World of Warcraft Classic (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

World of Warcraft Classic

World of Warcraft: Classic (shortened as Classic) is a new server option for World of Warcraft announced at BlizzCon 2017. The goal of Classic is to let players experience World of Warcraft as close as…

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What World of Warcraft Classic is

World of Warcraft Classic is an adventure game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2019. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

World of Warcraft: Classic (shortened as Classic) is a new server option for World of Warcraft announced at BlizzCon 2017. The goal of Classic is to let players experience World of Warcraft as close as possible to what it was before The Burning Crusade.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy.

Where it sits in the Warcraft series

World of Warcraft Classic is the 45th of 69 entries we hold in the Warcraft series. The next entry was World of Warcraft: 15th Anniversary - Collector's Edition in 2019. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King at 97.

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How it was received

World of Warcraft Classic holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 110 votes.

What it launched against

World of Warcraft Classic launched on 27 August 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and Gears 5. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, Gears 5.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for World of Warcraft Classic yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer