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This is just an expansion pack

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: March 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You can only play this game against another player. You need the WARCRAFT II original CD to play this against the computer. This is nothing more than an expansion pack for the original Warcraft II. If I had known this before I purchased, I never would have purchased it.

For the record, I agree with everything everybody has said about Warcraft, and someday I might want to play vs. another human or orc, I would like to hone my skills vs my Dell.

Great game, but avoid BattleNet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: March 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing Warcraft II for many, many years, and absolutely love it. I finally decided to pick up the BattleNet addition of the game so I could play online against people from around the world. What a terrible mistake that was...

Unfortunately, BattleNet is nothing more than a haven for depraved, foul mouthed adolescents hell bend on making your online experience as miserable as possible. The unrelenting flood of obscenities, personal attacks, and graphic content, makes the game completely inappropriate for younger players, and intolerable for older ones. You don't even have to be playing a game to be accosted, it starts immediately in the main page chat window, as soon as you connect to the service.

This really is a shame, because this is such a great game, and a relatively small group of people have completely ruined it for everyone. There seem to be far fewer troublemakers on the games that charge a monthly fee, so hopefully Blizzard's new venture into online gaming, coming soon, I hope, will be better.

Despite being a great game, I cannot recommend this version....

Absolute Rubbish

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 37
Date: December 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has to be the worst game I have played on in a very long time.I would give this game 0/10 for playability and just advise you to not go near this game even if you have a 10foot barge pole.Basically just stay away and dont waste your money!!!

No support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: January 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

We can't get this thing to work in the single player mode, and the tech support people at Blizzard (the publisher) are ignoring my pleas for help.

Could do better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: November 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game could do alot better than it really did. It takes way to long to build something or to train something. But it has a good storyline where its humans against orcs. I do enjoy watching them battle it out and ending in a gory death. The land isnt detailed enough. What this game lacks is details.

Great!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is very interesting. I never played Warcraft 2 for more than 30 minutes before I bought it. I really got into it. But then you play the second race. They are the same. If you want to play this and Starcraft. Play StarCraft second, so then you won't find this one at times mundane. Yet it still gets kudos from me. Just play Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal with your favorite LOOKING race. Take into consideration the annoying Orc voice. Still good. Does not need to rely on graphics.

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.

One of the all time greats!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Pros-
Priced right at just $15 for jewel case.
Still very popular with hundreds of potential opponents online.
Balanced weaponry, no one unit or structure rules.
Huge variety of maps and missions.
Easy to use map editor.
Additional games online such as capture the flag.
Game rarely lags or runs choppy even with 2v2 and 3v3 games.
Doesn't require much computer or a top video card.
Everything is on just one disc.

Cons-
Cartoonish graphics are a bit dated.
Gameplay, while easy to learn can be tiring and out dated.

Over all warcraft 2 is still a great game and loads of fun. I had known about this game for a long time and finally decided to pick up the $20 version which also provides you with a strategy guide. An exellent value! I heartily recommend this game because you know what you're getting. The concept is ok with the humans v the orcs but almost all my time with this game is one on one multiplayer. You don't have to go to battlenet.com you can also play a buddy modem to modem. How you begin the game depends on the map but usually you start with one peon or builder and a certain amount of resources. You will always need a certain number of farms to feed your people as well as a steady supply of gold and wood. Wood is everywhere but there are a limited number of gold mines and it is around these that you will build your camps. Most of your military will come from a barricks and you make more peons from a town hall. You'll need a blacksmith and lumber mill to upgrade your troops(swordsman,archers,catapults ect.) and from that point you can add specialty forces such as gnomes, mages and flying birds that crap explosive eggs. Note that i'm referring to the human race because i play that all the time. The orcs are very different and frankly quite weird. One of their units for example is a huge beast with two heads that only uses it's fists as a weapon. Both races can make a cool spy plane and a fairly complete navy as well as towers that can be upgraded to shoot cannons or arrows. Oil is another resource that's needed to make some more advanced units. A lot of strategy is required because maps are very crowded with many narrow passage ways. Some maps even start you off completely surrounded by trees so you can't go anywhere untill you cut down a path. I like those maps because it prevents quick attacks.

Game play is fairly easy to learn. You just click on a building and the unit you want to build. It's easy to order your units to fight or where to go but you can only control 15 units at a time. The biggest negative about this game is that you can't queue up your barricks to produce more than one unit at a time. This can make the game a bit too busy and tiring and requires you to have several barricks. For example to maintain a steady source of resources you may need two main camps and one smaller one surrounding gold mines. That means probably at least 5 barricks, three town halls as well as at least one gnomish inventor and aviary and a navy or two. Considering you will have at least a couple dozen peons gathering resources and building farms it becomes a contest of who can point and click the fastest as you constantly move from building to building while trying to control your military units. A lot of work. Too bad blizzard hasn't added the multi queing feature which exists in age of empires gold and just about any newer game. Maybe there is a mod that can be downloaded to ad this feature but it is not available here. For that reason i only give the game 4* but it still makes for plenty of good clean fun for very little money.

.............socks

If people weren't so rude I'd give it a 5

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I loved Warcraft when I was a kid. So when I saw Battle.Net eddition in Staples, i thought "Cool! I can team up with friendly players!" I was wrong. There are too many rude people on Battle.Net. Most of them said I bite the big for no reason (I was just chatting then people called me swear words and harsher words than bite the big one because I'm Jewish). So if you want this game, go ahead. The single player is great. But I just wish multiplayer wasn't full of rude people...and we wonder why the world is what it is today. with bombings, twin towers etc.

4 stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: August 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I thought the game was great. If you're a fan of Warcraft 2, this is a must have. Forget having to resort to IPK methods, you can get the new and improved Battle.net! OK, i'm calm now. There were some dissapointin aspects, as describe below, but all in all it is a great expansion to a great game.

To the point:

Pro: The obvious enhanced multi-player perks. You are allowed a variety of games to play, from capture the flag to one on one, and all with people all over the world.

Pro: You get about a hundred new maps, to play on the net or against the computer.

Con: Battle.net is sometimes unreliable. You can be disconected for no reason, even during a game.

Pro: The game comes with the expansion set, in the same CD! Forget having to take time to replace one with the other, it's all right here! This also saves considerable money.

Con: I would of liked to see some extra levels. A bonus level at the end of the game maybe?

Noah

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