Warcraft III has never seen quite the publicity of its sci-fi sister franchise, StarCraft in the multiplayer scene, but that doesn’t discount the presence of it at all.
Leaders rose and fell, Bonds were formed and destroyed, and we got to see it all through a masterful campaign offering unique and amazingly crafted maps and units for each faction. Warcraft III saw us venture among many of the most important characters in the franchise’s history as the war between the Orcish Horde and the Human Alliance reached an absolute tipping point. Perhaps most important though, it is easily one of the most engrossing and fun real-time strategy games ever made. It was Blizzard at one of the absolute heights of its powers as a real-time strategy developer. It was simultaneously the end of an era and the beginning of the new one. Warcraft III was many things, none of which to be taken lightly. You can’t talk about a list of the best PC strategy games without talking about one of the benchmarks in the genre’s history. Want to learn more? Check out our review and grab it from Steam. If you’re looking for a game that will let you play with some of the best concepts in turn-based and real-time strategy, then Rise of Nations is well worth your consideration. Rise of Nations not only succeeds in cohesively putting these ideas together, but making them work exceptionally well. Many games would be bogged down over trying to mix and mesh so many ideas into a single product and there are a ton of games that have failed trying to do it. Multiplayer allows players to take on a single-player quest for victory, or challenge their friends or world players in a comprehensive ranking system. Each nation could be played across any of the ages, even in times where they wouldn’t have existed with the game providing lore-friendly units that make sense to what a civilization would have if they had existed at the time. Players are invited to take on one of eighteen civilizations across eight ages of history in Rise of Nations creating a massive multitude of options for situational and conditional games.
It hosted city, population, and resource management of games like Civilization and combines it with turn-based strategy of games like Risk and real-time strategy of a Total War game. In 2003, Rise of Nations was a grand amalgam of many things that came before. To say Brian Reynolds took something away from his time at MicroProse, working on Civilization II and Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri would be a gross understatement epitomized by the existence of this game.
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