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Summary: Graphics - awesome; Gameplay - stolen from Age of Empires?
Review: The graphics for this game leave little to complain about. It is way above average. In fact, the main driving force for me has been to move to the next episode simply to relish the new scenes!!While the game offers great eye-candy, Warcraft is a slightly enhanced version of Age of Empires. It is not turn-based but moves at a reasonable pace, just like AOE. You make buildings using minions just as you would in AOE with very similar groups of people, research, and building types. This game is not for the ones with slow mouse-click responses - things get out of control in a jiffy. In a melee, it is next to impossible to control the individual units fast enough, so the action control buttons on these are practically useless - stay back and pray that your entire team does not get slaughtered. The only player I found myself frantically controlling in the battles is the hero (Arhaus?) since he has the ability of "healing" some of the dying partners. The story is intersting and quite gripping (or you go for the escape key!). The manual is very well written and may take you quite a while to get through. The game's first mission acts as a tutorial and does an excellent job of getting you up to speed (some more learning required though). The game is worth possesing. I'd recommend you check out Heroes IV too if you like similar storyline, but are looking for a turn-based relaxed gameplay.
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Summary: Awesome Movies!
Review: You will like the game just when you start installing. The picture of the Orc is overwhelming. When you start the game a movie will start to play, when you finish some chapters other movies will play... I can't believe that man can create such incredible stuff! Looking at Arthus' clothing and sword, when he was listening to his father's LAST words just before killing him, is enough to know that Blizzard worked VERY hard on the movies; which are hard to believe they are man-made! The game is not bad, it is easy -save for the last couple of chapters.
Try it. It is amusing and I tried to spend as much time as I can playing it. I had a good time.
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Summary: Blizzard disappoints
Review: In all of my time spent gaming, I have never seen more hype surrounding the release of a video game than with Warcraft III. I suppose it would be difficult for any product to live up to that kind of hype, but I was especially disappointed by Warcraft III. I never have been a huge fan of the Warcraft series, but decided to give this one a try based on how awesome it sounded. Unfortunately, it fails to deliver. The game comes with steep system requirements, and I don't really see why. The graphics are good, don't get me wrong, but I don't really think they show the improvement in technology they should since Blizzard's last game, Diablo II. Also, W3 doesn't have the addictive power that is such a trademark of Blizzard games. I was entertained at first, but have gotten bored of the game now. It is still a very impressive game, but in the opinion of this one gamer, it fails to deliver in the areas which make Blizzard stand out. Always hoping for Starcraft 2,
Bob
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Summary: I'm a harsh grader
Review: WCIII is really a good game. I slightly upgraded an old PII 400 Dell by adding a 32 Meg ATI 7000 card (about the best the old motherboard would support), and the game plays with no slowdown. I was surprised because I'm below minimum system specs, but it still plays fine. I even play it in high resolution. By contrast my Dune 3D game, which has lesser stated requirements than WCIII, plays with many slowdowns. Even when the screen is not full of units it has problems. I think Blizzards refinement process wants players to experience near perfect gameplay. This game will play passibly I believe on half the specs they quote as minimum. The downsides: What happened to the ships and the sea battles? While they exist as models there is no mission which includes them. Next, the tax system needs some adjustment, and there is a need for more heros. There were games in WCII where I could use as many as five or six heros, you never get more than two in this game, unless they are computer controlled. I thought that was supposed to be the point or this game, RPG action. The game scenerios could also use a number of large map RPG explorer missions, to emphasize that part of the game.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I have every single game from blizzard and i believe that this is one of the worst ones. It has a few annoying features like 90 food supply. which makes for small armies and it has an Upkeep feature that really ... I thought that the game was way to easy. i beat the entire campaign without losing once. Way to easy. It also did not take very long to do it.
The game also was not very orginal i thought that it was pretty much the same as WarcraftII just with better graphics
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Summary: Gameplay has been done before. No real innovation.
Review: This game is nothing more than a remake of warcraft 2. If it weren't for the new graphics I'd call it an expansion pack. The main flaw in this games gameplay is the fact that almost every strategy is based upon massing units. If you're not good at constantly queing up units you're doomed. Very little micro is required in this game. Other than knowing how to constantly produce units your best bet for winning is memorizing the various abusive strategies that are based on this games many imbalances. There is one upside to this game and that is the map editor. It allows you to edit just about everything about the game with relative ease. I spend almost all my time playing custom mods that aren't even similar to the actual game. If you want a real RTS that's innovative and has strong gameplay and an emphasis on tactics get Battle Realms.
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Summary: This game kicks!
Review: I've been a veteran Warcraft player ever since the first and I must say that this game blew me away. For the most part, it's a lot easiser to navigate that the first two, and it has an incredible storyline. For those of you who haven't ever played a Warcraft game before, I would recommend at least trying Warcraft II before this one. Otherwise it will take you a while to get used to it. Also it was an excellent blend of RPG and strategy. I must admit I was skeptical of it at first, but it's not too much RPG, but leave that fun of the broadness to it.
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Summary: This game is embarrassing...
