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World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor

The heroes of Azeroth are on the verge of a war that will reforge the fate of two worlds. World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, the fifth expansion to Blizzard Entertainment’s acclaimed massively multiplayer…

88 13 November 2014

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor is an adventure developed by Blizzard Entertainment, released 13 November 2014 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor is

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor is an adventure game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2014. It was published by Activision Blizzard. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The expansion is set after the events of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria and takes place on the world of Draenor, the original homeworld of the orcs, prior to its destruction and the creation of Outland as featured in Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, and World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Legendary characters of Warcraft's past, such as Grom Hellscream, Ner'zhul and Blackhand, will appear. At the end of Mists of Pandaria, Garrosh Hellscream is overthrown as Warchief of the Horde by a combined Alliance-Horde force and taken into custody by the Pandaren so that he can stand trial for the atrocities he committed in Pandaria. However, before he can…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world.

Where it sits in the Warcraft series

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor is the 26th of 69 entries we hold in the Warcraft series. The next entry was Hearthstone: Goblins vs Gnomes in 2014. Its critic score of 88 is 8 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: Warlords of Draenor holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Players rate it 80, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor launched on 13 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.

Cheats and codes

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When did World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor come out?
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor was released on 13 November 2014 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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