Originally Posted by hishadow 
I concur. This low-poly graphics look real nice and the animation help bring it to life. Even though I didn't like the gameplay of the previous game, I have no issue with this kind of graphics design. Was is Warcraft this style of 3d graphics originated from?
Earliest cel-shaded game listed on wikipedia came out in 2000. WOW came out in 2004. Oddly WOW is not in this list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of…ed_video_games