I just finished it the othe week. Not that I acually tried very hard, or sat a long time with it every day. Had I done that, I would have finished it ages ago. My conclusion is that the game is a tad too easily won.

Anways, I have some questions to those others of you who have finished the game;

• What's your favorite clip in the game?
• Did you watch the scenes after the game?
• do you find the single player campaign easier to beat than a custom level against computer controlled enemies?

My answers:

• The first orc clip, with the two immense armies clashing together as the burning leion rained from the sky.
• Ofcourse. They were hilarious!
• Yes. The computer AI is fairly fast and fairly good. I have hardly played against it, but I find it harder to beat on custom scenarios than in the singleplayer game at "Normal"

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It's not too hard, and it indeed doesn't really prepare you for open games on custom maps, even against the AI.

And I liked the Orc finishing clip best, the one where Mannoroth (or what's that name) get's killed. It's so… Orcish.
[edit: And of course I watched the scenes. I laughed my ass off. ]

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[This message has been edited by Clueless (edited 09-10-2002).]

Actually the end orc clip reminded me strongly of the scene from Lotr with sauron and isildur... well.

My favourite movie was the opening orc one too. However I liked both human movies, the last one being very cool indeed.

The War 3 AI is in some ways extremely good and very bad. Sometimes I catch it with no expansions and nothing except a few units (it freezes up.) It levels like mad and even attacks creeps it has no chance against (like on Duskwood.) However in a fight with anything like equal forces - the comp will win. And win very hard. Ultra micro.

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Sauron was a sissy. Mannoroth, now he took some wound to die. Sauron merely lost his finger And then he goes and leaves his body... Sheesh!

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Damned overpowered critical strike

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Damned right, its the saving grace for the blademaster. Not that he needed one but its my fav skill.

Fav clip is the final orc scene. The entire thing was nice, the only prob I have with it is that my comp is a bit laggy on it, and the voice doesnt match the lips. Annoying but I will live.
Course I did, and I watched them after the hard campaign too. All funny as hell. The outtakes for the WC2 cutscene had me rolling on the floor.
The campaign comps were pussies, though they did step it up in hard mode. Had some fun battles on the missions I must say.

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favorite movie clip is either ending human clip(arthas' betrayal) or orc clip(death of hellscream). they both rock, but for different reasons.
the outtakes? who wouldnt?? they were so damn funny!!
of course the campaign is easier than a custom level. but i did finally beat the computer in a custom game skirmish, and i saved the replay to prove it! i have never seen the ai in a skirmish "freeze", as you put it, but i dont doubt it could happen--it did in sc.

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1. The ending movie of the human campaign. It is really really well done, its too bad they were to lazy to actually show the king getting stabbed though. I do also like it when thrall throws his hammer though.
2. Of course, although the hard credits should have had two extra scenes
3. Yes. I find it actually kind of lame because they always attack your heroes, and it kinda takes the fun out of the game. I found that if you target their heroes, they will run like pansies though.

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just games or death, and were all out of death!

Pyro: they werent lazy, they were going for a dramatic Hitchcock effect which makes it better or something like that, or so the art book says.

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My favorite cinematics were....all of them!!! I can't pick a favorite cinematic, because they all kick ass. My favorite part of the cinematics was where the bells are ringing in the Human Campaign one. That's my fav. part because of the music that's playing at that point. I love that music!

I was watching the storyboard section on the DVD and was somewhat disappointed in Blizzard. When the two gaurds grab Medivh, Blizzard really had two of their employees in normal clothes grab a guy holding a big stick. That's all, they didn't even dress their employees up in real armor! If they did that, it would be so awesome! Instead, they just got two normal guys and had them grab a guy holding a big stick. Tsk, tsk.

I doubt that Blizzard even has any real armor/weapons from the Medieval era. And to think that my dad has half of a breastplate, a crossbow, 6 or 7 fancy knives, and some swords/hand axes in his den...

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I want a steel sword. Nothing fancy, just your average battle sword. Oh well.

The undead and NE ending scenes left something to be desired. At least in my opinion they did.

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