Warcraft III: Reforged

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  • Release Date: Jan 28, 2020
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0.6

Overwhelming dislike- based on 31090 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,475 out of 31090
  2. Mixed: 396 out of 31090
  3. Negative: 29,219 out of 31090

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  1. PlayWithFire
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    I absolutely loved the original WC3 when it first came out and played it for years. I have probably lost several months of my life to that game. So I was massively excited when I saw and heard about Reforged. I even pre-ordered it and I never pre-order any games.

    Then, it released. I don't think I could have been more disappointed. Firstly, the main point of the whole release was to    I absolutely loved the original WC3 when it first came out and played it for years. I have probably lost several months of my life to that game. So I was massively excited when I saw and heard about Reforged. I even pre-ordered it and I never pre-order any games.

    Then, it released. I don't think I could have been more disappointed. Firstly, the main point of the whole release was to bring in wonderful "4K" graphics and 3D character portraits. Considering it's 2020, the graphics are just nothing short of rubbish. SC2 was released 10 years ago and it looks considerably better than what they gave us in Reforged. It makes me wander what they actually spent all that time doing, because it definitely wasn't in making a decent engine upgrade. The character portraits are even worse in my opinion and had this weird neon outlining around parts of them when the 3D portraits moved. The engine itself as a whole is pretty terrible. Most of the time my FPS was alright and pretty high, but it made the fans on my graphics card sound like jet engines constantly even when barely anything was on screen or happening despite SC2 (again, released 10 years ago, looking tonnes better and having far more going on in it) doesn't even make it break into a sweat in comparison. I kept getting annoying micro-stutters which seemed to be relating to animations loading - but it would happen constantly, not even just the first time a certain animation happened and loaded, it would keep happening when that animation played again the next time, and the time after that, etc. And there seemed to be some weird engine bugs with fires. Even a single tiny fire on the screen would turn my game into a slideshow of around 10 FPS. As I got further into the first parts of the campaign, my FPS seemed to suffer more and more even while only managing a few units.

    Let's not even go into all the bugs surrounding disconnecting you from the game, having to reload the game over and over until it decided to remember that you've actually completed levels in the campaign, the fact that I read in multiple places that a UI overhaul/upgrade was going to be put in and it hasn't, I also read that waypathing was meant to be fixed from the original game - it hasn't, cutscenes seemed to disappear or be missing, the sound in some cutscenes was mumbled in places as if the characters were underwater, and there are tonnes of multiplayer-related features completely missing at launch.

    I just don't get what Blizzard actually spent their time on during this release because none of it is polished at all. And the one single thing that they absolutely promised and needed to get right - decent graphics - really fell short of any kind of mark. So short you need a microscope to find out where they landed and to work out if they actually moved forward in the first place. And to have so many performance-related FPS issues in the game when barely anything is going on and the graphics suck, in the year 2020, is just unacceptable.

    Sure there is a huge nostalgic feeling if you're a fan of the original game as I was. But it's just not worth paying £25 for. I wouldn't even pay £15 for it. I actually requested a refund through Blizzard's website because I feel the job's been done so poorly.

    I really wanted WC3 Reforged to be awesome. It was the one game I was looking forward to throughout 2019. I wish they'd gotten it right. But this game feels worse than the original in a lot of ways - at least you could run the original bug-free, feature-full and with amazing performance even if the graphics and ui were slightly dated.

    One of the things that annoys me the most about this whole shambles is the fact that I've read that Blizzard are banning people on the forums for asking for refunds or helping others to find out how to get a refund, and they seem to be widely ignoring the community's response to such a badly made game.

    Blizzard, you took people's money with this and completely crapped it up the wall. Own up to it and put it right.    … Expand
  2. RedShiftXIII
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    This seems like a cash-grab, but here are a few aspects in no particular order:
    -The models are pretty, but this was advertised as an overhaul and not just a $30 reskin.
    -Cut scenes were cut. -They re-wrote the TOS and killed any custom game potential. -Lots of glitches with sound or just bad design. -A lot of game crashes. -No UI improvements -Massive downgrade to classic players    This seems like a cash-grab, but here are a few aspects in no particular order:
    -The models are pretty, but this was advertised as an overhaul and not just a $30 reskin.
    -Cut scenes were cut.
    -They re-wrote the TOS and killed any custom game potential.
    -Lots of glitches with sound or just bad design.
    -A lot of game crashes.
    -No UI improvements
    -Massive downgrade to classic players in multiple ways.

