WarCraft III

WarCraft III

If the rumors are right, it's coming soon...



System Reqs:

Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP:
400 MHz Pentium II or equivalent
128 MB of RAM
8 MB 3D video card (TNT, i810, Voodoo 3, Rage 128 equivalent or better) with DirectX® 8.1 support
700 MB HD space
4X CD-ROM drive

Macintosh® OS 9.0 or higher/ Mac OS X 10.1.3. or higher:
400 MHz G3 processor
128 MB of RAM
16 MB ATI Technologies or nVidia chipset 3D video card
700 MB HD space
4X CD-ROM drive

Recommended:
600 MHz processor
256 MB of RAM
32 MB 3D video card
DirectX® 8.1 compatible sound card

The races in this one look quite good. The Night Elves and The Undead sound like they'll be good additions.

 

Apparently no one shares my interest in WC III

 

I DO I DO!!!!! i lvoe the warcraft series!! and i love all the other blizzard titals as well! i havent bought warcraft 3 yet but its on the top of my to do list!

-silverdog

EDIT: love*

 

I dunno, after all the hype from Diablo II and then the game sucking big time I'm reluctant to buy another Blizzard game. In about 2 months the damn thing will be hacked and you'll never be able to play a fair game with anyone.

I do like the way match-making is going to work for games though. I'll probably buy it for the same reasons I went to see AOTC. Phantom Menace might have blown goats but the potential for something great was there.

Endureth

 

I noticed that you can pre-order it at Best Buy and get a free book when doing so. I thought about doing that, but I have so many unfinished games as it is. I'll probably end up getting it, as Warcraft II was the first RTS I ever played and I loved it.

 

well first of i loved diablo 2 so i guess its just a matter of opinion, second if throne of darkness hadn;t come out id still be playing diablo but as it is throne of darkness is just a better diablo which isnt saying that much considering that it was made like 5 years after diablo was made but it has the same core designers and such who worked on diablo working on throne of darkness hence the similarities... or so iv heard.

And i loved Warcraft except for one thing... i got to the last mission for both races when i was at my grandmas who lives in oregon. I live in New york (actually i only go to like the 2nd to last orc mission or something like that but anyways). So before i could beat the game i had to go home.. and i didnt have the heart to play it again. Even to this day i want to just start over but cant because i dont want to havto play the beginning over again.. arg my stupidity. But i still love the game, in skirmish its fun and multiplayer is always on option although now i think ill stick to starcraft and wait out for starcraft 2 because thats possibly the best rts ever. well in my mind it is!

-silverdog

EDIT: sorry about the typos... see this is whqat happens when i type fast

 

I've pre-ordered my Warcraft III Collector's Edition from the local EB store.
If it doesn't get delayed... should be out by the end of June. One month to go.

 

I'm a huge WarCraft fan, but, unfortunately, none of my two computers will be able to run well with WarCraft III. I'll have to buy a new system.

Other than that, from what I've seen, I fear that it won't possess the WarCraft "feel". I mean, nothing looks the same. Well, the improved graphics are great, but "Night Elves"? What the heck? *shakes head*

As much as I'm reluctant to say so, I fear that the game looks as though it'll be kind of stupid, story-wise, at least.

I want the heroes to return, dangit! Bring back some characters we know! Refer to them, at least! Like, why not have a hero who's actually Lothar's son? Or something like that?

It's like WarCraft III transpires in an entirely different world. Well, again, from what I've seen.

 

What?! The night elves look like they're going to kick some serious ass!

It's the undead that I'm a little disappointed with...

 

I heared in a game store today that it will be released in Belgium on June 28th. So it should be on the US shelves early June I reckon. It's about bloody time!!!

 

Well it's official WarCraft III went GOLD!

 

Just a few days left. Anyone play the beta? I hear the 3-d is a bit...not right for the Warcraft world.

 

I don't know, the reviews I've read say it's astounding. PC Gamer gave it a 94%, which is pretty impressive. I'll have to see the IGN and Gamespot reviews too to make sure, but it looks like I'll pick it up. I'm just not sure if I have the time to play it... :\

 

Same here Dan. I'll probably pick it up, but between Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights, I'll have to find time to play it.

 

I played the beta and posted a review here that same day I played it. It was fun at first but after playing it I grew to greatly disliking it.

Note: I'm a Starcraft fan and any rts gets measured up to it.

WC3's 3d engine was good but for an rts it simply does not work. There are 'power units' as I call them. These are units that take an immense deal of resources to take down a single unit. This completely takes away from the fun of a game, like in starcraft as many of you know it's VERY difficult to go all out on a single unit with out an easy counter.

I simply didn't like it. 6/10

 

I played the Beta and thought the graphics were good. The gameplay was very different from traditional Warcraft. I understand that it's new genre they're trying to get going (Role-Playing Strategy, I think), but I thought that it was hard to get into.

Maybe after it's out a while I'll pick it up cheap, after all it is a Blizzard game and it is Warcraft.

 

I meet the min sys regs but I think I'll wait till I get I get a new computer to play this one.

 

wc3 = teh suck

 

You didn't like it? I take it you've played it and compared it to StarCraft...

 

I just ordered it, over the net at AppleStore.com. I still have to wait 6 days though.

I liked the Warcraft I & II games but it's all the same the biger army wins, you work on your econmic of your base most of the time and less playing in the field.

I'm a big RPGer my first was Old skool sage, Shinning Force II and then to FF7 on the playstaion. I'm a RPG fan and RTS ran so the mix of Warcraft III is perfect for me.

 

If you read my above post you would have seen that I rate every rts I play to starcraft because to me that was the best rts game ever made, so it's the standard.

 

See, Starcraft was good, but I'm a bigger fan of the "Age of..." series than it. I don't know, something about it just rubbed me the wrong way, though I do recognize it as a monumental step in the RTS category. And I do play it, but not nearly as much as AOE 1 & 2 or the WarCraft games.

 

My only problem is that while the trailer kicks arse, it's all cut scene. IMO if you're afraid to put your actual gameplay in as well you've got something to hide (IE alot of PS and PS2 games)

 

Okay warcraft 3 plays more like Homeworld.

Why? everything needs to be balanced, but not so extreme like in Empire Earth.

Okay the 90 units thing kinda blows.. but just makes you think more, you cannot drone through this game and expect to win just by having more

 

They do have a gameplay trailer up at the official site. I watched it the other day and wasn't too impressed by it.