Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Bart G. Farkas (Author)

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Publication Date: June 25, 2002 | Series: Bradygames Take Your Games Further

BradyGames Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Official Strategy Guide features a complete walkthrough of all four campaigns-including every optional quest. Comprehensive coverage of the races including, tech-trees, strategies, and statistics for managing the units and structures. Extensive coverage of the Heroes is also provided. Essential fold-out poster includes critical information on hundreds of Spells, Upgrades, and Items! Plus, Battle.net(r) tips from Blizzard!

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BradyGames Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Official Strategy Guide provides comprehensive coverage of the 4 character races, including the Night Elves, the Undead, the Orcs, and the Humans. Detailed area maps call out key magical objects and help players navigate through the game. Boss strategies and battle tactics help gamers win battles and complete quests. Multiplayer strategies provided for worldwide warfare on the Battle network.

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About the Author

Blizzard Entertainment (r) (www.blizzard.com) (a division of Vivendi Universal Interactive, Inc.) is best known for blockbuster hits including the Warcraft(r) series, StarCraft(r) and Diablo(r) series, and is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating many of the industry's most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard's track record includes four consecutive number-one selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company's free Internet gaming service Battle.net ® reigns as the largest in the world with millions of active users.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Brady Games; 1st edition (June 25, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744000807
• ISBN-13: 978-0744000801
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,189,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unneeded, but excellent nonetheless, January 18, 2003

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"zaaphiel" (Rockville, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

Grading just on the basis of a guide, this book would have received 5 stars easily. The failing in this case is not in the guide, but in the game: Warcraft III is not sufficiently difficult to justify spending hard-earned money on a strategy guide. There are certain missions that one may get stuck on, but after trying again once or twice, most players should be able to figure out each mission's 'trick' strategy and beat it with relative ease. This applies even to hard mode, which, with the exception of a few missions late into the third and fourth campaigns, is not very hard at all.

That said, this guide is a walkthrough, in every sense of the word. It tells you what structures/units are available (and, most importantly, which ones you should use), shows you the entire map from overhead complete with a suggested path to follow, and what pitfalls need avoiding on a certain missions. After I had beaten the game several times on my own, taking a look through the walkthrough I noticed several ingenious strategies or shortcuts that I had never thought of that would have saved me a few hours of aggravation. And of course, it gives you a fairly good summary of unit tactics and general strategy, such as scouting, creeping, etc. to use on Battle.net. Like most guides, however, this one is not designed to make you the perfect B.net player, so most of the in-depth strategy and tactics must be gleaned from websites such as warcraftiii.net

It is an excellent guide, so if you have the money to spare and need a quick way out of that inanely annoying mission you're replaying for the 30th time, this is a good buy. But if you can stand a little trial and error, I doubt you'll need help to the degree to which this book offers it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality content, if you need it., January 8, 2003

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"kanonw" (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

Overall I would say the book is very complete. I have found very little about Warcraft III that was not answered in this book. This book has two parts.

The first part is the game play detail. This part provides details such as damage, armor, range, hit points for every unit and building; a "tech tree" for each race; and details about the special abilities of the heros. This part is essential for any serious player.

The second part is a pure spoiler for the single player missions. It gives every detail about the missions including: items, enemies, power ups, and tactical strategies. This part would be most useful to younger players or those who are new to strategy games.

I personally do not enjoy the single player game nearly so much as the multi-player game. I have owned the game for 6 months now, and have not-yet finished the single player game. Conversly, I have played over 200 online games.

I would recommend this Strategy guide to two types of people: those who are serious about developing a winning strategy (using the first part of the book), and those who are new to strategy games and may have trouble completing the single player missions (who would use the second part of the book).

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why Would You NOT Get This Book!, August 23, 2002

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Robert P. Hayden (Gardner, KS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

I must admit, I am not the world's best RTS game player. I get beat quite often, and end up getting mad at the game, and retiring it to the shelf. However, with this guide, I was able to muddle my way through the Human Campaign, and got quite a good start on the Undead Campaign before Medal of Honor lured me away! What a dilema! My buddies team up against the computer at our LAN parties, and this book always accompanies me. One of my buds lives, breathes, talks, walks, and eats Warcraft, and HE found this book to be very helpful. Bottom line, if you want to do good at this game, or you are stuck or whatnot, get this book. You won't regret it.