WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne

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Description

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)

Part of the Following Groups

• Video games turned into board / card games
• WarCraft III series
• Warcraft universe

User Reviews

Quite possibly the best expansion pack ever released.	Windows	kbmb (435)
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 (1010)
Could have been stand-alone	Windows	Pixelspeech (1006)

Critic Reviews

AppleLinks.Com	Macintosh	Aug 21, 2003		100
GamePro (US)	Windows	Jul 31, 2003	5 out of 5	100
Gamers.at	Windows	Jul 20, 2003	93 out of 100	93
GamingExcellence	Windows	Aug 22, 2003	9.2 out of 10	92
Boomtown	Windows	Jul 24, 2003	9 out of 10	90
Gamigo	Windows	Jul 02, 2003	9 out of 10	90
Macworld	Macintosh	Jan 01, 2004		90
Absolute Games (AG.ru)	Windows	Jul 17, 2003	85 out of 100	85
1UP	Windows	May 09, 2004	8 out of 10	80
Gamesdog	Windows	Dec 16, 2003	8 out of 10	80

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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.

Awards

• 4Players
  • 2003 – Best PC Multiplayer Game of the Year
• Apple Design Award
  • 2004 - Best Mac OS X Entertainment Product
• GameSpy
  • 2003 – PC Strategy Game of the Year (Readers' Vote)

Information also contributed by Agent 5 and Pirou Julien

Related Web Sites

• Frozen Throne Walkthrough (A Walkthrough for the Alliance, Undead Scourge, and Night Elf Sentinels with screenshots and strategies to help the player.)
• NZMac Review (A (largely) unscored review of the Macintosh version of the game by NZMac, a New Zealand Apple site (Sep. 01, 2003).)
• The Battle Between Good and Evil (An Apple Games article about the Macintosh version of The Frozen Throne archived on the author's site (July, 2003).)