


Part of this was down to the rich storytelling and the introduction of RPG-influenced mechanics - which made for a more engrossing setting and more engaging gameplay loop. Part of this was down to the graphical upgrade the third installment in the series delivered - which bumped things up from sprite-based 2D to fully-featured 3D models and environments. In the years since, it’s long held the crown as the game I’d with me to a desert island. It was one of those games that hit me at just the right time in my life.Ī few years down the track, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos impressed me all over again. The original Warcraft took a style of game I was already acquainted with and paired it up with a richer, nerdy-as-hell setting that played right into my teenage appetite for trashy-as-hell genre fiction. Dark prophecies, grimdark character designs, gorey action and truckloads of fantasy flavor? Sign me the hell up.
