There's a big bad Warcraft 3 preview on Gamespot this weekend (thanks Stomped), looking ahead at the 3D RTS from Blizzard. They pretty much give an update on the game, describing what they saw improved from last time they saw the game. According to the preview, the game is still about 6 months away but looked impressive.

We also saw peons chopping down trees. Although trees will no longer be a resource, they will remain as barriers that you'll have to cut down to move across. The animation of the peon chopping the tree was particularly impressive, as the tree shook its branches with each swing from the peon's ax. Pardo also revealed that there will be rock walls that can be cleared away on some terrain in a similar fashion. Among the other terrain features that Pardo showed us was the dual-depth water. There is now shallow water, which units can wade across (with attendant ripples and splashes), in addition to the standard deep water, which is impassable ...