I'm a bit confused about the trailer. It's neat, has a meaning especially if you've played WC3 and WC3TFT but atleast I thought that he summoned Sapphiron from under the ice. But then again, I dunno.

Aldriel

Now if only the game made you feel like the trailer did. It's too bad that the game lacks a tight story line that would make it feel more like a movie or book. I played wow for a long time and it's just a grind fest now. The trailer was awesome as usual.

radink

A little meh. Would like to have seen something I hadn't seen before.

DissmalScientist

@taftsearlobe33: I can't personally think any game company that is able to compete even near Blizzard or Square-Enix. Dedicated animation houses are certainly in same league, like Blur Studio (author of recent Warhammer and Hellgate: London cinematics for example), but no other game studios.

ara

In all honesty i didnt expect this trailer to have loads of action and whatnot, it fits the theme. I think Burning Crusade introduced a hell of alot more things that they could show in the trailer than Lich King does, not to say that they couldn't have shown other stuff. I just think done enough...its all about the king.
But still, MMO wise i think Guild Wars Factions has the best CG opening i've ever seen.

Aaronosuke

Very pretty. Don't like high-fantasy and I don't like MMOs, but I do like eye-candy.

Respect to Blizzard.

elevenoverzero

@Voteforme2020:
I'm still waiting for at least one gnome to show up in these cinematics. DAMN YOU BLIZZARD, give us gnomes!

As for the trailer itself. Visually it's as good as you can expect from Blizzard, but there wasn't much exciting stuff going on. :/

Zhal

ONe thing though... poor gnomes, not int he first trailer not in the second and still no Gnomes... To bad I don't like Gnomes otherwise I would cry with em :D.

Dehnus

@Cats:
Arthas himself is semi gone, This is the Lich King, an old and tortured soul of an Orc. Who is so frightened by the Legion (and for good reasons) that he pretty much took over Arthas's body and sealed himself off at any cost.

But granted Blizzard is a bit unclear about this whole thing, keeping the two confused and using them both through onother. Ner'zhul (Lich King) basically is scared beyond reason for the Burning Legion, and if you know what they did to him. You begin to understand the Orc a bit.

Dehnus

yeah I think this was the best trailer, since it had emotional impact, forget random orcs and elves fighting, this had meaning to you(if you played WW3)

AvocadoOverboard

Disappointing. I enjoyed it, don't get me wrong, Arthas is kickass, but I was hoping for something more....diverse.

Dovien

...epic

Cufol33tcat

I don't know why everyone wants the trailer to be all pew pew. We've got Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 trailers to look forward to for awesomeness. This is a perfect intro to Arthas for the large portion of WoW players who have no idea who he is.

Cats

@ara: other companies have caught up with Blizz quality of renders now. there is no longer a huge gap between blizzards cinemas and others. Don't get me wrong they are still good but they are not so far ahead of everyone else, everyone else is on par with Blizz.

Now the only thing that separates Blizz cinematics from others is the cinematography.

taftsearlobe33

Wow...that was bland.Whoever wrote the script for that should be fired on the spot.
The technique was top notch but the rest?Falls far behind the new WAR and DoW2 cinematics.

Chibirazi

@Rexter: What?

The trailer was definitely chilling since you get to hear the old King's voice. Makes me want to play WC3 again.

ServiceMaster

Ya! Zap a rutty! Dig it! Too bad WOW costs a lot over here:(

surft

I am always impressed with WoW's cinematics. They some of the most compelling and beautiful things the eye can behold. This is going to be an awesome expansion.

Killer_WaLrUs

The cinematic was thematic but it does feel more like a trailer than an opening cinematic. It lacks some sense of conflict. The original cinematic had the various races and classes fighting, while the cinematic for the Burning Crusade had Illidan directly challenging the players and featured the Dranei and Blood Elves in conflict as well.

It's a nice movie and considering most players will only see it once or twice it's a little irrelevant whether it feels like a trailer or not.

