Warcraft III: Reforged

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  • Release Date: Jan 28, 2020
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0.6

Overwhelming dislike- based on 31090 Ratings

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  1. MelGibzon
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Blizzard posts on twitter about how many female internts they have, they celebrate diversity, meanwhile all the real devs leave so they have to merge with activision. Cames become **** and they start preaching political messages which most of the common sense population disagree with. Oh what a surprise, the games they make are **** now.
    Same **** will apply for diablo 4. They cant come    Blizzard posts on twitter about how many female internts they have, they celebrate diversity, meanwhile all the real devs leave so they have to merge with activision. Cames become **** and they start preaching political messages which most of the common sense population disagree with. Oh what a surprise, the games they make are **** now.
    Same **** will apply for diablo 4. They cant come up with anything original so they have to reboot their older games which they had no interest of developing in the first place    … Expand
  2. Azzle
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Where do I even start with this steaming pile of trash? From the beginning I suppose...

    In 2002 and 2003, Blizzard Entertainment released one of the greatest RTS's and greatest games ever made: Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne. This game revolutionized and standardized RTS games, had an amazing matchmaking system, a kick-ass campaign, an amazing custom game    Where do I even start with this steaming pile of trash? From the beginning I suppose...

    In 2002 and 2003, Blizzard Entertainment released one of the greatest RTS's and greatest games ever made: Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne. This game revolutionized and standardized RTS games, had an amazing matchmaking system, a kick-ass campaign, an amazing custom game modding community, charming graphics, great voice acting, and a pleasing soundtrack. These two masterpieces launched the MOBA games DOTA and League of Legends, among others. The interest in these games was so massive that it spawned and continued the lore with World of Warcraft, which was and still is the most successfully MMORPG of all time. Warcraft 3 continued to have a tight-knit passionate fanbase of players to this day who would play 1v1s and team games or replay the campaign every year, just because it was that good of a story and so nostalgic.

    So what went wrong? Well, Blizzard had 18 years to remaster this game or to create Warcraft 4, which is what fans really wanted. It seems they were a victim of their own success, in that World of Warcraft was such a cash cow that they continued milking it until it was a withered husk of a game (See: Battle for Azeroth). They only began development of Warcraft 3: Reforged 2 years ago (allegedly) and released it 1 month behind schedule. And for what we got out of this game, it's embarrassing

    Blizzard (now Blizzard-Activision, HUGE difference) claims that this game has:
    -Visuals rebuilt from the ground up
    -Over 4 hours of reforged cutscenes
    -Limitless custom games to explore
    -Updated UI and rebalanced gameplay
    -Modern Blizzard Battle.net features

    What we got was:
    -Visuals that look like they were created by overworked interns from 2010 in some foreign development company in India
    -No reforged cutscenes, only the exact same cutscenes with "updated" graphics
    -Custom games that are legally owned by Blizzard
    -The same exact UI from 2002 and a few MINOR changes to gameplay with no new units, no new heroes, no new buildings, no new maps
    -Battle.net 2.0, which takes away profile stats, animated profile pictures, online connectivity, clans, player community, and a lot more things that other reviewers have detailed much better than I can

    Bonus "features":
    -Incredibly amount of lag, even on high-end system, even in 1v1 custom matches against a bot
    -No new campaigns
    -No new cutscenes
    -No new music
    -No new voice actors (would love to have the option to choose between old and new voice actors)
    -COMPLETE lack of polish - for god's sake the multiplayer chat doesn't even scroll down automatically when a new message is received
    -"updated" graphics that somehow look worse than the original and lack its charm. Either go with the charm of the old art style or update it completely to WoW style, don't do some half-ass attempt to merge the two

    Overall, this "game" was an attempt to cash in on people who have a love and huge amount of nostalgia for the old games. It was the absolute laziest attempt I have ever seen to "remaster" a game that I have ever seen in my 29 years of life and Blizzard and the people who worked on this should be absolutely ashamed. Not only did they not make remaster the game in an acceptable way, they completely destroyed the old game by not allowing normal Warcraft 3 players (the old game) to log into old Battle.net and use the features from that.