    In general, this was a re-skin that forced people who still play the original game to buy it or lose functionality, that advertised itself as an overhaul but only added glitches into it's list of features. Great reskin though.    … Expand
  3. Pandareaper85
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Just a cash grab wrapped in lies. Promises made and broken and a game full of bugs, glitches and crappy graphics
  4. DoctorCat92
    Feb 1, 2020
    10
    Мне все понравилось. Не понимаю нытья фанатов, нули и единицы.
  5. Mark_The_Medic
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Bad, unfinished, and a big step back for the Warcraft series. Game doesn’t even actually work...
  6. kowko
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Blizzard decided to give a random Asian company to make their game. Congrats.
    -Cutscenes are clunky, there is zero feel of action in them.
    -Models are Asian like, look like from PW MMORPG or something like that (look at Undead Shade model). -UI isn't even new, they just decided to keep it from WC3. -Due to Blizzard politic they now own custom maps. -Blizzard bans people in forums for    Blizzard decided to give a random Asian company to make their game. Congrats.
    -Cutscenes are clunky, there is zero feel of action in them.
    -Models are Asian like, look like from PW MMORPG or something like that (look at Undead Shade model).
    -UI isn't even new, they just decided to keep it from WC3.
    -Due to Blizzard politic they now own custom maps.
    -Blizzard bans people in forums for helping people refunding the game.    … Expand
  7. Powepat
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    From the legend game to the worst game review ever happen.
    "Greedisgood"... activision blizzard for this ages.
  8. JGGR
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Pre-ordered the game early cause I wanted to play the original again, I had a year of fun playing custom games with my friends again.

    Now that reforged is released they forced everyone to use the new client, where custom games will never thrive again because of multiple reasons. Apart from fixing the bugs I don't see them changing the rules around Custom games and online play. This    Pre-ordered the game early cause I wanted to play the original again, I had a year of fun playing custom games with my friends again.

    Now that reforged is released they forced everyone to use the new client, where custom games will never thrive again because of multiple reasons.

