My favorite is the 2nd one to ever come out (this is the 3rd). I would say this is the 2nd best one but oldies are goodies.
Loved this game as a child and now enjoying playing it with my 7 year old son. As stated before, Warcraft 1 is a bit clunky but I have such a soft spot for the game of my childhood, that I don't care. My son doesn't get a lot of screentime and we're starting him slow with GOG (good old games) so he doesn't mind either! He loves it and it's a great way to slowing introduce kids into games without shoving a bunch of waay to graphic killing games. Have to start with the original and then we'll work our way to Warcraft 2. Thanks GOG for carrying such an awesome game!
I read the books and devoured them which led me to be curious about the game. But that was a long time ago and I only remembered a little here and there about the story while playing the game. The characters once again came back to life in this amazing game. The music is wonderful, the choices and conversation choices are very good. I like the balance between small arcade mini-games, map journeys in other times, puzzles and lots of storytelling. The only things I can complain about is the LACK OF A PAUSE button! There are long monologues and stories that are very important to what is happening in the game. I have kids. I don't have that long to be able to pay attention and needed a pause button severely. Another person noted a small but annoying bug of the character's mouths not matching the audio. It was tolerable. I was impressed with how they didn't back down from the gore and rawness from the book. I felt that it helped the game feel very much like the book. I felt this was a good choice. At times, the game was a bit scary but again it matches very well with the book. Overall, I very much enjoyed this game and will consider playing through again to see if I can come up with a different storyline based on different decisions. In my game, Richard died. I don't remember him dying in the book. So I played the chapter again and he still dies..... so I'm wondering how much power we really have through the choices.
