WOTLK Classic has some very slick production values WOTLK Gold. One of the biggest differences between WOTLK Classic and its predecessor is that the game now features a fully 3D graphics engine, and Blizzard uses it to good effect even in the game's menu screens, which are vibrantly colored and fully animated. The game provides many options for customizing graphical settings, but on a 1.1GHz system with 512MB of RAM and a GeForce4 Ti 4600, we've been able to run the game very smoothly with all the settings maxed out.

The game will of course be playable online via Blizzard's proprietary Battle.net service, which will feature automatic player-matching based on a player's relative skill and experience. Battle.net isn't up and running yet for WOTLK Classic, so we've spent most of our time forging through the game's campaign.

First off, we explored the game's skirmish mode, which lets the player and up to 11 computer opponents engage in an all-out free-for-all or compete in team-based matches. The game Warcraft with more than 40 different maps, from small ones suitable for two players to very large ones suitable for 12, and custom options can be adjusted to toggle whether or not all terrain is revealed from the get-go, to lock or unlock teams, and more.

However, there is no obvious option to adjust the difficulty level of the skirmish AI. Unfortunately, we haven't played against the AI in skirmish mode enough to gain a good sense of how challenging it is or whether it scales to the human player's skill level.

WOTLK Classic's campaign does let you adjust the difficulty, initially between normal and hard settings. If you lose a mission, you gain the option to buy WOW WOTLK Classic Gold play the mission in easy mode. Having played all of Blizzard's previous real-time strategy games, though, we found that the default normal difficulty mode is quite easy--at least initially.