Expect to kill a few weekends with it and perhaps even a few work or
school days, as well.
Warcraft II: The Dark Saga is the ideal game for the accountants, administrators, and restaurant managers of
the world - and strangely enough, it works pretty well for the rest of us. The name of the game is resource
management, cleverly disguised under the auspice of war. You choose sides over two different scenarios of
orc vs. human conflict, adapted from the PC title Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and its expansion pack, The
Dark Portal, then throw down the gauntlet from an overhead perspective.
Like all strategy games, Warcraft II: The Dark Saga is basically an advanced form of chess; one where not
only do the boards vary and you get to make your own pieces, but the main object changes as well. Though
most of the 52 missions in the title require that you utterly overwhelm your opponent and burn down all his
halls and farms, some entail building beachhead structures inside enemy territory, rescuing troops or forts, or
even escorting dignitaries through dangerous terrain. You often start off with just a handful of troops and
workers and must assign the troops to patrol for enemies while the workers gather wood and gold to build
farms, barracks, lumber mills, smithies, and the like. From there, new troops can be produced from the
barracks, their weapons can be upgraded using the lumber mills and blacksmith, and other new products can
be spawned after upgrading existing buildings. For example, workers will soon be building shipyards,
foundries, and roosts that in turn create battleships, oil transports, and dragons. While the names may change
depending on whether you're playing human or orc, the units remain the same.
Fans of the PC titles will be disappointed to learn that nothing new has been added to the game even though
several changes have occurred, such as the ability to auto-upgrade buildings, auto-build soldiers, and select
more troops at once. These new touches are nice, but they're relatively minor, so PC gamers are well advised
to avoid the console ports (though hats off to Electronic Arts for creating practically identical versions for the
Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn, unlike Virgin's handling of Command & Conquer). But if you haven't
played it before, Warcraft II is an excellent game well worth the time and effort necessary to beat it. In all, it
provides about several hundred hours of gameplay throughout its hoards of selectable and configurable
missions. Whether this should be considered as an excellent value to the buyer or a blatant robbing of his
youth, is really up to you, though. Expect to kill a few weekends with it and perhaps even a few work or school
days, as well.
Requisitos / Requests:
PS1 ou PS2 chipada ou emulador para o jogar no pc
Modded PS1 or PS2 or an emulator to play on the pc
