"It´s not better then StarCraft, but just as good"

This game is a exact copy of WarCraft II exept for a few things, you can now play it on Battle.net, they have fixed a few bugs and the expansion pack "Beyond the Dark Portal" is now built in.

I would not recomend this game to any one that already has WarCraft II, but to those that have only StarCraft then you really have to get this game. Some say that WarCraft II is exacly like StarCraft but only worse, that is wrong, you have to build totaly diffrent in this game. In StarCraft you could build about 12 Battle Cruisers and then you hade won, there nothing like that here (perhaps exept for the dragons), here you will have to build huge armies and great neval fleets to kill you opponent. The only thing that is really bad about this game is the two races are copys of one a another. The orcs have grunts the humans have soldiers, and they are have no diffrenses from each other what so ever. And the list goes on, all the unites in this game have a exact mirror image of it´s self on the other side. This is a pitty for in StarCraft the diffrenses in the three races are total, there nothing from the races there that even comes close to resembling another unite in one the other races. But as I said it, it more fun to attack in this game then in StarCraft, for here you have will have to command legions of unites into battle. But you think that it´s hard to attack with alot unites in StarCraft because you can only mark 12 unites at the same time, well here you can only mark 9 unites at the same time, and you also have to have bigger armies in this game, this sucks when you play agaist the computer because he can controll how many unites as he wishes.

But still al of this, the game is extremly fun to play.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 11/01/99, Updated 11/01/99