Blizzard Announces New Warcraft MMORPG

An anonymous reader wrote in to say that "Blizzard Entertainment makers of the enormously popular Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo series, have announced their next game: World of Warcraft, a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game set in the famous Warcraft universe. Gamespot has an extensive preview available complete with screens and loads of info on the game." It looks very pretty. I still want the Star Wars MMORPG to rock my world tho.

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Shattered Galaxy

[tangent3]

http://www.sgalaxy.com

I believe it's the first graphical MMORPG.

Shattered Galaxy just came out of beta and is in commercial release since 21st August. Looks pretty good, won quite a few awards at shows.

Blizzard will have its hands full playing catch-up, but it'll probably win the Warcraft fans over just like Ultima Online did and Star Wars Galaxy will when (hahahahaaa) it is released.

I just hope Blizzard won't be like the idiots Electronic Arts were when they forced the Origin developers to drop the Ultima 9: Ascension project for Ultima Online. Can you imagine them putting aside Warcraft 3 for the MMORPG version?

Re:Shattered Galaxy

[Bodero]

Wrongo. Blizzard North is working on World of Warcraft, Blizzard (EOT, no "South") is working on Warcraft 3, and has been for a long time. That's why the rumors of SC2 were squelched, because the Starcraft team (Blizzard) was working on Warcraft 3 (Blizzard), while the Diablo II team had just finished LoD at Blizzard North.

I'll believe it when I see it...

[Anonymous DWord]

"Though Blizzard Entertainment is still hard at work polishing up its highly anticipated real-time strategy game, Warcraft III, for an early 2002 release..."

Uh huh. "Highly anticipated" is right. Oh look! The vapourware awards from 2000! [wired] Coming in at Number 6, Warcraft III. I love Blizzard (mostly), and I think they do some great stuff, but until it's shipped, it doesn't exist.

Redmoon, a nice MMORPG.

[}InFuZeD{]

If any of you are looking for a non-3D MMORPG, you should check out http://www.redmoon-online.com :) 3D just isn't my thing for an MMORPG. Too many blind spots that people can attack me in. Redmoon is a 2D game with overhead graphics but it has 3D buildings and whatnot. It's got some really cool features such as armies, a Battle Dimension, 9 characters to play, and about 6 skills for each character. It's being developed constantly and updates to the game are free (as well as the game itself). You do however have to pay a subscription fee on a monthly, quarterly, or bi-annual basis.

Movies available...

[crt]

There's already an awesome CG trailer here, and an movie of in-game footage here.

The gameplay footage looks good, but the CG movie is simply amazing. I wonder how many years until the games look that good.

Or get the DivX format (smaller size)

[antdude]

This is the gameplay trailer from ETCS: Download here. You need DivX codec to view the AVI file.

I have to say WoW for this game! :)

Re:Am I the only one with Online-Gaming issues?

[SpryGuy]

Check out "Max Payne". It's a great single-player-only game. No multiplayer aspect at all. Great plot, great graphics, and a totally fun time. Highly recommended.

Re:More like...

[Bodero]

Blizzard has been working on World of Warcraft since 1999. Check the whois database on worldofwarcraft.com for proof.

That's not proof

[cronio]

That just means that they had the inkling of the idea that they might want to create "world of warcraft" game in 1999, so they bought the domain for $70.