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WarCraft III Expansion: The Frozen Throne

WarCraft III Expansion: The Frozen Throne

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hard work results in the best ever PC game
Review: Taking ideas from previous versions, similar games (i.e. startcraft), "Lord of the rings" and probably many other myths and legends, the Creators succeeded to build a game without a match.

Four unique races: Humans, Undeads, Orcs and Night elves with different but balanced strengths and weaknesses. 3 heroes per race with 4 special abilities each of them and few similarities between the 48 special abilities, 8-10 unit types per race, about 8 different buildings per race, countless special items which empower the heroes with new abilities and many neutral races and buildings demonstrate the creativity of the warcraft team.

Althougt the units and the buildings for different races are similar, there are various special features for many of them. Also they are suitable for each race (i.e. necromancer and graveyard for the undeads, musketeer and lumber mill for humans etc.) Although there are strong and weak units, every type of units can be the most suitable in dependence of the defences of the enemy army or fortress. But usually an effective attack or defence requires the combination of various units.

The superior graphics and the live dialogs are the first things which impress the player but what the player finds out later is much more important:

1)An interesting storyline based on an apocalyptic scenario, revealed gradually like a movie where you should not know what will happen next. The graphics and the dialogues are so real that you are feeling how important your task is.

2)Various types of tasks like i)destroy your enemy, ii)survive for 30-45 minutes, iii)A race of massacring between you and your enemy, iv)Fullfill a task without expecting reinforcements (or maybe expecting only few reinforcements) similar to an adventure game, with or without a time limit etc.

3)Enemies with various abilities and strategy.

All such things make the campaign very interesting and the player never feels bored. The basic rules of the game are:

1)Good strategy is better than building vast armies. This was the case in previous versions as well but now it becomes more important. You have a limit of 90 units (strong units can count even for 7). With more than 40 you are wasting the 30% of the gold you mine and with more than 70 you are wasting the 60%.

2)There is not a fixed way which leads to the victory. There are many but everyone of them is hard.

These rules exist not only in the campaign but also and in custom games. There are many maps where you can play custom games against 1-11 opponents. Each man for himself or in teams.
There is one more rule in both campaign and custom games: Heroes acquire experience, i.e. become more powerful as long as your army kills. Consequently in a custom game where every man plays against all the others, it is a really bad idea to stay doing nothing but waiting the others to kill each other. Soon or later you'll face an enemy with too powerful heroes and you'll have no chance against him.

There are various battlefields but the superior artificial intelligence and the various races, units etc. make every game unique even if the battlefield is always the same and your enemy(ies) is the computer. Ofcource a human enemy is much more unpredictable and the game supports multiplayer battles.

As overall impression I would say that the warcraft team succeeded in combining whatever one could imagine in a really beautiful way. Everything is important, micromanagement has been reduced as much as possible and no feature is overfocused. The result is a game without a match.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: great game bad food limt
Review: good game takes time to beat. Better than the first and second. they took out water units so that was bad. Units look better than in the others. gameplay is good and the new heros are a very good thing to add. but theres a 90 food limt wich is bad it lets you only have around 80 units on the feild. alltogether great game 4 stars is for the lose of water units and the 200 food limt

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Warcraft 3 Fun but can be overwhelming
Review: I've been playing the warcraft series since the first one came out, so I have experienced its transformation and can say that this one is by far the most dramatic in terms of graphics and game play. If you dont like to micromanage then this is not a game for you. You literaly have to keep track of everytihng thats going on in the game, from buildings to troops to what hotkeys do what. Now this is nothing new to warcraft because you've always had to do this in all previous versions, but this one takes it to the extreme. The shear number of things happening at one time can get a little overwhelming if your not use to it. If you can hadle it, the game is a blast to play. From heros that gain levels, to the great number of different units to command, (though it is kind of a drag that you can only have a maximum of 90 troop units at any one time compared to previous versions where 200 was the max.). The one player story is very gripping and loads of fun by itself, but the online play is where its the most fun. Sending in that unexpected overwhelming force to crush your opponent and seeing the word Noooooooooooooo show up on your screen is very gratifing. Although I'm usualy sending the word Nooooooooooo more than recieving it :). Like I stated earlier, if you can handle the micromanagement get the game and have a blast, otherwise stay away and keep your sanity. Happy Gaming