One last thought I had was the outcropping of ice in the giant chasm, why is there always an outcropping of some kind for people to conveniently stand on above a hoard of soldiers or monsters? They sure must be prime real-estate...

hikaizer

@kadaj_sama: They *are* making a movie, together with Legendary Pictures (300, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight). It will feature live action actors, and will be set about a year before WoW, telling a primarily Alliance PoV story.

One teaser image has been released, a concept illustration of Teldrassil, home of the night elves:

[images.wikia.com]

Suzaku

Very good cenematic but I thought we were going to see some "action" like the other trailers. The narration for this one was the best. The other two left much more excitement though after the action.

R3load

And the battle between Blizzard and Square-Enix for the title of best rendered video games continues fierce. Simply amazing quality.

ara

If world of warcraft was a singleplayer game, i would play it.

Rexter

feels more like a teaser then an actual opening trailer. I guess this also means they are reusing the same model for the Frost Wyrmn in game. Honestly I think out of the 3 WoW trailers this comes in third

1st Original WoW trailer (that one is just great and really captures the world)
2nd BC
3rd Lich King

taftsearlobe33

Another cinematic where we don't see gnomes -_- and by far the most boring cinematic yet.

Anaralia

Gamevideos needs to get new servers. Their player is always too slow to bother using. It buffers every 5 seconds!

will

@ruslander: maybe they should just make a full length movie.
hell i think it would be kinda awesome.

kadaj_sama

Looks great....in cinematics, but actual gameplay, bleh.

Mr.DuckSauce

@willsueforfood: Completely agree. I watched this entire trailer sitting and waiting for "the good stuff", but it never came. No action, no drama, no Gnomes! I get that this is suppose to reflect a move narrative-driven WTLK, but it's not their best work.

Voteforme2020

Looks freaking awesome.
I must resist temptation to pick up WoW again...

Horusz

What an amazing cinematic, visually. The little things always stun me the most, like when he wipes the snow away with his hand. That kind of stuff always looks slightly clumsy to me, but in this it was perfect. Blizzard has perfected the life-like human motion in cinematics, I think.

ruslander

@willsueforfood: OK, not Dragon, Wyrm. Whatevs, like I said, not a WoW guy. Still awesome possum though.

The Magnificen7

Still won't play WOW ever again.

crescentia

I totally disagree. This cinematic seemed bland. Go back and look at the Burning Crusade cinematic - it was urgent, pompous, exciting, lots of cuts, swelling music, and, again, a sense of urgency.

Arthas takes an hour and a half to summon a frost wyrm and we see the Scourge. We've seen all this before.

Bland.

willsueforfood

Wow, awesome ...

MKLOL

Simba?

Heisindc

Wow.

PyramidKazoo

Mmmm, shiny!

NiceMissMayonnaise

Pretty fucking badass. It's a shame I don't play WoW. Maybe I should start. No! No! I won't, need to have ... life. But did you see that dragon?!? FUCKING EPIC!

The Magnificen7

@tylerstyle: Graphics are overrated. I notice that a lot of the newer MMORPGs have fairly high-end graphics, but all have really generic-looking environments and characters without any real personality. Blizzard takes what they have and really puts it to good use designing unique environments and characters. Howling Fjord, for example, blows just about all other MMORPG environments I've seen away.

Suzaku

Meh

Spootythegameguru

It's still an awesome trailer, but it's a shame there wasn't action like in the others. Also, needs more Arthas speaking. Arthas is certified badass.

Aye Mak Sicur

@Dehnus: According to Metzen, they are perfectly merged into one single being, neither Ner'zhul or Arthas any longer, but rather, the Lich King.

He is also, interestingly, basically a perfect hybrid of the old Horde death knights (orc souls transplanted into human bodies) and the Scourge death knights (fallen paladins allied to the Scourge).

Suzaku

Now. If WoW would only look a quarter as good as this trailer. Maybe I would still play it. But today? As it is? It is completely out dated. For me anyway.

tylerstyle

Man, so awesome.

