"Reforged version" Review by a loyal WarCraft 3 player

General Discussion
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So, I’ve played some of the Reforged and here are my thoughts about the changes and improvements:

  1. Graphics

Generally the Reforged graphics use more details, and many pictures look good. These pictures are for instance:

  • Night Elves campaign image and icons.

However there are several disadvantages of the detailed graphics. Ghouls used to be funny, little creatures, but now they are taken too literally. The same goes for Dread Lord.

I noticed that the Reforged graphics is WarCraft 2 - styled which I like. This includes the trees, gold mine and the terrain.

In general the Graphics have been too much modified, instead of to be boosted. All Look & Feel of Reforged is completely different from the original WarCraft 3.

  1. Audio

This is unfortunately the weakest point of the Reforged! The new sounds (including foot steps) are too noisy. And, the Polish version of the voices are far worse than they used to be in Original. I please Blizzard to bring back the original Audio and it will be OK.

  1. Menu

This doesn’t look bad. It’s OK overall, but there is incosistence, so the classic and Reforged GUI is mixed up. However, I found the classic GUI much more intuitive and comfortable.

  1. Summary

As the Gameplay is the same, including mechanics, it’s not required to put it into this review. I feel that I can live with the new graphics, but not with the sounds. Old audio must be brought back.

As for the game interface many of the Classic features have been removed and I have no idea why. I love WarCraft 3 and as a fan of this game, I put hereby scores for the Reforged.

Graphics: 60%
Sounds: 20%
User Interface: 50%

I hope that Blizzard will understand that the Classic is just Classic and shouldn’t be messed up with new.

I think that in a year or so, the game will work better than it’s now and will offer more features.

Because even that I bought StarCraft: Remastered (which is good, because all features have been kept) will really think before I buy any of the Remaster from Blizzard.

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I see many people complain about W3 Reforged.

I don’t defend Blizzard because they got what they deserve. Too much bull**** with WoW retail. Micro transaction with their other games, etc.

For W3 Reforged. I not fan of they new models. Some are beautiful. But other are too much pimp.

I regret they change voice acting. Old one are emblematics.

For the rest, there is minor bug like color team or thing like that but nothing who can be repair in a nearly future.
Just put old model. And it’s warcraft 3 with best serv and save account.
I like that.

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They fixed the Classic graphics version in the recent patch, and I like it. Still Audio is a weak point and if I wish to play the game with old one I have to use my CD-version of the game.

I don’t complain overall, but wanted to state the good and weak points. Every game has these.

I’ve played this game for many years and I probably will need to break on-line play if I wish to hear original Audio. :frowning:

I understand the new system requirements. But overall the game eats more resources even that the mechanics are identical. Only new detailed models eat them.

I’m overall not happy with this update because of the stated disadvantages.

The update introduced new, nonexisting till now, bugs.

OK, here were my thoughts about the game I bought. There is a chance to fix the most of disadvantages.