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Amazing Game!
Review: It's a amazing game full of wickid creatures and awsome graphics.
I've had this game since the day it came out in july and i still play it because it never gets boring with b.net and making ur own maps characters and other things like that. The only downfall it had was that there's no water ships but there's other things that make up that difference like that there is four teams instead of just 2 I think if u like any Blizzard games like diablo 2 Or Starcraft you will love this game.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A little off balanced
Review: I've played both Starcarfts and really enjoyed them, when I sat down after getting Warcraft III, I was blown away by the superiority. The big draw is obviously the four differant races. The humans have a nice balance of abilities and magic upgrades, and the three heroes have a good mix of defensive and offensive abilities. Then there are the orcs, which are surprisingly reliant on abilities, every single unit has some kind of upgrade, even the Peons. The Undead, aside from being completely disgusting, require almost no special work to get their abilities working. The Nightelves, my favorite for their mobile structures, have certain units that are entirely reliant on magic (the Druids) and others that you just order to attack and they just go (Dryads, namely). The Campaigns are a lot of fun, and present a broad variety of styles, from town building to fighting your way through a cave. At the end of each is an incredible movie, with awesome graphics. The custom games, however, are unequal in that the AIs rampant use of magic requires a completely differant strategy than the campaigns and they gang up on you all the time, even when they're on differant teams. But I find that the replay mode is a great way to develop new tactics, and a lot of it is luck. It's fun, even when you lose, though. It's an engrossing game with a huge tech-tree that allows you to work out unique stategems. It's a lot of fun, even if you stink.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: LAN multiplayer is where it shines
Review: Single player Warcraft III is a lot of fun - there's some compelling missions and you can build up your heroes to a powerful level by the end of the campaigns. On normal difficulty it's a little bit easy though - try it on hard.

Where Warcraft III shines though is in its multiplayer capability. LAN especially. Teaming up with or fighting against an experienced player (desirably a friend for maximum fun) is something you can do all day.

There's too many good things to say about this game - it's a perfectly balanced, exciting, tense strategy game that requires thinking caps to be on at all times. After a tense game of multiplayer Warcraft III you'll be exhausted, infuriated, and ready for more!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Technically THE best Blizzard game yet!
Review: I am also a huge Blizzard games fan. I have Warcraft, Warcraft II, Diablo, Starcraft, Diablo II, Warcraft II Battle.net Edition and now Warcraft III. Not to mention ALL the expansion packages that Blizzard has released.

That being said, I have to rank Warcraft III right up there to my favorite game of all time, Starcraft. The reason why is purely because of the eye candy features within Warcraft III. The graphics is unbelievable and to be able to say THAT with ANY game today (as good graphics are not uncommon) is extremely impressive to me.

The added replay benefit as you go against opponents is a major plus, but obviously they had already added a similiar feature to the Starcraft game. The focus zoom and swivel was done very well. I can zoom in close up and watch the battle in detailed mode, or zoom back up a distance and watch the entire field go at it against each other.

The story line is still key to Blizzard's popularity. In Warcraft III, Blizzard once again told their story right. Even well before the end of the game, I knew that an expansion pack was going to have to show up to finish the story. Yet, after I finished the story in the single player mode, I was temporarily satisfied and ready for another set of Warcraft III. I jumped into the multi-player mode on Battle.net and promptly felt humbled as I thought I was an experienced Battle.net user with Diablo, Diablo II, Warcraft II Battle.net Edition and Starcraft (+Brood War), under my belt. The "remodeling" of the interface on Battle.net for Warcraft III is amazing and much more sociable. The buttons are just as easy to click with the overall interface being extremely user-friendly.

I have no doubt I will be playing this BEAUTIFUL game for a long time to come, but I will never abandon my all-time favorite strategy game, Starcraft. As long as Battle.net will support Starcraft, I will be there to take advantage of challenging people across the world. For now, I'm just enjoying the awesome features, gameplay, sound quality, story line, and graphics of Warcraft III. The ONLY thing I honestly disliked about Warcraft III is the price, OMG ... with the initial launch/release of Warcraft III, the price for one copy of Warcraft III was enough to feed a family in Africa for one month!

If Blizzard has to ban over 1000 people from Battle.net because of hacked software, illegal CD-keys and what other reasons... do they think that raising the price of their game will lessen people to use hacked versions of Warcraft III? Are they TRUELY making more money with higher pricing or are they losing money compared to games sold in the past? As more people are turning towards easily attainable hacked Warcraft III with the legit versions now beyond their wallet's reach. Especially with the economy being so "attractive" these days, ironically raising the cost of a game software that is easily hacked just does not seem like a viable "strategic" step for Blizzard to maximize their revenue income....

They should understand raising the price of their games will only hurt their legitimate customers. Lower the price and have more people jump on the bandwagon to own their OWN copies, instead of RAISING the price to turn people towards hacked version of Warcraft III.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best Warcraft yet
Review: The second I heard this game was coming I knew I had to get it. Blizzard has created more than just a game, they've created a living world. There's more to this than just collect resources and crush the enemy. You get to put more focus on your forces. I hope there is a Warcraft 4 in the next few years.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ban2's Review Of War Craft III
Review: Dude this game rocks! I find this game to be the best game there ever was. The graphics in this game rule with the game play. Man if you are gonna get a game, I feel you should get this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very, Very fun game, but theres just one thing about
Review: This game is the best =D. well, next the Frozen Throne of course. THe only part I don't like is that the orcs dont sound as funny and as stupid anymore as in WC2. Oh well, this game still is the best


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