Saturday, November 3rd 2018
Blizzard Remasters Warcraft III, Releases 2019 as Warcraft III: Reforged
It's not Warcraft 4, but this news is still better than nothing to fans of the beloved RTS series. At Blizzcon 2018, Blizzard was met with backlash at the announcement of Diablo for mobile platforms, but news of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos getting a full remaster on the PC is helping fan down some of those flames. Titled Warcraft III: Reforged, the remaster is due to be released some time in 2019.
New cinematic and gameplay trailers were also released during Blizzcon, which are now up on YouTube to be seen by everyone:
Attendees of the event will also get to enjoy a playable demo of one of the most memorable sequences of the game, The Culling, which was part of the Human Campaign (Scourge of Lordaeron) in the game and marked a point of no return for Prince Arthas on his pathway to becoming, well, let's not spoil anything for those who may be new to the series.
Blizzard promises Warcraft III: Reforged is "a complete reimagining of a real-time strategy classic", with new visuals while retaining the campaigns and gameplay mechanisms of the 2002 hit game. There is no word yet on whether The Frozen Throne expansion will get a similar treatment, but it appears to be more a case of when at this point. The remaster will include custom games and the world editor, which helped form two of the most popular games ever- League of Legends and Dota 2- as well as plenty of fun mods on a smaller scale as well.
Warcraft III: Reforged is up for pre-order already, with a standard edition costing $29.99, a Spoils of War edition at $39.99 that includes special items for other Blizzard games, and a combo Spoils of War + Virtual ticket to Blizzcon 2019 for $79.99 if you were so interested. System requirements are on the lower side of average, which is not a big surprise, with even integrated graphics and recent laptop processors capable of powering the game. If this is your first time to the Warcraft franchise, read up on your lore for the first two games and expansions and be ready for hours of entertaining game play.
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Attendees of the event will also get to enjoy a playable demo of one of the most memorable sequences of the game, The Culling, which was part of the Human Campaign (Scourge of Lordaeron) in the game and marked a point of no return for Prince Arthas on his pathway to becoming, well, let's not spoil anything for those who may be new to the series.
Blizzard promises Warcraft III: Reforged is "a complete reimagining of a real-time strategy classic", with new visuals while retaining the campaigns and gameplay mechanisms of the 2002 hit game. There is no word yet on whether The Frozen Throne expansion will get a similar treatment, but it appears to be more a case of when at this point. The remaster will include custom games and the world editor, which helped form two of the most popular games ever- League of Legends and Dota 2- as well as plenty of fun mods on a smaller scale as well.
Warcraft III: Reforged is up for pre-order already, with a standard edition costing $29.99, a Spoils of War edition at $39.99 that includes special items for other Blizzard games, and a combo Spoils of War + Virtual ticket to Blizzcon 2019 for $79.99 if you were so interested. System requirements are on the lower side of average, which is not a big surprise, with even integrated graphics and recent laptop processors capable of powering the game. If this is your first time to the Warcraft franchise, read up on your lore for the first two games and expansions and be ready for hours of entertaining game play.
61 Comments on Blizzard Remasters Warcraft III, Releases 2019 as Warcraft III: Reforged
Let's be honest, the only reason Blizzard can redo these and make it profitable is because of the many years of work they already put in with each vanilla release. Even to this day there is patch love for ancient titles.
@blizzard, minimal effort - maximum profit, must be nice to have a legion of fanboys that will eat everything you crap out.
Oh boy. It really is quite pathetic I have to admit. They know Warcraft 4 RTS with new story would be a game of the year almost promised, not sure if they just are holding on to that idea for when sales start falling bad on all fronts, or what... but I really hate this tactic of re-hashing the 3 main IP's, and imo Overwatch was not classical Blizzard either, was cash grab Blizzard, maybe Blizzard just doesn't have enough of the original employees anymore to really garner any of my respect anymore and its just time for me to move on. /shrug
Look at how Command and Conquer was destroyed by EA, and then look at how this is working out. I know which method i prefer.
Is in more high definition what you want?
Unreal engine 4 when every game blizzard have done so far where capable of running even on potato pc because they sell more?
Candy eye not candy man.
I would honestly like to see Blackthorne again.