    So bravo, Blizzard (really Blizzard-Activision as Blizzard doesn't exist anymore). You managed to not only make a bad game, but to completely butcher and destroy the original. This was literally worse than the finale of Game of Thrones. Thanks for destroying the last bit of goodwill you had with the community of players you amassed making the actual good games of the 2000s and 90s. Adieu, Blizzard.    … Expand
  3. Nicolas195
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Hicieron todo mal, me quedo con la versión antigua, dinero desperdiciado. Es una gran oportunidad de catapultar el universo warcraft desperdiciada, y una muestra de desprecio para los fans.
  4. Linearskillz
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    An embarrassment of a game release. Not only does it not meet any expectations from the initial reveal, but it retroactively ruins the ORIGINAL GAME which is no longer available on Battle.net. I am truly flabbergasted that they made this decision to alter the original game in this way. I want the old game back.

    No reworked cutscenes, poor quality visuals, stripped features, killing the    An embarrassment of a game release. Not only does it not meet any expectations from the initial reveal, but it retroactively ruins the ORIGINAL GAME which is no longer available on Battle.net. I am truly flabbergasted that they made this decision to alter the original game in this way. I want the old game back.

    No reworked cutscenes, poor quality visuals, stripped features, killing the mapmaking and mod community. The list goes on and on. Blizzard is too far gone.

    I can only hope they stay away from Diablo II if this is how they treat their old masterpieces.    … Expand
  5. Warreoms
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    So, you're paying 30 dls for a downgraded graphics mod? huh...
    No music renovation, same cutscenes and cinematics, just a buggy unfinished game
  6. Sadfish
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    A downgrade to a game that was made 17 years ago. Many of the features/reforged cutscenes that were promised turned out to be lies.
  7. PapaJustifyTV
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    18 years. 18 years and we have this? I'm having a question: Why Blizzard does this?

    I mean, they see that the game isn't ready yet, it looks like a damn Disney cartoon, there's no "reforged" cinematics, cut scenes (which we saw on Blizzcon) or something like that. It's the same old game with Disney graphics on the top, it doesn't make any sense. But they release it anyways. Now their    18 years. 18 years and we have this? I'm having a question: Why Blizzard does this?

    I mean, they see that the game isn't ready yet, it looks like a damn Disney cartoon, there's no "reforged" cinematics, cut scenes (which we saw on Blizzcon) or something like that. It's the same old game with Disney graphics on the top, it doesn't make any sense.

    But they release it anyways. Now their reputation goes down, people start hating them...WHY? I've spent my money for this piece of sh%t.

    Now I want to see what's Diablo 4 is gonna be like. I won't pre-order it for sure, I'll wait for critics. See? That's reputation. If somebody told me 10 years ago about all this, I'd laugh, but now...Look at this mess.

    I'm done, Blizzard is dying with the help of Activision.

    P.S. I was trying to get my money back, but Blizzard can't do that for some reason. This is all f%cked up. There's NO REFUND for me I suppose.    … Expand
  8. Fireldar
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    My disappointment is so massive I made a metacritic account just to review this.

    This must border on criminal with what they’ve sold to us compared to what was promised. Their silence on it is deafening. Get your refunds whilst you can because this is another Blizzard **** Dear lord, what a sad little game, Blizzard. You ruined a 17 year old game completely so you could have the money    My disappointment is so massive I made a metacritic account just to review this.

    This must border on criminal with what they’ve sold to us compared to what was promised. Their silence on it is deafening. Get your refunds whilst you can because this is another Blizzard ****

