Warcraft III: Reforged

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  • Release Date: Jan 28, 2020
User Score
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. joriandrake
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    I looked forward to this game, I was a big fan of the original W3 and I never liked MMOs so I don't care about WoW. I got hyped and betrayed by the false advertising for the Reforged edition. It's not worth the money. EDIT: Blizzard is obliged by many governments including the whole of EU to refund the game, don't let them steal your money. Look for legal help if you need it.
  2. DH1987
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    The bugs and the performance issues might be forgivable, if Blizzard can fix them quickly. I hope they do, but my faith in the company is so low at this point that I only expect the very worst from them. But the one thing that makes this product truly unacceptable is the client, and also the fact that they forced everyone into this client, even those who didn't buy Reforged. I have lostThe bugs and the performance issues might be forgivable, if Blizzard can fix them quickly. I hope they do, but my faith in the company is so low at this point that I only expect the very worst from them. But the one thing that makes this product truly unacceptable is the client, and also the fact that they forced everyone into this client, even those who didn't buy Reforged. I have lost most of my friends from the old Battle.net now, and don't know if I will ever be able to reconnect with them again. I have also lost my account that I made in 2003 and played over 7k games on.

    I can only hope that Blizzard fixes this mess. If they do, I might have respect for this remake. But as of right now, this game is 1 step forward and 10 steps backwards. This game will not draw new people in, nor will it likely keep veterans around.

    As of right now, I have lost all respect for Activision-Blizzard as a company, and I shall never buy another one of their games. Not even for $0.01.    … Expand
  3. XzifT
    Feb 3, 2020
    0
    Blizzard is Blizzard no more. This game is not worth it in any way. I feel they are just trying to get our money, there is no soul put into this «revamp».
  4. Wildheart187
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    This game has become a huge disaster. Written in the history of PC games that are released unfinished, just because they only care about money, shame on you Activision Blizzard!
  5. Sinloth
    Feb 5, 2020
    0
    Good games... good games is what we've come to expect from Blizzard over the decades when we were passionate and loving about their work. Not cuts, regressions and total control over user created content and inability to play the original superior version...

    But corporate greed tampers with everything... even with creative process, integrity, and promises made to your loyal fans...    Good games... good games is what we've come to expect from Blizzard over the decades when we were passionate and loving about their work. Not cuts, regressions and total control over user created content and inability to play the original superior version...

    But corporate greed tampers with everything... even with creative process, integrity, and promises made to your loyal fans... Allan Brack, you're a piece of **** you don't deserve to sit in the chair of Mike Morhaime. Actiblizz has been dead to me for quite a while, I like to see the rest of the fanbase catching up :)    … Expand
  6. DonMega
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    Crap game !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  7. aoetje
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    First of all people there is no such thing as blizzard anymore, its just acti (give me your money) zzard.

    The once respected company has turned to the dark side, its now just a corporation that needs to make profit for shareholders, there is nothing more. They messed up wow, messed up warcraft 3, pay to win heartstone, abandoning heroes of storm and making an overwatch 1.5?... the    First of all people there is no such thing as blizzard anymore, its just acti (give me your money) zzard.

    The once respected company has turned to the dark side, its now just a corporation that needs to make profit for shareholders, there is nothing more.

    They messed up wow, messed up warcraft 3, pay to win heartstone, abandoning heroes of storm and making an overwatch 1.5?... the way they treat customers - its crazy    … Expand
  8. Supmotto
    Feb 5, 2020
    0
    where's all the features that you hyped up in the trailer at blizzcon 2018 LMFAO liars
  9. Crazycanuck
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    Im done !!! I am fed up and finished !

    .. Im done with Blizzard, I am done with Bethesda. Im done with these companies not respecting my hard earned money and treating me like an idiot . Wallet is closed to Blizzard and Bethesda going forward. This game is broken, buggy and a complete disaster. Blizzard Lied to us They delivered a half working product and that half is broken    Im done !!! I am fed up and finished !

    .. Im done with Blizzard, I am done with Bethesda. Im done with these companies not respecting my hard earned money and treating me like an idiot . Wallet is closed to Blizzard and Bethesda going forward. This game is broken, buggy and a complete disaster.

