Mass Effect 2, followed super closely by Starcraft.
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What's up Giant Bomb readers? My dad recently got an invite from Blizzard to participate in the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta (he was randomly selected from all those who opted into the beta), and as a result I have been able to start exploring the work Blizzard has done so far on the expansion. I am going to blog a bit here on Giant Bomb about my experience with the beta, and give some insight on what I think about the changes and new content Blizzard is adding. Hopefully I can provide some interesting text coverage of the beta, as well as some of my own screen shots.
Also, this can be anyone who is reading this' opportunity to get first hand info about Cataclysm! Post a comment or send a PM if any of you have questions about the beta or want me to cover specific zones or whatever else you are curious about.
This blog entry is going to be about my journey's to discover the 5 man instance Blackrock Caverns with my dad's level 80 troll priest. I choose to first mess around with his priest as it has substantial gear and I play one myself on retail. After downloading the game as well as various patches and copying the priest over to a test realm, I was ready to start exploring the plethora of new content Blizzard has added as well as the extensive revisions that have been added to vanilla wow. Spawning in Dalaran, I chose to enter the portal going to Orgrimmar as a starting point, and was immediately blown away with what had been changed in the large, horde city.
This journey to Blackrock Mountain was made much simpler due to the fact that you can now use flying mounts in the old world. It seems a little weird at first, but it quickly becomes apparent that flying in the old pre- Burning Crusade content is a great addition that is only getting added now instead of earlier because of prior technical limitations with the old content. Even though I was able to speed along on my flying carped, I had to change continents in order to make it to Blackrock Mountain, so I took the Orgrimmar zeppelin to the Undercity, and then began my flight across the Eastern Kingdoms. On my way, I discovered various changes to many familiar zones which were for the most part interesting and exciting. My observations are in no way definitive, as I didn't fly meticulously over all of each zone, but it should give you a good idea of the direction that Blizzard is going in with this expansion.
I flew over Hillsbrad, which seems largely unchanged except for Tarren Mill's own Northrend architecture remake. Tarren Mill now has a handful large towers with four spotlights each which browse around as if looking for enemies attempting to infiltrate the town, and other familiar architectural attributes of Northrend forsaken settlements. Overall, the new town looks awesome, and perhaps the spotlights are Blizzard's sarcastic nod to all of the low level horde player killing that happens in Tarren Mill and Hillsbrad as a whole. If you can see an Alliance coming because of illumination from a spotlight, you are that much more likely to survive...
Thanks for reading, sorry it was so long, hopefully it was informative. If anyone has any questions I'll try to answer them. Is there any specific part of the beta that people would like to see me explore? I'm going to try and not overlap Rorcraft as much as possible in what I explore. I think I'm going to try the Blackrock instance, then probably mess around with a Goblin or a Worgen, and what I have seen so far has got my hopes up!
Here are some screen shots I took
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