    Dear lord, what a sad little game, Blizzard. You ruined a 17 year old game completely so you could have the money and I hope now you can spend it on getting proper developers and doing some market research. Because you have all the grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on. So Blizzard return my money and get out of the market. You’re done. RIP Blizzard    … Expand
  9. Bigglymad
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Broke the original while Activision-Blizzard collect money for literally nothing. After supporting blizzard for 16 years I'm done. I own every game they have pushed out, and atleast I had fun while they were fun. This company isn't trust worthy and hasn't been in a while.
  10. Coolyoshi
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Rather than fixing bugs, they kept adding new bugs with each new patch. Now the game is much more unstable. Custom maps that used to run fine now desync and crash more frequently. Their lack of QA is just so sad
  11. acatsuky
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Blizzard is salty about Dota 2. They don't want anyone to be able to put in work and get rewarded for their creativity in the future.
    watch the Jimquisition video on it.
  12. alexEAT
    Jan 30, 2020
    1
    The game is somehow nice, the original was my childhood prefered game but no ultra wide resolution in 2020 sucks.
  13. Tomthewishful
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    I have poured thousands of hours in Warcraft III alone and as much spread across several of their other games. For years I loved Blizzard and have defended its products, discussed the game mechanics and design choices behind their creation process with hundreds of others on forums and in chatrooms. The past few years Blizzard has turned down a dark path. With Reforged, it severelyI have poured thousands of hours in Warcraft III alone and as much spread across several of their other games. For years I loved Blizzard and have defended its products, discussed the game mechanics and design choices behind their creation process with hundreds of others on forums and in chatrooms. The past few years Blizzard has turned down a dark path. With Reforged, it severely disappoints its playerbase with a falsely advertised cash grab that downgrades the old game. Blizzard has effectively murdered a decades old community in one move and its policies reflect an incredibly authoritarian, demanding, greedy and frankly stupidly blind stance. It is becoming increasingly apparent that Blizzard has betrayed its fans and remorselessly turns itself into a cold corporate vacuum of a company. The one good quality to Reforged would be the graphics but even those completely fail to be true to the original spirit and atmosphere of the game, instead looking like a cheap Chinese knockoff replica. The only way this game could be worse if it were to destroy your harddrive or spread nazi propaganda. The worst thing is I'm not even being dramatic. This sentiment is shared by the overwhelming majority of Warcraft III veterans. Reforged fully deserves its horrendous rating and I hope this serves as a massive red flag to any that would consider even a tentative interest in Reforged or any other Activision Blizzard game purchases. Their chain of soulless decisions has sparked outrage so many times that the word outrage has lost its meaning. The 800 employee layoffs. Suppressing the Blitzchung human rights advocacy. Even then I've never spoken this sternly. I actively advocate against this game in every way and cannot more strongly recommend not to play this game for any reason. Please warn your friends.… Expand
  14. Creme
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Completely overhauled WC3 classic and in the process destroyed the original with their unfinished product. You could convince people that the game was in alpha based on how they haven’t delivered half of the items they advertised before the game came out. I feel bad for everyone that Blizzard is refusing to refund right now.
  15. sahadar
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 2 года работали, и нечего тупо модельки, а ну и забыл+ палатку переставили и заборчик поставили просто лучшей...просто нет слов..... а сценка там где Иллидан у близов тогда не было денег, а теперь просто по.... покойся с миром, друже, и спасибо за положительные эмоции с самого детства.
    Близард: Да. Всё, чем я дорожил в своей жизни, я принёс в жертву ему (деньгам) и ничуть не жалею об этом. В моём сердце нет места для стыда и раскаяния.    … Expand
  16. DreadStorm
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Arrrggghhh!!! Where is my MONEY??? It`s not a game of my desire! It`s poor and ugly fake!
  17. Sumu
    Jan 30, 2020
    10
    I specifically registered here to leave a review about Warcraft 3 and support Blizzard. This is a good game, which unfortunately did not have enough time to become ideal at the start. At the moment, the game has small friezes, but nothing more. On the whole, Blizzard gave us what they promised.
  18. Alvestam
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Espantosa jugabilidad, un monton de errores, se olvidaron de la interfaz, removieron muchas caracteristicas, pesimo
  19. Schweezy
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Great. **** got messed up. None of my mates wants to buy the game and I can't blame them. The golden era of new custom gamemodes from the community is gone. It's just a shell now. Can't even go back to the old WC3 which was lit in 2019 and 2018... Only option is to use our old USB-pen version to get the old game back and then host on gameranger.
  20. JungleBob
    Jan 30, 2020
    1
    I played WC3 back when it first came out, the custom game scene was amazing for my young 1st grader heart. I loved Runkittyrun and Murder at the Mansion and of course the base game itself, I was an Orc fanboy as a kid. That being said...this reforge is horrible. Absolutely horrible. It honestly feels more like a cheap Steam Workshop mod than a studio backed remaster and it totally deservesI played WC3 back when it first came out, the custom game scene was amazing for my young 1st grader heart. I loved Runkittyrun and Murder at the Mansion and of course the base game itself, I was an Orc fanboy as a kid. That being said...this reforge is horrible. Absolutely horrible. It honestly feels more like a cheap Steam Workshop mod than a studio backed remaster and it totally deserves the low rating of a 1

