They just don't make 'em like this anymore...:(
I'm still a gamer 14 years later, but out of all the games I've played, only a few stick in my mind as "SPECIAL". This is obviously one of those times.
Having played WCIII, the first thing I remember was WOW, the video looks so much better LOL. The combat more fun and varied and more pulse pounding.
Forget how techinally advanced for it's time this was, it just heat the HEART of a TIGER, finding the PRICE of FREEDOM. Games now days just lack the magic, the heart that these games had. It's like old hollywood, they didn't have much and they had to be as creative as they could (when I say they didn't have much, might I add this at the time, and might still be the most expensive game ever made) they used there imaginations to the fulliest, with technology 100x less then today.
Todays games all feel like flash with no substance. Sure I loved Gears of War, Final Fantasys, Half Lifes and KOTORS, but even those fun/awesome games...well they don't and won't have the heart this did for me.
Ya, maybe it was because I was 14 and just got my first PC a year before playing WCIII all night...but maybe....just maybe it was like an old hollywood classic...MAGIC.
Cheers!