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Summary: Best WarCraft Game to date!
Review: WarCraft 3 is one of the best RTS I've played for a long time. They have a good story line, graphics, as well as sound. Havin' a hero makes the game even better! I love the fact that the story is told while your playing the game, through cut scenes. They have a lot twist and turns in the game. I didn't have any problems w/ the games, except for the fact that my computer get's a little choppy when there's a big battle going on. The only complaint I have was that they should have given us the option of turning on and off the Upkeep part of the game. It kinda get's annoying later on the game. I spend more money on the upkeep compared to making my base or training my troops!
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Summary: Lots of Bang for Your Buck
Review: First, the short version: if the RTS genre at all appeals to you, Warcraft III will most likely be a great addition to your game collection. If you are a die-hard advocate of turn-based play, and find the often hectic, be-everywhere-at-once frenzy of real-time strategy too stressful, you won't enjoy it anymore than other games of this type. Warcraft III is essentially a bigger and better version of its predecessors, but considering just how big and good those were, it's no surprise that fans of the series were awaiting this release with just about as much anticipation as was generated by the "Phantom Menace." Unlike "Star Wars: Episode I," Warcraft III delivers in spades. There's nothing radically new here, except for the addition of heroes (special units that can carry an inventory, have unique powers, and level up in the fashion of RPG characters, albeit much more simplistically) and non-player characters such as treasure-bearing monsters, mercenaries, and merchants. The bulk of the good new stuff is in the details, and Blizzard has put its usual prodigious amount of work and attention into these. The game features four exquisitely balanced races to play, each with a host of interesting units and structures. Improvements to gameplay are too numerous to list here--to name but a few I noticed with great delight, many units now have an "Autocast" setting for certain spells, making it a lot easier to take advantage of them in combat. Operating with well-mixed contingents of troops (a seasoned secret of successful sorties--how's that for alliteration?) is made more convenient through the ability to "sub-select" units of the same type within such a group. Another nice touch is that you can now set "Rallying Points" that cause newly created units to automatically gather at a specific location, relieving you of the tedium of collecting them manually at whatever structure generates them. Let's talk storyline and sound. The plot is truly epic, full of twists and surprises, and again shows Blizzard's characteristic love and dedication to world-building. Warcraft III comes with a relatively hefty manual full of background history, and I have not so far heard of anyone who had the restraint to read through this before actually firing up the game. But it will give you something to stick your nose into during those times when for some reason you can't be playing Warcraft III (say, during meals, on the job, or on the ... you know). Nothing was skimped on in this game, and the music and environmental sounds are the icing on this luscious, immersive cake. The cinematic sequences between the chapters are simply amazing. Along with the soundtrack, these very much merit buying the Collector's Edition, which features a separate DVD with the cinematics and a CD with the music (the "Art of Warcraft" book is nothing to scoff at, either). Once you run out of plot, and have played the supplied custom maps--however plentiful--ad nauseum, you can try your hand at the map/scenario/campaign creation tools supplied with the game. They are essentially what the Blizzard developers used to create the commercial package, and guarantee custom maps and campaigns for a long time to come. So are there downsides? Well, that all depends on what kind of machine you're running. With Warcraft III, Blizzard has made the move to fully 3-D graphics, and while the game generally runs pretty well on lower-end machines (G3 300 MHz, ATI 32 MB, 512 MB RAM), it will sputter when many units are present, and you'll have a hard time finding your jittery cursor among them at times--a serious handicap when you need to click on specific targets like enemy heroes. Many Warcraft devotees have asked why 3-D was implemented anyway. It does not really have any bearing on gameplay, except for the very rare occasion when panning around is useful to see an obscured unit. However, I have to say ... each time the camera swoops down into the scenery as you zoom in, you will feel as though you are 'physically' descending into the world of Warcraft III. It really does look that cool. The design of the landscapes, units, and structures does not aim for realism, but it has a unique consistency about it that somehow conveys a more convincing impression of a 'living' miniature world than many games that go for the realistic look. Add to that bubbling brooks, surging seas, rain, snow, bats, birds, fish, and flies, and you'll soon find yourself zooming in and swiveling with the camera all the time because you're so mesmerized by the sights and sounds of Warcraft III. Of course, you won't always have that leisure ... after all, it's WAR-craft. Finally, as a Mac gamer, I'd like to give the folks at Blizzard a big hand for once again providing the Mac version simultaneously with the PC version. This seems to have become a fine tradition for the company that publishes no game before its time.
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Summary: System requirement
Review: Whew! Make sure you have a 3D card I guess. I have Pentium 3 384 M ram 8M video card and graphics are blocky...mouse very sporadic and not worth playing. Was expecting the old Warcraft animation and will have to wait to buy a 3D card....all other system requirements are met. Also...you'd think they'd throw in an action figure...DVD is great however.
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Summary: Pit lords forever!!!!
