There is no need to be particularly cabalistic, but it makes us think that the saga Warcraft had so many relationships with the years ending in four. It was in 1994 that the first game appeared, the famous Orcs and humans and it was in 2004 that those in Irvine went out of their way to put this legendary World of Warcraft. So all subsequent years ending in four became a reason for birthday.
The fact is that in 2024 we are celebrating two crucial anniversaries within Blizzard. On the one hand, the two decades of existence of the most famous, best-known and most profitable MMO in the world, and on the other, the 30 years since anyone thought of creating this low-key strategy title but damn fun for PC and Mac called Warcraft
A tribute that no one expected for Warcraft
The thing is, we were all so quiet in our homes, waiting to see what happened next. Blizzard was going to announce after confirmation that StarCraft will arrive on Xbox Game Pass when the bomb appeared: those from Irvine are preparing a version Remastered of its colossal Warcraft II Tides of Darknesswhich will return to PC and Mac to delight those who played it in 1995
This is how they disclosed it in an X account where they explain that “Blizzard has updated its games catalog with a new title: Warcraft II: Internal Alpha Remastered. “This update also adds background images and initial logos for the likely next product.” So as I already did with Diablo II
Blizzard has updated its games catalog with a new title: “Warcraft II: Remastered Internal Alpha”.
This update also adds initial background images and logos for the likely upcoming product.
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November 6, 2024 • 00:54
This remastering will be a real event because in reality we are looking at the game that catapulted the saga and began to create the legend of its traditionswhich already at that time was capable of incorporating multiplayer options and in 1996, after the creation of Bataille.net
Why start with the second game?
And Blizzard chose to start the remastering with the second game (in the image and likeness of Konami with its second silent Hill) that’s because, if you remember what it was Orcs and humansif they wanted to bring it back to the present, it couldn’t have been done as a simple remaster, but rather they would have had to put it through extensive work to completely rebuild the game and although it is very advanced for the time, it still had a much more limited and simpler structure than that of Warcraft II which, by the way, saw an expansion in 1996 called Beyond the Portal of Darkness and that, we understand, Blizzard will add it to the pack of this launch which I will surely announce in the coming days (right?).
