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Warcraft III Battle Chest

Warcraft III Battle Chest

List Price: $39.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: what can i say?
Review: simply the best out there right now the week b4 i buy wc3 im worrying that weather ill b able to play it or not but the night b4 i bought it i heard that my friend with a PII mmx-200 is playing it just fine so that's when i decide to buy it. after i start it up it was like "DAMN".......i recommend this 2 anyone out there wether uve tried the wc series b4 or not.damn u blizzard...another month of being a computer chair potato....
p.s. kinda laggy on battle.net with 56k....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best game I own!...
Review: This game rocks! The graphics, no matter what some miss-informed people might say, is simply astounding. The character animations are superbly done, the voices very well suiting, and the plot that twists and turns as you play the game. I own many RTS games, but this is the best. Yes, I own Age of Empires 2, and War Craft ties it. Its that good! The addition of Hero units was very smart, and extremely fun to use. I heartily recommend this one!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Blizzard does it again
Review: I'm only 3 or 4 hours into the game, and I'm addicted. Blizzard seems to do a quality job on all their games. This one seems to be a great game AND have great video between scenarios. I can't wait to play online - which is often more fun than the one-player scenarios.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best game ever
Review: My brother got this game for christmas because he is a big time strategy game player. My computer was the only one he could use so he let me play it and I thought it was awesome! This is definitely the best game I have ever played! I am usually a big fan of FPS and a certain First Person Puzzle game featuring a girl, but this game beats every other game I have played into the ground!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AWESOME GAME
Review: This game is completely awesome. if you buy this game you will probably play it for hours, even if you dont mean to! if i could i'd give it six stars!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Fun but overhyped and overrated
Review: WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos is a decent RTS title that will entertain players for a short while, but the small amount of enjoyment it contains hardly measures up to the hefty price tag. You can grab the game now for a decent price, but when it was first released it was horribly overpriced. The game has been rated highly and is enjoying strong sales momentum based solely on Blizzard's reputation. If another company had released this game, it would've been forgotten soon after it hit the store shelves.

This game is aimed squarely a niche audience, and if you're not in that niche, chances are you won't be as fond of the title as the insiders are. It takes a certain kind of person to like a game like this, and it's a shining example of how a company can listen too much to its fan base to create something that's flat out not fun to any but a select few.

On the positive side, the game has well-rendered, colorful graphics that are pleasing to the eye even if they are a bit on the cartoonish side. The nature of the graphics suggests that the game is aimed at a younger audience, the kind that likes the oversimplified, angular, unrealistic drawings that characterize modern cartoons. The races are very distinct and offer very intriguing units with various strengths.

The single-player campaign offers an intriguing storyline that boils up to a shattering disappointment. Thought and effort were put into constructing the human campaign and the transition to the Undead campaign, introducing an interesting, albeit predictable, twist as the story develops. Things begin to unravel during the Orc campaign, however. The story tends to meander and you wonder where it's going. The Night Elf campaign at the end of the game has a tacked-on feel to it as if it were an afterthought. Most of the Night Elf missions consist of running a group of characters to different points on the map to accomplish trivial tasks. The final mission is epic in scope, but it's disappointing in that it offers little of the base building that makes these games fun.

Far too many missions in the game are of the "run these four characters here and do this" variety. A few such missions now and again are entertaining, but they become tedious after a while in WCIII. Once I reached the end of the single-player campaign, it dawned on me that the whole single-player side of the game was afterthought thrown in to give buyers a sense that they'd got their money's worth. I was terribly disappointed by it.

The game was built solely for the sake of online play, and while that may sound like a good thing to you, you must consider what online play is like. Most games last only a few minutes, which means that you've either decimated your opponent or been decimated yourself before anyone has had a chance to really build a base and train advanced units. What use is it, I ask, to include cool late-game units when most online players never have the chance to use them? The people who win online games are those who scout and rush early, and since cheating online is rampant (and don't tell me it's not because Blizzard is still scrambling to catch up with the cheaters and has already banned hundreds for cheating), you never really know if you've been defeated legitimately or not.

Couple that with the micromanagement Blizzard has built in, including an upkeep system that makes it expensive to maintain larger populations, and you have the makings of a game that is both frustrating and at times tedious. The ladder-climbing youngsters who enjoy battling it out on Battlenet will love the game simply because they're much enamored of seeing numbers next to their names as they rise in the rankings.