I can't really afford to play World of Warcraft right now....quick! Someone reel me back in! HURRY!

SolidEyeSystem

I'm totally over WoW but I still love seeing the cinematics and new insights to the lore they produce now and then. The lore is really one of the best things about it.

Reikoku

isn't that dragon supposed to be the undead resurection of the dragon from before burning crusade wow end-game. Nefarian from blackwing lair I believe.

Morgoth

@Dehnus:

They are one and the same. They were from the moment he put on the helmet. They wouldn't have put in the whole king talking thing if he wasn't still Arthas in some major form. The Lich King can't survive without Arthas, and Arthas doesn't want to abandon the power he has found.

If you recall, the Lich King was going to "die" due to a crack in his little glacier in the end of TFT, and this directly affected Arthas and his abilities.

Cats

Impressive as always; because Blizzard are so good at doing cinematics I recall all my friends feeling cheated at the end of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne with the Illidan and Arthas fight. This ranks up there with the Hellscream vs Mannoroth job they pulled in Reign of Chaos in terms of ability to impress.

Ladi

@pulyx:

Thats the best part. Damn Gnomes...

Kaljin

How does Blizzard always make winning CG cutscenes? I can't figure out their secret. You could make a movie with that level of quality.

Quicksilver4648

@ara:
go watch WAR's official trailer that just came out :p

Hisdon

and as an addendum to that, Arthas is NOT the dominate personality. their minds are perfectly merged, it's just that no one knows ner'zuhl is in their.

Nyright

gnomes suck.

Nyright

@Dehnus: "But granted Blizzard is a bit unclear about this whole thing"

Actually no they have not, Metzen himself said the two merged and no longer are considered individuals as they were, but that Arthas is the dominate personality, thus the creature still goes by the name, Arthas.

It is why Blizzard calls him The Lich King, Arthas.

As for the cinematic, I love it. Yes it didn't have rapid action, and I agree the ending could have had more of a climax then it did, but I don't care, it looks amazing and sent chills down my spine, seeing Arthas again being the badass he is.

ScytheRexx

Needs more gnomes.

Inferno-X

Fucking awesome.

haha and hey
lookit
NO GNOMES!
HAHAHAHHA

pulyx

@will: Yar. I much prefer GameTrailers. For this video I went straight to the Blizzard site before wasting any time with the GV player.

[www.worldofwarcraft.com]

BTW, the trailer was epic. Blizzard's cutscenes are always phenomenal. Great visuals, script, and music. The trailer doesn't make me feel like playing WoW, though. Nothing can. Can't wait for StarCraft 2!

Crawl to China

Yep. Awesomeness. They need to get the lead out on that movie thing though. This trailer looks like it may have been done with a little help from the Legendary Pictures folks. Just a guess.

avconsumer2

The new Warhammer cinematic destroys this.

[mythicmktg.fileburst.com]

Why have they not posted it? It makes no sense.

mazz

@Morgoth: Think it's Sapphiron. Arthas could have conceivably resurrected him after Naxx. I don't see how it could be Nef and it would be really weird if it was.

Reikoku

Oh man, Blizz will be taking more of my money, I suppose.

Telecinision

@Gavbot: I'm tired of all the people who love to bash wow's ultra "less is more" art style. If it was cel-shaded Prince of Persia, you'd call it amazing, groundbreaking. Wow does not have bad graphics - they just do a heck of a lot more with 1 polygon than some designers do with millions. The simplicity of the graphical layout is what makes the seamlessness of the world, the social interaction, and the gameplay so much fun. They are also very tricky and cohesive with things like horizon lines, sky, and view distance. No matter where you make your character dwell or stand in the wow universe, it has small or large background elements which make it feel like you're looking at a drawing or a painting. I call that awesome.

Mohican

Only Blizzard can pump me up so thoroughly even when I know that I will never experience any of that content, and the game still looks like crap.

