WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos

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Summary: What a stupid game
Review: I played this game at an online convention. The food limit was 100, and I had thought this would be reasonable anyway, it wasn't, as I spent about 10 or so workers trying to build up resources, as normally, gold is gathered at +10 per few seconds, and +5 wood per. Come on! Then most major processes seemed to be a one-at-a-time deal making it take forever to build new buildings, learn new skills, and even just making troops leaving me open to attack. What really bugged me though was two things: first, you can't gather without your base creating a catch 22 where if it is destroyed you need a base to gain materials to build a new base. The second is the way food is gathered and done. It's counterintuitive. Rather than hunting down critters and expending resources, making food decrease when you breed critters(thereby allowing more troops) you have to operate within a very artificial limit. And it doesn't seem any way you can dismiss your characters, nor does there seem to be a way to convert (*cough* useless *cough*) workers into fighters, so you have 10 workers hanging about which should be 3-5 fighters. It is an overhyped, overrated game as most of the major problems are addressed in Age of Empires/Myth games (the food, the workers could at least fight, and if your base is destroyed, you just die rather than be humiliated by not having the resources) or the Heroes of Might and Magic games (your hero that uses magic is actually leader of troops rather than someone who just gets killed off along with the rest, and they have wider selection of spells to boot).

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Summary: It Is A Good Day To Die!
Review: Whether you are a fan of the old WarCraft games or are new to the series you'll love WarCraft III. It is the same gaming style of games such as StarCraft and Age of Empires. Build units to gather resources so you can make buildings to train soldiers (such as knighs, ghouls, archers, ect.), build seige weapons (such as catapults, balistas, ect.), or upgrade weapons, armor, ect. Then gather more resources and train or make what you want. You can play as four different races, Human, Undead, Orc, and Night Elf. The human are well humans with units such as knights, gunmen, and sorceresses. The undead are zombies with units like ghouls (which can devoure corpses to gain health), abominations, and skeletons. The orcs are green brutes with units like the grunts, peons, and strange little men riding rhinos and playing drums. The night elves are purple elves who pretty much are entirely focused around trees. Most of their builldings are trees and uproot themselves and fight (though they are extremely slow). They have units like archers, huntresses, and hypogriff riders (might be something else instead of hypogriffs). Through out the main quest you will gain control of heroes. They are stronger than normal units, sometimes are not allowed to die or the mission is over, gain levels, use items, and you can choose a spell to get (or upgrade one) each time you level up. The main quest (luckily) is not someshort cake walk. It will a while to beat and some levels are extremely difficult. Though if you get stuck there are lots of codes to help you get through them. I reccomend WarCraft III to everyone. It's a great addition to the WarCraft series. And once you buy WarCraft III you should get the expansion pack which contains many new units, heroes, a new main quest, and more custom quests.

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Summary: Great game
Review: I have played all the Warcraft/Starcraft games and must say I enjoy this game. Contrary to another posted review, the gameplay in this game is very easy and intuitive. There are hotkeys for most everything (including grouping units together, allowing for effective, cohesive attacks) and I especially love the ability to switch between different kinds of units within a selected group, allowing you to make full use of their several abilities. I love games with a good storyline, and Warcraft III delivers in the usual Blizzard fashion. With cutscenes in every mission and amazing DVD-quality cinematics, the story is certainly a compelling one. The only great criticism I would have of this game that Blizzard really did make sacrifices for the 3D graphics. The unit limit is rather low, making it impossible to "swarm" your enemies like in Starcraft. However, this also means that each unit is worth that much more and that, in terms of the game, a sizeable army can be built up rather quickly. I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys the Warcraft franchise and who has a computer who can run it. If you just barely meet the system requirements, then the game can be unbearably slow. But overall, it is a great game.