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Summary: Nothing new under the sun...
Review: I enjoyed Warcraft 2 immensely, as well as Blizzard's other hot product, Starcraft and its sequels. However, by the time I'd finished the expansion packs for those games, the RTS formula which Blizzard had pioneered had become more than a little bit stale. When a friend tried to introduce me to the Command and Conquer series, I simply wasn't able to build up much enthusiasm, and never completed the title.Now along comes Warcraft 3, which promises a lot of 'revolutionary' developments to tthe RTS genre. Unfortunately, those promises were 100 percent untrue -- what we have here is exactly the same build, group, and rush formula that has worked so well for Blizzard in the past, with a cosmetic facelift and the addition of elite units. The much touted 'hero's don't add much to the game, since one already had the opportunity to upgrade units in previous titles in the series. Why bother? About four hours into the game, playing began to feel less like fun, and more like work. Grinding work. Seriously boring work. Like doing tax accounts, or digging a ditch. No fun. No challenge. No surprises. Just work. Apparently, I'm one of the lucky ones, inasmuch as gameplay itself was bug-free (other than some odd graphical artifacts, probably the result of Blizzard's inexperience with their new graphic engine). The Blizzard boards are chock-full of people who can't get this title to run at all, or who aren't able to get the online component (the only potentially redeeming feature) to operate. Despite the long development time, there are some problematic bugs, and a number of design flaws and imbalance issues. One is tempted to ask 'with all that development time, what the hell was Blizzard doing?' Sadly, the answer is 'marketing.' Like a stale television sitcom which copies every successful sitcom of the past, Blizzard's WarCraft 3 is re-hashed, re-packaged, re-gurgitated re-run, through and through. The packaging is nice, don't get me wrong -- the new graphics are charming, if not in any way groundbreaking. In fact nothing about this game breaks new ground. The hero units come across as a feeble attempt to cash in on the current resurgence of the Role-Playing genre -- a task which other titles like Bethesda's Morrowind or BioWare's Neverwinter Nights accomplish with *much* more commitment, innovation, and success. I notice that this title has received a number of high reviews...I can only assume that they are from 10 year olds with short memories, or absolute newbies who've never played an RTS before. If you've never played an RTS, you'll likely enjoy Warcraft 3 a lot, and I reccomend it highly. However, that's only about 3 people in the whole country who might be interested in this game in the first place. If you loved the originals and are simply looking for more scenarios...well, I'd still reccomend waiting until this one hits the bargain bins, rather than spending the cash now. For everyone else -- the vast majority of us -- WC3 can only be chalked up as a serious dissapointment, in the hopes that Blizzard learns that innovation is not a bad thing, that ideas, even good ones, can be overused, and that they should trust their fans a bit more to enjoy new challenges, rather than the same old takss over and over and over and over and over and over and... As for me, I couldn't bring myself to finish the game. I play for fun challenges, thanks, not to feel like I'm back in high-school, grinding out homework. I'm afraid WC3 isn't worth my valuable time.
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Summary: This is a great game; you will love it.
Review: First off, let me start by saying that I love this game. Though I haven't beaten it yet, I am completely loving it so far. Secondly, I have never played either of the previous WarCraft games nor StarCraft or Brood War for that matter. I just started getting into the whole RTS genre by playing Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, which is very fun. And then a friend of mine showed me the game on a bootleg copy, which could do everything that the real game could except work on Battle.net. My friend immediately shoved me at his computer and told me to play. I did and now I'm addicted. Whether you know jack about WarCraft and/or StarCraft or not, get this game, you'll love it.
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Summary: 1/2 and 1/2
Review: At first I was skeptical but there are a lot of new elements and thought provoking play. This game is half role-playing and half strategy. Over all very enjoyable. I was upset that my main hero in the campaign got reset when he turned evil. Seemed like a lot of wasted effort. Still though the Collector's edition is worth the extra funds if you are really into Warcraft.
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Summary: Fairly good game
Review: I purchased Warcraft 3 the day it came out (as I did with al of Blizzard's other games) expecting it to be the best game of the summer... It was... everything was perfect exept for the lack of variety of trainable units. The ability to zoom and rotate the camera was a good feature, but pointless, because when zoomed the game becomes almost unplayable. My favorite part of the game is that the heroes can become more powerful and they can pick up items, the problem is that sine you can regenerate them, the comp in skirmish trains his heroes to lvl 10 and when you finally kill them, they just regenerate... You can't change the difficulty... Besides that, the game was very entertaining.
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Summary: A great game by Blizzard
Review: Though WarcraftI or WarcraftII never called my attention, this latest game WarcraftIII is superb, the graphics are great, and the capabilities to screen in and out of the game is outstaning. The story line was also good. I think this is agreat game.
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Summary: Wooooo-hooooo!
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Ever since John Romero's unholy release of Daikatana, games that have endless delays give me a sense of foreboding. However, I've never been disappointed by Blizzard, and they certainly delivered with this gem. This game beat my best expectations and continues to amaze me with its beautiful graphics, impressive storylines, and boundless imagination.
Oh yeah, the multiplayer is awesome, too.
While the Undead continue to gross me out, the Night Elves are an amazing addition to this game. They have a beautifully conceived and thought-out culture, art and history.
Adding a fouth race to top the RTS breakthrough of 3 races in Starcraft was quite a challenge, and I can forgive them for dropping the fifth race, considering how hard it is to balance forces in this game. Maybe their next release will have a fifth race.
The 3D ability in this game is unbelievably cool. The graphics are smooth as ice. The games load up quickly and I haven't seen anyone have a systems burp yet. Stability is a hallmark of Blizzard games. I would definitely buy this if you're an RTS fan.
-- JJ Timmins
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Summary: Way too much addictive
Review: I've bought this game on day of release immediately. The day I bought it, I went to sleep at 2:00 AM, but I couldn't, I saw fire thrown at me, and my hero holding his hammer and killing others. You see, the thing is with this game is that is too much addictive. I mean way too much, the next day, I, slept at 4:00 AM, I just wanted to finish the damn level.
I like RTS that is fast paced, light, absorbing, but surely not addictive.
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Summary: Bleah -- and then more bleah -- and then MORE bleah...
Review: Repetitive. Uninvolving. Moderately dated eye-candy. Save your money, go buy WC 2 on eBay for 10 bucks, or wait for this over-hyped lump to hit the bargain bins. I'm sorry to say I paid full price for nothing very remarkable, just Blizzard repeating the same old kill, build, kill build kill build routine that worked in all of their previous games. Gads, why do they even hire programmers? All they need is a graphics team to slap a new face on their repetitive formula for each new game and they could fire half their staff and end up with the same game. If you want a decent RPG, buy an RPG. If you wanted a better RTS, keep waiting.
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Summary: W.C.3 IS THE BEST R.T.S. EVER!!!
Review: I have never had so much fun playing any other game in my life. warcraft3 will give you endless hours of gaming goddness!!!
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Summary: Good And Bad
Review: well warcraft III is a very good game better then II there are 4 races 2 new Night Elf and the Undead. this game is more fun to play 1 player. Battle Net is Much more fun then Then StarCraft Brood War There is no Use map settings :( well there are some Things like you can get other things while playing.
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