From a technical standpoint the game is stable and well made. It has the feel of a quality product. The problem is that this is a flawed design if ever I saw one. It's a game that forgot that games are supposed to be fun. WCIII is a pleasant, short-term diversion, but the simple fact is, there are far better games out there in the genre that are actually enjoyable to play.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Simply astounding.
Review: This is without question the best RTS ever created. I've played 'em all--StarCraft, WarCraft, Dune, Total Annihilation, etc., and believe me, they get OLD. I thought there was no hope left for this genre until WarCraft: Reign of Chaos came along. There is simply no comparison!

From the slick 3D graphics to the well-thought-out story to the varied and engaging missions, the single player campaign is phenomenal. Add to that some of the best cinematic sequences I've ever seen (they really are THAT good) and a challenging computer AI for skirmish games, and you have the makings of a fabulous game.

However, WarCraft, like StarCraft before it, excels in the online realm. Part of what makes WarCraft III so engaging is the fact that Blizzard constantly tweaks the balances that make up each unit, trying to make sure that there are no "best" units. Playing online has shown that ALL FOUR RACES (Undead, Night Elves, Humans and Orcs) are equally powerful if used in the right way (although three allied human players cannot be stopped, really, but how often does that happen?). It is this attention to detail and focusing on the individual strengths and weaknesses of each Hero unit that allows WarCraft III to elevate itself high above other strategy games.

The races: NIGHT ELVES focus on ranged attacks and fast movement, with excellent scouting and focused-fire. Night Elf Huntresses are some of the most versatile units in the game. They also have the scariest air forces--Chimaeras, anyone? Night Elves also have the most destructive Ultimate spell in the game-- Starfall, which causes the stars themselves to fall on an enemy base, leveling it in seconds if unchecked.

ORCS focus on raw strength. The Bloodlust spell and the awesome power of even their lowliest unit, the Grunt, make them a strong attack force. Orc Raiders have the awesome ability to "Web" air units, making them vulnerable to attacks from their powerful ground units. Along with the great Orc Heroes, there's a lot of power here.

The UNDEAD are masters of the "rush". Like the Zerg in StarCraft, the UNDEAD focus on having lots of "little guys" in battle at once. Powerful Auras mean that the UNDEAD heros greatly affect the fighting skills of the units around them. The UNDEAD Necromancers create armies of skeleton warriors, which can overwhelm through sheer numbers. The Undead also have some of the fastest-moving units.

The HUMANS are masters of magic and manipulation. They may seem weak at first (Footmen aren't very good), but if you've ever seen the devastation left by a Mountain King and a group of Knights, you know that HUMANS are far from weak. Priests, with their Healing and Inner Fire spells, can make a small group of units tear through almost any defense.

To repeat: ALL FOUR RACES ARE INCREDIBLY WELL-BALANCED. That's what makes WarCraft so great. When you have an allied army with Knights and Huntresses on the ground, Archers, Shamen and Witchdoctors supporting, and an army of Frost Wyrms, Chimaeras and Gryphons soaring through the sky--and your ally's Priestess of the Moon suddenly launches Starfall just as an Infernal lands in the enemy's base and a Tauren Chieftain comes in with Endurance Aura... ahh, sheer gaming bliss.

The graphics are dazzling, the gameplay engaging and INCREDIBLY exciting (much more so than StarCraft ever was) and the addition of the Hero units and their items, as well as Neutral buildings and Mercenaries, offer a totally new game experience. This is the last word in RTS gaming. Buy it NOW. And if you liked StarCraft, WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos will become your new addiction.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: eh... very so-so
Review: the graphics aren't that good and the game is corny and unoriginal, it brings nothing new to these kind of games.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: damn good
Review: nothing else, only four words...
I LOVE THIS GAME

Dont believe what I say?
Try It!!

you will

Love It

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Blizzard Game Yet
Review: Blizzard never lets us fans down. Any of the positives can be found in the other reviews, but I just want to chime in and mention that the game changes at least every month. Due to the fact that they constantly release patches, certain races become better and harder to control.

So the game does not stay exactly the same for long which makes it much more challenging!


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