This isn't a game you play, it's an ordeal you overcome-one that binds players together through adversity and pain. It reminds me a lot of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind-an engrossing and alien landscape that hasn't spoiled with time. Enormous steampunk drainpumps heave and chug amid giant blue mushrooms in Zangarmarsh, while a giant moon wreathed in magical wisps hangs over the pastoral hills of Nagrand.

Outlands is the first time Blizzard's imagination really ran wild in Warcraft, and the result is a spectacular mix of fantasy and science fiction.

But I could definitely do without waiting five minutes for a specific monster to respawn because someone killed it seconds before I got there. Seeing that colossal Fel Reaver stomping across the blood-red fields of Hellfire Peninsula, murdering any player who ventures too close, is still cool as hell. It's fun to return to this antiquated version of Warcraft and discover so many facets that have remained timeless and fun-and commiserate about those that aren't.

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