Got Warcraft III
I'm yet to finish the first campaign, but to be honest I'm not too impressed. Everything works - it's tight and the controls are logical - but there's nothing innovative in the game. The focus on heroes seems like it'll remove any real strategy, since unit placement and coordination has become somewhat obsolete.
Graphics are nice and clean. I'm running it at 1280x1024, and it's nice to see the cinematics in context (it opens with the trailer of the orc/human fighting the burning legion). But it plays too much like Battle Realms, which I didn't find too interesting.
Come to think of it - Sacrifice was the only innovative RTS since Warcraft first appeared. It drew the focus away from resource management by making it combat reliant, and involved real strategy in organising your units around a 3D terrain. You could really take somebody by surprise by flanking them from the hill you'd perched your altar/base upon. And spells were more involved than simple methods of attack - you had to use them with a sense of strategy or they'd often backfire.
WIII seems okay, but if Blizzard's name wasn't attached to it, you'd still have just one more RTS clone. Sacrifice is half the cost if you've never played it.
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