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According to such distinguished gaming magazines as PC Gamer USA, PC Gamer UK, PCC Gamer and PC Gamer Afghanistan, this is the absolutest bestest game EVAR!!!
Urgh.
Let's start shall we? The Human missions are total crap. The story made almost no sense. There's this cool prophet guy who turns into a giant bird and predicts doom for everyone. And there's this senile king who falls asleep while people talk to him. Then there's his delinquent spoilt brat who you see most of the time, whining about how all his citizens are dying.
The human buildings are also pretty cheesy-looking. I know you can't expect 3D RTS games to have graphics of FPS-game quality, but they could at least have made some effort in the texturing. The colours are all children's-book type and make me want to wear sunglasses while playing, or maybe hold my eyes and scream in despair.
It got so tedious I skipped 2 missions thru cheats. And then we come to the undead missions.
Especially after the crap-fest of the human missions, the undead campaign is tons better. Let's face it. In any game, humans tend to always be the suckiest, the most 'uncool'. It looks like the developers did the undead, orc and night-elf stuff first, then realised they were running out of time and rushed through the graphics for the human missions, it gets a lot better after human missions are over.
You can basically see where the story is going, but still... it isn't anything special. People who say "WOW! It's great!!" have obviously never read a good fantasy book before. You don't really feel any relation to the characters. Oh wow, Arthas k[spoiler] his [spoiler]. Gasp. I could cry. Oooh, gigantic d[spoiler] invasion. AAAAAHHHH!!!
The AI is typical, but has more intelligence than others. You don't get 3 tanks (or whatever the WC3 equivalent is) trying to invade a base bristling with Prism Towers and Tesla Coils, or in this case, guardtowers.
Just because the single-player gets better, doesn't mean it's anywhere near good. The missions are tedious. Boring. This game is not fun, even when you win, because it's all so repetitive. The missions have only 2 different types: Get your units from one side of the map to the other without the important guy dying, or build base, gather resources, repel attacks, build lots of one kind of attack unit, rush the enemy base, with a few minor variations. Sometimes timers are thrown in to make you do it faster.
The single player itself isn't too bad. It's okay, but nothing that really sets it apart from other RTS games. At least the graphics didn't get as bad as Empire Earth... You want crap RTS game graphics, that was the epitome. I have publicly slagged off Warcraft 3, but it actually is worth your money. Just don't buy original. As I'm about to explain, the guarenteed ability to play online isn't worth $54, and sometimes the pirated cd-key will work for online, as it did for me.
Now for the multiplay. If there is a sad bunch of people, it is those who regularly play WC3 online. Every game I played, I was rushed with about 20 [insert basic attack unit name here] WITHIN 2 MINUTES!! No matter how hard I tried I managed only 5 [basic attack unit]s and a couple of base defence structures by the time the gangrape came. Needless to say it put me off the online game completely, and that was before I played this guy who rushed me within 60 seconds, called me a "noob faggot haha" and constantly sent me chat messages that said "lol". Ouch. There went my gaming ego, right there. At least I can fall back on MOHAA and CS.
Everyone is out to get everyone else, these people take the game too seriously. Although what can you expect from the Starcraft crowd where one Korean murdered another for owning his ass in Starcraft? Ok, there was the stabbing incident involving Counter-Strike right here in Singapore but the victim didn't die did he? Blizzard games are probably the only ones that discourage any strategy whatsoever. There isn't any vague "rock-scissors-paper" unit relationships. What I mean is, for example, Ghouls would be especially effective against, say, Footmen, but suck ass against Knights and Archers. Take time to build defences and fortify your base and you are rewarded with 30 Ghouls rushing you. Another reminder. I HAVE played it online, I am NOT basing this on stuff off SomethingAwful.com. Avoid Korean and Taiwan people. Against more sane people in Australia, I managed to have a decent game, that should be a lesson to you all.
Okay time for the final scorecard. What can I say? WarCraft 3 is just basically like every other RTS game that preceded it. Graphically it is okay considering it's a 3D RTS. The storyline is absolutely corny and very, very idiotic. The AI is okay, but at the same time the game is drastically overrated.
The night elf on the box is really hot though.
FINAL SCORE:
GOOD: New races, more perspectives. Average graphics.
BAD: Corny storyline. Gameplay isn't very different from the tons of RTS games out there. The people on multiplayer are INSANE!!
Very tedious, repetitive missions. Not fun at all...
RATING: 64% (OKAY)