It does have remodeled characters, some remastered maps and campaigns (though 'remastered' is vague enough here to mean anything), and a new custom game editor. Reforged only delivers on some of the promises made in its initial trailer.
(Image credit: Blizzard) The reality: Warcraft 3: Reforged shipped with much more conservative changes that were labeled a "downgrade" This was the grand unveiling of Warcraft 3: Reforged, and it's understandably what a lot of fans expected from the game when they booted it up last week.
Like the fact that you cannot go hog wild with animations means that you have to actually make it look as high fidelity as possible while at the same time adhering to some of those original time constraints." We want to allow for players to continue to coalesce together. Producer Rob Bridenbecker: "The version of Warcraft 3 players have have for the past 16 years, that needs to continue to be able to be played with this new version. That's our first mission, to make sure that you guys give us a thumbs up when it ships."īlizzard also showed off the new hero models, talked about making changes to maps, and how Reforged would coexist with the original within the same client. But in so doing, we need to make sure that you guys who are in this room, that core audience that's never left this game and love it to death, and don't want to see us change it so drastically that you don't recognize it anymore. Producer Pete Stilwell: "It's incredibly important to us to first get it right for the existing community, and then we want to do things to appeal to more people. Looking back at the campaign now, we want the locations that you remember or know from World of Warcraft to match what you see in Reforged, and we want to go through some of the stories and tie the two franchises together in a tighter way." Inven Global is live at BlizzCon and will provide more details and gameplay first impressions throughout the weekend.Lead designer Matt Morris: "One of the things we want to do with our campaign is level it up to what people know from World of Warcraft. Blizzard is poised to capitalize on this momentum with Warcraft: Reforged.
This is huge news for the Warcraft 3 community that, even now, has a thriving competitive and streaming scene. In addition, the iconic Warcraft 3 campaign and map editor are all things Warcraft: Reforged will include. They will also have skins players can use to customize their appearance in game. Incredibly, each Hero will now be available as a male or female. In what seems like more than just a simple remastering, Warcraft 3: Reforged is a huge undertaking that has transformed one of the most important Blizzard titles (that set the stage and story for World of Warcraft) into a next-gen game complete with a brand new cinematic, 4k resolution gameplay, a place on the launcher, a new homepage at and a release date scheduled for next year. There have always been rumors of a Warcraft 3 remastered and, at BlizzCon 2018, Blizzard delivered.
Warcraft 3 has been going through numerous patch updates over the past year.