Warcraft 3

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The Game:
An ever popular RTS (real time strategy) made by Blizzard the people who made such popular games like Hearthstone, Rock’n’roll Racing, The Lost Vikings, and you know WORLD OF WARCRAFT.

Story  10
The story of this game is absolutely fantastic i played through the entire story recently and you go step by step seeing the story from many different perspectives sometimes you play as the good guys sometimes you play as the bad guys. It all works together so well and the climax is so weighty and powerful ( a 45 minute timer an indestructible demon tearing through the map with progressively stronger and stronger armies with your goal to slow him down so that he doesn't destroy the world tree before the trap to send him back to the twisting nether is set you cannot kill him you can not stop him all you can do is build an army to give their lives to save the world).

Gameplay: 8

It plays smoothly for the most part some pathing errors where a unit will walk back and forth infinitely until you make them stop, a few gripes and nitpicks with there being so many different things and only 10 hotkeys to bind them too. You have to play fast your APM (actions per minute) has to be high to survive the campaign even on normal difficulty and on hard you better be ready more enemies and they all have more health and do more damage making the final mission above nearly impossible without breaking it in some way but it’s still tons of fun.
The Look 7
It has it’s own style that has aged decently well there are some things that have been much improved nowadays but it holds up and is easily playable.
The Universe 9
This is like the true start of Warcraft lore everything that happens in this game is mentioned in WoW so it’s serious it’s well written and dramatic and if you just watched gameplay without the HUD (Heads Up Display) it would be like a Warcraft movie.

Soundtrack 7
It’s all background music and it all fits there is seriously 3 hours of music for this game which is pretty good for 2002 some songs like Doom over <---there can really set apart an epic moment and make it way more memorable like seriously just put this song on and make a sandwich it will be the most dramatic sandwich you have ever made.

Overall 9

If you like RTS you have probably already played this game and if you haven't well what's wrong with you. This game came out in 2002 the expansion in 2004 and there are still people playing the multiplayer what does that say about the game it says its great. The story is beautiful the lore it creates wondrous the gameplay smooth and the graphics dated but stylized. Blizzard certainly made a gem that I plan on playing through to completion at least once a year every year.

All in all i highly recommend this game if it seems like a game for you here is a link to go and buy it for just $10 (as i post this) now that is a deal. Pay another 10 and get the expansion which is great.

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Hearthstone

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The Game:
Hearthstone Heroes of Warcraft is a ccg (collectible card game). It plays just like a tcg (trading card game) with the exception of being unable to trade. The game is made by none other than Blizzard Entertainment you know the guys that made that game ----------------------------------->


Story: Not Applicable
Its a ccg no real story a bunch of WoW characters all bought tons of cards after retiring from adventuring and know play it peacefully with other factions. I would just rate it 4 out of 10 but I don’t think it really applies so it is Not Applicable

Gameplay: 9 (addictive)

It is tons of fun this whole week I was only able to pull myself away twice one was to play that surprise review game linked here, and the other was to write this review. It’s not for everyone but it’s free to play for real this time sure you can pay to buy packs just like with real life trading card games. However unlike real life trading card games you can also earn free packs each pack is 100 gold price you get 10 gold every 3 wins ( They dont have to be 3 in a row just 3) and you get between 40-60 gold for logging in to play your daily quest (Which normally in and of itself requires 3 wins with a type of deck making the net gold 50-70) and that is every day so after just 2 days you can get a new pack and that is pretty fast all things considered. I give the gameplay an addictive 9 (Video from TotalBiscuit subscribe to him here)

The Look: 7
It is very stylized with the Warcraft look and actually looks really good the animations are better than expected for a card game and every board has a unique look to go with it. Overall i would give the look a solid 7.

The Universe: 4
It uses the Warcraft universe which is incredibly well developed however it is unrepresented in the game itself so I can’t give it anything more than a 4

Soundtrack: 6
The opening theme is pretty great but it starts looping. The song while you are matchmaking is pretty good but generally goes unnoticed. The soundtrack has 8 different tracks that fit the theme but could be much better. All in all i give it a 6

Overall 8.5
This is probably one of the two times I will say this on this blog but the lack of story really doesn't hold this game back It’s still great fun and I love it in fact I will probably play more as soon as i’m done with this review. Overall with the addictive gameplay the stylized universe fitting music and non scummy business tactics, I give Hearthstone a 8.5 out of 10
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