I finished the Night Elf Campaign today and therefore completed WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos. This was another great real-time strategy game. It was so good that I just added it to my All-Time Favorites list. That list is certainly growing. I may have to trim it a bit in the future. The finale reminded me of StarCraft. It was an intense, battle-filled mission with multiple factions involved: night elves, humans, orcs, undead, and the burning legion. It was a great way to finish off the game.

The end credits were great; they were well worth watching. Blizzard put a sense of humor and a lot of creativity into them. Almost as good as the Star Control II end credits.

Now on to The Frozen Throne...

The Reign of Chaos saga continues. I completed the Orc Campaign earlier today. Never having played any WarCraft games before, I expected the orcs to be evil. I thought it might play like the Undead campaign where you actually controled the villains of the story. However, I discovered that the orcs actually had a sense of honor and were quite different than I expected. The game gives you two heroes to control: Thrall and Grom Hellscream. Thrall was a Far Seer and the orcs' leader. Grom Hellscream was a Blademaster, always anxious for battle. There were some tough missions and even a dungeon crawl in Chapter 7. All in all, another fine campaign. I am anxious to move on to the Night Elf campaign and see how the story ends.

After finishing up the fifth campaign in Heroes of Might and Magic IV two weeks ago, I decided to take a break and move on to a different game. I chose WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos. I really enjoyed Blizzard's StarCraft and WarCraft III plays very similarly. Of course, the graphics are much improved. However, the gameplay mechanics and controls are very close. The story line is comprised of four campaigns: Human, Undead, Orc, and Night Elf. I finished the Human campaign within the first week and just finished the Undead campaign today. I have really enjoyed the game thus far. As a real-time strategy game, it is excellent. However, the epic story makes the game stand out that much more. The cut-scenes are nice and the cinematics are absolutely magnificent. I'm not sure that any company does them better than Blizzard.

Next up is the Orc campaign. At my current pace, I should hopefully have it finished by next weekend.

I finished up the fifth campaign of Heroes of Might and Magic IV this afternoon. It was called Half-Dead and featured Gauldoth, a necromancer. Gauldoth was somewhat of an anti-hero; he was quite different from the protagonists of the previous campaigns. Gauldoth started the campaign hunted by the humans of the local village. He went on to rescue his former master, Kalibarr. In the end, Gauldoth discovered that Kalibarr served a master of his own. Kalibarr's master was a powerful being from the Plane of Death intent on destroying all life. In the final scenario, Gauldoth came to the realization that he must destroy Kalibarr and liberate the town of Nekorum. Click on the image below to see the outcome of the Half-Dead campaign.