World of Warcraft…

Well I’m sure that many of you will have read my review of Final Fantasy before, so it seems only right and fair that I start gearing up for a similar all-encompasing review of World of Warcraft (WOW)

First, I must confess that I am now a fully paid up player of this online phenomenon. I received a call from TS one day at work, which simply told me (not asked, told) that after I had picked her up we were off to Gamestation to buy 2 copies of WOW. I was less than enthusiastic, despite the excellent episode of South Park where they play it. I won’t go into details, just try to find it on YouTube or something. Dutifully, I did as told, and £30 later I was then proud owner of 2 copies of the same game (as required) and had taken the brave step of letting TS have my credit card details.

By way of a side note, letting her have my magic numbers has not always been successful. There was the time we ended up with 4 tickets to see War of the Worlds, courtesy of online cinema ticket sales and someone not paying attention. The other instance is even more entertaining. Without going into details, TS was going to set up a website that would make us millions thanks to redirecting people to other sites. Oh I don’t know how it was meant to work, I just try to keep her out of prison. Anyway, part of the site’s title was “Bargain.” The plan may have worked if someone hadn’t missed out the second “a.” This error was only identified after the registration fee for the site (whose name is not suitable for publication whether spelled correctly or not) had gone onto the Mastercard of doom.

Anyway, so on we cracked with installing the bugger. 6 discs of it… which TS managed to install on 2 machines at more or less the same time.

I don’t know enough about the game to give you all an update of all the character races and jobs, so at least that saves a few hours of typing for me. However, any player needs to select whether they will join the goodies (The Alliance, I think), or nasty scumbags called the Horde (again, I think)

I probably don’t need to say which way we both went!

I am now Raskolnicov… an undead rogue. To be honest, considering how little sleep I’ve had since getting the game, that is a fairly good description of how rough I look. TO explain, the name comes from the lead character from Crime and Punishment. He’s a law student, who kills a pawnbroker just to prove to himself that he is superior to other people. Read the book. The only downside is that TS can’t spell it.

So that we can play with each other from the outset (oh stop sniggering at the back), TS also picked undead for her race. However, in an attempt to prove that she’s Florence Nightingale she has become a priest. This means that once again, I have the joy of death by late healing spells!

I have to admit, I’ve really got into the game more than I thought I would. In fact, last night I was so stuck in that I almost took the laptop to bed with me to continue my current quests. I decided against that though… for the sake of my health and the fact I only had 6 hours before i had to get up as well.

Well expect more online highjinx soon kiddies… time to go n kill blue pig-dogs!

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