World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Reviews

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is ranked in the 71st percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Aug 21, 2018

Predictably, as is always the way with an MMO, this is very early days for Battle for Azeroth. There's a world of promise here, and scratching the surface will quickly draw you in.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2018

Battle for Azeroth, despite the endless grind, has been an exciting expansion this far. However, raids and additional content are what makes the game great. Blizzard has made the entry level into the new expansion welcoming for new players and some die-hard critics have shared their concerns with the current direction Blizzard are going with making the gaming "easier."

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Unscored
Aug 18, 2018

Battle for Azeroth is off to a weak start. The new zones are beautiful, to be sure, but the climatic introduction cinematic and quests lead into a whole lot of cliché and not a lot of action. If the War has come back to Warcraft, well …I've not seen it.

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7.5 / 10.0
Aug 24, 2018

So far, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is a solid addition to the long-running MMORPG. Currently, I am trying to increase my item level so I can be ready for the raid in a few weeks. The grind to do that is a long one, requiring a lot of time that not a lot of people have. It is the one crux of this game. When you start World of Warcraft, you have to stay committed. If you're serious about playing and want to enter the raid on the first day of release, missing just one day is a loss of progress. However, if you do commit and you have a group of people to play with, as it is right now, Battle for Azeroth has plenty of content for you to enjoy with a lot more to come.

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7.5 / 10.0
Sep 17, 2018

Battle for Azeroth plays it safe, but that's ultimately its advantage. The true war will come and I'll be waiting impatiently. This expansion has a ton of potential that is still to be realized. And I'm sure Blizzard will do just that.

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5 / 10.0
Sep 4, 2018

Battle for Azeroth doesn't bring much else in terms of brand new content.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 11, 2018

Battle for Azeroth may feel a bit safe in places, and a little bland in others – but the exciting elements are by far enough to overshadow these minor gripes

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MMOGames
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
Sep 19, 2018

All in all, Battle For Azeroth is in all things a true expansion to Warcraft; it is a continuation, a plateau for the game to simply continue existing.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 13, 2018

Battle for Azeroth it's a huge and entertaining expansion, which relies on combat, PvE, PvP, and character development. Hovewer, best is yet to come.

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Leif Johnson
Top Critic
Aug 27, 2018

As the millions of people still streaming into the game show, if Blizzard sees Battle for Azeroth as a struggle to keep our hearts and interest, it's clearly already won.

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5 / 10.0
Aug 29, 2018

Unless Blizzard has some real story shake-ups and a phenomenally tuned raid on the horizon, I'm honestly expecting the sharpest player decrease to set in within the next few months. The expansion itself has some interesting ideas, but sticking to a World Quest grindfest is quickly becoming the norm, and the Island Expeditions aren't exactly exciting.

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7 / 10.0
Aug 25, 2018

Battle for Azeroth is off to a solid start, but Blizzard has a lot to improve if they want to win the war.

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8.5 / 10.0
Aug 25, 2018

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth delivers the best storytelling and world design yet, but doesn't make any additional significant improvements to the World of Warcraft formula.

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8 / 10.0
Oct 23, 2018

Battle for Azeroth is another try of Blizzard to keeep World of Warcraft players online. And it is not bad at all.

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9 / 10.0
Sep 27, 2018

To be repetitive or not to be. If like the writer of this review you are one of the people who only experienced World of Warcraft: Legion for a short time or skipped it entirely then World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is an amazing experience and you will surely enjoy the smallest of the details, but if you had enough of your share of Legion and want something more then Battle for Azeroth can disappoint you.

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7 / 10.0
Sep 19, 2018

In the end, Battle for Azeroth makes some great improvements in the levelling experience, but faults in its class design and the less rewarding Azerite system mean that overall, it takes too many steps back from Legion.

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8.5 / 10.0
Sep 16, 2018

And for those sitting on the fence about whether or not to jump into the action again, there's only one thing I can say: Battle for Azeroth is the perfect opportunity to come back to World of Warcraft. I have to give the folks at Blizzard credit for pouring their hearts and souls into the game once again, it definitely shows.

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Jamie Sherlock
8.5 / 10.0
Sep 24, 2018

There is just so much to do, with more content being added regularly I think that Battle for Azeroth has me firmly in its grasp.

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9 / 10.0
Aug 23, 2018

While War of Thorns left a bad taste for many, the expansion proper has been a delight. Some quests have questionable writing and the tropes from previous expansions rear their heads in places, but the dungeon and levelling experience is great. Depending on where the story goes, this expansion could end up near the top.

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