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Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

Trivia

At the event "GameStar Leserpreis 2003" (February 13, 2003) Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos received the trophy "Best Strategy Game in 2002" after the reader's voting of German gaming magazine GameStar.

The game features at least 3 references to Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam war film Full Metal Jacket:

• The Tauren Chieftan in the game claims that "Only two things come from Texas, and I've got horns". This refers to a line in which drill sergeant Hartman tells a Texan recruit that "Only steers and queers come from Texas. And I don't see your horns"


• "This is my owl, there are many like it, but this one's mine", spoken by a Night Elf Huntress, is based on a mantra used by recruits to refer to their guns.


• The Orc Grunt says "Me so horned. Me hurt you long time", based on a line I can't repeat in the potential presence of children.

The character Thrall has origins in the cancelled Warcraft Adventures game, which was to explain how he escaped from captivity, freed many captive orcs and helped rid them of demonic corruption.

Ok this one is a handful, but its nice, and its as secret as it gets :)
As you know, you can click every unit many times to annoy it (heroes in particular) making them say humorous comments, but there is one comment that you never understood, by the Demon Hunter (Night Elf Hero), his 5th comment will sound as utter gibberish to the naked ear.

Now, Load the Warcraft III World Editor, press F5 for Sound Editor, what you're looking for now is located in Sounds -> Internal -> Units -> NightElf -> HeroDemonHunter
The file names you want are DemonHunterMorphedPissed5.wav and HeroDemonHunterPissed5.wav
Export them to any directory you wish.

Now get a .WAV editor with the ability to play .WAV backwards! (You can use the trial version of VoiceSFX) yes thats right, its not gibberish at all, once you play it backwards you will clearly hear the Demon Hunter say... well... find that out yourself!
Enjoy ;)

In chapter 7 of the Orc Campaign, your tauren units will eventually encounter a lizard named Hungry Hungry Lizard, a pun on the old board game "Hungry Hungry Hippos".
If you watch it long enough, it will knock down allot of the mushrooms in the area, creating a path to go through.
The lizard will then pop into a mass of green goo.
If you go through the path he cleared, you will find a nifty little item named The Lion Horn of Stormwind, which generates a protective aura around your hero.

Blizzard wanted to give players a secret sneak peak of incoming (at least I hope so ;) ) Starcraft 2 by putting three Starcraft units into the game. These units are Zerg Zergling and Hydralisk and Terran Marine.They can be accessed from included map editor or at the end of the last campaign.

The prophet was voiced by the very talented Michael Bell. In his 45+ career, he's done voice work for Hanna-Barbara, Disney, and Filmation. He's popularly known as the voice of Drew Pickles from the Rugrats and Zan from the SuperFriends. He played the villain in more than one Scooby Doo episode. "And I would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling kids!!"

Contributed by Santa (847) on Oct 04, 2003.

WarCraft III originally debuted at ECTS 1999 as a much different game than the final product. The original idea was to make it a RPS, Role Playing Strategy game, incorporating both RTS and RPG elements together. Although some RPG elements are still present, many were cut. Originally you exclusively controlled heroes, with your extra units being "attached" to them. The game was in more of a 3rd-person perspective (which you can see if you zoom the camera in all the way), and you would explore with your hero (camera fixed on him), completing quests and defeating your opponents. However, due to various reasons (one being that the game was turning out to be very similar to their MMORPG, World of WarCraft which was being worked on as well), the camera angle was scaled back and the game was turned into more of a traditional RTS with some RPG elements.

The game was originally to have six fully playable races. The sixth race was never revealed, and the first to be dropped. The Burning Legion was originally to be a playable race as well, but due to the effect it would have on their appearance in the game (the idea of having to give them peon units and balancing them out with the other races would diminish their "all-powerful" image), they were dropped down to being non-playable.

For those who ordered this game from EBWorld.com (now EBGames.com), they got an extra WarCraft III DVD that contained all three trailers for this game, plus the cinematic trailer for World of WarCraft.

Contributed by MAT (35388) on Jul 22, 2002.

The German Warcraft III translation ranges from hilarious to absurd - thus being pretty close to the dreaded Diablo 2 translation.

The voice acting was "translated" too - they seem to have forgotten how to apply effects on the voices, so the undead for example sound more like humans than anything else.

Contributed by phlux (4157) on Jul 16, 2002.