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Warcraft3 Day

by Steve Gibson, Jul 03, 2002 11:02am PDT
Related Topics – Blizzard, Warcraft 3

Today is indeed Warcraft3 day for the majority of the US. A few lucky people managed to get the game a day or two earlier but today you should be able to find the game in most stores that carry PC games. Have a look at the official Warcraft3 website or perhaps browse through our many Warcraft3 related news items or maybe check out the little release party coverage on GSI or MAYBE go out and buy the game! It's going for close to $60 in a lot of places, so if you can stand waiting you might want to do so for a week or two and wait for the specials. It's a Blizzard game, so the chances of it sucking are pretty slim. Anyone been playing it all day? Is it hot or not?


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  • #375
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    By: []v[]adwacker x
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    Ok, so I never played 1 or 2...but my brother got me to try W3. I'm a hardcore AoE/II fan, so I'm into the RTS-big-battle thing. I wasn't sure how I'd like the RPGish part of learning spells and whatever ...but so far I like the game. Graphics, sound, camera (which i thought would suck) is cool (although I *never* zoom in), menus etc.

    Few things I don't like:
    -Player/Food cap @ 90... got into big battles and had to behead some of my Peasents to get more army.
    -I had about 8000 wood, and no gold. While I know AoE is a different game, Id like to be able to swap say 800 wood for 100 gold or something crazy.
    -When playing on LAN, your allies cannot get into your zepplins even if they have shared control.
    -This last one I can't explain....our [bro and i] first game..we got rushed in a matter of 10mins by the cpu. Second game, same thing. 3rd game....took about 2hrs...we didn't see them until we stormed them...4th game...got rushed. Not enjoying that aspect.. the rushing is fine, but how does the cpu get level 7 in a matter of mins.

    overall... good game. Will be purchasing my copy tomorrow so my bro can have his CD back. =)
    Jul 03, 2002 11:58pm PDT
  • #255
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    By: brewsterdog x
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    Alright, $60 for a game is INSANE. I bought it for 39.99 at Chips and Bits Online, and I hear there are other places selling it at this rate also, so if your buying it for $60 you either don't care about conserving money or you don't know how to do a simple internet search.

    The game itself is great of course, my only complaint is that it is too much like Starcraft. Most people complain the other way, that it isn't enough like Starcraft, because they'd rather have a game where macro wins over micro, where attack moving the army into the opponent's base is the only strategy required. And I'm not just talking about SP, because my GOD the SP of War3 is the EXACT same story as Starcraft's! Only difference is instead of one race trying to find it's way and build itself into something greater(Terran), we have two races doing that(Alliance and Orcs). Then we have our standard evil, all-destructive race composed of endless, mindless beasties that have come and threatened everything, only with War3 add the Demons as an influence and you've got the Undead(also known as Undead). The Undead even build their structues on Creep!...I mean, Blight! Then, of course, we have our enigmatic race of high beings that embrace magic and were at peace with themselves until this new onslaught threatened their land, and now they must come and rescue everyone at the end of the day. Protoss = Night Elves. Let's not forget the human that gets corrupted by this evil, destructive race(Kerrigan = *Not gonna spoil it*), and the fact that at the end of the whole thing, everything is in ruins, the evil race of baddies mindless baddies has been fought off, and the human that has been corrupted goes into exhile waiting to return and destroy all(War3 expansion, anyone?). This is no spoiler btw, when Blizzard announced World of Warcraft they made it very clear that Humans and Orcs would still be around and that the "face of the world would be changed completely after War3". They basically gave away the already predictable result of the War3 story.

    Okay so War3 SP story = Starcraft SP story, doesn't really matter SP is only a tutorial for multiplayer. What really matters in Blizzard games are the multi component, that's what I buy their games for, because they can last you a LONG time with their deep multiplayer. I like it a lot, I beta tested and it's a great game especially when you get into all the spells and using heroes properly and all that. But again, too much like SC. Battles are too big, food limit is too high, and Upkeep doesn't penalize enough. Again, this is totally opposite of what many people think. Most people would rather be able to sit in their base, mass an army bigger than anything, and attack move their huge ass army in the general direction of the opponent's base. Me, I was hoping for a more RPG-centric game, with COMPLETE micromanagement being the name of the game(micro is still far more important in War3 than SC which is cool). Originally Blizzard said there would be far less base management, yet I see nearly the same amount of base and resource management required as SC(granted, it's a little less in War3 but not nearly by enough; usually you'll have about 8-10 workers in War3 without expansions - SC on a NON-MONEY MAP was what, around 8-12?). I was hoping for something more like Myth than SC, only with deeper RPG elements. It's no surprise I'm in a minority on this but hey, I like fresh games with *new* styles of gameplay. All in all though, War3 still rocks.

    /get's off soapbox
    Jul 03, 2002 2:14pm PDT

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