World of Warcraft is beautiful, challenging, immense, and juts plain fun...
In the game you start out as a level 1 character of your choosing. There are numerous types of characters you can be. For instance: the alliance characters are night elves, humans, dwarfs, and gnomes while the horde characters are undead, tauren, trolls, and orcs.
In addition to choosing the race of your character you get to choose to be a paladin, mage, warlock, preist, warrior, rogue, or hunter.
To increase the level of your character and in other words improve his stats simply complete quests, enter dungeons, kill enemies, or enter raids with fellow players online. If you die in combat, you simply spawn as a ghost and walk to your body to respawn.
Quests are often repeated at different times throughout the game, however they are spaced far enough apart to not feel extremely repetitive. Dungeons enable groups of 5 to enter then and defeat computer controlled enemies which drop better items than found in quests and dead enemies. Raids of up to 25 players also enter tougher larger dungeons which require a lot of communication and skill to complete.
There is also player versus player combat but it matters what server you choose to pick on. There are PVE and PVP servers. PVP servers allow Alliance and Horde players to attack and kill each other.
The graphics in game are average. WoW isn't meant to be the most hardware demanding game to run. The servers are only down when maintenance occurs and when updates are occurring.
However, some may feel the monthly fee in order to run the game is a little steep at 15.99 a month with either a credit card or gamer cards found in stores. In addition, with the two new expansions out just buying this first game is rather pointless considering you can only reach level 60 compared to the other people who are level 80 and are mostly doing things in the second expansion. Hardly anyone performs the raids and dungeons found in just the original game anymore.
If you can get by the monthly fee and can afford purchasing the expansions for World of Warcraft when you reach the level 60 cap in game, then it's highly recommended that you purchase this game.