Yes, you can pick from eight races: Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes(???), Night Elf, Orc, Troll, Tauren, and Undead.
The Gnomes look truly ridiculous, and I can't imagine anyone would choose that character unless they were just trying to get everyone in the game to kill them. Unless they'll have some incredibly useful attributes.
The races are then divided into the usual classes, like Rogue, Warlock, Warrior, Shaman, Paladin, etc. But each race has a different set of classes to choose from.
GNOMES. wtf. Couldn't they have picked a better race? Like Blood Elves, or Naga, or... Pandaren?
