The Female Worgen – Exclusive First Look
We’re fortunate this morning to have obtained rights from Blizzard Entertainment to give you an exclusive first look at the female worgen. Since Blizzard announced that World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm would include the worgen as a playable race, players have wanted to know what the female of the race in particular would look like. Wonder no more!
It should be noted that the imagery here is of models that are a work in progress. This may not be identical to the final look of the female worgen when Cataclysm is finalized.
The female worgen in a cloth dress
There are three more images after the jump, and our commentary!
The female worgen in typical leather armor
The female worgen sporting chain mail
A plate-wearing female worgen
Our first reaction to seeing these images is very positive. Blizzard has not only walked the fine line between difficulties when producing a model that has both human and animal characteristics, but they’ve also nailed the details! We’re very much in favor of the female worgen as she looks today. We’re predicting that the majority of worgen you see in game next year will be of the more fair gender.
What do you think? Leave your comments below, as Blizzard is reading!
I don’t know…the image of the female worgen reminds me of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.
And Furries everywhere rejoyce
seriously though I like the look. though it looks a little more Vulpine then Lupine it’s still nice
One thought comes to mind – I think it needs hair! Other than that, it looks a lot more aggressive than I thought.
I intend to change my Night Elf Rogue to a worgen when it becomes available (I’m not expecting it for some time after cata), and I’m thinking it’ll be a guy based on what I’ve seen.
Next year? Does this mean you’re moving your September estimate back again Randy?
I love how her ears flatten when she gets angry. Overall, it looks pretty great. I think the head textures could use some more polish/shape though. Can’t wait!
I love it! Makes me want to play one even more.
It looks like Grace Jones.
Very nice. Feral yet feminine. Can’t wait to play one.
@Spiritus
Oh that would be cool… the Nazis invade and threaten the children when suddenly Maria transforms and rips them to shreads……
Love the new models. Going to be race changing my hunter to Worgen as soon as possible.
@Shot … or maybe just hair
She looks best in leather. Hot.
Ick. I was all set to shift my hunter main to worgen ASAP, but now I don’t think I will.
Vulpine maybe I was thinking cat-like. They do seem to to lacking hair styles or mane styles as it were. Once they have their manes I think they’ll look more wolf-like. The emotes are really nice. Cat-like or not they look great.
They look like furry female orcs :S
I noticed the glow of the eyes are different in each shot, does this mean you can choose the color that your eyes glow in the character creation options????
She looks a bit like an angry wallaby. And her hands are comically large, but I think that’s the case for virtually every WoW race. Still, details are great and the facial expressions are the best part.
What? No hair? I’ll reserve judgement until I see the non bald worgen.
Very cool pics, but the female Worgen is LAME compared to the badassness of the male. I seriously hope they will fix this before launch.
The level of detail is amazing. What I really like is how she looks feminine but still very ferocious. Blizzard balanced on this line beautifully. Can’t wait to see hair and full movement in game
Yep, the Furries are going to go nuts over these.
The worse over-sized hands so far are the new Goblins. Seriously… Blizz fix it. It looks like they are wearing green Mickey Mouse gloves.
The neck == waist is a bit much, skin looks pretty decent though. Just tone the neck down.
Why, Grandmother, what big teeth you’ve got!
Was hoping that they’d look a bit more beefy. They seem to have a really frail build, really narrow shoulders, skinny biceps and thighs. I was really hoping for something that looked a bit more durable lol. Not necessarily masculine or body-builderesque… just a bit stronger in appearance as most were-beast archetypes are. Was also hoping for tails. Maybe we’ll see it in the end.
My first reaction was laughter. I’m not sure why I laughed really. Was it the association with these dog-like humanish creatures:
http://bulfinch.englishatheist.org/wolfes/images/DogHeaded.jpg
or
http://blog.verdylives.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/William-Wegman-Hansel-und-Gretel.jpg
How does it move? Is its animal-ness expressed by its movements? It should move differently than any other character in the game.
It’s about what I was expecting, I don’t like the brightly colored eyes though. I think I’ll stick with the males if I play one.
The Escapist guys stole your post…
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100774-Blizzard-Reveals-WoW-Cataclysms-Female-Worgen
I really do like it. For once the Alliance is going to have some characters that are truly good to look at, with real unique looks to them.
Is a wolf whistle appropriate, do you think?
I like the worgen(s)! It would be funny if, just after transforming, the music from “thriller” plays (the keyboard part “thriller..thriller yeah…)” Something about these werewolves reminds me of the one in the Thriller video.
They do need more fur on the head and neck area, but otherwise – really nice to have an animal character on the ally side!
I love it! I hope I can change the race on my 80 warrior from Human to Worgen so I dont have to level yet ANOTHER toon! I will do the starting area to see it, but thats it…
I love how it looks so far. loving the eyes and the general shape of the face. Blizzard is really working hard to make it look as nice as possible. And for other comments people have made, this is just the model. She’s missing her style-able hair right now. They’ll all look better once they get the hair designs in there.
I don’t know, they look too cartoonish to me
I just noticed they have no tails. They seem to have used the space goat skeleton but removed the tails. I want big FURRY tails.
AND I want a tail slot for gear.
Humanity is in the eyes and Blizz has nailed it!
One pet peave I’ve allways had with the female human frame is that shoulder pads never look right on them. I like the wide she-worgen shoulders, makes the armor ‘sit’ more naturally. Though I would like to see a thicker middle, she looks almost forsaken in the waist.
They body shape is almost identical to the female Draenei; even many of the stances are the same.
Female dogs have 8 nipples. As someone who enjoys realism, I would like to see her have four bikini tops to mask them. My interest is strictly scientific, of course.
I’m a bit disappointed in both the male and female worgen models. They already had great skins via the mobs in and around Shadowfang Keep (and in Northrend). But they seem to have felt the need to soften them, so much so that they now appear comical to the extreme. The worgen in Shadowfang Keep look fearsome, the new worgen models make them look like Scooby-Doo villains. No worgen for me in Cataclysm, I guess.
@Just Saying: If you went by that idea, then the female tauren would have their boobs on their stomachs, and have 4 nipples. As awesome as that would be, I don’t think Blizzard plans on it.
Looks good! I approve.
a little cheap. should be scarier imo
they really should have the more hunched look…like the in-game mobs but with boobs.
These are too civilised. They don’t look like “worgen”, they look like Malamute People
Ay guys i like the male worgen but not to sure about the female though looks kid of fox-like and kidish thanks love the show.