria villain and former Warchief Garrosh Hellscream is taking a break from playing Hearthstone to give the orcs of the past access to modern technology. A little time travel and divine meddling has rewritten the past. The plot this time centers on the world of Draenor, before it became Outland-as seen in the Burning Crusade.
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