Description

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.

Alternate Titles

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

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User Reviews

So charming, you’ll overlook all of its flaws. DOS PCGamer77 Bronze Star Contributing Member (3025)
Customs scenarios make this one replayable DOS anton treuenfels (34)
Exploding sheep! (see below on details, details, details) DOS Cyric (50)
Warcraft II has aged well DOS Roedie (5139)
By land, air and water... DOS Depth Lord (950)
A genre inside of itself DOS Sam Tinianow (102)
The only RTS I ever really enjoyed playing DOS Kalirion (393)
A classic. DOS Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4476)
Hack 'n' Slash DOS Horny-Bullant (59)
An excellent RTS game, marred by repetitive AI DOS Asher (7)

The Press Says

Entertainment Weekly DOS Mar 22, 1996 A 100
PC Player (Brazil) DOS May, 1996 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 100
Mac Gamer Macintosh 1996 95 out of 100 95
PC Gameplay (Benelux) DOS Jan, 1996 93 out of 100 93
Joystick DOS Jan, 1996 93 out of 100 93
GameSpot DOS May 01, 1996 9.3 out of 10 93
Game Revolution DOS Feb 06, 2004 A- 91
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault) DOS Jul 09, 2002 4.5 out of 5 90
PC Player (Germany) DOS Dec, 1995 87 out of 100 87
GameStar (Germany) DOS Feb, 1998 84 out of 100 84

Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
Still up ? 6 Sciere Bronze Star Contributing Member (119238)
Jul 31, 2008
Permission ? 13 DJP Mom (10796)
Feb 26, 2008

Trivia

In the mission objectives screen, the text written in the book on the background is actually English with letters substituted with similar sounding (or, in some cases, not) Cyrillic ones. For example, "орцисч чордес" is definitely "orcish hordes".


This entry was contributed by Accatone (5228) and Terok Nor (10607)
 

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