Warcraft III: The Single Player Experience

Disoriented writes "Cool interview about the Warcraft 3 single-player campaigns. Has me drooling for a June release." Hopefully Blizzard will drop their attack against Bnetd before the release.

Comments

Re:What's that stuff about storyline?

[Moofie]

*raises hand* Me. Good writing in a game improves the feeling of immersion, which is very important to my enjoyment of the game.

Sure, there are people who skip cut-scenes and don't read the docs, but I'm not one of them. When I pay $50 for a game, I want the whole kit and caboodle...good story, good art, good gameplay, good documentation, good UI...everything.

Gameplay and UI are what made Total Annihilation great. Storyline and memorable characters are what set Warcraft (and Starcraft) above the pack.

Re:Makes it all better

[Hard_Code]

4. Give Blizzard an instant online community and pave way for larger acceptence of their game by the number of servers (which they don't have to run or maintain!) available.

This is what Valve has done with Half Life. Why is this such a hard concept? Sell the game, but make the server freely available.