The Best WoW ever after Vanilla.. but they could better..
Wotlk is a nice addition to Wow.. ofc after Burning Crusade even Sh** shines like gold.. but well..
Let's break this review in some parts..
Leveling:
What I like pretty much and think is a must for every mmo out there, are the interactive quests.. It's great to not have to kill 50 boars.. or get heads from Murlocs that drop one every tenth or so.. but to have to steal a dragon, ride it and kill it's elite master.. or escape on a horse and beeing chased by vampiric monsters.. or even meet the Lich King itself on a flashback of an epic battle..
Tbh it's the first time that I remember something from the lore..
In Addition the xperience gained by the quests feels exactly right.
What I miss is PvP leveling.. Nothing can beat PvP leveling of Warhammer Online.. and if you 've tried it out you don't won't to go back to pve lveling..
But Anyway it's cool that Blizz tried to make leveling fun and give the players the feeling that they are part of the lore.. and it sure does a huge difference..
Improved Graphics:
Wotlk is said to have an improved engine.. with high quality shadows, new fire effect, and some other shader effects..
Well it does, but beside the shadows nothing else is worth mentioning it.. Ofcourse Blizz has a high skilled team that put together the best they could and they where allowed by the engine and it's the best you ever have seen in Wow..
But, there is always a "but", the all around performance has gotten very bad.. On an AMD x6000+ 3.0ghz with 2gb ram and an ATI HD3850, on a resolution of 1280x1024 and everything turned to high you get less than 30fps on open area.. which is weird cause this system runs Crysis on HIGHEST..
If you ask me.. Bad coding...
Sound:
New Theme Song, and in some cases Voice-over are helping to build some nice atmosphere.. But tbh when playing I still prefer Itunes over any game music.. but this time less than in BC :p
End Game:
Pretty much the same.. Ofc there are some new instance a New Arena season that just started, and some new bgs, the same couch with a makeover...
So in general Wotlk is the best addition to WoW, ofc as I sad everything is better than BC.. Till now (not 80 yet, as I like it to take things easy, and enjoy the ride) the leveling experience, with all those new interactive Quests is interesting , more like an bad made solo arcade compared to solo games, but new to MMOs and it surely adds to the atmosphere..
What is missing, is PvP leveling, a better performance, and a hard push to bring ORvR and epic battles to life..
The reason i din't give it more points is.. because $Blizzard$ has the $MONEY$ and the employes to do better than that.. Ofcourse they don't really
have as long we don't push them.. and ofc 8.5 is more than enough.. just being nice..