There are missions here that play unlike anything you've ever seen in an RTS, although some of them are difficult enough to tempt you to quit in frustration. The early missions for each race introduce the new units and heroes, but then they start playing around with some really neat scripting and gameplay twists. The centrepiece of Frozen Throne is the new campaign, which is easily as long as the one packaged with the original. Meanwhile, the neutral heroes really break the gameplay wide open, allowing players to choose beyond the limitations of what their race offers. And the Night Elven Warden is, hands down, the coolest melee fighter to grace the lavish tilesets of Warcraft III. The Human Blood Mage is a sort of direct attack counterpart to the Human Archmage.
The Undead Crypt Lord is a powerful melee fighter capable of turning corpses into permanent summons (as opposed to the Necromancers, who squander corpses on all those temporary skeletons). The Orc hero, a Shadow Hunter, is particularly welcome for his healing ability, something that always hindered Orcs in the early game. Since heroes are nearly as important a choice in Warcraft III as the race you're playing, this is where you'll find Frozen Throne's most notable contribution.
Each side has one, but there are also five new heroes that any player can summon from the neutral taverns on some maps. The new heroes are what really change how you play the game. There are many more counter strategies available that you can use to undermine whatever the other player might be trying to do. However, the Obelisk can morph into a Devourer, a fearsome flying magic eater.Īlthough the new units don't do much to change how you play each side, they do offer a lot more magical interaction with your opponents. The Undead technically get only one new unit, the Obelisk, which can be used to charge friendly health and mana. The new Human Dragonhawk Rider can use his breath to disable enemy towers and the Spell Breaker is a versatile counter-magic unit that can debuff, zap spell casters, and snatch enemy summons. One of his abilities is ripping a tree out of the ground and using it for a fixed number of powerful attacks. The Night Elves get a Faerie Dragon who's perfectly suited for zapping enemy spellcasters and a Mountain Giant who's perfectly suited for just about anything. The Orcs get a Batrider who can trash buildings from the skies and a Tauren shaman who can debuff enemies from his invulnerable ethereal state (you can still hurt him with magic attacks). If you did that, you wouldn't get to play with the new units for each side (along with the increase in army limit to give you more room for the new units). However, you can use a shortcut to go back to "Warcraft III Classic" if you ever feel the need. Come to think of it, these are the guys whose expansion packs for Starcraft and Diablo II were like whole new games, so maybe it's not that surprising.įrozen Throne installs over Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, so it'll make permanent changes to your copy of the game. What is surprising is how much work they've put into it when they could have just thrown a few new scenarios in a box. After having sold approximately ten jillion copies, and that's just in Korea, it's hardly surprising that Blizzard is doing an expansion pack for Warcraft III.
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