This game deserves the nine, but he managed to leave out anything good about the game. Yes the starting zones are kinda lame, but wait till you get to dragonblight. The instances are fun and fast, but so much that you don't enjoy them. The new spells and abilities make you relearn your class a bit, making them feel a little new and exciting. The quests are mostly repetitive, but there a lot of new additions with flying and mounted quests that are a lot of fun. And he didnt even mention phasing, where a world even occurs for you at the end of a quest chain that permanently alters the terrain or world around you. And the lore quests behind the Lich King have been really fun and interesting. My mage is almost 74 at the moment, and i'm loving every second of this game. Yes it's a little more of the same, but the same is really fun.

ps. This game is not Warhammer. Stop comparing it to Warhammer. If want an open ended MMO with rampant PVP then go there and have fun. Warcraft has always been a PVE oriented game with PVP elements.