04:07 lol I was playing that mission has a 12 yo kid and thought I had killed every building and unit but still didn't win, then I finally found that last enemy unit (a zeppelin), killed it and won and afterwards was this cinematic. It was awesome.
I liked these old school cinematics where they revolve around random warriors, and not heroes. I think part of that charm is that it feels like they're revolving around you or the units you controlled instead of the heroes you read about in the lore or occasionally play as in the game. Some of these cinematics are interesting enough that they should be remade. I always liked the one where the lone orc burns the corpses. It has this somber atmosphere to it that would make for a great scene in a movie. My other favorite is the footman sneak attack on the grunt. I know can't be the only one who tried to destroy a zeppelin with a catapult after seeing that cinematic? The final orc ending of ToD is great too.
Pretty sure the mage in the human cinematics is Khadgar, a hero unit. Not sure why he's wearing blue in the cinematic when his ingame sprite wears purple though (it could be the lighting). Also his ingame mugshot doesn't have as much facial hair and the hair on his head already started greying. Also 3:26 Pretty sure this royal guy was an important lore character? I'd have to check.
That was probably King Terenas - Arthas' Dad. This is the alternative ending playing orc where you storm Lordereon and take it over, killing the humans and the king.@@mattwo7
Did you know? That rock was also found in a leading role from starcraft's cinematics and reprised his role specifically for this scene; where many rocks failed.
Considering when this was made, the cinematics are really awesome. Blizzard has always been a head of the times when it comes to cinema graphics. I remember being blown away by these cut scenes and rendered speechless when WC3 and WoW were released.
2:29 I won't lie: even with how stilted, silly, and outdated the CGI looks now, that scene has some real weight and tension to it. The lighting in particular is great, showing the demon's scale without ever seeing it beside Gul'dan. That massive door only barely lights the thing. It's such a chilling visual. As much as I love some of Blizzard's new cinematics, the things they made with limited technology were incredible. You don't need explosions, and massive battles, and 6000 monsters, and a bunch of famous faces, and fuckin' Mannoroth shooting lazerbeams; sometimes all it takes is a door slowly opening, a monster rushing forwards, and a cut to black.
Yeah, that scene is old, but it is done well, opening with the demon's eyes as the door opens up. The way it looks around for a moment gives the feeling it wasn't certain the door would ever be opened. Now it sees the outside and we get the feeling it's all too eager to rip into the fool who made the mistake of opening the door.
the scene of orcs armada rushing to azeroth shore always fascinating me as kid, i always imagine being a guard of the stronghold looking at my watchtower realizing my death would come soon and a horde of orcs ready to rampaging my homeland... man that feeling tho..
As someone who grew with WC3 I really do admire the predecessors 1&2, specially as I finished playing the expansion campaign recently. Each made me appreciate the other, not in terms of 1 to 2 to 3 but rather 3 to 1 to 2. You very much see the whole thing evolving in all respects, making your jaw drop amazed by what the successor brings.
Khadgar casting spells like he's in a Final Fantasy cutscene. Orcs enjoying every last kill. Humans lining up like endless ranks of tin men. Warcraft did become more unique as time went on, but it totally abandoned its original style.
Instead of everyone constantly bitching about warcraft four, why not try to talk to blizzard about remaking the first and second one and maybe even the third. The third is fine, but imagine having the first and second warcraft that actually has cut scenes that match the world of Azeroth. Clearly these are outdated and the game style, like fog of war and so on, are completely out matched by the very concept of warcraft three. So if anything I think they should remake the first one second one to match at least the third one. HD remake.
+Collin Berend I agree, I didnt like the third one. I much preferred 1 and 2, ( 2 beign my favorite ) I would also like a remake. Cant wait for the movie to come out !
Ironically they're working on wc3 remaster. In fact the original game has had an update recently to add a private test realm for some reason and there are talks and mentions about remaking it. However warcraft 1 and 2 were unlucky; blizzard was asked about it and they said, I quote "The games are just not fun anymore" -.- well ofc they aren't, we can't play them easy on win 7-8-10 and the battle.net servers are running 2.0 not the update version :l
Blizzard re-releasing this brought me here. I had always wanted to destroy a zeppelin like in 4:20, and hoped against hope I'd find a way. My first Blizzard disappointment ... This game also started my life-long fandom of Khadgar.
I used to play this game as a kid, and LOVED it! I recently downloaded a copy of it, (I've long since lost the old CDs) and it's just not as awesome as I remember it being, I've had a fun couple of hours, but anyone on the fence about doing something similar shouldn't, leave it as an awesome memory.
Heres a funny little dose of reality for ya that i just noticed. The unit known as the footman is wearing a full suit of armor. Not chainmail but a full suit of armor with breastplate, bracers, greaves, boots and gauntlets. This dude was a millionaire.
