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.	kbmb (399)	unrated
Makes a superb game even better.	Emlyn Hughes (10)
A good story does not a game make	Curlymcdom (47)
A worthy addition to Warcraft III	Scott Monster (914)
Could have been stand-alone	Pixelspeech (888)

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The Press Says

Game Over Online	Aug 04, 2003	92 out of 100	92
GamingExcellence	Aug 22, 2003	9.2 out of 10	92
PC Action	Aug 21, 2003	92 out of 100	92
PC Games (Germany)	Jul 21, 2003	92 out of 100	92
ActionTrip	Jun 30, 2003	91 out of 100	91
Gamigo	Jul 02, 2003	9 out of 10	90
Joystick (French)	Sep, 2003	9 out of 10	90
IGN	Jul 01, 2003	9 out of 10	90
GameSpy	Jun 30, 2003	88 out of 100	88
Super Play	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.