#PC WARCRAFT III PC#
#PC WARCRAFT III PLUS#

Okay, commander units aren't exactly a new idea, but they've been implemented well in Warcraft III, specifically in the single-player campaign. You can group units in the usual CTRL-# way, but now hitting TAB cycles through the unit types in your group for quick, easy access to different special abilities.īut all of these changes are minor in comparison to the additions of heroes. The interface and controls have also enjoyed some tweaking, including the ability to set spellcasters to auto-cast, peons to auto-repair, quick-select idle workers, use smart formations (range attackers stay behind melee), and the most useful of the bunch: subgroups.

#PC WARCRAFT III PLUS#

There are the familiar humans and orcs, plus the ghastly undead scourge and the tree-lovin' night elves. This is not to say that there aren't improvements - there's plenty! Climbing the evolutionary ladder from Starcraft's three unique races, the game now features four very distinctly different sides whose balance has been fine-tuned in that inimitable Blizzard way. It's believable that a majority of the large anticipation of sales is coming from gamers still hooked on Starcraft or even the re-released Warcraft II: Edition, though arguably superior titles have released since. Same screen layout, same space-hogging interface, same vidscreen with animated unit portrait, same keyboard shortcuts. 3D engine aside, when you first load up Warcraft III, you could almost believe you're playing its 1995 predecessor.

#PC WARCRAFT III PC#

The concept of the orphaned orc Thrall was salvaged, though, and this particular character plays one of the many key, 'starring roles' in this summer's PC blockbuster.īlizzard has two enviable luxuries when it makes its games: first, the designers can spend as long as they damn well please on them, and second, they can work in a bubble, ignoring much of what is happening in the industry all around them. Blizzard instead decided to revert to Warcraft's roots and the very thing that made the company huge in the first place: real-time strategy. This game was already a bestseller the day it was announced, seeing as Blizzard Entertainment is truly the only development studio in the industry that can sell games on its name alone.Ĭuriously beginning life as a cartoon-style point-and-click graphic adventure that followed the story of a young orc raised by humans, practically all of the work put into the game's original design was scrapped back at the turn of the century. There's no better introduction to help summarise what Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos means to PC gaming than disclosing this simple tidbit: 4.5 million initial orders.

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