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 | Title : Warcraft III Expansion: The Frozen Throne
Author : Blizzard Entertainment
Release Date : 20030701
Binding : CD-ROM
Regular Price : $
Amazon.com Price : $34.99
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Editorial Reviews :
Following in the tradition of previous Blizzard expansion sets, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne provides gamers with a vast new chapter in the epic Warcraft saga. In the single-player campaign, players revisit the war-torn world of Azeroth. Several months have passed since Archimonde and the Burning Legion were defeated at the battle of Mount Hyjal, yet a new threat has arisen throughout the land...
One new Hero per race, each possessing powerful spells and magical abilities.
A host of new units, each equipped with new abilities and spells, giving players the opportunity to create diverse strategic and tactical forms of combat.
Player-built shops, unique for each race, equipped with items carefully designed to improve and aid the units of every race.
Neutral Heroes, available for recruitment by all players, that can supplement and strengthen a player's army with all new spells and abilities.
Expanded multiplayer options over Battle.net including multiple new game types, clan and tournament support.
Buyer Reviews :
This expansion pack is going to comletely change WC3 for the better... WC3+expansion will definatly be one of the best RTS games for quite some time. I'm currently beta testing the game, so i should be able to give a rough idea of how it should turn out for the final release. Lot's of new features (i'm not going to get into details that are already avialable at the expansion pack website, for you can read there yourself)....
- My favorite new hero is the orc hero.... its like a powerfull voodoo witchdoctor..... most notable is his healing spell (which finally gives orcs a healing option for early game) which acts like chain lightning, but has a healing effect.
- Spellcasters have been changed.... their attack type is now 'magic attack'..... their armor type is now 'unarmed'. I won't get into the details of how the attack and armor works, because they are likely to be modified for final release.
- Spellcasters now have inventory! a 2 slot inventory.
- Ancients now have heavy armor when uprooted (makes ancient rushing a little harder i guess)
- All races can now build item shops with items unique to each civ. Most notible is that each civ's item shop gets a unique orb... orcs get orb of lightning ;D.... orbs arnt available until tier3 though and cost about 400gold on current beta.
- Cyclone is now dispelable
- Crypt fiends (and other undead units) can learn the burrow ability which lets them dig into the ground and act as a spy/regen health
- You can now buy transport BOATS (at goblin shipyards)... this should make for some interesting water maps hopefully.
- Orc burrows can be upgraded to heavy burrows which have fortified armor instead of medium.
- When units are following a hero, they mimic the heros actions.. i.e. if hero attacks, following units will also attack instead of just sitting there watching :p
- For people with slower computers, you can now adjust the spell detail level, which was a source of lag at times on older machines.
- Minimap now has a creep mode. it highlights creep camps on the map via a grey circle; the bigger the circle the bigger the creeps.
BNET will be much improved too.... here are some features i've tried out on the current wc3x beta servers...
- Built-in clan support! you can now create clans. there are now 2 friends lists basicly: the original friends list, and a new clan member list. The creator of the clan gets a cheiften icon, assistant's to the leader get shaman icons, normal members get grunt icons, and new members (initiates) get peon icons until they are officially accepted into the clan. There are also clan ladders and clan stats!
- Now you can stay in the chat room while searching for a game. After you choose game criteria (1v1, 2v2, maps, civ) and click search... the search screen minimizes to a small box in the topright and takes u back to the chat room. The small box tells you how long you have been waiting, and what the average wait time is for that game type.
Anyways, i can't wait for this to go final! it will make a great rts game even better!
(by duck)
Features/Technical Specs :
* Expansion for WarCraft III
* One new Hero per race, and recruitable neutral Heroes
* A host of new units
* Player-built shops
* New multiplayer options, game types, and clan and tournament support
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