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Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition is GREAT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 31 / 34
Date: November 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Gamers, including myself, have marveled at the old game Warcraft II for a long time. When I heard that Blizzard Entertainment was developing a new version for that classic, I was overjoyed. The old Real-Time Strategy (RTS) has left its mark as the best Game of the Year 1995, Best Online Game, and Best Multiplayer Game. Although the gameplay graphics and cutscenes art are somewhat lacking, it has pretty good graphics, funny sounds, and appropriate background music. The game's online gameplay of this game is fantastic since it takes Blizzard's free online gaming server, Battle.net, and uses it in this classic's upgrade. Warcraft II Battle.net Edition's AI is much in need of improvement compared to the other new games, though. But this game was not supposed to be completely new, so Blizzard decided not to improve some of the features, but to fix old bugs, add small improvements, and add a super multiplayer option.

The story of Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition takes place after their first big hit, Warcraft I: Orcs and Humans. After the death of the Orcish Warchief Blackhand, Ogrim Doomhammer quickly took his place as the new Warchief. Meanwhile, the tattered humans from the destroyed land of Azeroth seek refuge in Lordaeron, the other power in the Alliance, a group of humans, elves, and dwarves allying up against the fearsome Orcs. The humans have won the second war against the Orcs and have destroyed their only way into human lands, the Dark Portal. As they find out, though, the rift allowing passage to their lands still exists. They Alliance must travel the rift to Orcish Lands to stop the Orcish threat.

When you first start out on a single-player campaign, if you choose one from the Tides of Darkness, then you'll start with a small amount of units and a basic building to start out on. This just teaches you how to build things and gives you a basic feel for how you play the game. Eventually, you'll move into much harder levels which involve keeping someone alive as you travel enemy territory, building up a strong enough force to overcome a powerful enemy, and developing strategy in order to outsmart your computer enemy.

The multiplayer features in this game are comparable to some of the top games out now. Popular online games, such as Starcraft and Diablo, use Blizzard's personal gaming server, Battle.net (the top online gaming service in the world), to make a very easy and powerful multiplayer option. There are also the basic multiplayer options such as connection over an AppleTalk or IPX networks. There are traditional modem games, which are only two player, and there is direct-connect (null modem). This game's multiplayer is also compatible with the old version of Warcraft II. You can select either the enhanced (which fixes bugs and adds Battle.net option) or you can choose normal (which is the only way you can play against other people with Warcraft II, but without Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition). This enhanced game has new features such as Shared Vision (the ability to see what your ally sees), there is the new food bar (which allows you to see how much food you have without selecting a farm), and there is fixed bugs and smaller new features that would take a while to list.

This game is a pretty basic RTS. Proportionally, the graphics are way off, but otherwise they are pretty good. For example, you walk a unit next to some trees or a building. From the sizes they use, you would only be able to fit about 16 units into the biggest building (the Town/Great Hall). Those must be very big units because the smallest unit is a peon and supposedly it takes up as much space as a catapult. The cutscenes in this game could be better, too. While they are much clearer and sharper then the original Warcraft, they still could be better.

The sound in this game is good, but not as good as I hoped. They have added a few new sounds that they had forgotten in the original, but those sounds go usually go unnoticed. While it's really funny to hear an Two-Headed Ogre burp really loud and then the two heads argue over who did it and to hear a Footman complain about what he's supposed to do, that's basically it in the sound department.

I highly recommend this game if you are/were a frequent Warcraft or Starcraft player.

A Classic With a new twist

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

What a great game! Warcraft provides some of the most challenging, versitile multiplayer strategy I've ever seen. With Battle.net play it's only going to get better. Warning, this game is highly addictive and incredibly fun!

Good Classic Bundle

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 31
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Warcraft was a hit in its day. Although its pretty outdated war, i still play it now and then because its still a playable rts game. This package contains Warcraft 1, 2 and expansion, all of which are great. This is a great addition to anyone classic game collection although i would suggest buying Warcraft 2 battle.net edition now.

Same game new arena

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game, engaging, nice mix of thinking and moving. There is a shallow learning curve, yet it retains enough variety to make it worth it to strategize, even plan. Two years ago it was a five. It works pretty well over the web too, about as well as it used to on my two year old power pc. We used to be able to play over a network then. A decent game for preteens as far as violence goes. There's some blood, but it's not gratuitous, and adds to the realtime sense of battle.

Graphics are primitive. With all of the digital algorithm stuff out there, like soul caliber etc, you'd think they could risk a bit of processing efficiency to make the game look cleaner. Units aren't proportional, and the movement logic system doesn't take terrain into account.

Sounds entertaining but mostly distracting, same for music.

Player authoring limited. You can change some basic values, but not really customize the games the way wonky gamers do at higher levels.

Overall, a good game for anybody old enough to handle dialup, but I wished they had spent some more time on upgrading instead of just expanding access.

"For the Alliance"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This was one of the first strategy games I ever tried, and wasn't disappointed. It has an interesting storyline, seemingly based on Tolkien's books. You have a choice of being either controller of the orcs (who have several troll, ogre, and other alliances) or the humans (who have several elf, dwarf, and other alliances). The different races have different technologies, but are similar in most ways. You usually decide your race by personal preference. When you start a campaign, upgrades are few, but as the game progresses, they get more advanced, and thus makes the game more interesting. I gave this game four stars, because though it is a good game, the mouse is hard to control, you can only select nine units at a time, and the units aren't as varied as say, "Age of Empires".

Finally for NT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks and it was developed almost 7 years ago! At only $20, I gladly replaced my old scratched up copy, even thought it still works. Don't look for any current-technology eye-candy, but expect top-notch game-play. Time flies when playing single player and the adrenaline pumps when playing online. Heck, even the redbook audio on the CD will get my heart pumpin -- must... build...

Still, the main reason to buy this is for us NT users. We could sorta play it before, but without sound. Now we get all the goodies, plus battle.net... yipee!

WarCraft II Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best strategy games ever developed, the second best after StarCraft. Many games have great graphics, great game play or great multiplay. But only few games have it all. WarCraft does have it all. Excellent story line, funny sound effects, marvelous single player missions, addicting multiplay and great graphics. Altough WarCraft II the game is 4 years old, and although there have been much development in the game industry the last 4 years, this game is still great and addicting with todays standards and tops most of today's games. Battle.net edition improves the gaming experience by enhancing multiplay and controls.

Siskel and Ebert Give It Two Thumbs Up! Way Up!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: January 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ok, the first Warcraft wasn't the best when it comes to graphics or any of that heeby-cheeby hullabaloo. But it was a fun game and I mean you like Warcraft II and the Expansion. Dude, they were awesome. Don't mistake me but this is a two thumbs up way up rare occurance. Don't miss out.

A good value for the bucks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Let's face it... WarCraft isn't StarCraft. Think of it as StarCraft's successful, retired grandpa. The graphics aren't nearly as detailed and the gameplay isn't quite as challenging or in depth as it's successor, but for the price, WarCraft is a nice pickup, especially for those who aren't familiar with the series. The new package includes the Tides of Darkness and the Beyond the Dark Portal single-player missions, as well as access to Blizzard's sweet multiplayer website.

Great game, but getting old

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: February 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is by far my favorite stragety game of all time, everything about it is great, but it is very old and WarcraftIII is coming out early next year or late this year, besides that there are several other Blizzard games to make up for this

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