    Where to Start:

    The visuals are terrible. They decided to over detail the units, bring them into HD not realizing that this is a RTS, a somewhat cartoony one at that, where visual clarity is supreme! A lot of the units just blend together and are ugly from a distance, their in game portraits look strange and plastic and lifeless. The animations are terrible and of a low frame rate. This is all strange since the same studio brought us HoTS where their versions of WC3 characters are AMAZING in comparison. Take a look at the Sylvanas of HoTS vs here. There her ears are huge, her shoulders are bright and colorful and large but simple on detail so that she pops and isn't a visual blur. Here she's just a mess of armor and plastic and tiny ears. The characters in this game were made with a fighting game mentality, not RTS

    LIES LIES LIES. They did not remake any cutscenes in game, the Strath video they showed at blizzcon IS NOT in the final game. All we get is just WC3 with a model swap, that's it. Pretty much a mod where you swap out for out of place models since the enviroment and lighting clashes hard with the new ones making the game look even more dated than the original which at least has charm. In the strat video at blizzcon, the characters pointed, they had unique animation, it was a directed scene...here they just turn on an axis.

    Destruction of online. Gone are profiles, gone are custom campaigns, gone are ladders and clans. What's the worst is that custom games are being thwarted by a new TOS that will screw over any content creator who does make the next Dota. Here's a tip, the next dota will never happen with these restrictions. The TOS also disallows copy right material which eliminates like half of the games I used to love as a kid on there like the LoTR ones.

    Performance is rough right now. For a 30 gig upgrade, (which is huge considering how little of an upgrade visually this is) the game menus run like crap. They are laggy, typing is laggy, everything seems unpolished and rushed. The game itself has some chop and the fps likes to drop too and I am on a 2070 super right now.

    But Jungle Bob, you can just go play WC3 Classic! Actually no, this reforge was more like a forced upgrade that killed off WC3 forever. That version does not exist anymore for retail. It's gone. It's like if Microsoft force patched everyone onto Vista from XP. Yeah its that bad.

    This game only gets 1 point from me. Visuals,content, performance, all failed. The only thing decent is the gameplay is still WC3, it is still fun to play after all these years but no one working on this reforge have anything to do with the core gameplay so it's not really a positive.

    Blizzard, you messed up real hard in these last 3 years. You killed HoTS. You shelled out the worst Expac for Warcraft. You destroyed any good will towards Diablo. You upset a lot of people with the Chinese censorship. WoW classic while good at first has been a bit mismanaged and now we have this, a final stamp to ruining your past and future as a company.    … Expand
  21. necroant
    Jan 30, 2020
    1
    Shamefull display, Blizzard needs to change their attitude or they will be gone the way of Bethesda soon.
  22. Norrectv
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    warcraft 3 reforged really bad experience for me i watch ppl's stream and game is freezing problems , stuttering, not well optimize! really bad.. 1 year or more we wait like this? im so disappointment..
    i refund it that game..
  23. Undirtle
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    It takes a special kind of awful to not only be a disappointing remake, but to negatively impact the original.

    Warcraft III: Reforged forces certain updates upon the original Warcraft III without allowing players to opt out. Changes that render much user-generated content unplayable. Not only that, but new draconian end user agreements will no doubt adversely affect the quality and    It takes a special kind of awful to not only be a disappointing remake, but to negatively impact the original.

    Warcraft III: Reforged forces certain updates upon the original Warcraft III without allowing players to opt out. Changes that render much user-generated content unplayable.

    Not only that, but new draconian end user agreements will no doubt adversely affect the quality and amount of user created content created. This means you can't realistically expect many worthwhile custom scenarios in the future.

