For the kingdoms of Azeroth the real-time battle between Humans and Orcs continues with Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, the sequel to its highly succesful predecessor...

Warcraft II comes with many new features like fighting not only over land but also over sea and air; SVGA 640x480 resolution graphics with many new 3D-rendered buildings and units; multiplayer play support with up to 8 players, as well as a redbook audio soundtrack and a scenario editor that allows you to design and create your own scenarios--however you need to have Windows 3.1, 95 or better to run the scenario editor although Warcraft II is a DOS-based game.

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Alternate Titles

"WarCraft II: Blood Seas" -- Working title
"War2" -- Common abbreviation

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	War Craft II Tides of Darkness	DOS	$7.80
	Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
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User Reviews

So charming, you’ll overlook all of its flaws.	PCGamer77 (3030)
Customs scenarios make this one replayable	anton treuenfels (37)
Exploding sheep! (see below on details, details, details)	Cyric (50)	unrated
Warcraft II has aged well	Roedie (5212)
By land, air and water...	Depth Lord (949)
A genre inside of itself	Sam Tinianow (100)	unrated
The only RTS I ever really enjoyed playing	Kalirion (419)
A classic.	Tomer Gabel (4429)
Hack 'n' Slash	Horny-Bullant (56)	unrated
An excellent RTS game, marred by repetitive AI	Asher (7)	unrated

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The Press Says

PC Player (Brazil)	May, 1996		100
Entertainment Weekly	Mar 22, 1996	A	100
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Jan, 1996	93 out of 100	93
Joystick (French)	Jan, 1996	93 out of 100	93
GameSpot	May 01, 1996	9.3 out of 10	93
Electric Playground	Jul 04, 1996	9 out of 10	90
PC Games (Germany)	Jan, 1996	90 out of 100	90
Power Play	Jan, 1996	89 out of 100	89
Gamezilla	Dec 03, 2000	89 out of 100	89
PC Player (Germany)	Dec, 1995	87 out of 100	87

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Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Still up ?	6	Sciere (170626) Jul 31, 2008
Permission ?	13	DJP Mom (11123) Feb 26, 2008

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Trivia

At one point in development, Blizzard planed to have Catapults and Balistas manned. This means that you would need a unit to move and fire the catapult. If this unit was killed, the enemy could then capture your catapult. For whatever reason, this idea was taken out of the final version, however evidence of its existance can still be seen in the cutsceen of a footman stealing an Orcish Catapult.

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This entry was contributed by Accatone (5221) and Terok Nor (15629)