WarCraft Archive | Blizzard Entertainment, Richard A. Knaak

WarCraft Archive | Blizzard Entertainment, Richard A. Knaak | First-time reader of game-based novel

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WarCraft Archive

	WarCraft Archive Blizzard Entertainment, Richard A. Knaak Pocket, 2006 - 624 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I play WoW so I am bias

All 10million users of World of Warcraft should read these books! It should be mandatory reading, for the pure simple fact of making the online world we play in richer. Blizzard has created an amazing world with an in-depth history, these books (there are 4 books in the Archive) will provide more in-sight and change the way you look at some of the NPC and locations.

While reading these books you will find yourself thinking about locations you have played in during questing, you will go to the website to look up the world map so you can picture where the characters are at. You will love them, and you will want to buy all the WoW books, I have.

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First-time reader of game-based novel

I only recently started playing WoW at the request of a fellow brother Mason. I previously played Guild Wars for three years. I started reading this book when my character was under level 20. It gave me a lot of background information about the world setting and events that happened outside of those in WC3 and WC3:TFT.

Right from the very first page, I was taken aback at the quality and detail of the writing. The one thing that makes the Warcraft world so enjoyable is the easy to remember names. Add in vivid descriptions of a fantasy world and you have the makings of a great story.

This particular edition contains four seperate stories. The first is pre-Horde and the next three are tales of characters and stories you can interact with in-game.

I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the stories of the Warcraft world.

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Over all, a good collection for warcraft fans.

Here is how I would list each of the stories in this collection:

Day of the Dragon: 3/5
Lord of the Clans: 5/5 (farvorite of the group)
The Last Guardian: 4/5
Of Blood and Honor: 4/5

If you have played the Warcraft games before, then you'll enjoy this collection. Great back story as to what was happening before, during and after key moments in the Warcraft Mythology (ex. Thrall's ascension to Warchief, creation of the Dark Portal). Also, it is interesting to see what famous places were like before these events (ex. Stormwind per-Horde invasion, Stratholm pre-Scourge). Though, at times it felt like the same old, 'humans good, orcs bad, elves are hot' routene. If you want to know the back story of WoW, you might be better off playing the older games. But as for story collections, it is deffenetly worth checking out. Hopefully someone will be insipred by these tales to write a Warcraft story more like WoW and less like Lord of the Rings, and I mean more liberal use of magic (most Mages in these stories are winded after basic spells) and the Horde and Alliance shown as equals. Plus more Female leads would be nice to see too.

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Whether you are a WarCraft game fan or not, these books are entertaining...

WarCraft Archive is a collection of four books published previously... three in book form, and the last as an e-book:

Day of the Dragon: The mage Rhonin finds himself on a mission to release one of the Dragon Aspects, and gets more than he expected...

Lord of the Clans: The orc Thrall finds there is more to life than being a gladiator slave for humans...

The Last Guardian: The last Guardian of Tirisfal, Medivh, discovered his parentage, and is distressed...

Of Blood and Honor: The Paladin Tirion Fordring finds an orc with honor, and is honorable in return, with drastic consequences...

These stories are pretty much stand alone stories. The strongest is the first, and the weakest (and shortest) is the last. Clearly they are related; the spirit of WarCraft flows throughout. I had read books one and three previously, but books two and four were new. This is a more economical way of buying the first three, and the four is only available in this volume (or online).

If you like the fantasy genre, with dragons, mages, orcs, and magic, then you should enjoy WarCraft Archive!

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Nice Anthology

I actually read the first three books individually before I got this anthology. Nevertheless, it is a fine collection of all four stories. These stories are well written and give a good history of the Warcraft world

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