Review: Great!! It strikes a beautifal balance of the races; the Orcs smash through enemy defences with there brute force, the Humans strike a balance between strength and magic, the Undead are a strange meld of the Zerg and Prottos from StarCraft, and the Night Elves stealthily decimate enemy bases. The developers also weave a wonderful story centered around the horrific Burning Legion, a union of the different demon cultures ( pit lords forever!!!). a masterpeice of epic proportions.
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Summary: Lacking in every Way...
Review: The story was predictable. The playablility was weak. The challenge was even worse. This is a build, run and kill. No thinking, no planning and no role playing. What kind of game was this? It was a way for us to interact in a VERY limited way with someones attempt at a story line. The only thing I liked was the way the heros were run.
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Summary: Not all that great...
Review: I liked Starcraft a lot, so when Warcraft 3 came out i decided to try it out. I was kinda disappointed.
1) The 3D graphics and engine that were supposed to be awesome really aren't...they're average...but not great as touted. This game is only a bit more 3D than Starcraft.
2) The overall look of this game is not what Warcraft is suppossed to look, i.e dark, gothic, and semi-realistic. Lets face it guys, the actual gameplay in this game looks like a CARTOON!
3) The hero system extremely messes up the game. Pump up all the heroes you can grab, plus a few more units, and go on a rampage that requires no skill at all.
4) Price. However, if you ignore (if its possible) the stuff listed above and by others, Warcraft3 is an average game, and Blizzard might even get around to balancing things. Blizzard is a pretty much trustworthy game producer, and I have never had a problem with them.
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Summary: Best Game Ever
Review: This game is the best ever. I have spent hours playing but cheated a little with the cheat codes. I'm so glad I bought the Collector's Edition it really worth what i paid for. All the things it comes with are so amazing. I really liked the 4 pictures that appear on the regular boxes. Especially the DVD with all the Warcraft III cinematics now that is really cool.
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Summary: What other game is as great.
Review: There is no better game, it is the best game ever. Not many even come close to what this game is, it is the best game to ever come out on anything. There are alot of very good games out there like GTA3, the Final Fantasy games, Civilization games, Medal of Honer, Wolfinstien, and so on nothing is better than it. Blizzard has done a great job with every game it has ever made. It has only made seven games over the last decade, but each has been a number one seller and all have been called great. But this is the best yet from Blizzard and the best game to come out as of date and for a long time to come. If you never buy a game again get this. Many to people in the computer industry think that this game will be the number one in selling for over a year and a half. Warcraft 3 sold one million games faster than any computer game ever, it was 17 days when it hit the one million mark. The game to hold it before that was Diablo: Lord of Destruction 22 days also make by Blizzard.
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Summary: [Draining] your life away
Review: I was able to play the beta three months prior to its release and it was everything that I hoped and more. As Starcraft was the evolution from Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3 is indeed the brain child of Starcraft.
That said let me get down to brass taxes here and show why this game is the God and ruler of online gaming. Before you even get to the game itself there is the revamped battle-net which essentially removed the option for those ally happy fools that ruined the value of a record in Starcraft. As an addoption of Ladder (first seen in SC) the Play Game option is an impressive means to rank yourself, and your friends against other players, playing increasingly harder opponents (an attempt to eliminate newbie bashing). With in each profile there is a bevy of information about the player's record for each race and with different team groupings which over-all gives a very good representation of how good a player is.
Now that the logistics are over I can get down to the real reason War 3 kicks so much tail. Graphics, units, creep (nuetral units), upgrades to name a few, all of which equals replay, replay, replay.
Each race has three very different heros, a mage, a melee and a unit that is an inbetweener. The hero is the single largest change and subsequently the most valuable unit in the game.
As the hero kills opponents, uses spells or even does something crafty he gains levels. At each level you are allowed to put a point into one of three different spells with the treat of a "super" spell after achieving level six.
In addition to new units, new upgrades there are also new shops. which when coupled with a revivable hero who can in fact buy and use items make a very interesting combination. There are protection and health spells, health and mana potions, and all manner of different nick nacks that can make things interesting. Before I forget there is one item that every hero starts with is a scroll of town portal which is really exciting in that it will take your hero and up to twelve units instantly to any of your or your allies main keeps essentially to zap to the rescue.
Well I could go on and on but I think the game speaks for itself so I say run out and buy it. My only word of caution is BE PREPARED TO GET THUMPED!! GL HF happy gaming
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Summary: Badly written program that requires too much system resource
Review: I enjoyed Warcraft II and I looked forward to this game, but after having it fail to install properly on 2 of the three computers I've tried so far I'm convinced that Blizzard just couldn't get it right.
All of my PCs met the published minimum system requirements, but that apparently isn't good enough. Blizzard apparently did not care about supporting some of the '3D accelerated video cards' that support DirectX 8.1, but they made that information hard to find by burying it in their support site. Those of us who didn't dig deep into the support information until after buying the product end up being left out in the cold.
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