Customer Reviews

Warcraft II - Battle.net Edition

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Ever since I was 13 I have loved this classic real time strategy game. Although it may not have the fancy graphics or customizable characters that many RTSs can boast of today, what is does have is simplistic fun. Tolkien style fantasy war; orcs verses humans, knights verses horded monsters, heck... it even has dragons verses defenseless peasants! Have your legion of paladins ride off to expunge forces of darkness from it's goblin infested lair, or if you prefer, knock down your enemy's church and eat what you find inside!

With it's well rendered cartoon graphics, funny catch phrases, skill testing resource management, and good old fashioned explosion noises Warcraft 2 battle net edition can be fun for anyone with an eye for real time strategy.

I loved Warcraft 2 when it came out and I've had one of the first copies for a really long time. When I upgraded to a new computer with windows vista the first copies of the game didn't work. This Battle.net Edition works perfectly with windows vista. Going through all the campaigns has been really fun.

For all the talk I've seen on the net about how Warcraft 2 Battlenet Ed. won't work on newer Windows, I'm happy (for me) and sad (for those others) to let you know that it went right in and set up perfectly on WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE.

Not the slightest glitch nor hiccup and plays perfectly.

No patches, just ran setup off the cd.

Just wish Blizzard would finally see beyond WOW and UPDATE AND FACELIFT WARCRAFT 2 for those of us who LOVE the original and couldn't give two hoots in hell about WOW, online pay-2-play and Mr. T's goofy "MOHAWK GRENADE..."

Plays like the original, but able to play it on XP! Pretty much the original + upgrade, in this edition.

Warcraft II was the first RTS game I ever saw, and it's still fun to play today. You can be Orcs or Humans, and gather resources, build up large bases and massive armies and navies, then use them to destroy your opponent. There are land units, air units, defensive buildings, and even units with magic powers. You must be strategic and tactical to win, building enough workers to gather resources adequate while still leaving enough gold to train an army, picking the right units for the task (dragons to fry incoming knights, submarines to take control of the seas, catapults to bring down enemy guard towers, etc.), maneuvering your forces well (flanking the enemy and doing hit and runs and whatnot), and taking advantage of spells (using holy vision to see the layout of enemy forces, raising foes from the dead to fight for you with raise dead, healing injured forces with heal, etc).

The gameplay is quite fun and well balanced, mostly with traditional RTS missions but also more creative escort ones. While Orcs and Humans have nearly identical combat units, they look different, say different things, and have different spells, which makes a lot of difference in gameplay. You can lay runes in your opponent's path as orcs and watch them get blown to bits, or turn a fearsome dragon into a harmless sheep as humans. The emphasis on naval combat is also cool, since most RTS games just focus on land and air units. The control setup is also pretty well done, with hotkeys for everything and whatnot. But the biggest draw of the game for me is humor. Units say funny things when clicked on like "don't you have a kingdom to run?" and "this way! No that way! (two headed ogre)." All of it gives the game a nice unique touch and helps to make online and campaign quite fun.

Many say the graphics are bad but I think they're just fine. For 1995 they were pretty good and there's still something charming about them. However, the one complaint I do have about this title is lack of features. There is no history of Warcraft; the multiplayer over LAN still uses outdated protocols making it a pain in the butt to set up on newer computers (and in my experience, impossible), and the controls haven't been updated to Starcraft standards. However, it is a still a blast to play both online and off, and these issues really only make a difference if you're in to LAN parties. Overall, needs some touching up, but still a fun game to play.

I had this game for a long time on my old computers and played once an a whyle to kill the time. When I changed my PCs to newer models, they came with XP and Vista. The game didn't want to instale on new PC. I had to replace Warcraft 2 with Warcraft 3, but Warcraft 3 has different graffic and is more complicated. Now I'm happy to have easyer version - my favorite old game on new PC.

I had this game on Sega Saturn and loved it...bought this version for PC and cannot get it to work even after taking all recommended steps from Blizzard. Low rating is because of this problem, Warcraft II itself is great.