    Blizzard Lied to us

    They delivered a half working product and that half is broken and charged good money for it and Now they wont give refunds. Blizzard has taken decades of goodwill and thrown it out the window like p!ss in a chamber pot in the Victorian Era. Enjoy your " Fame " and roll on with the class action lawsuits.    … Expand
  10. shai182
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    As an owner of original Warcraft 3, this is a disgrace to see such a broken work of crap.
  11. Busterofwar
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    You lied to your fans and betrayed the people who pre-ordered for you. What's happening to you, Blizzard?
  12. Max_Damage
    Feb 3, 2020
    0
    Blizzard, what happened? Activision? Or lack of self-respect? Either way, this abomination is a monument of the start of your end. Diablo: Immortal, censoring, and now this. You were the chosen one. Now you are just a shadow of your former self. Saddening.
  13. LokiPoki
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    hot garbage hot garbage hot garbage hot garbage hot garbage hot garbage hot garbage hot garbage
  14. Lawdude7777
    Feb 4, 2020
    0
    Absolutely awful Blizzard. To blatantly lie to your user base & even break the original game is so egregious, that you make Bethesda look like an upstanding company. Avoid.
  15. bigbramble
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    False advertising.Blizzard have no artistic integrity remaining. RIP another great lost to corporate greed.
  16. BillySpandex
    Feb 3, 2020
    1
    Do you remember when Blizzard released good or decent games? I do. Blizzard used to mean that what you get was going to be a quality product. Butchering the original version of Warcraft 3 is really the greatest sin here. This is a step backward.
  17. IcarusLives
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    Lies and false marketing. Refunded after 2 hours on launch.

    The game looks good, that's about it. Everything else is a disgrace.
  18. ztatic
    Feb 3, 2020
    0
    Horrible graphics, no tournaments, I really hate this, and original Warcraft 3 is still my favorite game ever.
  19. SighMN
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    I loved Warcraft 3, and played it for years in the early 2000’s. This game is buggy (games automatically lose all the time), graphically is horrible both in quality and performance, and SO MANY FEATURES OF THE ORIGINAL GAME HAVE BEEN REMOVED! I loved the competitive ladder, and this game somehow doesn’t have that!!? Also no ability to create custom campaign games? I can’t believe thisI loved Warcraft 3, and played it for years in the early 2000’s. This game is buggy (games automatically lose all the time), graphically is horrible both in quality and performance, and SO MANY FEATURES OF THE ORIGINAL GAME HAVE BEEN REMOVED! I loved the competitive ladder, and this game somehow doesn’t have that!!? Also no ability to create custom campaign games? I can’t believe this game was released by Blizzard. Terrible!… Expand
  20. joshrowin2000
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Wow, just wow
  21. BernardTheBeast
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    1) I like WarCraft.
    2) I want to like WarCraft III Reforged.
    3) I don't like Blizzard-Activision and other greedy, amoral corporate money-worshiping organizations. Why my 0/10 score? Because Activision-Blizzard needs to be sent a message and be held accountable for the downward trend they and other "AAA" publishers have embarked on this past decade. That said, here are my honest first    1) I like WarCraft.
    2) I want to like WarCraft III Reforged.
    3) I don't like Blizzard-Activision and other greedy, amoral corporate money-worshiping organizations.

    Why my 0/10 score? Because Activision-Blizzard needs to be sent a message and be held accountable for the downward trend they and other "AAA" publishers have embarked on this past decade. That said, here are my honest first impressions of the game:

    • HD Character models are great!
    • Cutscenes virtually unchanged
    • Dialogue has been edited in places (some more noticeable than others)
    • Dialogue glitches/repeats in cutscenes
    • Menu/UI Glitches
    • Stuttering after prolonged play
    • Less new content than advertised
    • WorldEdit EULA states you give Blizzard literally all your rights, including "moral rights"

    When I saw they were remaking WarCraft III, I thought "cool", and forgot about it until I bought the game 6 hours before it was unlocked. I was torn: buy WarCraft III for the third time (originally bought WC3, then Collector's Edition afterwards) at $30, or Deluxe ("Spoils of War") to get the Thrall model for online games...then I thought, "$10 just to use Thrall in multiplayer matches?" and bought the cheaper version.

    I had avoided all advertising/conversations on WC3: Reforged. As I was downloading the game, I saw walking animations being used by character models in one of the animated ads. It was then, I realized "Oh, they've actually added in more than just higher resolution models/textures!"

    The game starts. I select Play Offline. The menu loads, it looks cool. I go into options and start tweaking; suddenly the menu vanishes and I'm back at the main menu in Online mode. This happens every time. Once, I was quick enough to start loading the campaign—half way through loading, it booted me back to the main menu, with no mouse cursor. Original WC3 had hotkeys for all menu options; Reforged doesn't. Had to Alt-F4.

