World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role playing game or MMORPG that has been set in the equally expansive Warcraft universe. The Warcraft universe began in the nineties with the release of Warcraft I for the PlayStation platform. Years later, gamers around the world saw the evolution of the third-person strategy game to a venerable strategy game for the PC platform.Perhaps the most memorable game after Star Craft in the 2d realm is Warcraft itself. Before WoW, players form around the world mastered the complex game architecture of Warcraft III, which had been expanded with the well-known Frozen Throne expansion pack.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is the latest installation of Blizzard Entertainment to the already hefty World of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade. The game is an addition to the already rich environments and complex gaming system that composes WoW.