Fantasy Flight releases World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game
by Mike Schramm 
Jul 30th 2008 at 4:30PM
As WoW's main page notes, World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game has been released by Fantasy Flight games. They're also the makers of the Warcraft board game, but apparently they decided there was more of the experience to translate into boardgame form. This boardgame has you controlling just one character, not a full army, and navigating through the Eastern Continent, hacking and slashing (against both enemies and other players -- PvP was given a focus in this one) and leveling up all the way. There are currently four classes that come with the game: Warrior, Hunter, Mage and Warlock (no healers?), and we'd expect that more will be on the way in future expansions.
Early reviews at BoardGameGeek (am I showing my nerdiness by saying that I frequent BoardGameGeek to read about some of my favorite boardgames?) have it at about 7/10, which isn't bad. But just like all of these licensed boardgames, just because you're a fan of WoW doesn't necessarily mean you'll be able to jump right in and have just as much fun with rolling dice and playing cards.
The new game will set you back a retail price of $39.95 (cheaper if you hunt around), and is available now.
Filed under: Hunter, Mage, Warlock, Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Odds and ends, Blizzard
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
vlad Jul 30th 2008 5:50PM
is this a machinema?
Terrant Jul 30th 2008 5:51PM
I'm surprised WoW doesn't have a Monopoly or Clue tie-in yet.
Theadrick Jul 30th 2008 9:38PM
Talisman meets Warcraft. Interesting... I may check this one out.
gaz Jul 30th 2008 6:25PM
Just a note about the BGG ratings - 7/10 is actually quite good (the highest-rated game at BGG is rated 8.29, and only 5 games are rated over 8). WoW: The Adventure Game doesn't have enough individual ratings yet to get on the all-time list, but if it continues to be rated the way it is, it will easily enter the top 150 games (out of over 4600 rated on BGG).
phlipy Jul 31st 2008 8:00AM
@Mike:
Mentioning the boardgamegeek.com does not only demonstrate your nerdiness but also qualifies you as a good guy!
Note that four expansion-packs each containing one of the missing classes (leaving out the priest) and some other cards are already announced. For some reason the game is available in Germany for several weeks and I like it quite a lot: plays fast, is accesable, has some player-interaction, WoW-flavour
Rassia Jul 31st 2008 7:51AM
but... there already is a WoW board game. I won it. The board centers on Eastern Plaguelands, is intended for 6 players, with 3v3 Alliance/Horde competing to win either by a PvE objective, or by killing each other at the end of the game.
Rassia Jul 31st 2008 7:53AM
*own* it. Own, not won. Dangit.