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I was around seven or eight when I dragged my mother to the store to buy a copy of Warcraft 2. I consider it my intro to 'serious' gaming, and it's little exaggeration to say that it changed my life forever. Once or twice a year the stars align and demand that I relive those wonder-filled days, but this most recent time was different. Only a few missions in it struck me that I'd never played the first game in the series, and in fact knew basically nothing about it. Clearly this travesty must be rectified at once.I'm a little over halfway through both campaigns of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, and I'm sorry to report that there is a very good reason no one talks about it anymore. The most concise description of the game would be 'Was highly innovative at the time, but is woefully outdated by modern standards.' Compared to Dune 2, the fact that you can select multiple units at a time was a great innovation.

By modern standards, the fact that you're limited to groups of four is somewhat aggravating. The game was also quite possibly the first to include the now-ubiquitous feature of clicking and dragging a box to select units, but the fact that the player must hold control to do so is just baffling. The missions make an effort to vary their objectives a bit besides 'kill everything', but it pretty much boils down to that, anyway. It was a great idea to make units get progressively more annoyed with repeated clicks, but I was extremely disappointed to find that all the units of each faction sound exactly the same. It also features multiplayer, but even if you managed to get a match started today there's little reason to play it over more recent games with deeper strategy.Then there are a few aspects that are simply flaws. All buildings must be connected to the town center by roads, which is very limiting and surprisingly expensive if you want to make your base look good or leave wide paths for your units. 1 And you will want to leave large paths, because unit pathfinding is quite poor, so workers get stuck rather frequently and units will often take long, circuitous routes to their destinations.

Right-click simply centers the camera on that location rather than giving orders, so even issuing simple move commands is unnecessarily cumbersome.It's not all bad, of course. The are clearly dated, but hold up well enough in a retro sort of way. The sound effects and voice acting are actually quite good (if you've played Warcraft 2 most of them are exactly the same, including the narrator), and rigorous scientific testing has confirmed that hearing an orc's frustrated scream of 'STOP POKING MEEE!' Literally never stops being funny. But these small consolations cannot conceal the fact that the core gameplay is simply outdated.So, fellow patient gamers, I must sadly report that Warcraft: Orcs and Humans probably isn't worth your time except perhaps to satisfy your curiosity about the primitive, bygone days of 1994. Its strategy is shallow, its controls are awkward,. I kind of love it.See, I've always had a complicated relationship with RTS, in that I love the idea but am hopelessly bad at it.

WC1's poor controls (and a quirk of the game engine that allows stationary units to get in a couple hits before their advancing enemy can return fire) strongly favor defensive tactics, in which the goal is to lure enemy forces out of position and bait them into attacking a carefully-prepared formation. This just happens to suit my playstyle much better than pretty much every other RTS I've ever played. I'm really glad I decided to try this game, and I suspect that from now on the annual celestial alignments will include both Warcraft 1 and 2. But for most people, my negative review still stands.

According to, this was implemented specifically to prevent proxy rushes. I suppose that goes to show how far on the cutting edge they were that these questions hadn't been resolved. Warcraft: Orcs and Humans probably isn't worth your time except perhaps to satisfy your curiosity about the primitive, bygone days of 1994.I'd owned the game for over a decade but when I finally went to try it I felt like I'd be having a lot more fun with a more recent RTS. I think WC1 falls into the category of games which are completely outclassed by their successors, like most sports games. When it was released, but there's not much reason to play it now except to see what the franchise was like then, and to see how far it's come.

This is true for a lot of RTS unfortunately. Playing each iteration over the years, it's hard to remember how many UI shortcuts were innovated into the genre until they're not there. This just gets worse the further back you go. Sometime around 2007 I tried C&C Generals again, and it might as well have been WC2 it felt so clumsy in its controls. Then I played WC2 again.It's a sad thing because these games were perfections in their time, but we become accustomed to a certain fluidity of mind and input that just stumbles over itself in these older games. It takes a lot of discipline and patience to re-learn and accept that limitation in micro.

Warcraft 2 was my first Warcraft and first strategy game I played, I think I was around 11 then. And 2 or 3 years ago I thought it would be a great idea to play WC1-3. The controls were really bad, I hated it to hold ctrl to drag the box, but after a while I got used to it, the whole game is much slower than what we are used to nowadays. Because of the slow controls the relative speed is more or less the same.What really baffled me was that the PC randomly placed enemies on the map every now and then. I had the top of the map completely secured with towers and soldiers, there was no way that the enemy could get past that without me knowing it, but what happens? Enemies spawn inside my secured area walking straight to my almost unsecured base.And who the hell thought it would be a good idea to prevent building anywhere by requiring streets? Your farms and other buildings (I don't remember if there were exceptions like towers or if it was every building) needed a street which is connected to your base building.WC2 was a BIG improvement, the graphics were so much better, they might be low res by today standards, but I still like the graphics, that one aged much better imho.

