Best Seller Series: Warcraft II Battle.net

by Blizzard Entertainment

Product Features

• Includes improved versions of Warcraft II Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal
• Plus 100 new battlefields
• improved combat controls
• Internet enhanced

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00009ECD9
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: May 5, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,294 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #32 in Video Games > Mac Games > Role-Playing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Return To The Age Of Chaos And Wage War Against Live Orc And Human Opponents With The Same Skill And Fearless Intensity You Lived And Breathed In Your Warcraft Ii Career. Warcraft Ii Edition Brings You Real-time Combat With Up To Eight Players From Around The Globe. Put Your Skills To The Ultimate Test In The Most Epic Warcraft Ii Battles Ever. this Exclusive Set Contains: warcraft Ii: Tides Of Darkness Edition the All-new Windows 98/95 Version Of The Legendary Strategy Game Including New Multiplayer Mode And All 28 Original Single-player Scenarios. warcraft Ii: Beyond The Dark Portal Edition the Award-winning Expansion Set For Warcraft Ii Updated For Windows 98/95 And Complete With All 26 Original Scenarios. whats New In The Edition intense Internet Competition challenge Players Worldwide With Free Access To Blizzards Gaming Service. Up To Eight Players Supported For Head-to-head Allied Or Team Play. Enhanced Features Include Global Player Rankings Tournaments And Challenge Ladders. over 100 New Battlefields: continue The Struggle For The Domination Of Azeroth Across More Than 100 New And Updated Multiplayer Maps. improved Combat Controls: command Your Armies With Newfound Ease. Enhancements Include: hot-key Unit Groupings improved Auto-commands instant Event-alert Centering shared Vision system Requirements: windows 98/me/2000/xp pentium 60 Or Equivalent 16mb Ram 80mb Available Hard Drive Space 2x Cd-rom Drive For Gameplay (4x For Cinematics) 8mb Graphics Card (directx Compatible) microsoft Compatible Mouse directx Compatible Sound Card For Audio multiplayer Options : 2 Players: 14.4 Kbps Modem. 2-8 Player: Appletalk Network Ipx Network Or (requires Low-latency Internet Connections With Support For 32 Bit Applications).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Build Armies and defeat your enemies, March 11, 2004

By 

Rachel Watkins "Rachel Watkins" (Joshua, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Seller Series: Warcraft II Battle.net (CD-ROM)

Warcraft Two is a strategy and battle game. Not turn based, timing is of the essence in gameplay, building your farms, barracks, training soldiers and pesants to mine gold and chop lumber faster than your enemy in order to build your armies defeat the enemy.

However, I've found that computer opponents tend to be predictable, and so easy to beat. I've become practiced at playing the same scenario with one, two, three, four, and even five opponents. Because the computer generated opponents are fairly simple, they don't have much sense, and will get "stuck" at an obstacle, or rush blindly into traps. Still, with enough opponents the custom scenarios can be challenging and have you scrambling to keep up production of soldiers, catapults, dragons or gryphon flying fighters, and building walls of farms and cannon towers in defense of the onslaught.

Depending on wether or not you're playing as Orc or Human there are a few slightly different ways the individual charachters move or fight, and there are some entertaning speech recordings on all the charachters, just keep clicking them and they'll react with annoyance, or seasickness, or the secret of the sheep flock!

A classic game, and one which is still fun to play, and is often much more reasonable in price than many of the newer games out on the market today. Watch out when using cheat codes, as many of them will give the same benefit to your enemy as they do to you.

5.0 out of 5 stars WarCraft 2 Battle.net Edition Best Review, February 16, 2008

By 

J. Nielson "Eagle" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Best Seller Series: Warcraft II Battle.net (CD-ROM)

It's no StarCraft but it doesn't have to be. The gameplay offers enough, story, action and strategy to make up for what some (not me) believe is a weakness in graphics. The game's graphics are simple enough to prevent one becoming obsessively absorbed while being interesting and vivid enough to keep the player's interest. For fantasy is so much more fantastic when one is still aware of reality. If a game pulls you from reality too much, it can become harder to notice that the fantasy is anything but mundane reality. With the ability to play online and to create your own maps, the story and scenario possibilities are endless, making the replayability of the game almost an immortal trait. Now that this game has been out for so long it makes a perfect nostalgic collectible or gift to those who appreciate such gaming. It stands up to the merits of it's genre.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An RTS Classic - and still enjoyable even today!, November 19, 2005

