Blizzard announced the release of a reissue of WarCraft III in 2019. Pre-order open

Last night at the BlizzCon game show, Blizzard announced the release of the remaster of its legendary RTS WarCraft III. The new version of the game called WarCraft III: Reforged will include the original campaign of the two previous versions of the game - Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne.

In addition, the game will be “delivered” completely reworked character models, new animation, campaign fixes, an updated map editor and 4K support. Even the developers promise to make changes to the balance of the game, so that it is quite possible that the old tactics and strategies that players have developed over the years will not work. The release of the updated WarCraft III will be held in 2019. This happiness costs from 1299 to 3499 RUB on pre-order .

WarCraft III expectedly repeated the fate of StarCraft, the reprinting of which I reported a year and a half ago. Blizzard is actively reworking its legendary projects. The first touchstone was StarCraft, after we announced the release of vanilla World Of WarCraft (according to information from BlizzCon, the exit will take place in the summer of 2019), and now - WarCraft III.
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Intro video

Campaign trailer

Preview gameplay trailer

High-quality re-release of your favorite games is always a pleasure, but knowledgeable people drew attention to two facts: a new balance and a new map editor.

Objectively, that year, Blizzard is trying to fully enter the world of eSports, but failures are constantly pursuing it. StarCraft, due to its monstrous popularity among Koreans, became their local discipline, not gaining widespread popularity in the west. Hearthstone - CCI in the WarCraft universe gave hope for domination in this segment, but multiple unrestrained updates and too frequent balance changes led to a decline in discipline. At least this is indicated by the fact that the majority of cyber-sport organizations refused to “sign” professional players in HS. Heroes of the Storm Killer Dota was never able to overcome Dota 2 and LoL, being in popularity on a twitch somewhere close to StarCraft with a score of 3-5 thousand viewers.

The new WarCraft III with an updated balance could be Blizzard's “golden ticket” to the eSports market. This game was popular around the world, in the past, professional players still stream the game for the most ardent fans and record gameplay videos for YouTube.



In addition, WarCraft is easier to read than StarCraft, if only because of the smaller number of units. The eSports games in WarCraft rarely go into the “deep leith” mode, that is, the number of units on the map is markedly limited compared to the same StarCraft. Plus, the game has a huge fan base represented by players in WoW and HS.

The new map editor gives hope for the revival of the culture of custom cards, which are so loved by users. If you omit DotA, then you can recall numerous TD (YOU TD, Maffa TD, Element TD, Legion TD), arena cards (Angel Arena, Life in Arena, Footman Frenzy) and even cards that were originally intended as a joke (Petrosianism). All of this - the plot adventures created by users, the mass of content that was buried under the old engine, not the most convenient map editor and features of the network mode. The community tried to revive some of this content in Dota 2 custom maps, but they did not receive wide popularity due to pressure from the “title” mode. Reprinting WarCraft can return all this content, which at least the author would very much like.

And of course, we are still waiting for WarCraft 4.

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