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Warcraft III: A review by me.
IkeTheGeneric:
This game was a bit of fun back in the earlier days. Playing online games, kicking ass on Real-time strategies and drinking soda pop. But many of us remember most of the games we played back in the good ol' days of 2003
Warcraft III was one of those games. I played it a lot, but now I'm replaying it and I'm going to share my opinion on this game.
Part one: Controls
The controls are simple. You can either use the mouse for everything, or you can use the very many hotkeys there are. Each building uses production hotkeys, each unit uses action hotkeys and they're really easy to remember. There's a whole lot to control, but even an idiot can figure out how to do things.
Controls get an 8 out of 10 for being easy and useful.
Part two: Units
There's a really large selection of units, and there's different races with almost the same amount of units for each one. But the thing is that there's not enough balance. You can't get a good army up and ready because there's always a better unit.
There's also a large number of neutral units, too. These monsters drop gold and items for your heroes. They're everywhere, they're fun to fight and there is just enough for each map.
The units you control are pretty simple, and they're really easy to familiarize with.
Units and enemies get a 6 out of 10. The units are pretty well made, but they're not balanced and fighting army to army just isn't as cool as you used to think.
Part three: Music and sounds
The sound in Warcraft III is pretty good. The voice acting is really well, and everything sounds polished and well done.
Now the music in Warcraft III is really, really catchy and never gets old. Every race has their own "Theme song", and all the music pieces in campaign really fits. There is never a dull moment thanks to the music.
Sounds and music gets a 10 out of 10. I don't really think there is anything wrong with it.
Part four: Campaign
This game's campaign follows every major race. The story is great, the characters are cool and it's hard to stop playing once you start. The setting follows many different stories, and many different characters. Nothing is the same.
The best part is the secrets and easter eggs in the parts. Once you're done with the campaign, you have to go back and find every little thing you've ever missed.
Campaign gets a 7 out of 10. It's fun but there's some frustrating parts in it. Also some redeeming parts are the secrets and hidden easter eggs. They're really cool.
Part five: Gameplay
The gameplay is your basic RTS. Make units, research things to make better units and fight enemies. What make Warcraft fun is actually playing it. It's a fun game. The gameplay is almost flawless, as a few glitches and unfair advantages as exceptions.
Gameplay gets 8 out of 10. Warcraft really has a good gameplay. Not a whole lot of games can compete with it.
Part six: Multiplayer
The Multiplayer has to be the best part of this game. You will spend hours on end fighting, claiming goldmines and destroying cities. There are maps that can hold twelve players for the whole round, and it's chaotic. It's also online. An online RTS that isn't bad.
How can it get any better? Multiplayer is perfect. To this day nothing ever gets boring.
Multiplayer gets 10 out of 10. It's the best part of this game.
Part seven: AI
The AI is actually pretty clever. You have four settings for them. Easy, normal, hard or insane. Each map has a different pathing AI. And for an old game, they're pretty smart. They never do the same thing, they never make the same armies and they're actually hard to play against.
So if you're the guy who nobody wants to play with since you're that good, the AI just might be a match for you.
The AI get a 7 out of 10. They're really good, but even set to easy it's really hard to fight against.
Part eight: The editor
This game has an official world editor. You can make your own campaign, or your own multiplayer map and it's pretty easy to figure out. There's an actual site dedicated to player-made maps, so you might want to check it out.
The only issue I have is the character editor. It's hard to make a polished character. But that's about it.
The editor is possibly one of the best RTS world editors, and it gets a 8 out of 10.
Part nine: Replayability
When it comes down to it, Warcraft III can be played again, and again and again. It's never old. Replayability gets a 10 out of 10 because it's never boring.
Last part: Final rating
Warcraft III gets a 8 out of 10. I am a big fan of Blizzard entertainment, so I guess the opinion varies. I just really, really like this game. It's my favorite RTS. It has it's issues, but it's really great for an old game.
So I suggest getting this game.
Wynd_Fox:
You said three difficulties, but there are four.
GenaralSkar:
You're kinda slow there.
Monocle:
Not like this game came out like 6 years ago or anything.
Visage:
I never played the RTS aspect of this game, but I probably have a thousand hours or more logged playing custom maps. Actually probably multiple thousands.