Gaming Steve: World of Warcraft: The Board Game Now Shipping

December 07, 2005

World of Warcraft: The Board Game Now Shipping

I just got off the phone with the guys at Fantasy Flight games and they have confirmed that the highly anticipated World of Warcraft: The Board Game is now shipping and should arrive in stores as early as this Friday.

For those unfamiliar with Fantasy Flight they released the extremely popular Doom: The Boardgame last year and make some of highest quality boardgames around. The WOW Boardgame looks to impress check out these stats:

Play as one of 16 heroes from nine classes and eight races, advance your character and gather treasure, battle thirteen different types of monsters, and ultimately challenge one of three invincible Overlords.

Build your character up from level 1 up to level 5 (the equivalent to level 60 in the online game) all the while increasing your character's stats, abilities, talents, and equipment.

The game box weights more than 10 pounds(!) and contains nearly 1000 components including 16 sculpted Heroes of the Horde and the Alliance, 120 plastic monsters, and hundreds upon hundreds of cards and cardboard tokens.

Considering the impressive size (did I mention the box weights 10 pounds?) and scope of this game (games are reported to take 3-9 hours to play) I would say that it comes pretty close to convening the MMORPG experience in board game form. The game can be played by 2-6 people and retails for $79.95 ... anyone up for a game?

Posted by Gaming Steve at 01:30 PM | Comments (11) | Posted to MMORPG |

Comments

If it's successful, maybe they'll make it into a computer game!

Posted by Michael G. Shapiro at December 7, 2005 05:32 PM

Every tuesday the board game is locked away for maintenance.

Every few weeks Blizzard will issue some new cards that require you to return the old ones.

Posted by Dare at December 7, 2005 05:37 PM

I have a friend whose parents banned him and his sister from World of Warcraft because it "played too big an aspect in their lives." Wouldn't this make a great Christmas gift...

Posted by Max at December 7, 2005 07:10 PM

Crack Lite.

Posted by Deep Lee at December 8, 2005 03:35 AM

I remember the unholyness of Evercrack, my social life took a heavy blow, so I haven't even considered buying WOW.

Posted by psilontech at December 8, 2005 10:36 AM

I'm up for a game old man, no wait I believe that should now be older man. Let me know when I can come over and play or do I have to stop at the Compleat Strategist first.

Posted by ratkillers at December 8, 2005 12:45 PM

what was that boardgame that was popular ten years ago or so...? HeroQuest? No, not that... something Hero I think. or Quest. I dunno. something like that... I remember playing that way back in the day. someone had to be the 'dngeon master' or whatever.

Posted by Deep Lee at December 8, 2005 03:32 PM

I remember there was a little controversy over it, some kid commited suiced and everyone blamed the game or something, I think he jumped thinking he could fly or some BS like that...

Posted by Deep Lee at December 8, 2005 03:35 PM

Yeah, that was Heroquest. It was a decent game, with 10 levels and multiple expansions. I have one still floating around my parents house somewhere.

Posted by Thaddeus McMonster at December 9, 2005 03:38 PM

Deep Lee, yes, he jumped and died. Which first of all doesn't even seeing as how jumping from heights HURTS (and, yes, kills) you in WoW.

Secondly, he committed suicide before WoW was even released.

Posted by RealmRPGer at December 10, 2005 11:35 PM

SUCKS GINEZ

Posted by BEN DOVER at April 20, 2006 10:55 AM