Product Description

Experience the World of Warcraft! World of Warcraft is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. Being "Massively Multiplayer," World of Warcraft allows thousands of players to interact within the same world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory. And now, World of Warcraft and its Expansion Pack "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" are combined in one package with additional items!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #410 in Video Games
• Brand: Blizzard Entertainment
• Model: 020626726191
• Released on: 2007-10-02
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platforms: Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows
• Dimensions: 2.50 pounds

Features

• Includes both the World of Warcraft base sku and the Burning Crusade expansion pack
• Official Battle Chest strategy guides: one for Burning Crusade and one for World of Warcraft
• Game manuals
• WOW guest pass (14-day trial)
• Blizzard catalog included

Customer Reviews

Useful especially for adding a new account for a family member.
I bought this for my son, since I had only bought him WoW without the expansion.
With the assumption that you've decided you want to play WoW, all the way through to lvl 70, this is the pack for you. You get WoW and expansion, which would cost 50 bucks if bought separately. You also get two strategy guides, but the strategy guide for the expansion (see my review for it here World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Official Strategy Guide (World of Warcraft)) is terribly lacking, so we're really looking at one valuable guide, one crappy guide. What you also get, and not even the box mentions this, is the game on DVD! Oh, how many times I've installed and reinstalled the original WoW on multiple computers at home and at my friends place, swapping disks. Well, no more! Unless you were lucky and bought the original Collector's edition World of Warcraft Collector's Edition and World Of Warcraft Burning Crusade Collector's Edition, you're stuck with 4 CDs each instead of 1 DVD.
Overall, I would buy (in fact, I did).

Suprisingly addictive
I got this after doing a free 10 day trial from Blizzard. After about 3-4 days of the trial I was pretty hooked and decided it was worth the money to get the full version of the game. (Very limited differences in the trial version so it's definitely worth testing out before you buy the full version.)

I'm not usually into long play games like this, but after seeing a bunch of different things about the game (including a very funny South Park episode) I decided to check into it a bit further.

I will say the game is much more fun if you can play with people you know, but you don't have to. I've found almost every person I've met in the game to be very helpful and understanding to new players so it makes it easy to get into the game and get what you want out of it.

I'd encourage people to definitely do the trial software and see how you like it, but I'm confident most people that play video games will find some portion of this entertaining.

Battlechest is good value for your money
If you are thinking about starting World of Warcraft (WoW) then it won't be long before you will want the upgrade burning crusades so I recomend just getting the Battle chest because you will save money and get an additional two books. If you are unsure about playing the game you can always download the 10 day free trial software to see if you like the game but be warned that this is a huge game and will take a long time to download (>4 gig.