World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Preview

The guys at Pro-G have conjured up the latest hands-on preview of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion pack.

As a Draenei, you start at level one waking up among wreckage of the space ship Exodar, which has crashed on Azuremyst Isle – an island just off the Night Elf area Darkshire in North Kalimdor. Much of the land is forested and mountainous, with lush dark greens everywhere. Power crystals are littered throughout the area, scattered from the explosion of the crash. They have corrupted the local fauna and driven previously passive animals mad. Smoke billows from ship wreckage. The odd bolt of electrical energy sparks across the sky. It’s a convincing and absorbing effort from Blizzard and unlike any starting area in the entire game.