Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

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

Part of the Following Groups

• Steampunk games
• Warcraft universe

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User Reviews

So charming, you’ll overlook all of its flaws.	DOS	PCGamer77 (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 (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 Gamer	DOS	Mar, 1996	96 out of 100	96
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	DOS	Jan, 1996	93 out of 100	93
Joystick	DOS	Jan, 1996	93 out of 100	93
Game Revolution	DOS	Feb 06, 2004	A-	91
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	DOS	Jul 09, 2002	4.5 out of 5	90
Gamezilla	DOS	Dec 03, 2000	89 out of 100	89
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Dec, 1995	87 out of 100	87
GameStar (Germany)	DOS	Feb, 1998	84 out of 100	84
High Score	DOS	Mar, 1996	3 out of 5	60

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Still up ?	6	Sciere (117901) Jul 31, 2008
Permission ?	13	DJP Mom (10784) Feb 26, 2008

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.