I reached level 31 on my warlcok after a week of casual gaming and as a first impression, WOW really deserves to be the most played game on the planet. And i'm not just saying that. I played a lot fo Lineage 2, i was a GM for a L2 sever and this years I spent about 6 months playing Aion. I also played almost all free MMORPG's out there. And as a conclusion, WOW is still the best online RPG outhere.

PROS after first impresions:

• grinding is masked by questing and you never feel you are just stuck somewhere until you gain a level
• there are a lot of quest (i did 249 until now) and there is always some new quest just around the corner
• there are a lot of activities: profesions, secondary profesions, instances, battlegrounds,arena etc
• there is clear diversity between the specialisation
• mount system is fun and actually usefull
• the world is huge, immersive and very well designed
• comprehensive, yet complex leveling system: skills, attributes adn talents.
• original and varied enemies
• intuitive progression throughout the game world and through areas
• summon / pet systems are excelent
• flying mounts, special mounts, unique mounts
• special events and planed events/contests/etc.
• cool map system, with quest representation (full of win)

CONS after first impression:

• this game is really old so the graphics are very weak.
• the game is vey colorfull and it makes it seems it was designed for 8 year olds
• the characters models and animations are lame and with some exception feel broken or handicaped
• even if there are quest, most of the game you will have to grind
• acces to some features like battle grounds, arenas, pets and mounts is not intuitive or is not explained at all.
• many quest description problems, map pointer problems and many more problems. (i know it is a huge game and they are continuously fixing stuff)
• many skills are basiclly useless.
• skill progressiong is slow and does not make a difference . (you need to have a bigger rank to fell the skill actually work)
• still a lot of gold sellers, gold beggers and guild recruiters that spam the hell out of the chanells
• agro and cc fell underpowered at least the first half of the game
• no housing system to show off you trophies or to decorate as you please
• dificult progression for main profession in first half of game
• only 25 quest allowed in quest log
• some sound effects are totally lame

Even if the CONS outnumber the PROS, WOW is still a wonderful and engaging game. There is a lot to do, a lot to see and a lot to discover.Virtua Fighter 5 is another game I didn't play back in 2007, when it launched and i decide to give it a try. To be honest after playing the Tekken 6, this game is awefull. So it has some nice graphics, even for 2010, but the gameplay is boring and uninspired. The controls are easy to learn and easy to use, but can immediatly lead to one button abuse games, in which you just press one button and kill the oponent. On the other hand, the impressive and fun moves and throughs which the AI does from time to time are rather hard to learn, and even harder to execute. Customisation is the most interesting aspect of the game, but i only played for a few hours so I can't actually say it this is god or not. AI is still really dum, controls are sometimes unresponsive and you can hit the oponent by pressing punch even if the distance between you two is rather big... yes "super air punch tecnique that makes a nice game fell like a cheap scam"!