World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Preview
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Northrend is more traditional than The Burning Crusade's surreal Outland. It has an epic, high-fantasy feel that will make you nostalgic for your first adventures in Azeroth. "It's so beautiful, it's so rich with history and there are so many cool new races we're going to introduce," enthuses Kaplan. He's also keen to point out that it's not all snowscapes, and that it will probably be larger than Outland, thanks to them not having to create starting zones for new races this time out. The map we saw at BlizzCon indicated ten zones in total.
One of these will be Lake Wintergrasp, a new style of zone dedicated entirely to mass player-versus-player combat between Horde and Alliance. Along with a new battleground, it will show off the promised (but as-yet-unseen) PvP siege weapons and destructible buildings. Kaplan admits that Lake Wintergrasp is an attempt to give WOW's dodo-dead 'outdoor' PvP scene a kick up the arse.
