World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, the first expansion for World of Warcraft. Including an increase of the level cap, the introduction of the blood elves and the draenei as playable races, and the…

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Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy Open world

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is an adventure developed by Blizzard Entertainment, released 15 January 2007 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is an adventure game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2007. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The expansion's name refers to the return of the "Burning Legion"; a vast army of demons being one of the main antagonist forces in the Warcraft-universe and whose last invasion was defeated in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. This legion and its allies are the main enemy which players will fight against in The Burning Crusade. In addition to some new areas on Azeroth, this expansion mainly features the ravaged world of Outland which the Burning Legion and other powerful beings control. The Doom Lord Kazzak reopened the Dark Portal to Outland, flooding Azeroth with the ravenous demons of the Burning Legion. Expeditions from the Horde and Alliance, reinforced by their new blood elf and draenei…

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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Warcraft series

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the 11th of 69 entries we hold in the Warcraft series. It arrived 2 years after World of Warcraft: Assault on Blackwing Lair. The next entry was World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - Collector's Edition in 2007. Its critic score of 75 is 5 points below 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: The Burning Crusade holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Players rate it 83, 8 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade launched on 15 January 2007, within three weeks of Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Europa Universalis III Complete, Europa Universalis III and Picross DS. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Europa Universalis III Complete, Europa Universalis III, Picross DS.

Cheats and codes

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