Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne is the first official expansion to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. The game takes place not long after the events depicted in the latter. The Night Elves have retreated to their forest to heal the war-torn earth, the Orcs have finally found a home, the Humans have moved on since their homeland is now a plague-stricken infested wasteland, and the Undead, having been defeated in the battle of Mount Hyjal move on to the frozen north. A new evil has awakened and is threatening the land.

The expansion features one new hero per race along with several 'neutral' heroes that can be recruited by any race, several new units for each race as well as neutral races, new tile sets, a player-built shop that can be used to equip heroes with items, and an all new campaign.

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Alternate Titles

"魔兽争霸III：冰封王座" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	WarCraft III Expansion: The Frozen Throne	Windows	$4.25
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User Reviews

Quite possibly the best expansion pack ever released.	Windows	kbmb (399)
Makes a superb game even better.	Windows	Emlyn Hughes (10)
A good story does not a game make	Windows	Curlymcdom (47)
A worthy addition to Warcraft III	Windows	Scott Monster (914)
Could have been stand-alone	Windows	Pixelspeech (904)

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The Press Says

GameStar (Germany)	Windows	Jul, 2003	94 out of 100	94
GamingExcellence	Windows	Aug 22, 2003	9.2 out of 10	92
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Jul 21, 2003	92 out of 100	92
Entertainment Depot, The	Windows	Jul 28, 2003	9 out of 10	90
GameSpy	Windows	Jun 30, 2003	88 out of 100	88
PC Zone	Windows	Aug 16, 2003	8.6 out of 10	86
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Jul 04, 2003	17 out of 20	85
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Windows	Jul 17, 2003	85 out of 100	85
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Windows	Sep, 2003		80
Super Play	Windows	Aug, 2003	5 out of 10	50

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Trivia

Orcs

The bonus orc campaign features some characters who should have been in Blizzard's cancelled adventure game Warcraft: Lord of the Clans, for instance the goblin Gazlowe and the orc Nazgrel.

References

In the last level of the Blood Elf campaign, you will encounter two blademasters called Rend and Maim. They are the two sons of Blackhand (the orc leader in the first Warcraft) and you may know them from the Warcraft II manual (in Warcraft II they were the rulers of the Black Tooth Grin clan.) However Rend and Maim's appearance (and death) in Frozen Throne has since been retconned in World of Warcraft.