Damn you, and your incredibly talented animation team!

Damn you!

Gavbot

they should really consider making a short flick or a movie...

it's been so long since i played wc3, but man this really brings back memories. i kinda like how it plays out with the narrative.

hopefully the boss fight with arthas is epic... though i wished it wasn't (assuming it is) a raid boss since i've been long disconnected from wow that i just have none of the gear everyone else gets from all the other raids and arenas.

phrequency

@mazz:

That website can't stream for shit.

Cats

@Eruanno:

I believe you meant 'from awesome to awegasmic'.

AlbenoEpiX

Meh. Lots of CPU cycles wasted on a guy walking around on snow. Yeah the voice over was very dramatic and it plays up the lofty emo-osity of Arthas but as far as a CGI cinematic it leaves quite a bit to be desired.

Why?

Because most of that could be done with conventional film making. Animation shines when it does that which cannot be realized by another medium.

Its still high quality and the animation of the frost wyrm is nice, but I was expecting more from the full trailer..like maybe showing off player races and actual snippets of highly stylized content

qhue

@mazz: The WAR cinematic is great, but the quality is nowhere near as intense. Look at the physics of some of the one on one fights, and the general amount of lighting/animation detail.

Mohican

@Ken: The hope for another RTS is the only reason i still keep tabs on the lore of WarCraft, but their opening cinematcs are always more than enough to stand on their own.

KilOMisFit

The original Dawn of War opening cinematic is still #1 in my book.

sh0tgunn0strils

Two words:
Awe-some.

Of course, all Blizzard cinematics range from awesome to awesome.

Eruanno

And the gnomes get overlooked for any cinematic face-time yet again ><. Damnit blizz, some of us like that race...

Other than that, totally agree that it's rather bland for an opening cinematic. "GREAT, looks awesome... scuse me while I hope that I'm in the top 5-10 percent that'll actually see content that relates to it :S".

daemonx2

If only they wuold make a single player rpg going over the storyline of WoW, I would totally be down for it. Or another RTS once this is all said and done.

I don't wanna play WoW.

Ken

The gnomes are there, you just can't see 'em because they're in the belly of the wyrm.

tk.

Man, I loved Warcraft 3. Oh how I miss those days.

-Bass4TheFace-

i liked it. never really liked the cinematic from the original, and i can't even remember what the Burning crusade's was like (couldn't have left much of an impression then). but this one was nice.

Haingis

I have to say... it's ok as a cinematic goes, but seems like it's just the wrong cinematic. This would have been perfectly awesome as the closing cinematic for The Frozen Throne. Perfectly awesome. It makes sense there, as you could take knowledge of Arthas's past and dad and his bitter, tragic fall all for granted. Plus you played as Arthas in that game, and really this looks like a cinematic for a game where you play as Arthas.

PositivelyGreg

@mazz:

its longer and more action, but, imho, that doesnt mean its better, I think this one is way more polished

Omniel

Man, no you are not prepared? What are people going to spam trade chat with for the next 6 months?

ShineyBlueShoes

Now, let's see if Blizzard can pull something other than a 1 dimensional villain out of their hat.

Artdeux

That Frost wyrm just blows me away, and I did get chills a bit when the army lit up the chasm with their blue hivemind light.

I can't even imagine what Blizzard would give us if they decided to make a game that wasn't necessarily playable by any computer and TRIED to put their cinematic quality graphics into their gameplay. But I'd want it. I'd want it bad.

If anybody could get a game looking like their cinematics and still have it play well, it'd be Blizzard.

AntiheroKing

I thought it was pretty cool. Kind of slow paced and not a lot happened, but still cool. I was expecting to see the races again, in Northerend of course. I was also really looking forward to actually SEEING a troll, (you couldn't see the one in the BC cinematic much at all and it was only a few seconds)however, I don't care at all about gnomes. Would have also liked to see a male Blood Elf, and something other than an Undead Warlock.

