World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 12 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

5
Average:

4
Bad:

0

Pros:

Plenty of activities to keep you engaged.
Pandaren race and monk class offer variety.
Gorgeous expanses to explore.

Cons:

Phasing gets in the way of adding friends to the fold.
Pet battle system lacks the thrill of discovery.

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Last revision on November 30, 2016

Reviewers Liked

Plenty of activities to keep you engaged
Pandaren race and monk class offer variety
Gorgeous expanses to explore
Challenge mode is a great way to test your skills
Tons of new content including scenarios, world bosses, and pet battles
The best quests in WoW
Great sense of exploration

Reviewers Didn't Like

Phasing gets in the way of adding friends to the fold
Pet battle system lacks the thrill of discovery
Starting to show its age, both in visuals and mechanics
No PvP raid zones

Expert reviews and ratings

World of Warcraft's Mists of Pandaria expansion is huge. One one end, it starts at level one, with a new starting area for the new Pandaren race. On the other end, it raises the level cap from 85 to 90 and adds an enormous amount of high-end and end-game...

By TechSpot on October 26, 2012

Mists of Pandaria's glittering forests and engaging activities feel fresh despite the game's reliance on familiar...

By GameSpot on October 25, 2012

It's the latest expansion to one of the biggest games in the world, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. Formerly recovered addict Matt puts a +4 belt around his arm for one more trip into...

By GamePlanet on October 19, 2012

Let's be totally honest: you clicked on this review desiring to find me hunched over Blizzard's corpse, stabbing repeatedly, whilst cackling the cackle of a madman. You'd be happy to think of me as a maniacal bounty hunter, blood on my knife, and...

By Strategy Informer on October 16, 2012

If Blizzard learned one clear lesson from its last World of Warcraft expansion, it's that you can't go home again. Cataclysm is fueled by nostalgia, dragging us back to a world we loved when both we and the MMORPG genre were young, but the effect was...

By GameSpy on October 05, 2012

Ah, Pandaria. No World of Warcraft expansion yet had created such a split in the World of Warcraft community. Some players declared that introducing Pandaren as a playable race would ruin the game, while others were on the kung-fu bandwagon. Now that the...

By PC Authority on October 05, 2012

Heroes in Pandaria aren't simply born, they're leveled. No panda babies here, we're talking about those charming World of Warcraft starting areas, bite-sized leveling areas designed to warmly embrace new players, welcoming them to the setting before...

By Neoseeker on September 28, 2012

In this video Kaeyi Dream interviews Scott Mercer and Darren Williams from Blizzard on the latest WoW expansion: Mists of...

By HardwareHeaven on September 26, 2012

In the MMO world, there's perhaps no event bigger than the debut of a new World of Warcraft expansion. And on Tuesday, the gaming public was blessed with Mists of Pandaria. This expansion is particularly interesting because it finds Blizzard in an...

By Cheat Code Central on September 25, 2012

World of Warcraft (WoW) is an interesting - and unique - game to assess. Originally released in 2004, the base title has been continually expanded over time, and in many ways barely resembles the version many of us first logged on to eight years ago....

By NZGamer on November 01, 2012

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