She didn't play many online games, or get deeply involved in custom map building. The version of me that spent the most time playing Warcraft III is 13 years old. You build up your base, generate different fighty units with slightly different tactical applications, and then do a war on your nearest neighbours on the map. In further respects still, some people might wish it had never happened.įor the uninitiated, Warcraft III is a real time strategy game (and for the really uninitiated, that's what RTS stands for), where you play as one of several fantasy races (though humans and orcs are the perennial favourites). In others, it's a bit - dare I say - underforged. In some respects, Warcraft III: Reforged does a serviceable job of fulfilling that need. People never entirely stopped playing the original Warcraft III, so when you think about it, a remastered version feels long overdue. Odds are, you will have felt its impact even if you never played RTS games, since the original Dota grew out of a mod for Warcraft III's multiplayer mode.
A fantasy RTS that lead right into the start of World Of Warcraft, it left a big, war-booted footprint on the landscape of games. Warcraft III was an immensely important game for a lot of people.