Well considering that gunpowder is now introduced and on massive scale with cannons on every corner of fortifications and ships, this would fall in reality to late 16th century when massive amounts of full sets of steel armor were again used in mass of infantry (like that of Roman legions of old). There is a saved set of Yorkshire man-at-arms dated from 1485. whom was probably a commoner and yet had almost complete set of steel armor,
Looking back these cinematic cutscenes are pretty awful, but it really shows how far blizzard has come, as now they are the masters of it. That recently released overwater trailer blew my mind. BTW even to this day the short cinematic of the Orc grunt burning the hung bodies is still very creepy and disturbing.
Some personal reasons that I would like to share to all of you guys to agree with me and convince Blizzard to do or even just plan the continuation of the WARCRAFT RTS series/saga. Especially a Warcraft 4... 1. Because the RTS saga was the original game-play of Warcraft. And it should had not changed in the first place. Warcraft series has shown pure, epic medieval fantasy theme just like the legendary Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter (where Warcraft got its awesome inspiration for it to get a good story).. No offense to you guys but, WoW isn't really much in epic, Gothic medieval state anymore (Like the castles and the soldier armors and weapons are too much colorful; for instance such as glowing swords and multicolored armor gear and stuff, also too much technology with the game story itself to be called as a medieval game)... 2. Because the Warcraft RTS series is way a lot better storyteller than WoW. We don't need to like read and perform hundreds, thousands of quests before we can even understand anything of the happenings in the game, we don't know need to pick-up some items to be able to start a quest storyline (in which some of the quests in WoW aren't even really that necessary to be a part of the lore), and the fact that we do not need to like memorized all of the names of the npcs in the whole world of Warcraft in order to know the situation or events within a particular place and time. Unlike in a Warcraft rts, the cinematic, the interludes, the cut scenes, the scenarios, the forces you have and also the forces of the enemy, the bases, the places that exists in Warcraft, the heroes and villains are all the whole essence of the story itself.. 3. Because we are able to view the story in the point of perspective of a hero or villain of Warcraft that truly exists within the story game and is considered as a real part of the lore. Unlike creating a custom made character of any race, gender, class, faction that wouldn't matter because it does not even exist in the real story of Warcraft, no matter how strong or weak, or what level or what gear or weapons that character of any person possess. 4. Because we are able to know fully well the characters (both heroes and villains) of Warcraft, for who and what they are. Like the ones of Illidan, Furion, Arthas, Thrall, Jaina, Tyrande, Kael'thas, Khadgar, Sir Lothar, Cho'gall, Alleria, Kargath, Grom, Teron, Deathwing, Cairne, Kurdran, Danath, Turalyon, Uther, Kel'thuzad, etc... Unlike King Varian, Garrosh, Prince Anduin, Tirion, Lorthemar, Taran'Zhu.. etc.. in which part of the lore as they truly are, but the thing is we never really get to know them (even if some of them had a story contribution in any Warcraft novel) because we haven't even used and controlled them within the game, all we ever see from those characters is for them to stand around all day and night and give us quests in which they should be the ones doing it themselves... 5. The Warcraft RTS series you guys do shows all of the events that had happened in ALL factions equally in Warcraft in order to tell completely the great events and gameplay missions that happened (both heroic and villainous factions), obviously that includes the Alliance and Horde. Surely, when we played Warcraft 1, we didn't just played the Orcs side to know the whole story. When we played Warcraft 2, we didn't just played the, Alliance of Lordaeron campaign to know the complete war story... And surely in Warcraft 3, we all did played Human, Undead, Orc, and Night Elf campaigns in order to know the full events in it.. Unlike in WoW, I've definitely seen a lot of those, immature ignorant, one-side minded hypocrite Alliance or Horde fanboy loyalists... Who tooks the faction gaming seriously as if they are a part of the Horde or Alliance in their real life, in which most of these people are a bunch of kids with a lot of rage issues or rather old yet immature people (who are even older than me, and I am just 20 yrs old) who acts and talk like a < / 10 yr old kid.. ALL of the factions that were created and existed in the Warcraft lore are all awesome and epic, simple as it is. Nothing more. Alliance of Lordaeron, Old Horde, Modern Alliance, New Horde, Legion, Scourge, Titans, Old Gods, The Dragon Aspects, Independent Neutral Creeps, Illidari, even Pandarens.. etc... 6. We do not need to waste good and hard-work earned money monthly for a fun, yet pointless game... All we have to do is buy a cd of Warcraft 4, and install it in our computers, and have an awesome time whether with ourselves alone or with some friends to play. Nothing more than that.. 7. Finally, the fact that in a Warcraft RTS series.. We can definitely see the many different mighty armies of soldiers of the many different races of Warcraft in REAL war action and be able to control and play them ourselves.. Instead of just seeing a bunch of brave, heavily armored footmen, or perhaps strong, muscular savage grunts who just literally stands all day and night their kingdoms.. Being lazy and doing nothing, or perhaps just doing a shitty lame ass walk-around patrolling..
