Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
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Warcraft II is a classic fantasy-themed Real Time Strategy game featuring land, sea, and air combat.
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Set six years after Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Warcraft II follows on from the end of the Orc Campaign. The Orcs move on from Azeroth to conquer Lordaeron, this is known as the second war. The Orcs travel to Lordaeron by sea (thus, Tides of Darkness) and air bringing into the game naval combat and aerial combat, both firsts for the series. The Humans rally together and form the Alliance, along with the High Elves of Quel'Thalas and the Dwarves and Gnomes of Khaz Modan. Likewise the Orcs are now allied with Trolls, Ogres and Goblins. Eventually due to a split within the forces of the Horde the Alliances pushes the Orcs back to Blackrock Spire, there base in Azeroth. The Alliance eventually win this battle, at the cost of the life of Lord Anduin Lothar their Commander. The final battle take place at the Dark Portal (the link between Draenor and Azeroth) and the Alliance ultimately win with the Archmage Khadgar destroying the portal. Khadgar however did not seal the rift between the two worlds and this would lead to the events of the expansion Warcraft II: Beyond The Dark Portal.Gameplay
The Horde and Alliance units were replicas of each other, sharing all stats. This did not hold true for late game caster units, who differed due to the spells available to them. Eventually the game (originally made for Dos and Mac) was re-released for Windows with multiplayer functionality, it was known as Warcraft II Battle.Net edition. The Singleplayer campaigns were linear, the Alliance campaign was used as the actual story for the Second War, like the Orc Campaign in Warcraft I.Other Features
When clicked on repeatedly the units of Warcraft II will elicit a humorous quote. In the demo these quotes instead badgered the player to buy the full version. Repeated clicking on an NPC such as a sheep would eventually cause it to blow up. The soundtrack has been released in MP3 format. When the CD is placed in a CD-player it plays the games soundtrack along with a 13th track titled Medieval Man. Medieval Man could be used as a cheat to listen to the song in Warcraft II, or to get free units in Starcraft, this was in response to the Command and Conquer song Medieval Man.
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Dec. 9, 1995
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