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Want to see something real scary? Then read these reviews., Jun 21 2004

I feel compelled I suppose to bunk some of the other reviews that have been posted for Frozen Throne. The one’s that state “this game will rock” I need not say anything about, cause you already know to take them with a grain of salt. But for the one’s that are written by actual beta testers (like myself), I need to update you on the facts, and correct some mistakes.

First off, it’s hard to really rate or give a knowledgeable review of Frozen Throne because those of us that are beta testers are only getting to see the multi-player, on-line aspect of the game. There will also be an extension to the storyline of WC3, of which we can only guess at until the game is out. To give a really in-depth review of the whole game, a person would need the complete expansion.

Another thing that I find upsetting is that one of the reviewers has gotten a lot of helpful votes, just for the simple fact that people don’t know whether he’s correct or not. His review would have been appropriate when he wrote it. He wrote his review in March, and the game has made some drastic changes since then. So, for example, saying that Orc Batriders are overpowered is no longer applicable. To be honest, people rarely use them anymore.

Also, there is no Night Elf hero that can change Day into Night. That is an item that the Night Elves can buy from their own specific shop. To explain this, each race has the ability to build their own shop, which is very inexpensive at the moment, from which they can buy items, such as scroll of town portals, heath potions, etc. Each race has certain item specific to them. Like the Night Elf item to change the time of day or the Undead item called a Wand of Necromancy that can summon 2 skeletons from a corpse. But for some reason Blizzard decided to give Undead that item, but take away the Wand of Negation from the Original WarCraft 3. I haven’t understood that move (taking away the Wand of Negation) since the beta started.

There are many other changes as well, but if I was to try and list them all, it would take me quite a while. Just rest assured that Blizzard has done a bang up job of not only making it feel like an expansion, but also adding the excitement back to when we first got WarCraft 3 and got to try out all the “new” stuff. And if I listed them all, I would take away some of the excitement of when you first pop it in and play it yourself.

Okay now that I got that off my chest, my opinion on FT so far is that it is fantastic! Bear in mind that I am only reviewing this game from the multi-player, on-line, battle.net aspect of it; I have no idea what the storyline will be to the game.

Veterans to WC3 will find some very interesting changes in Frozen Throne. While still not complete, the game seems to be reaching its home stretch. Blizzard does an excellent job of fixing balance issues, as many WC3 players already know. So that’s why it was not a good idea for someone to post in March on how powerful certain units were, because Blizzard has since fixed that issue and it’s no longer true. Recently they changed it so that you can get Wyverns at tier 2 now, but whether or not that will stay in the final edition, I can’t say.

I personally give the game 5 stars because it excels at what I loved about WC3 so much. The on-line aspect. In all my years of gaming I don’t remember a game that has pulled me in as much as WC3 has, and now Frozen Throne.

There is however a nice learning curve. Even if you are very good at WC3, you will run into some bumps in the road with Frozen Throne. But this is to be expected with new units, new heroes, new buildings and new creeps. Be warned though, a lot of the newer creeps are very, very tough and are not to be fought unless you have quite a few units. I say this mostly in the vain hope that I don’t get to hear “our alley’s hero has fallen” to creeps. So don’t say I didn’t warn you, he, he.