    Apart from fixing the bugs I don't see them changing the rules around Custom games and online play.
    This game will die a painful dead and sadly it took the original with it....    … Expand
  9. Tonyisland47
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    I remember the blizzard glory days. Being mesmerized by warcraft 3, I could never convince my parents to buy me frozen throne so I mowed lawns for the money. Blizzard doesn't deserve that kind of commitment anymore. No one should support what this company has become.
  10. mumba
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    A game full of bugs, and blizzard doesn't care.
    Support is a joke.
    Don't use your money on this game.
  11. Mizikage
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Не оптимизированный, вылетающий, багающийся кусок говна, которое требует очень дохрена ресурсов для такого говница редкостного… Expand
  12. Pepsu
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined, its just works Todd would be proud
  13. MamaPose
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Talk about falling on your face. SMH.
    Not only did this game fail as a "remaster" but the false advertisement that it has going on borders on the insane.
  14. Stup1dB1tch410
    Feb 1, 2020
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Поднять щиты за wk3 вы совсем офигели это явно не лучшая игра года, месяца, квартала, эта история полная лжи, недоговорок, и молчания, я владелец этой игры, и играл со дня релиза, не было вылетов, багов и всего прочего ставлю игре абсолютно не заслуженную десятку что бы хоть как то поднять общий рейтинг хотя бы выше fallout 76 а теперь спойлер, вы все просто конченые кто ставил не заслуженную оценку… Expand
  15. Worbelito
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Created this account so I could vote. I played Warcraft 1: Orc and Humans on MS-DOS version on '94. Played and owned all blizzard games. Diablo 1, Starctaft 1, WOW since 1st month of lauching on Thunderlord server... but this is it. Im done with blizzard. Thank you.
  16. starpey87
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I've never felt so ripped off after buying a game. Have been playing Blizzard games since I was a kid. And in my adult life, the company has been a good investment for my money. But after this Cluster**** I will never be purchasing a Blizzard game again, and will be pulling my investments out before this company crashes.… Expand
  17. gradbaka
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    All blizzard said weren't done. Just a spitting on fans. Nothing new only **** everywhere.
  18. Dessloch
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    I wanted to buy it. So I tried it, see what you've done, Blizzard, and change my mind. Awful. Shame on you, Blizzard.
  19. videokevin
    Feb 1, 2020
    1
    Classic bait and switch, Just a disappointment, I was looking forward to playing this again, it's not well optimized and lacking even some of the features from the old game, the cut scenes advertised are not there either. You got me blizzard.
  20. Tekato
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    I don t even have words for it right now. I was a blizzard fan since forever, I defended their games because I always believed in good ol Blizzard... but blizzard is gone. The company we once loved a Titan of gaming is gone, all we got is pile of rubbish downgraded game, there are some brain washed people that actually love this, LOVE A DOWNGRADE OF A GAME, they legit cut content from oldI don t even have words for it right now. I was a blizzard fan since forever, I defended their games because I always believed in good ol Blizzard... but blizzard is gone. The company we once loved a Titan of gaming is gone, all we got is pile of rubbish downgraded game, there are some brain washed people that actually love this, LOVE A DOWNGRADE OF A GAME, they legit cut content from old game, ruined the multiplayer custom game aspect just for money. They scared of another DOTA (since original dota came from a fan created W3 custom map) so they just make you sign that every mod a player creates is their proprity... It means they dont even need to say who made that mod, basically meaning you become less than nothing for them but a tool to make even more money. They killed everything they used to love...for profit. I honestly won t even bother with anything from them anymore. I m done. (PS Sorry for poor grammar. )… Expand
  21. seaborgio
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Mal hecho, no cumple expectativas dadas en blizzcon, el original es mejor, bugs, etc.
  22. dez1re
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Just jumping on the bandwagon. Blizzard has fallen from grace and don't deserve gamers money
  23. N3v3n
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    In short line, Activision killed all good in Blizzard. For 30 bucks you get makeup and nothing else.
  24. Master_Fotis
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Yeah, so, long story short you took ,if not the greatest , one of the greatest rts of all time and turned it into a watered down , prepatched , buggy , outdated, unfinished , unpolished, product that can't even be compared with other, significantly lower in quality, rtses, for the year 2020 in the gaming region. That can sometimes be tolerated and even be, forgiven, due to the fact that,Yeah, so, long story short you took ,if not the greatest , one of the greatest rts of all time and turned it into a watered down , prepatched , buggy , outdated, unfinished , unpolished, product that can't even be compared with other, significantly lower in quality, rtses, for the year 2020 in the gaming region. That can sometimes be tolerated and even be, forgiven, due to the fact that, everyone makes mistakes.
    BUT, in this case , it is obvious that, w/e happened with the Warcraft 3 reforged is intentional. The missing "new cutscenes" , the on the fly development , the same voice acting (would i imagine is the least of the problems, if one at all ) , the no-refund policy , the dull lightning/bloom/shadow graphic aspects of the game , the custom game fan-based creativity input that is terminated through the new "policy" for copywrited map created from now on , the b.net issues , the OG warcraft burial .... So dissapointing ,and all that ,for the simple reason,of making and extra buck of a "thought to be" dead game (which is not bcause old wc3 was still played until this new garbage came out and replaced it for no good reason, but u see noone was filling activision's pockets with cash by playing 4ever a game that they bought just once and that's it), by remaking it (lmao) into w/e it was thought to be ,through misleading marketing and lieing to one of the strongest fanbased gaming audiences of modern gaming (post 2000). Here is Your 0 activision-blizzard.    … Expand
  25. Hazod
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Blizzard has officially died. It is only activision now. This has been the worst company of 2019 and I think these actions will continue through 2020. W3R is an absolute slap in the face to old school blizzard fans.
  26. casen
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Garbage....this was clearly outsourced to another company to make..

    No matchmaking, no ranked, no competitive mode. No player profiles. They force all players of the old wc3 client to upgrade to this 30gb "updated version" which breaks nearly all custom game modes and blizzard now owns exclusive rights to any custom maps made. The only thing blizzard can do is refund every single    Garbage....this was clearly outsourced to another company to make..

