World of Warcraft

So Joel calls me up last nite and wants to know if I want to play World of Warcraft. I'm not too into online games, nor RPG's (strategy RPG's notwithstanding), but seeing as how i was watching LOTR and playing Fire Emblem when he called, i figured I'd give it a shot. After downloading the ten day trial game and creating our characters, we were off.

There were several classes of races that you could choose to be. We both settled on Night Elves; I named my character IamDaWizard. Joel made a comment early on, that when we start playing, i needed to "get into character" and really be an elf. I almost stopped playing right there. But...I'm glad I didn't because its actually kind of fun to play. I dont really care for the art style of the characters, but it didn't really matter once I started running around the world itself.



Basically, you choose a server on which to play, and everyone on the same server is in the same world. You embark on short fetch quests and earn experience points and gear for your trouble, and you can do the quests alone, or join up with other online players. Of course, being online, you have your share of asses that enhabit the realm. One guy kept running up on us and wanting to fight. We'd see him every once in a while running around, dancing, and bothering other players. I should have acted like an elf and popped an arrow in his ass or whatever it is elves do. They do that, don't they?

It was weird playing with a keyboard and mouse, because i never do. Alot of the time I'd just be walking into trees or falling off cliffs, but i started to get the hang of it after a while. Eventually we met up with Joel's brother Jon-Mark and off we went to get some more missions, when suddenly Joel's real life intervened and he had to go eat dinner. That was fine with me, because i was getting hungry at the time too. I ran around with Jon-Mark for a bit, killing all the animals we could fine, but soon after, I logged off and made a pizza.

Overall, I'd play it again.