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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

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.

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!

One of the greatest games ever invented for computers...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I rate WarCraft II the greatest strategy game ever produced for the computer even to this day. I first discovered it in late 1995 (or 1996) on the servers at Uni, where groups of "clans" would have huge WarCraft battles against each other for much of the day. Yes, nerdy, but the amount of people that stumbled onto this game and made it a huge obsession was incredible.

The thing that makes the game so good is that in these current times, eye candy aside, the gameplay is incredible. The grpahics are still great and guarantee the game won't run slowly or be digressed by superficial videos etc. Besides, since when would you complain about Chess not having great graphics - it's the PLAY that counts. The pieces are so perfectly matched (or maybe because some aren't) that forces the constant pressure of various moves and strategies to stay afloat. This is not the game that can ever be mastered and won easily - the only thing this game guarantees is total immersion and escapism.

I've bought WarCraft III and although it's an amazing piece of software, it just doesn't have the same captivation and basic yet totally captivating gameplay that WarCraft II does.

I cannot recommend buying it highly enough...

Chess x 20 ! Wonderful Strategy Game. / Battle.net

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I received this game for my Birthday and I have been playing it almost every day, for months ! I have never been a "Gamer," but this game turned me on to the pleasures of Strategic Stress Relief.

This game is Chess x 20 !

You cannot simply build an army of Footmen, Archers & Knights, then run-over the enemy, with Brute Force. You must learn to develop Strategies using Ballistas, Wizards, Palladins, etc. with Upgraded weapons, armor & men. Also, you must learn to build Destroyers and Battleships to protect your coast-line.

This is a fascinating game, with complicated scenarios that refresh your brain cells, while you relieve stress. Rough day at work? Wack some Orcs !

Teenagers will find this game challenging and cannot use simple Hack n Slash techniques to win the scenarios.

This game has influenced me to also add "Age of Empires," "Rune Gold," & "Stronghold" to my CD-Rom collection.

If you can schedule some free time with a friend, Battle.net is a great way to test your skill with the game, as well. You can play on-line against each-other, or together against others/ the computer.

I highly recommend War Craft II, because I never purchased a PC video game (since I was a teenager), until I acquired this game.

I would write more, but I can't wait to play another scenario....

One of my all time favorite RTS games ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Although Warcraft 3 and its expansion have come out within the last few years, I still prefer Warcraft 2 a bit more. Yes the game looks kinda dated now, but it is still a blast to play. The game was fun in that it never got too complicated or anything so that newcomers could always have a good time. The map editor was easy to use and the online play in the Battle.net edition will keep you busy for a while. Anyways, if you've only played Warcraft 3 then it might be difficult for you to enjoy this game since it is so old, but if your willing to look past the graphics then you'll find a real gem.

Perfection.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the greatest collection of RTS games there is. Warcraft1 was the first RTS I had ever played, and in it's day, it was GREAT!! but it soon gave way to Warcraft 2. War2 is/was/will-forever-be the best. It combined the great challange of the RTS format without getting the gamer lost in endless lists of pointlessly innumerous units. War2 struck the perfect ballance between simplicity and complexity. War1 didn't have enough units on roster to pick from, while other RTS games have too many different unit types to chose from, many with rather insignificant changes. War2 Beyond the dark portal did nothing but further it's companion, By addind new .pud's for the gamer to play, and a new set of campains with new challanges and increased difficulty, it breathed more life into it's far from dieing world. All in All, Warcraft is the best Real Time Strategy on the market, in it's day AND today.

A great leap forward in the evolution of RTS games.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: September 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In this set, you will find what most RTS games were like in their infancy by playing the original Warcraft. The differences between that and Warcraft II will show you how Blizzard has earned a reputation as a good game developer. The included expansion pack adds more depth by adding heroes, levels, and new challenges. Their follow-up RTS game Starcraft is another example of their quality offerings.

Blizzard is awsome, So is Warcraft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ok,First of all this game is a online ofline game,So when you get good and beat the single player you may wanna go online for some copititon that no single player made can reach,I beat single player no prob. when online and got killed by this one guy that was preatty good. The other day I played him agian and killed him,I was rated God at the end,It is fun to create maps and use them on the net!! please buy this game and come and play me on B.net I go by
WoB-Deathknight

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.

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