World of Warcraft: Legion (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

World of Warcraft: Legion

World of Warcraft: Legion ushers in an era of unprecedented conflict for the Alliance and the Horde as the Burning Legion’s crusade against creation enters a terrifying new stage. In this dire new chapter of…

87 30 August 2016

What World of Warcraft: Legion is

World of Warcraft: Legion is an adventure game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2016. It was published by Activision Blizzard. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Kingdoms Will Burn The Tomb of Sargeras has been reopened, and the demons of the Burning Legion pour into our world. Their full, terrifying might is fixed on summoning the Dark Titan to Azeroth-and they've already located the key to his return. With the Alliance and Horde devastated, adventurers must take up legendary artifacts and weapons used by the heroes of old, scour the ancient Broken Isles for relics of the Titans, and challenge the Burning Legion before Azeroth's last hope dies. Steel yourself, champion. Extinction is imminent. Following the events of Warlords of Draenor, the alternate Draenor's Gul'dan is expelled by his demonic masters into the original Azeroth with a special…

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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Warcraft series

World of Warcraft: Legion is the 34th of 69 entries we hold in the Warcraft series. The next entry was Hearthstone: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan in 2016. Its critic score of 87 is 7 points above 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: Legion holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 147 votes.

What it launched against

World of Warcraft: Legion launched on 30 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Cheats and codes

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

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Official trailer