TheDaftPunk

I thought that was awesome, but then I loved Arthus in WC3/Frozen Throne.

However, the WAR intro/trailer yesterday totally beats this hands down.

Kazzahdrane

@sh0tgunn0strils:

Personaly, I feel blizzard has the highest amount of polish, sure blizzard might be shorter, and do less, but they do alot, with mood, color, and presence, that not many can do that well. To me thats the art of it.

Omniel

@qhue: You're missing the point. They already released a teaser trailer months back that focused on the new class, new additions and showed some fly-bys of the new areas. True, there isn't any actual combat in this trailer, but there doesn't need to be. With the actual intro trailer to the game they're finally throwing a bone to the lore-hounds that devour Blizzard's painstaking attention to back story(ie, me).

Absolutely chilling hearing Menethil talking to his son, not knowing the presence within him that would eventually strike him down in cold blood.

And emo-osity, what? That would suggest Arthas had an ounce of penance or sorrow within him for his actions. As the Lich King, he feels neither.

RIDErepublic

I liked it. But I really do wish they would release some type of single player edition of WoW, because I'll never have enough time to see the end game stuff.

ashman512

@Gestahl: Eh, it's your opinion. Can't really see the point in getting mad about it. I do think that even the most overloved things have to do something great in the first place, but I can certainly see why you'd be tired of hearing about Blizzard. I personally feel the same way towards Nintendo.

...Hopefully I diffused any flames instead of making em worse with that Nintendo part... ^_^'

AntiheroKing

@Gestahl:

And the people like you ARE as bad as those Final Fantasy VII schmoes are.

Blizzard does it's job well. They make fun playable games. WoW is a shitfest full of idiots and 5 year olds. But it's fun if you play to your own playstyle.

I'm not a Blizzard fanboy and I'd soon as see someone else come along with the balls to push them out of the way. But they have a way of making games that really makes them fun and easy to play, yet still challenging to the experienced gamer.

Cats

I enjoyed the trailer for what it showed and what it was. I suppose people can't help comparing it to other trailers, etc. As far as showing player type characters in the opening sequence... Well, there aren't that many new player features that would mesh well into an opening sequence. So I can understand that, rather than do a sequence similar to the previous two, they'd want to focus on the main content of this expansion: The Lich King. I am curious how they'll portray him in-game. Will he be sane? Will he have regrets? Can he be redeemed? The cynic in me says no to all of them. At anyrate, WoW is a dangerous game for me. Right now, I don't want to play again.

AllegraStreit

Nice CG, now remake crappy game graphics please

BeImont

I would rather play Warcraft 4. I love the story behind this series but I hate MMO gameplay. Seriously.

Budkin

I always love the stunning visuals the Blizzard cinematic team cooks up with each game release but this movie seems a little too focused on Arthas and doesn't cater to the vanity of the players the way the other two do.

What I mean by that is: It's nice to hear the ironically tragic words of King Tyranus to his son and to see how the Great White Hope brought ruin to his people but what about the heroes? Where's the vignettes of the Troll Shaman on his Raptor? Where's the Dwarf Hunter with his pet Bear? Hell, we still haven't seen a pre-rendered Gnome.

I think the video would have served as a better introduction to Wrath of the Lich King if it spent less time on Arthas summoning the Wyrm and then added a few clips of the heroes defying his minions/rule.

I stopped playing WoW about a year ago because the game went down the toilet with horrible class imbalances, boring grind-fests and retarded story additions (Russian Space Devils? Really?! Maybe they should have just plundered more of Warhammer's canon before adding those blue embarrassments to the Warcraft universe?).

Oh well, the kids will buy anything if it has gorgeous cinematics... that's what has been keeping the Final Fantasy franchise afloat for decades now.

resvrgam

I'm going to offend a lot of people by saying this, but Blizzard are one of the most overrated developers in the world, and their fanbase is about as bad as that of Final Fantasy VII.

