Classic awesome game
The graphics are a bit dated now, but the sound and music more than make up for this. In fact, I play the music from this game on my pc all the time, whenever I study or read a book by it, for it is so good, and has no lyrics.
The basic idea from the Warcraft series is still present. Mine recources, and make your town to build units to crush your enemies. While Warcraft II only had heroes that talked like their normal non-hero cousins, WCII has added unique voices to their heroes. With such classic quotes like "Welcome to my nightmare." that Grom Helscream says, this game quickly won my heart.
The gameplay is easy to learn, but a bit harder to master. Espeically in muti-player when you don't know the build of your opponent. This gives this game a huge replay value, and added to that the fact that you can play with mutiple people gives it a great edge.
The one thing that it lacks is diversity. There are only two armies. Human and Orc. Both having very simmilar units. Orgres and Knights being exactly the same, if I remember right. But your casters are different. The mage can summon a blizzard, while the Death Knight can cast "Death and Decay." These do simmilar things, with an area of effect attack, but look simmilar. Also the bloodlust of the ogre mages is not reflected in the humans at all. They can heal their units instead.
Very nostalgic game for many of you, I'm sure. If you binned it, I'm sorry. I would still play if I had the time, but I do not.