Lapsed WoW player, Tyler Colp has reviewed World of Warcraft: The War Within for PC Gamer and the verdict is good – with caveats.
Colp says WoW’s 10th expansion is a new high-mark in storytelling but the game’s reliance on grinding threatens to sink endgame joys. Get your eyes on a quote below and then dive into the full verdict to see if you agree.
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“I’ve only dabbled in WoW since spending most of my teenage years going on 25-player raids when I should’ve been studying, and The War Within is Blizzard’s call for people like me to return, to “come home,” and it only took me a few hours of readjusting to see why.
Actual storytelling, not a series of Marvel movie catastrophes, is important again; characters are important again; worldbuilding is important again. The effort started by the last expansion, Dragonflight, has paid off: The War Within is easily WoW’s best campaign. The catch, however, is that the moment you finish it, you’re kicked back out into the morass of all the things that pushed me away from WoW in the first place.“