    Adding this onto the fact that the product delivered does not live up to what was promised in terms of updated visuals and I am afraid this is the most disappointed I've been in an anticipated game release in a long time.    … Expand
  24. Adamit
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    R I P.
    Как я люблю Warcraft 3 - ради него я сегодня создал учетку на Метакритик, но не чтобы похвалить, а показать, что все мои друзья в том числе и я огорчены ЗАПУСКОМ Reforged.
    А почему - а потому, что Все кто владел играми Warcraft 3 RoC и TFT - сейчас столкнулись с реалией, что у них больше нет этих игр! Их заменила Компания на Reforget без Reforged.То есть - нет игр по сети - как    R I P.
    Как я люблю Warcraft 3 - ради него я сегодня создал учетку на Метакритик, но не чтобы похвалить, а показать, что все мои друзья в том числе и я огорчены ЗАПУСКОМ Reforged.
    А почему - а потому, что Все кто владел играми Warcraft 3 RoC и TFT - сейчас столкнулись с реалией, что у них больше нет этих игр! Их заменила Компания на Reforget без Reforged.То есть - нет игр по сети - как локальных, так и через интернет, мы даже не можем запустить старую версию - запускается новая через Батлнет. Я все понимаю - игре 18 лет, сервера Батлнет могли отключить и все такое, но ПОЧЕМУ ни одного сообщения от Близард - ЧТО ВСЕ БОЛЬШЕ ВЫ НЕ ИГРАЕТЕ В WARCRAFT ROC/TFT, ТЕПЕРЬ ТОКА Reforget?????
    Те кто покупал на Дисках еще может установить и не обновляться, те кто купил электронно теперь через сайт устанавливают Reforged(

    Все это печально.    … Expand
  25. Gunmars
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    This started out as a promising HD remake, a sweet glimmer is Blizzards eye, but slowly over the course of months they have walked back from almost every promise made. But it got even worse, key missing features and you are left with Reforged which in all reality is a 40 dollar game for some new textures and awkward at best camera cinematics. Not the grand retelling and potential retcon weThis started out as a promising HD remake, a sweet glimmer is Blizzards eye, but slowly over the course of months they have walked back from almost every promise made. But it got even worse, key missing features and you are left with Reforged which in all reality is a 40 dollar game for some new textures and awkward at best camera cinematics. Not the grand retelling and potential retcon we were promised.

    TLDR. False advertising, cash grab.    … Expand
  26. JimRaynor_2001
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    The new version of this game has plenty game breaking bugs and bad designs.
    -Duplicate map folders and maps listed on Custom Map section.
    -Can't create games on Custom Map either due to a large portion of maps or kicked by just adding a new slot for AI. -UI functionality is way worse than classic and we can't switch back to classic. -When I toggle to classic mode I can't play any    The new version of this game has plenty game breaking bugs and bad designs.
    -Duplicate map folders and maps listed on Custom Map section.
    -Can't create games on Custom Map either due to a large portion of maps or kicked by just adding a new slot for AI.
    -UI functionality is way worse than classic and we can't switch back to classic.
    -When I toggle to classic mode I can't play any campaign because the client will just skip it to score section right away.
    -Downgraded in-game cutscenes
    etc. etc.

    They have tons of things to make this game playable.
    Now I can only enjoy Warcraft3 the way should be by uninstall this mess and install the old classic either from my old game DVDs or download it from some site and get a last patch that classic client has from internet.    … Expand
  27. Jedipottsy
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Long live blizzard,

    What a shame with how far they have fallen. Not only is this game absolute but they also the original
  28. krythix
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Blizzard took a successful and iconic game like Warcraft III and completely ruined what made the game so great. In releasing the remaster they have also discontinued the original game in its original graphics and gameplay for those who were still enjoying it. The Blizzcon trailers lied to the fans about what was to come. There may be legal ramifications for the blatant false advertisingBlizzard took a successful and iconic game like Warcraft III and completely ruined what made the game so great. In releasing the remaster they have also discontinued the original game in its original graphics and gameplay for those who were still enjoying it. The Blizzcon trailers lied to the fans about what was to come. There may be legal ramifications for the blatant false advertising and broken promises made to players who preordered the game under false pretenses. Overall this is an abomination of a rerelease from a multimillion dollar company like Blizzard/Activision. Inexcusable. 0 out of 10.… Expand
  29. WintersRain
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    Who hired high schoolers to make a fan game?
    Oh this was a 20 billion dollar studio?
    Someone get me off this timeline. It's not funny anymore.
  30. Ramgarrot
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    It was a game of my childhood. Ny favorite game. I pre-ordered the game. I patiently waited and believed in the work of people that, having not even a small part of the current resources, once forged a legend.
    As a result, they mutilated my favorite character, did not fulfill their promises and broke what worked since 2002. Thanks Bobby, give my money back.
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Metascore
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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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