If you have the slightest interest in real time strategy, you owe it to yourself to play this game.

User Rating: 9.5 | Warcraft III: Battlechest PC
Warcraft 3 is one of the Blizzard classics. It's one of the trio of amazing games Blizzard created that made the company the power house that it is today. Of course this isn't without merit, Warcraft 3 is an excellent game and even today, 5 years later, the game still has a booming community and excellent strategy gameplay. Despite owning a variety of other real time strategy games from Company of Heroes to Age of Empires III, I would take Warcraft 3 any day over all of these games. The single player story is top notch especially considering it's time. The characters to put it lightly are amazing each with their own vibrant personalities and feelings on the happenings around them. Among the most memorable are the likes of Illidan Stormrage, Malfurion Stormrage, and the Holy Knight Arthas. Blizzard does an amazing job of making you care about the stories of these characters and the campaigns for each race all centralize themselves around one of these characters. Without spoiling it, the story is one that has to be seen. Even if you have playing World of Warcraft and think you know it all, Warcraft 3 is still an excellent place to go to learn a lot about the story.

The multiplayer of Warcraft 3 is easily the best part of the game. Bnet, one of the premier online services offered on the PC makes this game shine through all the other multiplayer strategy games. Blizzard constantly upgrades the game and there is something for everyone. You can either play skirmishes with a friend socially, do ranked ladder games, enter tournaments, or play custom games such as DOTA. Trust me on this though, there are far better custom games then DOTA out there and they are a lot more fun. I've spent hundreds of hours online with my friends.

As far as graphics, sound, and controls go, Warcraft 3 is on the bar. Though technically the graphics aren't amazing, the art style behind them and the colors used look beautiful. The worlds look simply outstanding and they have an undeniable charm to them. The sound is excellent with good voice acting provided by a variety of different actors. The sound and graphics are perhaps best seen in the CGI cut scenes Blizzard has in the game which put most movies out there to shame. The controls are seamless, easy to pick up and I have no doubt you'll need to change anything around to suit you.

Warcraft 3 is an amazing game and is a steal for the 40 dollar price tag, It is truly superb and well worth picking up despite the game being very old. It has not aged one bit and is still as fun now as it was back on the day it came out. This game is fun for everyone, and even people who don't like RTS owe themselves to play this game.