World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (Collector's Edition)

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Format: PC

Manufacturer: Activision Blizzard

Mfg Part#: 72848

Buy.com Sku: 217167712

UPC: 020626728485

UPC 14: 00020626728485

Buy.com Sales Rank: 4928

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"...all this destruction comes the best expansion appeared to date...  Albert Gil Morera, Meristation
"The new content is creative, has a tangible sense of story and progression...  John Funk, The Escapist
"...polishes the game experience, but keeps all the basics that made it so successful.  Samantha Nelson, The Onion AV
"A brilliant addition...Epic!  Taimoor Hafeez, MeGamers

Features

	Archaeology: Master a new secondary profession to unearth valuable artifacts and earn unique rewards.
	Art of the Cataclysm: An art book, featuring 176 pages of never-before-seen images from the archives of the Blizzard cinematics department and the World of Warcraft development team, as well as progressive visuals from multiple stages of development.
	Behind-the-Scenes DVD: With over an hour of developer interviews and commentaries, as well as a special Warcraft retrospective examining the rich gaming history of the Warcraft universe.
	Cataclysm Soundtrack: Featuring 17 epic new tracks from Cataclysm, including exclusive bonus tracks.
	Classic Zones Remade: Familiar zones across the original continents of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms have been altered forever and updated with new content, from the devastated Badlands to the broken Barrens, which has been sundered in two.
	Exclusive In-game Pet: He may not be a breaker of worlds just yet, but Lil' Deathwing will still proudly accompany heroes on their struggle to save Azeroth from his much, much larger counterpart.
	Flying Mounts in Azeroth: Explore Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms like never before.
	Guild Advancement: Progress as a guild to earn guild levels and guild achievements.
	Level Cap Increased to 85: Earn new abilities, tap into new talents, and progress through the path system, a new way for players to improve characters.
	More Raid Content than Ever Before: Enjoy more high-level raid content than previous expansions, with optional more challenging versions of all encounters.
	New High-Level Zones: Explore newly opened parts of the world, including Uldum, Grim Batol, and the great Sunken City of Vashj'ir beneath the sea.
	New PvP Zone & Rated Battlegrounds: Take on PvP objectives and daily quests on Tol Barad Island, a new Wintergrasp-like zone, and wage war in all-new rated Battlegrounds.
	New Race and Class Combinations: Explore Azeroth as a gnome priest, blood elf warrior, or one of the other never-before-available race and class combinations.
	Special-Edition Mouse Pad: Featuring a beautiful color image depicting Deathwing menacing the ravaged continents of Azeroth.
	Two New Playable Races: Adventure as one of two new races--the cursed worgen with the Alliance or the resourceful goblins with the Horde.

Eurogamer 10 of 10
It's difficult to score Cataclysm, because, as Rob pointed out, there has simply never been a gaming product like this before. Judged purely as an expansion pack and leaving the free patch content to one side, it's excellent but ever so slightly underwhelming...Cataclysm doesn't just make WOW better. It does something even more valuable than that; it renews it. It fires your excitement at starting on that long road one more time, and invites you to relish the journey just as much as you'll lose yourself in its ending. If the price we have to pay for that is that it's a little less magical and a little more Magic Kingdom, then that is a price we will all willingly, happily pay. - Oli Welsh

GamerVision 9 of 10
While incredibly epic, the changes are a little bittersweet. To those that have played since the beginning (myself included) it feels a little sacrilegious. This virtual world is somewhere many have spent a good portion of their lives spending time, being entertained and forging friendships. But what has Blizzard done? They've given us all the more reason to stay in this world, continue to explore it and fight for it against Deathwing. World of Warcraft has never been a game that breaks boundaries. What Blizzard has excelled at is taking ideas from other places, refining and improving them, and making them their own. With Cataclysm they've done something that has never been done before on this scale: they took one of the most popular and successful games in history, and utterly changed it. I, for one, love them for it. - GamerVision