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Warcraft II (PC-MAC)

GENERAL INFORMATION

GENRE/STYLE

Strategy/2D Real-Time Strategy

RELEASE DATE

--/--/96

ESRB RATING

TEEN, Animated Violence

DEVELOPER

Blizzard North

PUBLISHER

Blizzard Entertainment

TRAITS (member-attributed "LIKES")

THE SETTING #USES

PLAYING AS #USES

All races 44
orcs 23
human 20

PLAYING AGAINST #USES

HOW IT'S PLAYED #USES

RTS 100
strategy 42
Classic 33

GENERAL TONE #USES

DESCRIPTION

Get ready for another round of war between humans and orcs as the epic struggle for control of Azeroth continues in WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness, a real-time strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment. The same protagonists last seen in the original WarCraft: Orcs and Humans go at it again, but with new and enhanced weapons, more creatures, and an expanded fantasy game world encompassing land, sea, and air.

Both orc and human perspectives are supported through an equal division of the game's 28 campaign scenarios. The game contains new features such as the "fog of war" option that elevates strategic planning to a higher level, much larger maps, and combined-arms tactics. New units in the sequel include elven archers, gryphons, death knights, battleships, airships, dragons, and more.

For fans craving still additional scenarios, both a sound and map editor have been included, ensuring longer life of the product. Multiplayer action is supported via LAN (up to eight players), modem, or direct link, with the latter two accommodating two players. The Macintosh version supports the AppleTalk network and TCP/IP connections.

WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness provides the player with two interface and preference choices for gameplay. The first configures keyboard and mouse commands to replicate functionality of the style used in WarCraft: Orcs and Humans that allowed automatic centering on the mini-map by clicking the right mouse button. The second configuration replaces that functional key press by giving the player the capability to induce automatic commands instead, with the loss of auto-centering on the mini-map.

In addition to an in-depth background story regarding the warring factions, the manual contains complete information on legends, creatures and resources of Azeroth along with full disclosure of tendencies and attributes inherent to the Nations of the Alliance (human faction) and the Orcish Horde. These include data on units (air, ground and naval), spells, buildings and a "dependency tree" for tracking pre-requisites during development of each race's infrastructure. ~ Michael L. House, All Game Guide

Warcraft II (PC-MAC)

GENRE/STYLE:

Strategy/2D Real-Time Strategy
RELEASE DATE:

--/--/96
TOP TRAITS:

RTS, All races, strategy
DESCRIPTION:

Get ready for another round of war between humans and orcs as the epic struggle for control of Azeroth continues in W... more

players 849

followers 0

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POPULARITY: PC-MAC PLATFORM

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LordXenophon played Warcraft II on 08/OCT/09

“I can't believe I never entered this game before. I must have made 50 or more custom maps over the last few years. I wonder what other games I've forgotten to add. >.>”

created 09/OCT/2009

Warcraft II (PC-MAC) by: Tjuhl

“Orcs vs. Humans”

created 24/SEP/2009

Warcraft II (PC-MAC) by: Samine

“great graphics for the time but a little too much story”

created 28/AUG/2009

Warcraft II (PC-MAC) by: Qhuestion

“awesome game.the campaign is totally interesting and i still wanna get the first warcraft.”

created 26/JUL/2009

Warcraft II (PC-MAC) by: Bragan

“Second installment to the Warcraft serie. A real oldschool game.”

created 09/JUL/2009

Warcraft II (PC-MAC) by: Olvel

“The classic RTS. I haven't played it in years, but I've still got fond memories.”

created 24/JUN/2009

Warcraft II (PC-MAC) by: CatScratch

“Best of all the Warcraft games.”

created 15/MAY/2009

Warcraft II (PC-MAC) by: gbrian15

“This and it's expansion "Beyond the Dark Portal" brought Azeroth to life before the was ever a "World of Warcraft". Bested only by Starcraft for best RTS in my opinion.”

created 23/APR/2009