![]() The Stratholme you sacked in the original Warcraft 3 was barely recognisable in the dungeon I ran World of Warcraft. But now they do, and much more besides, and Blizzard has breathed cinematic life into the mission intermissions which wasn't there before. Characters pointed with whole fists because they didn't have individual fingers to do it with. In old Warcraft 3, everything was shot from a zoomed out RTS view because Blizzard didn't want to get too close to simplistic character models (I learn this during an interview with designer Michael Scipione and production director Tim Morton). Now, what you see are high resolution characters with oodles more detail, and who talk in newly shot cut-scenes. They are night and day contrasts with how they used to look. ![]() Considerable work has gone into bringing the character models up to date because of this. With the benefit of hindsight, and WoW having developed the lore exponentially, Blizzard now knows how important the characters it's showing are - Sylvanas, for example. Warcraft 3 is the foundation for WOW, and now Blizzard has decided it's time for the many millions of people the MMO opened the story to, to experience it.īlizzard has taken the opportunity to change things. Warcraft 3 is chock-full of these kind of moments: Sylvanas becoming baddie Sylvanas (she's still my Horde chief) and starting on her genocidal path Thrall leading the orcs horde to Kalimdor and many more historic moments besides. The repetitive running on of Stratholme has hammered it progressively deeper into my memory, which is why when I play The Culling mission in Warcraft 3: Reforged at BlizzCon 2018, I see everything through new eyes. I dabbled in Warcraft 3 - I think I even played The Culling of Stratholme mission - but it didn't mean anything to me then, some 16 years ago. But I would have had I played Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos*. I never really knew the significance of the place, that it was the turning point for famous paladin Arthas on his path to to the dark side, to becoming Lich King. But all the time I never really knew why. ![]() For months I ran the Stratholme dungeon in World of Warcraft, over and over through the burning city, through the big gate towards the corrupted paladin lord Baron Rivendare and his coveted skeletal horse. ![]()
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