Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

This is the best strategy game I have ever seen, maybe even the best game I have ever seen. It has got humour, a good and serious story, best graphics I have ever seen in a strategy game and a great game-play.

Instead of the two races, Orcs and Humans, which the previous games, to which this one is a sequel, there are now four races, which you can control. Next to the Human alliance and the Orcisch horde there are the Undead scourge and the Night elves sentinels to control. In the single player game you can not choose with which race you want to play, you will have to play them in a pre set order. The reason for that is that the story line unfolds through the four campaigns.

The story is great. It is told by in-game cinematics and pre rendered cinematics. The last are really great, you will find yourself watching them over and over again because of all the detail there can be found. These cinematics really bring the characters to life, which is something really special for a RTS.

Unlike many other strategy games it has got something completely new: they combined RTS with RPG. The player has control over one to three so-called heroes. In the beginning of the game these heroes are not very powerful but during the game get experience through fighting and will get stronger and get powerful spells which the player can choose and upgrade according to what he think is best. Also the player will find magical items through the game which the hero can use to become even more powerful.

This is also the first RTS that I play where I don't get the idea I'm playing on a map instead of in a world in Warcraft III the world is really amazing. In the world you can find beautiful city's, dark forests, thundering waterfalls, exotic wildlife and small villages of a lot of different strange and mysterious races, rain and snow pour down from the sky and day turns in to night along with all the consequences involved. This gives the feeling you are really fighting for a land instead of for a map.

There is another thing that is different from other RTS games and that is that the building has many units and overwhelm the enemy strategy is no longer possible because the amount of units you can build is reduced alot. So you have to really care about every single unit and make sure that no one dies.

My conclusion is that this is one of the best game ever made and I can't wait until the expansion set and the new Warcraft game (The World of Warcraft). I only want to advise players to set the difficulty level of the game on hard, this will make some of the levels really hard but else it is to easy and you will have finished the single player campaign before you are aware of it.

Blizzard created some of the most memorable games in history and with Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos it looks like it that they can add another classic to their already fantastic list of games.

Warcraft 3 has all the elements a good game needs these days. Those being

1. Great graphics 2. Fantastic Gameplay 3. A story that could even outclass the big hollywood productions and 4. lots and lots of humor.

Warcraft 3: RoC takes us back to the lands of lordearon and tells you the tale of an ongoing battle between the forces of the human alliance, the orcish horde, the undead scourge and the mystical night elves.

If you liked the movie "Lord of the Ring" and the fantasy genre in general, you will love this game and the story it tells.

In my opinion, Blizzard has raised the standards of Real Time Strategy games once again with Warcraft 3. If you are into games, you simply must have this one in your collection.

All I have left to say is...

Thank you Blizzard for once again living up to my expectations and surpassing them, keep up the good work.

Warcraft Reign of Chaos = superb. Blizzard has made the game that beats the best games out.

Warcraft III RoC is the best RTS game i have ever played and i did not get tired of it. It captivates the experience that all RTS games should have. The campaign has at least 20 hours of non stop playable chapters that tells an awesome story of war between the humans, orcs, night elves and the undead. Even after those 20 hours you can play online against other people which is a great achievement of blizzard since warcraft 2. Each race has its own unique buildings that help the player achieve his/her goals.

I would recommend this to everyone and can only say one more thing, money well spent!

10/10

Blizzard makes an amazing comeback for the WarCraft series with Reign of Chaos. It is one of the most intense and adventerous games I've ever played. I just hope they come out with something as good for the StarCraft series. I'm going to enjoy this!

Of course there are tons of reviews on the gaming sites But as I was recently surprised to find a review of a game here on IMDB I felt compelled to put my two cents in on this work of art.

I am a 38 year old PC gamer with the reflexes to show it. That said I also have the depth of thought that may be more common in that age neiborhood as well. This game while taking you bye the hand and leading you gemtelly into it, realy kicks into high gear after the fourth mission of each of the four campains. It goes from ok to enthrawling right about then. At least that has been the case with the first two campains. But just drop yourself into a multi-playerfor about 30 minutes and you have a differant beast entirely. God awfully intrancing. And when you get your rear chewed off you can save the replay and watch not only your play in slow or fast motion but from the perspective of all the players that kicked your assets. So you end up with deep fast learning all around. So even loosing is fun.

Notice I referred to this peice as art. I wasn't only talking about the 3-D or the artificial intelligence, the voice talents are top notch. This is money well spent. User created singleplayer and more importantly muti-player action will be going strong on this title for several years to come.