WoW: Shadowlands has possessing gorgeous art direction with novel ideas

The eighth expansion pack for Blizzard’s popular MMORPG doesn’t have the sweeping tone of 2016’s Legion nor the subtle character of something like 2018’s Battle for Azeroth. Nevertheless, Shadowlands manages to build nicely on the latter’s shift towards making World of Warcraft a more modern online gaming experience.

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands starts out impressive, possessing gorgeous art direction with novel ideas, a compelling main questline, and a side of the Warcraft universe we’ve never witnessed. It felt especially invigorating after the Battle for Azeroth expansion, which was rather uninspired.

As of Update 9.0.1 (the Shadowlands pre-expansion patch), Battle for Azeroth has been merged into the base game, and an active subscription is all you’ll need to access the expansion (assuming you’ve bought the base game of course). Anyone who purchased it just prior to this update will likely be a touch salty, but the move makes sense. Legion was added to the base game in a similar manner when Battle for Azeroth came out, and seeing as BfA is the intended leveling expansion for levels 10 to 50 for all new players it would have been odd for the expansion to remain locked behind a purchase.

Despite the high-concept pitch of a WoW expansion where you traverse these various afterlives, Shadowlands often feels less like Flatliners and more like Magic: The Gathering. It feels like Blizzard have taken the concept of infinite afterlives as a license to really go wild and bring to life new locations, characters and mechanics that might be difficult to squeeze into the otherwise already-dense setting of Azeroth.

And to make matters worse, the Covenant Campaign isn’t fun. It often encourages players to revisit spots of the world they’ve already been to, and not in ways that show you new sides of old areas. The Night Fae campaign even takes you back to a Battle for Azeroth (the previous expansion) zone. This felt like a total waste of time, especially when considering how much grinding and waiting around players have to do for mediocre questlines.

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