Played it, but while it's good I didn't think it was great. Normal mode is way too easy, hard mode is only for the more experienced players. Food cap at 90!? Seeing as units cost a lot more food in W3 than in W2 that means smaller armies. And guess what? That makes heroes more powerful. Yay.
I know they tried by using the costs 1-5 food approach to allow more units of one kind than another, but whilst the undead are supposed to have strength in numbers you can only achieve that by raising skeletons. How hard is it to just raise the undead food limit?
Another nice touch: upkeep. Realistic, yes. But does it
have to take 60% off your income?
Speaking of which, what's with only five miners at one mine at a time? Can't they just dig another shaft? I mean, you can have a hundred... no wait, ninety peasants or wisps or whatever harvest lumber, but only five mine gold per mine. With most things costing more gold than lumber, that kinda slows you down, doesn't it? If you have to play it that way, ditch the lumber and concentrate on gold in full. Which means more workers per mine or simply more mines.
At least the units themselves are nice and diverse, although you don't want to try and use the editor. It's better than most, but sometimes you can't do the most basic things. Why can you only model a new unit on an old one, heroes on heroes, flyers on flyers etc.?
I haven't even started on the storyline yet, but I think that was already handled quite nicely.
Despite all that, though, the game's still better than a lot of other games you see today. And it's certainly improved over W2. After all, there you could only select nine units at a time, and in W3 they upped it to an unbelievable twelve. A whole three extra models!
Without sarcasm, don't let me dissuade you from buying a copy. It really is quite good despite some shortcomings (it may even be that they came to mind because there's nothing worse to say).
Blizzard may just need the money
