World of Warcraft Analysis - Music

The music choices in WoW sure are great. Almost every region has its own music for it. And in popular places like faction cities, more than 13 minutes of music are often designed just for it.



World of Warcraft doesn't have any rock or hip pop music in their game, which is a great decision I think. Rock music destroys the delicate senses required for observation, decision-making and overall enjoyment of a computer game. Hip-hop contains too much heavy drum beats, which overdrives players' adredeline.

You can say World of Warcraft music is classical. But I think it's good enough for it to have own category. Classical music are composed by synthesizing different instruments together, instruments like violin, deeper violin, trumpet, piano, and sometimes drum. Where as World of Warcraft music has much more variety of sounds, and also a quite more sound pieces here and there, like the sound of water falling down, an eagle screeching in the distance, etc..