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Summary: The Best Game
Review: This is the best game i've ever played.The four different races are amazing.The graphics are amazing too.This game should be gotten by everyone.
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Summary: Perfection at its finest in a sweet package
Review: First of all, this Warcraft 3 Collection makes most other games seem dull. First of all, you get the incredible game, which managed what other games dont, to actually suceed its prequel and be the best RTS game ever. The game alone is worth the price of this package.
Then we get the goodies. A sweet cd filled with the soundtrack of the game is something any Warcraft lover MUST have. The Soundtrack is bombastic, wonderful and filled with exotic melodies and rousing choir. Favorite song would absolutely be "Cinematic Suite" which combines all the songs from the moviesequences, including the jawdropping sequence with Arthas taking the Throne. There is a wonderful DVD with all the movies from the game, PLUSS all the movies from the other Warcraft games, inclusive lots og lots of stuff. I had a really great time watching thru it.
The Manual is signed by the team behind Warcraft 3, and it feels like a holy bible, written by gods. Then we have 4 small posters with the face of each Race and a HUGE book with drawings/sketches/artwork from the games. Wrapped around everything is this beautiful box. Have this one one the shelf and enjoy the respect from other fans.I am not thinking about going into the game in this review, as I felt this was ment for the Collectors Edition, and what it contains. Well I have to say, I have never been so proud of a game I own. Its a shame it didnt come later together with The Frozen Throne, but we cant really blame Blizzard for that! If you can get a copy of this version, buy it. I dont know how many copies Blizzard have created, but from what I heard it is limited. The game of the year 2002 only prooves it power with this gem, all hail to Blizzard for making our dreams come true.
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Summary: Great Idea, Bad Execution
Review: The graphics in this game are *gorgeous*. The formula seems to be a winning one: half-strategy, half-roleplaying, this takes a typical Blizzard game like StarCraft or WarCraft and turns it on its ear by giving you characters that not only interact through the various chapters' cinematics, but whom you get to control. Just like Diablo, they have health and mana, and can carry a limited number of items. Neat! Now you have one character who can customize his skills, rally the troops, and help you feel more directly immersed in the game, instead of just hovering over the world map. Now for the problem: the game mechanics. While the point-and-click interface works well, the missions I've played don't seem to show any true A.I. Enemies just hurl themselves at you and the winner is the one with the most firepower: no careful deployment of archers here, knights there. Worse yet, the A.I. behind the scenes isn't operating on your level. You have to build your town, make soldiers, etc. But your opponent doesn't do the same thing: enemies appear out of nowhere. They attack when you do one action, but save, restart and prepare for the attack, and it'll never come. Why? Because the troops don't exist until the program decides to throw them at you. You don't really feel like you're facing an enemy so much as you're playing through a "choose your own adventure" scenario. One wrong choice and it's off to reload. And most of your choices involve bashing your way through: on one early mission in the human campaign, your sterling hero turns against his allies and it's your job to help him lead men through a village, slaughtering all the peasants and burning their houses. Hurrah. Some enemies might show up to relive the monotony, but it doesn't help when they don't have much in the smarts department.
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Summary: Best Real Time Strategy Game
Review: WarCraft III is the best real time strategy game I've played. I was deeply impressed by the integration of the storyline into the game.
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Summary: Not as good as could be...
Review: This isn't a Role Playing Game. It is an action game, a quite boring action game. One has little to no control of anything going on in the game. Graphics are nice and the pan option is great, but what else? I miss the old RPGs where you could make choices. I do have to say that the cinematic sequences are amazing. Even on an 8mb video card. Sigh...
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Summary: Holy Boring Batman
Review: Ok, now I bought this game the day after it game out, and found it to be very fun, for maybe 5 months, but the fact of the matter is that Blizzard has taken away the strategy of RTS, I mean with a food cap of 90 it is basically battle, battle, loss or win no real strats involved..dont waste your money and wait for C & C Generals..which will be out Feb. 11..
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Summary: Really fun, Nazis are evil;.
Review: The result of the occupation was a disaster of far-reaching consequences to the Republic. Indignant at this occupation, the German mine-owners and workers went on strike. Their government encouraged this 'passive resistance' to the French. To feed the German workers on strike, the government had to print paper money in great quantities with no gold backing. The mark became worthless. In 1914, it took 4 marks to purchase an American dollar. In November 1923, it took 4,200,000,000 marks for a dollar. Members of the lower bourgeoisie and the working classes who earned their living from salaries or from fixed income were impoverished. In October 1923, the Communists made an uprising in Hamburg. In the following month the Nazis made a coup in Munich. Both these insurrections failed, but it showed the general discontent with the Weimar government
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Summary: A very good RTS
Review: This game is awsome, cuz you get some good stuff and can be different races and fight and it's cool!!
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Summary: Great Game!
Review: Blizzard always has some sweet games.... This is one of the best!
Get your copy today and will see you on battleNET :)
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Summary: Nothing new, but a very good RTS nonetheless.
Review: Blizzard has a reputation for making games which, while not innovative, are well-polished and well-executed takes on an existing concept. Warcraft I was an excellent RTS that followed in the footsteps of Command and Conquer and Dune 2, and Warcraft 3 follows in that tradition. Warcraft 3 is a very good RTS. Its graphics are very good for 3D ones, although personally I think the 2D sprites of Starcraft were actually better-looking. They can be a resource hog though, and I upgraded to a 64 MB Geforce 3 from a 32 MB Geforce 2 because the game was still a little sluggish on my machine (an Athlon 1700 XP with 512 MB RAM). Once I upgraded though, I was able to run at 1280x1024 with most of the effects turned on without trouble, even in heavy melees. The gameplay is nothing new, and people familiar with the usual RTS theme of harvest resources/build units will not have much trouble getting into the game. The addition of hero units to the game adds an interesting spin to the game, but I didn't find that it made the game all that much different from the last ones (but I do not play multiplayer, so that may be where heroes change things more). Blizzard has also made it a bit easier to get your spellcasters to work on their own, allowing you to set one spell to be autocast, but this doesn't help micromanagement as much as I would really like. One unit type does not really dominate the game either, and forces which are not at least a little diversified will probably fare poorly in battle. The four different races all have different playing styles, which should give players plenty of chances to find a playing style that suits them. The music and cutscenes in the game are also well done -- anyone who was impressed with the cutscenes in Starcraft will also appreciate the ones with Warcraft 3. The story is well done for a RTS game, at least as good as the one in Starcraft. I would recommend Warcraft 3 to anyone who likes RTS games, or who has a passing interest in them and likes fantasy games. The collector's edition was only 5 dollars more than the regular version when I bought it, and personally I think the collector's edition was well worth it. However, if you don't want the soundtrack CD (which, as I said above, is very good), the art book (which is pretty neat), or the DVD of the cutscenes, I would suggest just getting the normal version. Any one of those, however, I think, would have been worth the price difference to me, and the fact that I got all three was an added bonus.
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