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WC3 release took a very long time, mainly because they COMPLETELY re-did the whole game at one stage. The game was supposed to be - at first - totally different, when there was some other guy as the Big Gun on the WC3 project. That old project doesn't resemble the current WC3 at all. To say something, they for example wanted to make your Hero to be the centre of all: Hero gathers armies, stuff, gives influence, other team are around him to support him. You would have really developed the Hero as a char, and in case he died, he wasn't dead permanently, but instead got some penalties and was resurrected somewhere. And so on. I don't know all the details, but that old team were already pretty far with the development of the game. There were shots and movies out, previews done and all that...
Then for some reason the main dude left, or was fired, I don't know. Atfer some discussion, the WC3, as it was, was trashed and they re-did it completely from beginning. They probably did use some of the assets, sure, but the game as such was completely re-done, from the start. As for which was started before, then I don't remember, I recall them both back few years.
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