The World of Warcraft development team has released the video ‘Building Azeroth: Wrathgate’, a new episode video of the ‘Building Azeroth series’ that looks back on the development history of the game.
At the beginning of the original World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, players follow the main stem of the Dragonblight Campaign to the battle of Wrathgate. This battle, the final part of the campaign, includes World of Warcraft’s first in-game cinematic, and players will experience, with more vivid visuals, a passage that completely changes the grammar of World of Warcraft’s main storyline.
Terran Gregory, Lead cinematic narrative designer of the World of Warcraft development team, took on the role of commentary in the video, Building Azeroth: The Gateway of Fury, released today. In addition to telling anecdotes, he also talked regarding the impact cinematics had on visual storytelling in games following Ragegate.
The full story of the production of the cinematic that brought life to the story of the game and added a sense of immersion, such as the initial process of creating a cinematic using the in-game engine and using only in-game elements, and the content that the development team staff directly played the voice actors and characters at the time. You can watch the video on the World of Warcraft YouTube channel.
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