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The controls were improved, which allowed faster gameplay, the streets were scrapped which gave you more freedom in your tactics, I didn't see any random spawns which made it more fair. Only downside is, that it really doesn't matter if you play as Orcs or as Humans the missions are quite the same, and almost all units had a direct counterpart. But WC1 was even worse on that part.StarCraft was the first.Craft game where the units were unique for the most part for every race and the missions were much better, and they differed depending on what race you played as. I remember when I bought this game.

I believe it was at a Walmart. I just picked up the box and thought the game looked really cool.On the way home my mom went through an Arby's drive through for dinner. The guy handed us our food and saw me holding the box and said 'That's a really good game!' I was so happy to have my purchase validated right there.I played that game so much as a kid. I remember playing against my sister's boyfriend over our dial up connections.

He always beat me, but that was my first taste of online gaming.I still have the CD. It's got the biggest crack in it but it works 100%. Still makes my computer sound like it's about to take off, too.

I never knew if that was just the game in general doing that or something with my CD.But yea I tried to play it a few years ago and found it pretty frustrating to control compared to modern RTSs:P. Great post.I feel there are two copies of classic, genre molding games like this: The real one, and the one in your head. The real one, if played today, will get compared (unfavorably) to modern games with UI and balancing we've grown used to, the one in your head is compared (very favorably) with its peers at the time.What I find interesting, however, is the group of re-made or modded games, with the intention of modernizing and balancing them to modern standards. Despite being changed severely, I find they play actually closer to how I remember them, simply because they compare favorably with modern games in terms of UI, balance, etc.

For example, OpenRA is a free software re-make of C&C, RA, Dune 2k (and soon C&C II). It has new rules, new features, completely modern UI (tabs, build queues, full res support, more), is totally re-balanced, and yet captures the essence of the old games much better than a faithful re-make could. Another example would be Brutal Doom as typically run on free/libre modern doom engines, where the re-made engine provide the modern resolution and OS support, multiplayer support, and tweaked graphic capabilities, the Brutal mod provides the re-balanced gameplay and enhanced media that captures the how I remember doom much better than the actual game.Speaking of this: have you tried OpenRA? As a old-school RTS fan this is a must, and best of all its free!. I remember Orcs and Humans as a step BACK from Dune 2, actually. Dune had amazing mechanics like the sandworms and spice fields being depleted fast, with little 'cover' that trees provided in O&H.

Like, if you weren't careful, your push into enemy base could run into a sandworm or two, who would take out a few of your heavy hitters, and as a result your push would fail. This really wasn't an issue in O&H.What I did like about O&H was the mature, somber tone the game had.

The series didn't get colorful-cartoony-funny until WC2. Kinda like Diablo, the first one was dark and gothic and violent and cruel. The second was a bit cartoony but still adult. And third became downright childish. One thing I absolutely loved about Warcraft compared to Warcraft II was the atmosphere. In that respect, it reminds me of the difference between Diablo and Diablo II.

D2 is clearly the superior game due to its better controls and greater length and depth, but Diablo had a far more gothic atmosphere that really worked for the tone of the series. I love replaying it occasionally (with Hellfire for the running of course), just for the experience.Warcraft II clearly improved on Warcraft in myriad ways, and I still play the Battle.net edition from time to time. Like many, it was my first RTS. However, when I went back and played the original (which I still haven't beaten due to the poor controls), I noticed things that gave it a lot of character.

The magic and demon summoning, for one. That was made a lot more generic in W2 and expanded on again in W3. One of the reasons W3 felt so different was because of that, in fact. I remember a lot of people didn't like the game at first because of all the changes, but play W1 made me realize that in a lot of ways, they were taking the game back to its roots. W1 overall has a darker feel to it, which I feel goes very well with the basic story of a plane of existence being invaded. The story has a much more archaic feel to it than the standard medieval feel W2 has, and when I actually went back and read the backstory, I was surprised at the depth they put into it. I remember a lot of things being completely new to me when reading the background for W3 that were actually laid down in W1, if I had bothered to actually read the manual and play through the campaigns.

The ranged units are far more important than in the second one, and learning the tactics to use are somewhat jarring if you've only played the later games. On the other hand, the balance is worse, as the factions are mostly carbon copies of each other, but that was true in W2 as well. A lot of people forget that. In the end, I find that W1 has a lot of charm, and I always find myself coming back to it, hopefully to actually beat it one day.