PC Role Playing Games

World of Warcraft – often abbreviated to WOW, is not just a roleplaying game for PC but actually falls into the sub-category of  Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game – or MMORPG. This means the player does not just roleplay alone, as was the case with early pc games of this genre – the player interacts with many other players online in a perpetual world. As of October 2008 World Of Warcraft had 11,000 million subscribers making it the larget MMORPG in history – although it is important to note that WOW runs on many servers and thata  player will not be online interacting with all subscribed gamers at once!

World of Warcraft was created by Blizzard Games and is the fourth game in the “Warcraft” series.  The series started with the original Warcraft which was a real time strategy game (RTS) – not a role playing game. Warcraft II and Warcraft III followed and both exhibited the RTS style of play – typically top down, resource and army management types of play. It was World of Warcraft that broke the mold and took blizzard fully into the RPG game world. Although Diablo I and II are also produced by Blizzard, and can be classed as RPG, they are not what purists would consider a full immersive RPG as the options for  character development are somewhat limited by comparison.

Although World Of Warcrawft is PC based it is important to note that the game requires an internet connection to be played and that the environment is not based on the users PC but in teh perpetual world controlled by the server. In this way the game developers can create new regions in the virtual perpetual world, putting in new challenges for role players to overcome and new treaures and bounty for the gamers to find. For many players the World Of Warcraft has become an addictive  second life – some even claiming it is preferable to the real world!

A key part of any roleplaying game is “Leveling” you character but this can be difficult and extremely time consuming. Obviously for many this is all part of the fun but for those who want fast track their progress a MMORPG Leveling Guide can help.

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