Blizzard has launched a brand new ‘Journey’ trailer for the approaching launch of the Wrath of the Lich King enlargement for WoW Basic, and it is wonderful—however not for the same old causes. After I consider Blizzard cinematics the primary thought that involves thoughts is the lavish CG spectacles that launched us to the world of Overwatch, or Diablo and Starcraft’s ludicrously OTT cutscenes. This one, nevertheless, is all in regards to the gamers.
There is a cause for that. The video was put collectively by Hurricane, a youtuber who specialises in making superior WoW trailers and has been doing so for a few years. However they’ve at all times been a fan creator, somebody beloved by the neighborhood however doing their very own factor, and that is their first fee from Blizzard.
What’s superior about this trailer is the way it encapsulates the build-up to the Lich King’s invasion of Azeroth, and builds pure hype by the usage of in-game fashions and actual gamers’ avatars. To be clear, it is a mixture of cinematic and what appears to be like like in-game fashions with HD textures, relatively than in-game footage, however a complete bunch of it has both been accomplished in-engine or made to look precisely prefer it has been, mimicking the motion of enormous teams of gamers as they scramble to defend Azeroth.
That’s finally why that is so good. Wrath is without doubt one of the most-beloved eras in WoW’s historical past: the dying knight class is wonderful, the quests are nice, and the storytelling is nearly as good as WoW ever bought (which is to say: superb). It’s an epic enlargement, and so lots of the nice moments from it, massive and small, get a number of seconds within the solar right here. It is a easy reminder of what an superior time WotLK was and can hopefully be once more, and makes you need to no-life it.
Wrath of the Lich King Basic releases on Monday 26 September and, after this, I am there.
