is warcraft 3 a good buy?????

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-01-26 12:27pm

i just want to know because i'm goind to best buy later today and i want to know if it's worth the money

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-01-26 12:28pm

Its a great game.

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-01-26 12:31pm

thanks

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-01-26 12:31pm

Depends. I lost intrest in the game partway through the Undead Campaign, personally. It's not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but it just didn't call to me. If I had to suggest any RTS-style game, I'd suggest Medieval: Total War, where you can command thousands of troops in battle, there's no clickfest gameplay like in other RTS games, and it requires actual strategy to win battles. Plus you can use terrian to your advantage. Hide troops in forests to set up an ambush, put your archers on a hilltop to give them better range and effectiveness, even use rivers and bridges to hold off the enemy, weather, and castles seiges.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-01-26 12:34pm

It's a great freaking game. It's well worth the price, in fact I got the collector's edition. Sweet game.

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2003-01-26 12:34pm

Hotfoot wrote:Depends. I lost intrest in the game partway through the Undead Campaign, personally. It's not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but it just didn't call to me. If I had to suggest any RTS-style game, I'd suggest Medieval: Total War, where you can command thousands of troops in battle, there's no clickfest gameplay like in other RTS games, and it requires actual strategy to win battles. Plus you can use terrian to your advantage. Hide troops in forests to set up an ambush, put your archers on a hilltop to give them better range and effectiveness, even use rivers and bridges to hold off the enemy, weather, and castles seiges.

that sounds like a great game hmmmm ::: remembers i have a hundred dollar gift card::: maabye i'll get both

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-01-26 12:37pm

Darksider wrote: that sounds like a great game hmmmm ::: remembers i have a hundred dollar gift card::: maabye i'll get both

It really is. It's only a matter of time before someone makes a mod to mimic the seige of Helm's Deep. The game can already support over 10,000 individual units onscreen at any one time (they're sprites, granted, but still). I'm really looking forward to Rome: Total War, but I don't know how far off that is.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-01-26 12:41pm

Fun game...more on Squad based and leader leveling tech then Starcraft Army of doom warfare.

Still if you get used to that particular difference you'll love it.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-01-26 12:43pm

Warcraft III is nice but not revoluninary by any strech of the imagination

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-01-26 12:46pm

For anyone who's interested, the Gamespy forums have a massive 60 page thread concerning Medieval: Total War.

Hopefully it will influence you all as it has me.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-01-26 01:31pm

I'll never buy anything from EA. I hate them (poor support). Sierra/Blizzard/anything else is OK. Besides I liked HW.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-01-26 01:54pm

Hotfoot makes a good point. Only get WC3 if you're into old-school RTSs. I made the mistake of getting it, and I was really disappointed with the game as I'm no longer into that type of RTS. I prefer games like Sudden Strike 2 and afore-mentioned Medieval: Total War.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-01-26 02:04pm

HW is a decent compromise between the two- still resource gathering and building, requires decent tactics though and everything is to scale. Unfortunately some strategies require a quick finger and proper attention, for example formation switching and handling a large fleet. That is also a gripe about Shogun:Total War- it's difficult to be everywhere at once. Turn based is cool too.

Artanis · Post by **Artanis** » 2003-01-26 02:10pm

*burns Darksider at the stake as a heretic* YES! GOOD BUY!

Darth Balls · Post by **Darth Balls** » 2003-01-26 02:32pm

buy warcraft 3 now or orcs will come to your house and beat the crap out of you!

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-01-26 03:01pm

I liked it. I thought the Night Elf campaign was a bit rushed though... Lots of good custom maps out there.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-01-26 04:32pm

i hated it. It brought nothing new to the game type and i took it back to the shop after a day. The plot seemed good on paper but sucked in action. i wasn't pleased with it one bit.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-01-26 05:40pm

Great game, not worth more than about $25 (then again to me no game is worth more than that), I got it for free from a friend, but I'm probably gonna buy it once the price drops into my range, or I get a job.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-01-26 05:44pm

The human story is the best one, followed by a tie between the undead and orc campaigns, then the night elf story, which just sucked.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-01-26 05:44pm

Very good game, though it was overpriced. The campaigns are not real great, but the multiplayer is and the map editor is even more powerful then Starcraft's, though also more complex.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-01-26 05:50pm

Shinova wrote:The human story is the best one, followed by a tie between the undead and orc campaigns, then the night elf story, which just sucked.

Actually, I hated the human story. It started off okay, but then took a sharp plunge with the development of Arthas. That was a huge turnoff to me.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-26 09:50pm

It's OK. I played my roommate's copy, but as has been said, it's no big change from the old ones.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-01-26 09:56pm

So I take it that I'm the only one here that liked Age of Mythology?

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-01-26 09:56pm

It's basicly a hybrid of Starcraft and Diablo II with a Warcraft theme. Blizzard didn't stretch themselves out too far to come up with anything new in this game.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2003-01-26 10:00pm

ArmorPierce wrote:So I take it that I'm the only one here that liked Age of Mythology?

I played the demo for that, and it looked like fun...but then I saw Medieval: Total War. Now I'm spoiled on large-unit combat.