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Overview
Demonically-driven orcs — denizens of another dimension — discover a portal allowing them to enter the largely peaceful human kingdom of Azeroth. The player can play as either the Orcs or the Humans, the main differences being the spells of the spellcaster units. Besides the two campaigns there are many skirmish levels. There are also dungeon levels where the player has to escape to the exit while fighting monsters and hacking doors. Such levels were removed in Warcraft II, but returned in Warcraft III. The game's interface is similar to Dune II, as the "right-click to move/attack" cursor found in later games was not implemented, and buildings require the construction of adjacent roads.
Units and Structures
As with real-time strategy computer games at the time, Warcraft featured two opposing factions, the noble Humans and the savage Orcs. Again, as in other games of this genre, each faction’s units and buildings have a counterpart within the other faction. With the exception of some spells, each unit is exactly the same as its counterpart.
Units
UnitsHumans Orcs Notes
Peasant Peon Basic units that construct and repair buildings, gather gold and harvest lumber.
Footman Grunt The most basic fighting units of either side.
Archer Spearman Ranged units capable of hitting their enemies at a distance.
Knight Raider Heavily-armored and powerful melee units.
Catapult Catapult Slow-moving, slow-firing siege machines that are capable of dealing devastating damage to stationary targets, such as buildings or unmoving units.
Cleric Necrolyte These are the basic, more defensive and support oriented spellcasting units of each side.
Conjurer Warlock Advanced spellcasting units capable of conjuring even more powerful spells than the Clerics and Necrolytes.
Summonable Units
Scorpions Spiders Weak melee summonable units.
Skeleton Necrolytes have the ability to raise back the remains of dead units. There is, however, a time limit to how long the skeletons remain active.
Water Elemental Daemon The most powerful summonable units.
BuildingsHumans Orcs Notes
Town Hall Great Hall The basic main structure, without which any other building may not be built.
Farm Farm Basic structures necessary to provide food for each race. In order to train more units, more farms must be built.
Barracks Barracks The building necessary to create more Footmen, Archers, Knights and Catapults for Humans; Grunts, Spearmen, Raiders and Catapults for Orcs.
Lumber Mill Lumber Mill Building where each race may store the lumber harvested. Also allows upgrades for the Archers/Spearmen’s weapons.
Blacksmith Blacksmith This building allows the player to upgrade the armor and weapons of the Knights, Footmen, Grunts and Raiders.
Stable Kennel The buildings necessary for the ability to create the Knights (stable for Humans) and Raiders (kennel for Orcs, who ride wolves).
Church Temple The buildings to train Clerics and Necrolytes, as well as research the spells for them.
Tower Tower The buildings to train Conjurers and Warlocks, as well as research the spells for them.
Stormwind Castle Blackrock Spire These structures appear at the end of each race's campaign. The player is never able to make use of these buildings but is required to destroy them.
Buildings
MonstersMonster Notes
Scorpion Giant monster. Can be summoned.
Spider Giant monster. Can be summoned.
Brigand Fast human enemies, melee unit
Ogre Strong melee unit.
Skeleton In two variations, one can be summoned from resurrected corpses.
Slime A green puddle that can devour its enemies.
Fire Elemental A spirit that attacks with fire.
Water Elemental A spirit that attacks with water. Can be summoned.
Daemon Powerful melee unit that attacks with a sword. Can be summoned.
Monsters
Monster Notes
Scorpion Giant monster. Can be summoned.
Spider Giant monster. Can be summoned.
Brigand Fast human enemies, melee unit
Ogre Strong melee unit.
Skeleton In two variations, one can be summoned from resurrected corpses.
Slime A green puddle that can devour its enemies.
Fire Elemental A spirit that attacks with fire.
Water Elemental A spirit that attacks with water. Can be summoned.
Daemon Powerful melee unit that attacks with a sword. Can be summoned.
Movie
Just before E3 2006, an official press release from Blizzard announced that a live action motion picture based on the Warcraft world was being planned. Legendary Pictures has acquired the movie rights for the game universe, and both companies are now focused on translating the Warcraft experience to the big screen. No further details have been released [1].
Trivia
Bill Roper provided all the voices for the game.
Unlike future titles, every unit of each race had the exact same voice.
Individual characters in the game give amusing responses when clicked repeatedly. Blizzard Entertainment has maintained this feature in all of its strategy games, and many other companies have copied it.
Both factions (Orcs and Humans) are made up of only their respective races. In the first sequel, both factions form an alliance including other races as well. Humans with Elves, Dwarves and Gnomes, and Orcs with Trolls, Ogres and Goblins. Even later on when the Goblins, and Ogres become neutral factions again, the Orcs gain Jungle Trolls and Tauren while the Humans gain Elves and Dwarves.
Spin-offs
Besides the MMORPG World of Warcraft, there exist the following spin-offs:
Two sequels:
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
A set of three books (simply titled Warcraft), related only by their placement in the Warcraft Universe
Warcraft: Day of the Dragon, Richard Knaak
Warcraft: Lord of the Clans, Christie Golden (This book was used for the story of Warcraft Adventures)
Warcraft: The Last Guardian, Jeff Grubb
A trilogy of novels, Warcraft: War of the Ancients, Richard Knaak
1)The Well of Eternity
2)The Demon Soul
3)The Sundering
A new upcoming trilogy of novels, Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy, Richard Knaak (with illustrations by manhwa artist Jae Hwan Kim)
Several lines of action figures
A Warcraft tabletop role-playing game (Warcraft the Roleplaying Game)
A Warcraft strategy board game
Blizzard has also announced a Warcraft movie [2]
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