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WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos

WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos

List Price: $29.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the Best Games Ever
Review: I followed up on this game for over 2 years since Blizzard first announced they were working on it. I saw all the changes that the game went through and I couldn't be happier with the final product and each race and their heroes rock the house. Each race is different so you won't feel like your playing the same way every time.

The Humans- In Warcraft 1&2, I took a great delight in smashing the humans to pieces, but I got into playing as them cause there a lot tougher this time around. The humans can handle just about anything that the other races can throw at them.

The Undead- I love the Raise Dead spell, especially on autocast. The units are so cheap that you can almost go into High Upkeep and still not be hurt by it. They also got some of the best abilites that units (not heroes) can have.

The Orcs- The orcs have always been (and always will be) my favorite race and they do not disappoint here either. If your a die-hard Warcraft 2 player, you'll know that there were only 2 actual orc units in that game, the peon and grunt. There's a lot more in Warcraft 3 and the Tauren and Wyverns are great additions to and I like the new sect of trolls.

The Night Elves- They got some of the most interesting spells in the whole game. The farm buildings can heal units too so you can fight for a long time. 2 of their heroes also got the most useful auras, but I won't say what they are. You'll just play to find out.

Warcraft 3 is one of the finest games ever. If you want something that will make you lose a lot of sleep, then this is the one for you.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Greatest Game Ever
Review: I love this game just like I love Warcraft 2, though 1 kinda sucked because of the low quality graphics, etc. I hardly play computer games and I still loved Warcraft III. I suck at video games and I still have a fun time with this one. The one only thing I don't like about it is that there are no water units. Water units were the best but besides that everything else rocks!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fantastic Strategy Game
Review: I'm a big fan of Blizzard Entertainment and Starcraft, so I was looking forward to this release 2 years before it actually hit the shelves. What's not to love here?

.The Cinematics are incredible, absolutely amzing, way ahead of the rest of the gameing-world.

.The game itself is balanced and tight, providing a technical wonder as well as an imaginative and fun experience.

.The music is incredible and fitting; I especially enjoyed the Night Elves and Undead Themes. The diologue and voice acting could have been better, but all in all I love this game and would recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Want to see something real scary? Then read these reviews.
Review: I feel compelled I suppose to bunk some of the other reviews that have been posted for Frozen Throne. The one's that state "this game will rock" I need not say anything about, cause you already know to take them with a grain of salt. But for the one's that are written by actual beta testers (like myself), I need to update you on the facts, and correct some mistakes.

First off, it's hard to really rate or give a knowledgeable review of Frozen Throne because those of us that are beta testers are only getting to see the multi-player, on-line aspect of the game. There will also be an extension to the storyline of WC3, of which we can only guess at until the game is out. To give a really in-depth review of the whole game, a person would need the complete expansion.

Another thing that I find upsetting is that one of the reviewers has gotten a lot of helpful votes, just for the simple fact that people don't know whether he's correct or not. His review would have been appropriate when he wrote it. He wrote his review in March, and the game has made some drastic changes since then. So, for example, saying that Orc Batriders are overpowered is no longer applicable. To be honest, people rarely use them anymore.

Also, there is no Night Elf hero that can change Day into Night. That is an item that the Night Elves can buy from their own specific shop. To explain this, each race has the ability to build their own shop, which is very inexpensive at the moment, from which they can buy items, such as scroll of town portals, heath potions, etc. Each race has certain item specific to them. Like the Night Elf item to change the time of day or the Undead item called a Wand of Necromancy that can summon 2 skeletons from a corpse. But for some reason Blizzard decided to give Undead that item, but take away the Wand of Negation from the Original WarCraft 3. I haven't understood that move (taking away the Wand of Negation) since the beta started.

There are many other changes as well, but if I was to try and list them all, it would take me quite a while. Just rest assured that Blizzard has done a bang up job of not only making it feel like an expansion, but also adding the excitement back to when we first got WarCraft 3 and got to try out all the "new" stuff. And if I listed them all, I would take away some of the excitement of when you first pop it in and play it yourself.

Okay now that I got that off my chest, my opinion on FT so far is that it is fantastic! Bear in mind that I am only reviewing this game from the multi-player, on-line, battle.net aspect of it; I have no idea what the storyline will be to the game.

Veterans to WC3 will find some very interesting changes in Frozen Throne. While still not complete, the game seems to be reaching its home stretch. Blizzard does an excellent job of fixing balance issues, as many WC3 players already know. So that's why it was not a good idea for someone to post in March on how powerful certain units were, because Blizzard has since fixed that issue and it's no longer true. Recently they changed it so that you can get Wyverns at tier 2 now, but whether or not that will stay in the final edition, I can't say.

I personally give the game 5 stars because it excels at what I loved about WC3 so much. The on-line aspect. In all my years of gaming I don't remember a game that has pulled me in as much as WC3 has, and now Frozen Throne.

