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Blizzard Announces New Warcraft MMORPG

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wouldn't-it-be-nice dept.

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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  1. Shattered Galaxy by tangent3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?

    1. Re:Shattered Galaxy by Bodero · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

  2. I'll believe it when I see it... by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 4, Informative

    "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.
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  3. Movies available... by crt · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.

  4. Or get the DivX format (smaller size) by antdude · · Score: 3, Informative

    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! :)

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  5. Re:More like... by Bodero · · Score: 3, Informative

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