World of Warcraft Preview & In-Game Footage

Just RPG is offering up a preview of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, in addition to some in-game footage from the recent stress test beta. Here’s a snip from the article:

Thus far in the WoW development process, I’ve kept a hands-off attitude. I’ve done the fanboy approach to a couple previous MMOs, constantly reading the updates and trolling the boards daily. For WoW I’ve decided to keep my head in the sand, so to speak, so as much of the content will be as new as it can be.

My situation was fairly unique for the stress test. The stress test started on Thursday the prior to Labor Day, and I was once again scheduled to leave town on Tuesday after Labor Day. This pretty much meant that I had to pack every possible bit of playtime that I could before leaving Tuesday morning. As such I decided to limit myself to 1 character, and stick with that and take it as far as I could, again to keep as much of the game feeling (fresh) when I went to launch.

I ended up settling for an Orc Warrior. The lands are immediately familiar to anyone who’s played Warcraft 3, especially if you’ve done the bonus campaign, which was included in the Frozen Throne expansion I think, called (The Founding of Durotar). The Orc lands are in the badlands bordering the sea.