There are a few exceptions, but most cutscenes lack the emotion or cinematic flair of what we saw just over a year ago. In 2018, Blizzard showed off an in-game cutscene from the Culling of Stratholme mission, featuring lots of close ups and characters having a very animated argument, but little of that is present now. In cutscenes, they're a lot less animated than previously advertised, too. Yes, you can enjoy Warcraft 3 at 200fps, but if you're looking at your army, it looks more like stop-motion. Unit animations, on the other hand, haven't been given the same attention, but what really makes the units look a bit odd is their low frame rate. They're RPG characters, essentially, around which you build a small army. These super-charged units are fancy specialists with powerful abilities that can be upgraded as they level up and then be augmented with items purchased in shops or dropped by enemies. While it features most of the traditional elements of the genre, like base building, resource gathering and maps shrouded in a fog of war, it's really driven by its heroes. It helps that real-time strategy hasn't made many leaps since 2002. Impressively, two decades hasn't dulled it at all. It's still the Warcraft 3 you remember, but it looks a bit nicer.

With the exception of the graphics improvements, Blizzard has walked most of these changes back.įor the purists, this might be good news. There were going to be new cutscenes, a new UI and more. Not only was Blizzard going to add heaps of new art and modern graphics wizardry, it was going to go over the campaigns again, improving them, tinkering with the pace and even bringing the lore and story in line with World of Warcraft. Initially, it sat somewhere between remaster and full-on remake.

Blizzard hasn't done a great job of communicating what Warcraft 3: Reforged actually is.

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