World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth review — this war is off to a good start

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is the seventh expansion for Blizzard Entertainment’s hit multiplayer online role-playing game. World of Warcraft is a 14-year-old game, and it’s up to Battle for Azeroth to keep the MMO going. How does it plan to do that? Largely by doubling-down on the formula started by the last expansion, Legion, but Battle for Azeroth has new features. But is it enough to keep World of Warcraft exciting?

The new adventure pits the two factions, Alliance and Horde, against each other as they quest through their own, unique storylines. Even only a couple of weeks into the expansion’s launch, players have a lot to do. So to prepare this review, GamesBeat took the unusual step of pairing two reviewers: one playing through the Alliance storyline in the popular massively multiplayer online RPG, and the other doing so for the Horde.