Gestahl

That tugged on my heart strings a little. *sniff*

Poojipoo

Gave me chills, fucking win.

Paustinj

BTW, does nobody else think the parallels between Arthas and Darth Vader are uncanny?

goddessakasha

Wow.. that was a pretty boring trailer... that totally looks more like a teaser than the game cinematic.

Still, it certainly was beautiful if nothing else.

goddessakasha

@vagrantwade:

Your opinion. Most of us have a life, and play wow. If you can't keep them separate, or take your hobbies in moderation, no one is to blame but yourself.

moe84

Fuck WoW, I enjoying having my life back. Never again.

vagrantwade

@moe84:

But, like all of our guesses, pure speculation. Only Time will tell, and he doesn't like to talk much =P

moe84

@bakakensai:

Highly doubtful. Sindragosa maybe. Another look at Saphiron.. possibly. But I doubt it's Blackwing. After Neltharion became Deathwing, he was eventually "destroyed by the other Dragon Aspects.
[www.wowwiki.com]
However, if you play Wrath, or are in beta. You can find his "resting" spot in Dragon Blight, at the "Maw of Neltharion"

moe84

That dragon, is it Deathwing?

bakakensai

@Hisdon: "go watch WAR's official trailer that just came out :p "

Didn't I just mention? That WAR trailer is made by Blur Studio, and I was talking about game companies. Well, I guess there has been no official word about that latest trailer, but so far every cinematic from Mythic has been made by Blur. And even so, I must say that what Blizzard shows here is polished way beyond the latest WAR trailer, making it seem even crude at times, something that it's certainly not on it's own.

ara

yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his throne with a blue little lake
and a blue frost wyrm
and everything is blue for him and himself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

SensAzn

Bland? I beg to differ!
Amazing stuff!
I'm really glad they went back to the story driven cinematics they had back in the Warcraft 3 days!
I was disappointed with the previous World of Warcraft ones. Don't get me wrong they're visually stunning, but they were no more than character reels with little to no significant story elements (with the exception of those 5 seconds of Illidan).
Too bad there's no single player anymore :(
Guess I'll just sit back and wait for other expansions and hopefully a good movie.
Go blizzard! :D

Rorae

Yay another Blizzard cinematic that has nothing to do with anything you can actually do in a Blizzard game. Yes it looks great, but it is super misleading.

kasplat

EDIT not buying wow exp

SamuraiG0SU

WOW

i was playing 'WOW' about last year then stopped because the summer was approaching. (party)

but i just love their cinimatics. Always, always always always and they still deliver. *clap* id love to see a full blown 90 min or more movie from them; from either universe wc, sc, or diablo.

still not buying it. lol

SamuraiG0SU

@ara: Bioware comes to mind

taftsearlobe33

@Gestahl:

you dont know anything about art, if you did 3d, and game art, maybe you would have a proper insight ;-)

Omniel

Well that was disappointing.

Great in terms of CG, but Blizzard CG always is. The actual stuff of it, though? Who cares. All their previous cinematics have been focused on the players, showing different classes doing awesome things.

This was meh, I don't care about bosses. The big powerful badass is going to be on farm in six months, and one out of every 200 Tauren on the server is going to be running around with Frostmourne.

tzaketh

@Gestahl: Meh, doesn't offend me. I happen to be a fan of FFVII and so I'm used to it ;)

Spoony Bard

Amazing. As I said before Blizzard makes the best cinematics. To me this one did not disappoint.

MjrShake

So Blizzard is good at these game things, huh?

idkmybffgreg

This looks like something Zack Snyder woud create.

Aeryss

So much life lost to WoW. I can't . . . mustn't . . . go back!

DugDawg

@goddessakasha:

Arthas: Thrall, I am your father.

Thrall: No, that's not true

Arthas: Search your feelings Thrall

Thrall: That's not possible. The lore doesn't support what you say. Like Gnomes, it just doesn't make sense.

moe84

Is that the opening cinematic they're going to use in the game or is it just another trailer? It's not that exciting.