By 

Brynn Huxtable (Durban, S.A) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Best Seller Series: Warcraft II Battle.net (CD-ROM)

I just finished "Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness" a few weeks ago and I enjoyed the entire experience. Well, I only finished half of the Orc Campaign and the whole Human Campaign (so 75% finished then). The reason for this was because when an enemy Paladin cast a spell, the game would crash. Which just sucked alot. And I e-mailed Blizzard and just got a canned response (as always) so I decided to finish the Human Campaign. Even though I never clocked the entire game, it was still extremely enjoyable - and it only takes up 20MB Hard Drive Space! Now that's value! Anyway, I'm trying to remedy the problem so I can finish the remainder of the Orc Campaign.

Ok, don't expect the Graphics to be much good - they're kinda cartoonish and rather pixelated - but hey, this is a 1995 Game! They'd only just invented the internet! But the graphics never bothered me and in no way detracted from my enjoyment of the game. I'll give Graphics 7/10 for todays standards.

The sound was ok at best. The old sound drivers on the game didn't go down that well with my sound card, so I got a kind of disjointed and fragmented sound output when units spoke and when sound effects came through. So sound back then may have been great, but on my new machine it was kinda crappy. Still, it didn't bother me that much and was a minor problem (or so I think). Sound gets 6/10 for todays standards.

The gameplay is great! Plenty of bloody battles with footmen, archers, axethrowers, mages...man it felt good to destroy villages and kill every living creature within them! Gameplay gets 10/10, it's still fantastic.

The numerous units and various upgrades were really cool too. With the humans you get the following attack units:

1) Footmen - Basic Melee Units. Can attack land units only.
2) Elven Archers - Long Range units that can attack land, sea and air units. Archers can be upgraded to Elven Rangers; which have greater armour, range and attack damage.
3) Knights - Heavy Melee Units. Knights can attack land units only, but are faster, stronger and more deadly than Footmen.
4) Paladins - These units are upgraded from Knights. Paladins can cast various spells, including heal, holy vision and Exorcise.
5) Eleven Destroyers - Sea Units that can attack both land, sea and air units. These ships are very versatile and relatively strong.
6) Battleships - Heavy Sea Units that can only attack land and sea units. These ships are stronger and more powerful than Destroyers, but are very slow and cumbersome.
7) Gnomish Submarines - Sea Units that can only attack other Sea Units. These units are visible only to towers, air units and other underwater units. They are rather powerful but relatively weak with regards to armour.
8) Mages - Mages can cast a number of spells to defeat their enemies including Fireballs, Slow, Invisibility, Blizzard and Polymorph.
9) Gryphon Riders - Heavy Air Units mounted by Dwarves. These units can attack all other units. They are rather fast and have a decent attack damage and best used in groups.
10) Ballistas - Heavy Siege Units. Excellent against buildings!

With the Orcs, you get these attack units:

1) Grunt - Basic Melee Units. Can attack land units only.
2) Troll Axethrower - Long Range Unit that can attack land, sea and air units. Trolls can learn Berserker Strength and regeneratve abilities amongst other upgrades.
3) Ogres - Heavy Melee Units. Ogres are faster than Grunts and much stronger and more powerful, but they can also only attack land units.
4) Ogre Magi - These units are upgraded from Ogres. Ogre Magi can cast various spells, including Eye of Kilrogg, Bloodlust and Runes.
5) Destoyers - Sea Units that can attack land, sea and air units. Like Elven Destroyers, these units are very versatile.
6) Ogre Juggernaughts - Heavy Sea Units that can attack land and sea units. They're just like Battleships.
7) Giant Turtles - The Goblins captured these creatures and act as the Horde's Submarines.
8) Death Knights - These Evil beings cast spells including Death Coil, Death and Decay, Fast and other spells.
9) Dragons - The Dragons of Khaz Modan wield fire against their foes and are the perfect match for the Alliance's Gryphon Riders.
10) Catapults - Heavy Siege Weaponry. Great against buildings!

And there you have it. 10/10 for the units!

So overall "Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness" or the Battle.net Edition get 85%. It's a classic RTS game that revolutionised Strategy games. If you haven't played Warcraft, you haven't played RTS - well, maybe you've played Red Alert, so maybe you have. Anyway, this game's a must. You won't regret playing it. I know I didn't! Enjoy!