The Art of WarCraft, a high-quality coffee-table book featuring rare and never-before-seen images from the WarCraft universe. Art from every stage of game development will be included, from early concepts to finished pieces, along with behind-the-scenes commentary from the Blizzard development team.

The official WarCraft III cinematic DVD, including complete WarCraft III in-game cinematics, digitally remastered in widescreen format for TV viewing. Exclusive special features include concept art, storyboards, original cinematic trailers, and audio commentary from the Blizzard cinematics team.

Also included is the WarCraft III soundtrack CD, a commemorative collector's edition manual signed by the WarCraft III development team, and four limited-edition 8 by 10 prints featuring rich artwork portraying battle-hardened veterans from each of WarCraft III's races.

WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos Collector's Edition will be created in a one-time limited run, and once they're gone, they're gone forever. Reign of Chaos Collector's Edition will be available during the first half of 2002 coinciding with the launch of WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos. --Blizzard Press Release

Warcraft III is a terrific real-time strategy game that goes farther in blurring elements of role-playing and strategy than any game that's come before it. The inclusion of heroes as role-playing characters is terrific and provides extra incentive to explore the entire map because you never know what items or quests are hidden in remote corners. It just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside when you find those hidden magic boots or that ring of protection. Warcraft III also marks the best story to date for a Real-Time Strategy game. In the third campaign of the single-player, I tell you that I was an orc...for about an hour. It's also worth mentioning that the tale cleverly unfolds in a way to allow you to play each of the factions (Human, Undead, Orc, and Night Elf) in a compelling progression.

Anyone who has played RTS games before will be familiar with the interface and gameplay of Warcraft III. All of the usual unit types are there--it's just that in Warcraft III they seem more polished than in other games. Whether it's the endearing signature responses when you click on them or the way the units intelligently form up, move, path find, and attack, every aspect of every unit has obviously been thoroughly tested and balanced. Not once when I gave an order did a unit wander off from the pack to explore some random corner of the screen and cause me mouse-crushing, game-cursing rage (see how well I found my inner orc?). It may not sound like much, but those of you who have played many real-time strategy games know that this is not a given. When I ordered a unit to march to a certain place and kill, they did just that.

I realize that the game is over a year old now, but it's worth noting how technically sound this game is. I did not have a hiccup in this game. Never in my single-player campaign did the game crash to desktop, freeze, stutter, spit or delay. The load times were very reasonable and there were also no graphical problems changing resolution or color depth. The graphics themselves are probably the weakest element of the game; all of the units certainly look very blocky and dated. But of course, for a real-time strategy game, who really gives a crap? You don't need state of the art graphics for an RTS. I certainly didn't find that it affected my experience.

I only played the multiplayer a couple of times and I got stomped like the kid in my elementary school who used to wear cardigans that looked like they'd been swiped from Mr. Rogers' closet. It was that bad. This game has been out long enough that even if you seek out a so-called newbie game, you're dealing with people who obviously eat, slept and breathe Warcraft. But there was no problem finding a game and I didn't have any problems with lag or people bailing out of games. It just so happens that I stink.

On the whole, this is a beast of a game: fun to play, compelling, balanced and technically sound...and I think it's time we thought about an orc for president.


Very dissappointed   January 27, 2004
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

The presentation was good. I bought this Collection to get a behind scences on the making of Warcraft etc. I was dissapointed that the DVD wasn't more than the game. No running commentary, no behind scences. I will be selling it as soon as I can.


this game is great   December 25, 2003
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a really great game.I do not have this game but I play it all the
time.I love playing this game on battle net.I also like playing it with my
friends on local area net work.I liked this game the minute I played it.


Awesome game   November 21, 2003
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I bought Warcraft 3 because I am a fan of the Warcraft series. I was blown away by the amazing graphics and the overall playability of the game. Once you have beaten the game in campaign mode you can go online and play via Battle.Net, or as many people do, via your home network.

Warcraft 3 is different from WC2 and Starcraft because you are introduced to special characters (Heroes) who level up during the game and have special abilities. Heroes are a key feature of the game that makes it different (and better) than other games of this type.

Another interesting thing in this game is that you have motivation to beat your opponents without use of overwhelming force. The more units you have the higher "tax" you pay on gold and wood that your units bring in. This makes you try to find more creative ways to beat your opponents.

Overall this is an awesome game.