Rubezh

@goddessakasha:

Agreed. Was not impressed all that much by the trailer. The bit with the Frostwyrm was cool. Arthas still looks like an over grown, corn-fed, obese, w/e person. His body size could use some work. I think he should be somewhere between a Human, and a Night Elf. And not as wide. He just isn't all that "realistic".

Burning Crusade's trailer was much better imo. Even though the actual expansion lacked what Wrath clearly has. Depth, and above all, an unparalleled fun factor.

moe84

once again blizzard pulls off an amazing piece of animation,
for those who have played WC3 they will love this. though most dont see it this trailer really has alot of lore aspects in it. from arthas's father doing the voice over, to arthas resurecting the frost wyrmm saphiron (at least thats who i think it is) to how he kind of does the exact oposite of what his father meant for him. its really nice and subtley done.

yeah blizzard you'll have more of my money...

HaVoC373

@ScytheRexx: I felt the same way, what with the awesomeness that is Arthas... but I wish he had taken that stupid Lich King helmet off. I miss the evil look on his face when he did ... evil things. o.o

NobleArc, The Lazy Canadian

It seems to have been made for the core wow gamer (which there are 10 million of) and not to attract new people to the flock, which is totally fine. It is what this expansion is about after all, with no newbie zones and such like BC did with the 2 new races.

Overall, 8/10.

GT-Sythis

Worst cinematic ever!

+ Watch video

Rorae

I really like this cinematic. I actually think it's better than all of the other ones in the past. This has some history in it, the words from his Father, the king.

Pretty intense.

Can't wait for WOTLK

macr0planet

great...I wanted to avoid playin wow again...looks like i have to just because of this trailer.

Jnkzm4

@The Magnificen7: Anyone who uses the term 'epic' has already gave up their life. Oh, and I really wish they'd show off the DK class, such a fun class. No arthas doesn't count.

Shockadin

best opening cinematic!

tenske

Kinda boring! When the thing started rising out of the ice I was like "oh! something new??" but then it was a frost wyrm, zzzz. The worst Warcraft cinematics are the ones where the guy jsut stands there and things happen... Archi destroying Dalaran, Malfurion blowing the horn, this one where Arthas does nothing.

Tim Reilly

attempting not to restore account.. urge to powerful.. must restore rogue!

odnet

*Squuuuueals* Hehe

Waldo2129

WAR's new trailer is much better than this... nothing even happened in this lol... WAR's was like a mini movie :P

Bitten_Dead

If only the game had anything to do with that besides as a backdrop to the ganking, teabagging, and generally pit of desperate stupidity that is the WoW community.

Tesahli

The trailer was terrible... visual it looked great. It was very bland, nothing really happened in it.

GCM

Pretty awesome stuff, but I don't think it would make much sense to people who didn't play Warcraft 3. I really hope we don't get to kill Arthas. He's like the only major villain left, except for that demon guy, Kiljaeden or whatever his name is.

FreakyFavabean

@NobleArc, The Lazy Canadian: Ah, but the helmet is where all his stats are. Yep, the other equipment is just fancy cloth :P

Shockadin

If only the actual game was nearly as cool as the cinematics.

and yeah, it reminded me of The Lion King also, haha. I was almost expecting Arthas' dad to form the clouds into the shape of his face

PuppyGuarder

Pretty cool, too bad blizzard alienated the pvp players by making arena broken as the U.S. government.

kagebutsu

I love how Kotaku didn't put WAR's new amazing cinematic up, but they put this crap up lol..

Bitten_Dead

I never liked Arthas. He was such a cry baby.

Channing

I like how the blended live action with CG.

