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“Basically, we have taken the compelling aspects of a role-playing game, simplified them, and used them to breathe new life into a real-time strategy game,” he explains. “We’ve incorporated many role-playing elements to form a sense of importance and even emotional connection between the player and his units. And players are encouraged to explore and interact with the map in ways we have never done before in any of our previous strategy games.”

Best of all, you’ll get the chance to lead one of the four races in Warcraft III to victory in Mac OS X, which Roper says offers “superior virtual memory and multitasking, which means that skipping sound and memory usage situations are greatly improved over Mac OS 9.”

Online Fun
Another major part of the Warcraft experience is the online service Battle.net, where you can join multiplayer games comprised of players from around the world, and Roper explains that Blizzard has “added a wide range of features to make it easier for people new to our service to get around, meet and find friends, and get into games. We also allow players to easily create ‘guilds’ so they can have a strong online presence in the Warcraft III community.”

He adds: “Players who simply want to get into a game with someone else of a similar level of play experience can click a single button to be anonymously joined with someone else who is looking for the same gaming experience.”

Magical effects make for some dazzling battles.