There is however a nice learning curve. Even if you are very good at WC3, you will run into some bumps in the road with Frozen Throne. But this is to be expected with new units, new heroes, new buildings and new creeps. Be warned though, a lot of the newer creeps are very, very tough and are not to be fought unless you have quite a few units. I say this mostly in the vain hope that I don't get to hear "our alley's hero has fallen" to creeps. So don't say I didn't warn you, he, he.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great game
Review: THIS GAME IS GREAT.IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES.IN THIS GAME YOU CAN BATTLE AGAINST THE COMPUTER OR OTHER PEOPLE. YOU CAN BE FOUR DIFFERENT RACES LIKE, HUMANS ,ORCS, NIGHT ELVES, OR UNDEAD. I AM USUALLY NIGHT ELVES
BUT ALL MY FRIENDS ARE ORCS.I LIKED THIS GAME THE MINUTE I
PLAYED IT. IF YOU LIKE DIABLO YOU WOULD LIKE THIS GAME.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: one sweet game
Review: this game is really fun. Not only does it have good graphics, it has lots of action fun!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Orcs are friends, not goons
Review: I have to admit that I've killed many orcs over the years and never felt an ounce of remorse about it--and who could blame me? They smell bad, they drool, have terrible dental hygiene, steal the jobs of hard-working dwarves and gnomes, and of course...they eat people. Or so I was told. (*Mild Spoiler*) You can imagine what a shock it was to learn in Warcraft III that not only are the orcs not enemies; they are allies you need to save humanity's collective bacon. So as you play the game, you'll need to drive that Lord of the Rings propaganda out of your mind and find peace with your inner orc.

Warcraft III is a terrific real-time strategy game that goes farther in blurring elements of role-playing and strategy than any game that's come before it. The inclusion of heroes as role-playing characters is terrific and provides extra incentive to explore the entire map because you never know what items or quests are hidden in remote corners. It just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside when you find those hidden magic boots or that ring of protection. Warcraft III also marks the best story to date for a Real-Time Strategy game. In the third campaign of the single-player, I tell you that I was an orc...for about an hour. It's also worth mentioning that he tale cleverly unfolds in a way to allow you to play each of the factions (Human, Undead, Orc, and Night Elf) in a compelling progression.

Anyone who has played RTS games before will be familiar with the interface and gameplay of Warcraft III. All of the usual unit types are there--it's just that in Warcraft III they seem more polished than in other games. Whether it's the endearing signature responses when you click on them or the way the units intelligently form up, move, path find, and attack, every aspect of every unit has obviously been thoroughly tested and balanced. Not once when I gave an order did a unit wander off from the pack to explore some random corner of the screen and cause me mouse-crushing, game-cursing rage (see how well I found my inner orc?). It may not sound like much, but those of you who have played many real-time strategy games know that this is not a given. When I ordered a unit to march to a certain place and kill, they did just that.

I realize that the game is over a year old now, but it's worth noting how technically sound this game is. I did not have a hiccup in this game. Not once in my single-player campaign did the game crash to desktop, freeze, stutter, spit or delay. The load times were very reasonable and there were also no graphical problems changing resolution or color depth. The graphics themselves are probably the weakest element of the game; all of the units certainly look very blocky and dated. But of course, for a real-time strategy game, who really gives a crap? You don't need state of the art graphics for an RTS. I certainly didn't find that it affected my experience.

I only played the multiplayer a couple of times and I got stomped like the kid in my elementary school who used to wear cardigans that looked like they'd been swiped from Mr. Rogers' closet. It was that bad. This game has been out long enough that even if you seek out a so-called newbie game, you're dealing with people who obviously eat, slept and breathe Warcraft. But there was no problem finding a game and I didn't have any problems with lag or people bailing out of games. It just so happens that I stink.

On the whole, this is a beast of a game: fun to play, compelling, balanced and technically sound...and I think it's time we thought about an orc for president.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: War Craft III
Review: War craft is a game that allows you to battle aganist the compter and other people. Its realistic and has 3 D animation . It perfect the way they made it

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Impeccable....Simply Impeccable...
Review: This game was my life for about 4 months straight. Every morning I'd wake up and play Warcraft. Blizzard has done well with all its games but this one(and diablo of course)has been by far the best(or at least till world of warcraft comes out). The cinematics on this game are a work of art and I could watch them again and again. What's really impressive about blizzard is their battle.net feature. Not only is it free but all the games people create are mad fun. With this feature it's virtually impossible to get bored with this game since new games are being created everyday. I sadly have a crap computer now with dial up...a few steps down from a nice gateway and cable. But nonetheless this is a fabulous game. Blizzard has never let me down and if all their work is like this they truly never will.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: king of games
Review: this is the king of games best game in its kind (rts) and the next episode to the game of the year 1995. the graphics are great, the voices are funny, the stroy is good, the gamplay is good and you can do almost everything with the editor


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