Warcraft 3 Reforged [PC]

Warcraft 3: Reforged is more than just a remaster of Blizzard’s classic RTS

Blizzard describes Warcraft 3: Reforged as a “complete reimagining” of its real-time strategy classic, which is probably the best way of explaining what it’s doing with the 16-year-old game. Part remaster, part rebalancing, part retcon, Reforged will be a major upgrade for the game that won’t leave players of the original behind.

“Let’s push it,” Stillwell said. “Let’s get it to be as perfectly balanced as StarCraft. Let’s add more to the editor, because it’s already powerful. And like a good Blizzard game, it’s easy to learn, difficult to master, [but let’s] also make it even deeper.”

There is rebalancing in the works for Warcraft 3: Reforged, “hundreds of balance changes to heroes, units and buildings” to modernize the game, Blizzard says. And those changes will go back into the original Warcraft 3, which Blizzard has been updating over the past year in preparation for Reforged.

Blizzard is also promising to “reforge” the game’s cinematic cutscenes, and will tweak portions of the game to fall in line with the past decade and a half of lore established by World of Warcraft.

Warcraft 3: Reforged will be released for Mac and Windows PC in 2019.