The Raid

The documentary takes up an online game. The game is World of Warcraft. Blizzard Entertainment made it. The game had more than twelve million subscribers. The film follows nine players. The players meet inside a world called Azeroth. There they look for adventure and for challenge. But what they are really after is community. The film asks them why they give it so much time. The answers they give are at the centre of the account. The game is a complex and shared undertaking. A raid is the part of the game carried out together. The title of the film comes from that. The players give both time and resources to it. The account rests on their own words. Kevin Michael Johnson’s American documentary of 2012 runs forty six minutes.