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Each of the races also gets special units that no other races have. There are a few units that carry over between races like dragons that every race can have, and wisps that are the builders for all of the magical races. When you pick a race to play in multiplay, or are leading them in single player, you get all of the units, upgrades, and advantages that come along with them. With nine different races, it really is quite amazing how they've managed to keep each of them fairly unique and still balance them so well. The alignment of the races (good, evil, and neutral) comes into play when fighting against each other and the effects a hero has upon the troops that it is leading, but I'll get into that in a minute.Įach of the individual races also has sets of advantages and disadvantages that come along with it. The primitive, civilized, and magical races are different in the basic structures that they produce such as the keeps.
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Here's a little table showing the relationship between races: The races are split into different categories like primitive, civilized, and magical that will link them to different building structures and good, evil, and neutral alignments that will give certain advantages and disadvantages to each race. The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral One of the best things about this game is the choice between nine different races when playing multiplayer (the single player story revolves around the humans, but you do get to command different races). I guess I've been spoiled by the excellent CG in games like Diablo II. And I feel bad for saying that because I know how much time goes into making that stuff. Unfortunately the CG cut scenes that helped to tell the story looked like they were made a few years ago when the possibility of cinematics hadn't really been considered fully for video games. Don't worry about picking just one side though because you'll still be able to go back and finish the other missions after you're done with one branch. It's a neat little touch that adds a bit more gaming and intrigue. And the other will lead you down a road of revenge and darkness. One path follows the light side and will have you continue on your quest for the salvation of the world. I don't want to ruin the surprise or anything so I'll just say that something happens so that you'll have to make a choice between two mission paths halfway through the game. After a few missions, you start getting a weird little feeling of huge racial tensions between the "good" races of the humans and the elves. evil plot fare.īut it does get a little more interesting as you progress. And throughout the game you'll find out that two crystals, one good and one evil, have fallen from the sky and herald the coming of an apocalypse. The story goes that you, the good hero at the beginning, need to figure out why there's undead and evil roaming around the land all of the sudden. While it isn't a horrible story that will leave you wanting to claw your eyes out, it is decidedly formulaic and blah. The Story I guess the game designers spent all of their time thinking of the interesting and cool ways to enhance gameplay and forgot to dip into their creativity when writing the story for the game. But even with all of the great things that went in to the game, there were some bad things going on in the game that can make for some frustrating and annoying gaming. And they also did something else, they slipped right in underneath the hype surrounding the Warcraft III RPS and delivered what Blizzard's upcoming game has been promising. The folks at SSG that developed this game really did a great job adding loads of new ideas and fun new things to think about when strategizing.
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WARLORDS BATTLECRY 3 THE PROTECTORS VS ORIGINAL PC
In what is probably one of the last games that will come out for the PC in that light, Warlords Battlecry does a great job in giving us more hours of fun and frolic in a land filled with nine, count 'em nine, different races.
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That world is familiar and has given so many great hours of fun that it's hard not to look upon the years of set cameras and easy interface with a kind of nostalgic longing because it won't be too long before the development community completely abandons the idea of the 2D RTS. In an industry that is quickly moving away from a cartoony 2D space into the 3 dimensional frontier, it is nice to every now and again, go back into that 2D world for a visit with classic RTS gaming.