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Warcraft 3
I've added to this review with one for the expansion. Jump to it.
Reality Meltdown
I liked this game.
First off, theres many races, so you can fight it any way you want. You're like.. I wanna be the puny humans! Hooah! There ya go! I want decaying flesh! Go undead. Zombies, eat yer brains out. I wanna prance aorund in the trees like a fairy princess! Boom, night elves. Not to mention they're mostly chicks. And lastly, the Orcs, badass green men. Kick ass. Every race has alot of variety in the units, and each group has very diffrent units. The Night Elves have an enourmous array of anti-air. The Undead have the best scouts, ever. The humans have... well, stuff. And the Orc's dominate on the ground. It makes choosing a race interesting.
Now, that's not all. After completeing the single player, I'm gonna say, I liked the story. The "heroes", aren't always so sweet your teeth ache. They make choices, argue, and all sorts of mischief to get the plot going. The race transitions are quite well done, the largest gap between the second and third campaigns is softened by the prolouge. It would be hard not to know what's going on.
It can get very difficult. I had several tries on some missions, and some sneaky shenanagins at times. But, when you win, you feel good. In your pants.
And the movies, the artwork... playing the game was worth it just to watch the clips. They're simply beautiful. I think blizzard's artists may be better than .. say... the enourmously overpaid disney staff. They're good. They're real good.
However, not all is well in the world. My biggest issue is the graphics. Normally, I don't mind being a bit old school. I disliked what they did. I think the 3-D graphics were a waste of time. You don't rotate the camera, and even if you could, I doubt I ever would. The default worked fine. And what do you sacrifice for it? While alot of graphics were very nicely textured, they were often blocky and planar. The special effects were smoothly done, but the horrendous 3-d engine was unweildly. My computer meets the requirements to play, but if I put it on fast, it looks the same as on slow but with less control. I don't see why they took away the slick, finesse of the 2-D view. My computer cant take it, and even so, I think they could have done better on 2-D. I got tremendous lag on large fights. Severval missions, most notably the "wait" missions, where you sit uneasily while your ass get's shredded by a bazillion enemies; I found I had absolutely no control. Too many characters doing things. I just had to hope everyone was in a good spot, and hope.
Now, to compare to other Blizzard Real Time Strategy games. The addition of heroes was neat, however... since I often was unable to micromanage, I found them only generally useful. Items became a pain in the ass. But they did help with the plot, since you have them around to watch them develop. I was disappointed by the lack of troop transportation. Nobody has any, you have to buy zepplins as mercenaries. Speaking of which, iw as disappointed by the movement of Ogres and Goblins out of playing races. I liked those guys. They deserve a share. I was thrilled to see old heroes, most notably Grom Hellscream. But what the fuck were they smoking?! He never.. not even once... said "Slice and Dice!" like the crazy hellcat I know he is. What crap.
Now, I did love this game. And I have to admit, I enjoyed the missions with goals other than "survive" and "kill". I found myself making side trips to slaughter townspeople, unsuspecting creatures, and occasionaly, docile animals. And when you're using a Paladin, his cries of "For Honor" just make me beam with pride. He thinks he's killing innocents for god. How cute.
It's a great game, and a must for Real Time Strategy fans. Go, go play the 4 races of freedom!
Ahh, the Frozen Throne. I love you and I hate you.
Many new added features including: being able to load multiple upgrades at a time, messages about what has been upgraded, little shadowy places where buildings are planend to be built - all are wonderful. I love that shit. They make the game better. Little boxes to show how many spots are filled (or open) in unit carrying devices is fantastic. Why didn't they think of this shit sooner? Who knows. This shit makes replaying Warcraft 3 a bit easier (which I did, because I didn't bother to transfer my old game save files over), so don't hold out on buing the expansion if you know you will (unless you wait for a battle chest).
The storyline is great. It breaks free from alot of the pitfalls in the Warcraft 3 storyline. Reign of Chaos had alot of things, like Arthas seemed to be like Kerrigan. Some retard somewhere wrote that they thought it meant Warcraft 3 and Starcraft ar i n the same world. How about Blizzard not writing an innovative script, dumbass. Not everything is intentional, like when you wet your pants yesterday, jerk-off. That ended, with much more orignal stories, and more involved characters. Another character's descent into evil was neat. Sometimes the characters just get obsessed with something! Like when you insist something is true, despite the fact the big troll is standing behind you and threatening your life with a jagged spoon. And alot of the missions were very innovative, like a capture the flag for a man in a cage. It's like stealing monkeys from the zoo.
On to the crap. The biggets shit is the lack of Orcs. There are no official Orc missions. In fact, all you have is one "Bonus" mission. It gives you, at the end, a notice that more chapters will be downlaodable. You don't even get to USE orc units, but instead have a Hero. Now, I thought the level was damned cool, as your 3 hereos run around and get revived if you die, so it was just like a big kill-fest; but it wasn't that great, and I love the fucking orcs! I want some green carnage! At least let me friggin use the new units, not just oen hero and a batch of fliers I dicthed because heroes can't die anyway! Grah! Is there no force vying for superiority in orc land? No sects that dissent? I mean, every other breed fought their own more than anything else, and there one (new, but not really controllable) race that could have attacked them. You spend 90% of the time agaisnt your own race. Why? Who knows. It got old. Fuck the Orcs, nobody likes them. Damnit! I hate you! Don't pull this shit, Blizzard!
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