Over the past few years now, World of Warcraft subscribers have been drifting away from the game, canceling their accounts or putting them on hold. The question as to whether there was a game still worth playing, or even content really worth exploring, hung in the air.
With the release of the World of Warcraft: Legion expansion ($50 on Amazon), these questions appear to have been put to rest.
From its very outset, Legion means to grab your attention and keep it. The opening cinematic of a combined aerial and naval invasion between the Horde and the Alliance against the Burning Legion creates a feeling of dramatic tension. It’s Blizzard going for broke to establish the feeling that you are your character and that this campaign is the last, best hope for victory, even as your airship is shot down and you’re stranded on a foreign beach in the middle of enemy territory.
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