    No matchmaking, no ranked, no competitive mode. No player profiles.
    They force all players of the old wc3 client to upgrade to this 30gb "updated version" which breaks nearly all custom game modes and blizzard now owns exclusive rights to any custom maps made.

    The only thing blizzard can do is refund every single purchase and make this game f2p. Do yourself a favor and just pirate the original version.    … Expand
  27. tomanow91
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    This is really bad game. They destroyed the legacy of warcraft. The game looks disgusting. Cheap crafts without quality control. We did not deserve it.
  28. Shinod
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    I pre-ordered this game during Blizzcon 2018 reveal, that was a different game, what I have now is not what they sold me. FU Activision for killing one of the best studios ever and FU Blizzard for following the greediness of the big money. FU and you lost a loyal customer forever unless Blizzard goes back to it's roots, they should SPLIT from Activision like Bungee did.
  29. grubbywiever
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    We were promised the same game with remastered cinematics, better graphics and modern social features from battle.net. What did we get instead?
    -no more custom campaigns
    -no clans -no profiles -can't have more than 1 account -no more ladder -no more tournaments -no more TFT menu screen -no more LAN -no more offline AI games -no more cross-region play -no more chat /commands    We were promised the same game with remastered cinematics, better graphics and modern social features from battle.net. What did we get instead?
    -no more custom campaigns
    -no clans
    -no profiles
    -can't have more than 1 account
    -no more ladder
    -no more tournaments
    -no more TFT menu screen
    -no more LAN
    -no more offline AI games
    -no more cross-region play
    -no more chat /commands
    -removed friend list
    -removed custom game filter
    -no mmr system
    -no keybinds
    -removed dryad "i'm so wasted" and dreadlord "druglord" line
    -cut cutscenes
    -cut English voice acting
    -new foreign dubs which are inferior and compulsory, cannot be changed back
    -arthas vs illidan cutscene looks bad
    -menu is awful and unfinished with chat clipping
    -old client is gone even if you don't own reforged
    -blatantly unfinished/placeholder animations and models (tornado, cyclone)
    -colour bug in multiplayer
    -environmental textures even worse than in beta
    -sound bugs    … Expand
  30. nomint42
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    False advertising. No new 4+ hours of cutscenes (which is still on the store page to this very day). No new story changes. Broken lazy implementation of the new art assets that got hamfisted into the old game. Then to make matters worse they take the old game and break that too somehow. Stealing it from my battlenet account and ruining the client. It was bad enough they made a bad remasterFalse advertising. No new 4+ hours of cutscenes (which is still on the store page to this very day). No new story changes. Broken lazy implementation of the new art assets that got hamfisted into the old game. Then to make matters worse they take the old game and break that too somehow. Stealing it from my battlenet account and ruining the client. It was bad enough they made a bad remaster but the least they could've done is make it stand alone in its own mess and not take down an almost 20 year old classic with it.… Expand
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59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 46 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 41 out of 46
  3. Negative: 3 out of 46
  1. PCMag
    May 1, 2020
    50
    Blizzard has addressed some of the complaints and criticism hurled its way, and has promised to work on many of these issues. Naturally, one must ask why the game was released in such a state, especially considering the negative attention the company has garnered over the past year with the reveal of Diablo Immortal and the Blizzard/China controversy.
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  2. AusGamers
    Mar 4, 2020
    65
    In the end it’s worth noting that when viewing a remake or remaster what needs to be taken into consideration is the source material, how it looks, feels, and plays. That is, in addition to the work carried out to recreate moments, update visuals, and change any of the presentation. To do otherwise would be silly, a terrible game with a wonderful remaster doesn’t warrant a high score. In the case of Warcraft III, the inverse to that is also true. So, what we end up with is something in-between. A classic reborn, in a package that doesn’t warrant all that much in the way of celebration.
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  3. Player 2
    Mar 2, 2020
    50
    If you set your expectations a little lower, then Warcraft 3: Reforged is a game worth of your time and money. Sadly, for many of us out there, we were expecting a little more.
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