    The Campaign: They pulled a George Lucas, subtly editing certain lines of dialogue:

    Grunt: "The Warchief the human mentioned...maybe they're referring to—HELLSCREAM?"
    Thrall: "I don't know, but if they have captured—HELLSCREAM, I'll make them regret it."

    Pretty noticeable. The new models look great, but most of the cutscenes are shot-for-shot remakes, unlike what the advertising showed (I watched videos after playing, for comparison). I ran into bugs; characters repeating their lines of dialogue as the cutscene changed scenes or gameplay resumed (looking at you, Undead Arthas). The Menu bugs are rather severe; several occasions, I'd unpause the game, but the game is still darkened and paused, so I'd have to re-open the pause menu and close it again, to get the game working once more.

    After running the game for about 1.5 hours, a stutter issue started happening: selecting/ordering units would cause the game to freeze for a fraction of a second; very noticeable, and only resolved by restarting the game.

    It's my hope that the glitches can be fixed with patches. It's a lingering disappointment for all the game's visual upgrades, the core of the game itself seems either untouched or slightly fractured. I genuinely appreciate the opportunity to play a nostalgic classic with a more modern look, and I thank the developers that basically created a modding overhaul to do so...

    But there was less here than was advertised, and that falls on the shoulders of the Publisher and their Marketing Campaign, and that's where the 0/10 is really directed. The game itself, as a remaster, I'd give 6/10: a nostalgic game, with an HD upgrade, a strange choice of little edits here and there, but overall mostly functional.

    But it's a game that comes from Blizzard-Activision, a company with an operating income of two billion dollars (as of 2018). If their leadership had true, genuine passion and love for their games, WarCraft III: Reforged could have been a masterwork, revitalizing and reintroducing a classic to a new generation. It partly succeeded, but it could have...if not, should have, been better than what it was advertised to be.

    And that kind of dishonesty in advertising deserves 0/10 rating. It's a rating to show how little they as a company are to be trusted by gamers. Activision-Blizzard doesn't deserve your money. Be careful about how, when, and on what you choose to give your money to them.    … Expand
  22. MoGlee
    Feb 3, 2020
    0
    I dont even own this game - and ended up having to download a 26 GB patch to a 20 year old game just because this stupid thing released. And then I found all my old save games and custom games are unusable. Horrible! This should be a crime!
  23. JohnLSD
    Jun 7, 2022
    0
    After a whole year still no patch. Just another spit in the face of the general Blizzard consumer.
  24. Kal1235
    Feb 5, 2020
    0
    False advertising. No more preorders for Blizzard.
    Bad graphic and UI. It's still old 2001 game with "new" models. Really really trash thing.
  25. farside79
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    Wow what happened to the blizzard we loved? Over promised and drastically under delivered.
  26. Danceswithsheep
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    Like nearly everyone else I don’t read the EULA and was shocked to learn how Blizzard are grasping at user mods to make more money by simply demanding ownership of mods and no recompense for the modders. The update is sad anyway, it’s like Blizzard were just treating this like a mobile game with minimal graphical upgrades except they forgot to reconfigure the UI.
    Thank you for the years I    Like nearly everyone else I don’t read the EULA and was shocked to learn how Blizzard are grasping at user mods to make more money by simply demanding ownership of mods and no recompense for the modders. The update is sad anyway, it’s like Blizzard were just treating this like a mobile game with minimal graphical upgrades except they forgot to reconfigure the UI.
    Thank you for the years I spent in Warcraft when I was happy to give you my money. Now, well, I guess the customer no longer matters so bye bye. There were good tones but now it’s just sad.    … Expand
  27. predavlad
    Feb 10, 2020
    0
    Greedy remaster - improved models but removed a lot of features at 40 euros. F... you blizzard
  28. Cyntax3rr0r
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    A disappointing downgrade of one of my favorite games of all time. It's not only a poor remaster, it also breaks features of the legacy game. Blizzard is no longer a premiere development studio.
  29. iSahar
    Feb 1, 2020
    0
    This game obviously got cut alot, the traileer in 18' was conpletely different from the product in front of us. as usual blizzard lies and manipulates us fo the sake of money.
  30. mumhustler
    Feb 2, 2020
    2
    Don't normally do this, but you should be ashamed of yourselves blizzard / Activision. I don't need to list the reasons because we all know them. You are an embarrassment to your legacy that once was. Legitimately won't be pre-ordering any of your future titles
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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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