World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Collector's Edition (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Collector's Edition

The Lich King Arthas has set in motion events that could lead to the extinction of all life on Azeroth. With the armies of the undead and the necromantic power of the plague threatening to sweep across the…

80 13 November 2008 ESRB T

What World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Collector's Edition is

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Collector's Edition is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2008. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

For years, the heroes of the Alliance and Horde have fought against the evils in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, against the demons of the Burning Legion in Outland, and against each other - all the while unaware that a threat more dangerous than any they had yet encountered was preparing to make its move in the icy continent of Northrend. Now the Lich King, Arthas Menethil, has emerged from Icecrown Citadel to claim the world as his own. Heroes of the Alliance and Horde gather in Northrend to make a stand against the malevolent being that dares to declare himself Azeroth's one true king...and seeks to scour all life from the world.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Warcraft series

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Collector's Edition is the 15th of 69 entries we hold in the Warcraft series. The next entry was World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King: Secrets of Ulduar in 2009. 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: Wrath of the Lich King - Collector's Edition holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - Collector's Edition launched on 13 November 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead.

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