GT-Sythis

I think Gnomes would make any potential trailer childish and silly (coz lets face it, gnomes are shit) which I think would be totally the wrong direction for something as epic as (the storyline in) Wrath is going to be.

nonbreakingspace

Blizzard makes the best CG movies in the videogame industry in my opinion, even better than Square Enix. It's just too bad they have to be for WoW...if they made a regular Warcraft RPG I would buy it in a second, but the MMORPG stuff is just a little too much.

fenderfuel08

That was really boring... Lich King is not for me

game sorta went downhill when BC came out

Murderdolls

If only they weren't doing this in WoW. I don't want to play that again. And no one could get the story out of that game anyway.

MetaKz

...

The first time I watched it I was a little nonplussed as well, but then I sat down and really WATCHED it and it sent a shiver down my spine.

Arthas is NOT Illidan, emo-demonhunter banished from his home... he's the motherfucking LICH KING...

I have a sneaking suspicion he RESURRECTED Deathwing, or one of the Black Dragonflight in the cinematic...

If that's true... O M F G... that's all I can say...

Furiursa

If the WoW movie looks anything like this, it will be the greatest thing ever made.

Gingerbread0Man

@Channing:
As compared to who? Illidan? Emo-demon hunter extraordinaire???

Furiursa

@The Magnificen7: Couldn't agree more. I mean I played wow, quit twice and i am so happy i am not playing it anymore, but man this gets you all riled up on the inside wanting to play it.

And as they did with TBC they've done amazing with what content they've put into the game so far from beta testing.

Zaos

Another epic cinematic from our friends @ Blizzard. I don't know if I'll pick this up...I always burn out of WoW when I hit level 40 or so.

IceCold

I just wish the game were that cool.

ShadowMoses

@The Magnificen7: If only the game was like the cinematic. Nope the game is still boring and cartoonish.

Majpain007

bravo! that trailer was highly enjoyable.

LatinMessiah

What are we supposed to take from watching this 'cinematic'? Doesn't really offer a whole lot to someone new to World of Warcraft.

Craywulf

@fenderfuel08: Did you watch Warhammer's?

Bitten_Dead

@Channing: I don't recall Arthas ever complaining or whining. If something needed to be done, he did it, even if it turned out to be the wrong thing. He was never like, "Waah, waah, I killed a bunch of women and children at Stratholme" or, "Frostmourne has corrupted my soul, nooooo!"

He was more like, "I'll do anything it takes to free my people, even if it means becoming the very thing I hate."

Suzaku

Runescape's better.

Murgatron

@bakakensai: That dragon there would be a good old Frost Wyrm. Deathwing would look much more horrifying and would be a lot darker and have tears in him, from where fire would shoot forth. Or so one of the books say anyway.

Anyway, the intro cinematics looked stunningly good as usual. Give me a 90 minute animation film with this kind of animation and I'd buy it.

Hellreject

@ScytheRexx:
No offence, but sometimes Metzen says one thing sometimes he says something else. This comes from the man who wend :"oh wait.. forgot all about that..." ;). Blizzard does use the Lich King and Arthas names quite unclear. There are alot of discusions about this going on, so until WOTLK and it is all revealed (especially with Blizzards way of retconning things) we can't be certain.

Dehnus

@bakakensai: nope

warf0x0r

Yawn

That was a waste of time. Yay, another WoW expansion. Another expansion for people to waste their lives on.

Jomo7

Great CG, but it just looks like something ripped from one of the Lord of the Rings films - not an original idea in it. Nevermind the fact that the game itself looks utterly different graphically, too. Much like comparing a Hanna Barbera cartoon to a widescreen CG blockbuster in stylistic terms. That's not a diss to WOW, just seems a bit weird to me.

mr_glide

was pretty sweet but with no orks or dwarves I say the WAR cine wins today in my book

TheTog

@Furiursa: Could you possibly say "Emo-demon hunter extraordinaire???" more often?

goddessakasha

oh blur studios.. you complete me.

brodie123

the gfx in the trailer are stunning. ok so theres no action in it but a warcraft fanatic would agree with me when they say there happy to see arthas again. imo i find this opening sequence surpasses all the others

rameez3