Review: Ok, where to start. First of all, this game is garbage. This game is the same old warcraft 2 candy with a new wrapper. I was severely disappointed when I wasted sixty-five dollars on this, and I am going to give you some reasons not to suffer the same indignation. First of all, don't think, "well I'm still going to get this game even though I heard it was crud because it has awesome graphics." Well, to tell you the truth, it does have nice graphics if you are into cartoons. However, Emperor-Battle for Dune has better graphics then even this depending on how you look at it.
Although graphics is important when I buy a game, the thing I most look for is gameplay. Now that's where this games major flaw comes into play. First of all, I am not saying blizzard is a horrible company. They are responsible for the RTS revolution and have created the best online strat game starcraft. However, when it comes down to it, I fail to see any of the qualities which made starcraft such a great game make it into warcraft 3. First of all, there is no unit diversity. Every race has a few flying and ground creatures, and one seige unit. In starcraft, the terrans had marines, which were good against zerglings, hydralisks, zealots and wraiths. They also had the siege tanks, which had a long-range cannon and were good for numerous strategic purposes ranging from defense, fire support or resource sabotage. Each race in starcraft had their own unique style and special units, which each had their own strengths and weaknesses. These qualities made starcraft a truly amazing experience online, as the strategic possibilities were endless. None of these qualities have made it into warcraft 3.
While I'm on the subject of units, I'm going to put it bluntly: when factoring in strength, build time and cost, every unit is exactly the same. Blizzard wasn't lying when they said it was going to be well balanced. After all this, you might say, "well how can it get any worse?" Oh, believe me when I say that this is only the tip of the iceberg. Another thing that grabbed my attention is the fact that they made the units have about an average of 750hp and 20 damage, the result being that the battles literally take about 2 minutes each assuming that you and your opponent both have a good sized force of about 2 dozen guys. Now this might have been ok if they let you have an enormous army of creatures. However, this time they put the unit cap at 90, with the average unit taking up 4 unit spaces. In warcraft 3, an enormous army is about 2 or 3 dozen weak units, or 1 to 2 dozen strong ones. Not to mention that it doesn't matter what kind of units you choose, because as I said before, every unit is essentially the same.
In starcraft, you were able to initiate surprise attacks on your enemies, damaging their base and perhaps even destroying it before help arrived. In warcraft 3, Blizzard implemented a neat feature allowing the heroes (which I will cover later) to start with a "scroll of town portal." This allowed you to teleport your hero and any nearby units instantly to yours, or any friendly base, therefore squishing out the element of surprise in this "strategy" game. One of the elements of the game that was further doctored is the resource management. You can have a max of 5 guys to a gold mine, and if you want more gold, you must take another mine. The result of this handy feature being that you are constantly watching your gold reserves, and when you have enough, you start building a unit, wait a little more, build another, and so on. Because of this, you are never able to actually play a game without having enough resources to really concentrate on strategy. Whoever gets gold faster will win.
A lot of emphasis was put on the hero portion of the game, blizzard saying "we are combining the traditional elements of an RPG with the warcraft universe." This may seem cool at first, but gets bothersome very fast as you soon realize that you MUST build a hero as soon as possible, level it up by killing the hostile non-player creatures scattered around the map, all for the purpose of gaining a spell which will enable you to prevail over your enemy in combat. There are six spells per hero, and 3 heroes per race. In order to win, you need a better hero then your enemy. Simple as that. On a final note, if you are determined to get this game, wait till it hits the bargin bins, or just don't bother at all.
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Summary: A Very Good Game
Review: I have enjoyed playing this game immensely. I like the graphics, particularly the night elf graphics. I have enjoyed the quests, thus far. If you like battle, this is the game for you. The battles begin almost immediately after the game begins, which at times can be frustrating, as you really have no time to think or plan. Further, this is not a game that places a premium on character development (albeit the quests do satisfy this to some extent). Perhaps, I will enjoy a more open-ended game that is not entirely about battle, but more about developing a character and then once their strengths are known, setting them free on the world.
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Summary: Unbelievable Graphics
Review: Ok...let's just say I have been waiting for this game since Battle.net edition of Warcraft II. I have every single game from Blizzard Entertainment, although Starcraft is my favorite series, Warcraft is starting to top it. Now I have only had the game for 4 days, I couldn't get the game due to money issues, but now I got it and I love it. The graphics are the best part while the gameplay kicks big time .... The storyline is awesome so far, just had time to play human campaign so far. Here are my PC parts: Pentium III 450Mhz, 12GB hard drive, VooDoo3500TV 16 MB graphics card, 384SDRAM, Sound Blaster Live Platium Sound Card w\ live drive, 17" monitor. Now the game runs good on my system with no crashes but the only problem is when your army gets too big (like in a fight scene, or when there is a big ... battle, my system gets choppy, I only blame that on my system, not the game. Need an update. Now would I recommend this game, absolutely, why only 4 stars? The price, it is still damn expensive, I just couldn't wait (wheen I got the money that is) to get it. Go get it if your love intense gaming. Later.
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