WoW Midnight early access review — an enthralling homecoming for World of Warcraft fans

Over 20 years and in 10 other expansions, players have ventured into the cosmos, the afterlife, and an alternate timeline, and explored multiple undiscovered landmasses on Azeroth or caverns beneath its surface. But this is the first time since 2010’s Cataclysm that the new adventure has taken them back to their old haunts. Midnight, which is the second part of a planned trilogy of expansions called the Worldsoul Saga, refurbishes the northeastern corner of the Eastern Kingdoms, the homeland of the Blood Elves. Silvermoon City has been rebuilt as a seriously majestic new hub; the sparse starter levelling zone of Eversong Woods becomes a gorgeous new questing area, saturated with wild magic and subterfuge; and Zul’Aman, formerly a raid fortress, has been expanded into a vast, rugged homeland for the Amani forest trolls.