No argument here. Ive played every blizzard game and expansion except world of warcraft. I literally havent played one second of WoW and i dont ever plan to. Warcraft is a RTS. Its a groundbreaking RTS and i guess i can accept it as a TCG with hearthstone but thats as far as ill go. Fuck WoW. Bring on War4.
BillHicksADH On my part, I've never played WoW in Blizzard retail, nor do I have any plans to pay for play, Hell no... I've only played it on Private Servers, friend... The things is, whether it is on retail or not... Same game, its WoW, so expect some type of people around there, and same game-play mechanics... The thing about WoW is that you get excited at the beginning but then you immediately get sick of it after for just a short period of time... For instance, once you get your character up to full level, put on the gears, armors, weapons, etc. you wanted for the characters of yours.. Perform all raids and dungeons. Perform all quests.. The game would actually become pointless and tiring... In fact, you would realized that you spend a huge time of yours in a pointless game making a character(s) strong for nothing.. And the fact that, after performing like a hundred, thousands of quests, based on my experience, I still do understand very little of what the hell is going on the game, in short I still do understand and know little about the story events in WoW... Everything in it is literally broad, confusing and unclear... Unlike in Warcraft 1, 2, and 3... I still have all of them btw... I never get sick of any of those... In fact, Every once in a while I would get a free time, I would play their campaigns all of over again even though perhaps Ive already done played the campaigns like a hundred times, for the sake of fun, epic gaming, story (even though I already know it very well), and for PURE WarCraft gaming epicness... So bottom-line is this, consider me as someone who somehow also kinda did have some fun in WoW, but not really that much. To the point of this time I still have the WoW game app for private server in my laptop but I hardly go online in it anymore.. For me, WoW isn't really much of an adventure fantasy-medieval game as the way the others see it... The fact that, like I said, I only understand very little about the events of the story in WoW lore unlike in WarCraft 1-3... For me, the only reason perhaps that I still go online there sometimes is because of my new online friends (guilds) there (I mean, you do make some friends there).. For the sake of saying, "hi", "hello", "how are you" to them, chatting, telling stories and other stuff.. The characters Ive made there are already on full levels and have some good gears, armors, weapons.. Ive done many raids and dungeons with many random friendly players, and performed almost every quest I could find in it.. So, it is pretty obvious that there is nothing much for me to do in there anymore.. Thats why, I hope no one would get mad at me when I say that.. WoW is just kinda like a "2nd Facebook" for me, especially when you have finally reached the point where you are actually sick of playing it, like in my case.. It isn't really much of an epic adventure fantasy-medieval game that you would get into the story as like what the others are saying, HELL NO... Do not believe in them.. WoW is more of a social media account app like Twitter, Facebook, etc (for me) rather than a so-called "epic" game... In fact, I might even say most people that are WoW players are usually a bunch of immature non-sense people with a lot of rage issues... And the fact that most of them, doesn't even know the story of the TRUE WarCraft.. I just literally laugh at all of them, of course..
Justine Dela Cruz World of Warcraft has some great lore, even if you never read the quests, the environments and cutscenes alone make up for some great stories. Have you ever raided back in molten-core with 40 people? great stuff, truly deserving of the word "epic" within a video game context. As for warcraft 4, I'm sure it will happen eventually, but we'l have to be patient. I don't see it coming before the release of legacy of the void, the second expansion for starcraft II. After that, their RTS team could start on building warcraft IV, perhaps set 50 years after the events of world of warcraft,
Barackus WoW has some great lore? Yes, it has SOME but definitely not all, maybe a ratio of 1 over 100 quests... Besides, you don't seriously expect us to be "amazed" in the storylines that we only read... You don't seriously expect us to be "amazed" in the storylines that we view on the perspective of an unknown character instead of the real heroes of WarCraft themselves... You don't seriously expect us to be "amazed" in the storylines that is being run by super strong wandering unknown and unimportant adventurers instead of the mighty ARMIES such as the brave footmen, the savage grunts, the sharp shooting archers, etc... You don't seriously expect us to be "amazed" in the storylines that only depends on raids in other to understand the main lore event in an expansion like Illidan and Kael to TBC, Arthas and Malygos to WotLK, Deathwing to Cata... You don't seriously expect us to be "amazed" in the storylines that asks us to kill pigs, get this or get that thing for me stuff, buy beers for npcs, talk to a cow and ask for its head... You don't seriously expect us to be "amazed" in the storylines that occurs in raids and dungeons in which you could do it over and over again for absolutely no good reason or perhaps a low reason for such as drop loots from bosses and stuff... And surely, don't even boast your little "molten-core raid" to me... Because definitely that is something I do not give a fuck about and literally DOES NOT impress me... Unlike in WarCraft 1, 2 and 3, ALL OF IT and EVERY PART of it is great, and totally awesome... And seriously, it would be totally corny if we would have a WarCraft 4 that is not sequel to WarCraft 3... We would love a WarCraft 4 that would tell the events that left after Arthas climbs the Frozen Throne. Illidan's bleeding in the snow, and Lord Daelin Proudmoore had been killed... If we would we have a WarCRaft 4 that is not sequel to the WarCraft 3 events.. Then I must say that WarCraft 4 IS NOT DESERVING to be a part of the series.. Remember, WC1-3 is a series because the lore in it a totally interconnected and related to one another... The characters, the places, everything in it.. They are prequels and sequels to one another... If a WC4 is made but is already distant to the events of WarCRaft 3.. That would suck... It will suck...
Wow, i've never met such a hardcore warcraft fanboy. Why can't you be amazed at stories you read? Books do exactly the same and they can be amazing. You speak of the warcraft 1-3 characters as if they're real, and characters introduced in world of warcraft are just "made up". Guess what? They are ALL made up, by the same people! Reading how you talk down on raids, I believe you never actually did these raids, and talk down on them even though you never did them. You mentioned you only play on private servers? On Blizzard servers the community is much nicer, bug free, and you can get help from game masters should you need it. As for repeating content? That is just the nature of playing an MMORPG. You can't expect them to pump out dungeons and raids faster than you can play through them once. Remember, you personally may not like the lore of wow, but millions of people do, so if they just ignored all of it when making warcraft 4, they would piss off alot more people than if they included (or at least, treat it as canon) the wow lore. Even if WC4 is not a direct sequel to WC3, you'll still get the storytelling you're so fond of, so whatever story they'll be telling, I'm sure it is of the familiar blizzard quality.
Man the Orcs sure were skinny back then! The Legion must have been starving them to death before sending them to Azeroth, and it wasn’t until the humans imprisoned them they got to eat again 😂
I have no idea what accent they were trying to go for here, it really is so very terrible. Somehow as a child the opening scene was all the instruction i needed to learn how to speak that terrible hammy faux British from an American accent. It was my most impressive inpression and I can't do it at all now.
yeeeee buddy! Back when games weren't the billion dollar industry it is today we had crappy voice actors but cutting edge graphics (Relatively speaking of course) Today we get top notch and expensive voice acting for our Diablo Immortal.
It's a Daemon. Back then there's was more of a "hell vs. humans" kind of story. This is Gul'Dan opening the Tomb of Sargeras and letting out one of them. They've evolved into Doomguards in todays WoW.
Fun fact: Warcraft 2 was built on the starcraft engine; this can be seen in early alpha screenshots where they used starcraft units in place of things like boats. This means if they can remaster starcraft 1, warcraft 2 can be too. There are 2 reasons I doubt they will (although I want them to) remaster wc2. 1. starcraft is theit rts; adding another would mean sharing the spotlight and starcraft would loose fandom (see all their games are a different genre) or 2. warcraft 1 and 2 lore is non-canon to the creators; which means remaking it could break lore. The lore one is pointless now since they did warlord of draenor and messed with time.I say, remake warcraft 2, tweak the lore and maps to match warcraft now, and remaster it for the store; if it goes well, warcraft 1 can follow.
I logged in just to respond to this old comment. Warcraft II came out in 1995, Starcraft came out in 1998. You have it entirely mixed up. The original starcraft alpha screenshots were using the wc2 engine, until they decided to create a totally new engine for it instead of Warcraft in space.
So dated, but it was back in the day when you could say "Warcraft" and people remembered a good game. Now it's just... Filth.. I hate WoW so much for ruining a good thing...
I don't think you realize how ground-breaking these effects were at the time. I remember not only watching and re-watching these on 33MHz CPUs with 8 MB of RAM, but actually gathering around with friends to do so. We were PUMPED, this was the stuff of a new era. A Super Nintendo couldn't touch this! You kids don't know how good you have it. Signed, A Medieval Man.
Yeah bro, I'm 33. This was seriously the best shit ever back when this came out..you needed a decent computer to run this. Everyone would come over to your house to play. Almost as cool as when we figured out you could LAN WCII. lol.
@@Belarhos bruh just because this indie company in 1994 at the time of SNES graphics made these cinematics at the same time that a rich company put millions of movie dollars into Toy Story doesn't mean that these cinematics weren't groundbreaking. You lot are actually quite stupid, lol
