Warcraft
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans screenshot
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy computer game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment in 1994. Warcraft was developed for the MS-DOS operating system and is available for Windows and Mac OS X. The game might have various problems with modern operating systems, though. This game initiated the Warcraft franchise, arguably one of the most successful real-time strategy franchises in computer game history. It also popularized the real-time strategy genre of computer games.
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Bloodthirsty orcs — denizens of another dimension — discover a portal allowing them to enter the largely peaceful human kingdom of Azeroth. The player can play as either the orcs or humans, the main differences being the spells of the mages.
Warcraft was followed by the two sequels Warcraft II and Warcraft III, and the spin-off MMORPG World of Warcraft.
Warcraft Adventures was to be an adventure game set in the Warcraft universe, but was cancelled near the end of the development cycle.
Due to the success of the game, several developers created "clones" of the game that included several similar elements. One of these were the open source clone FreeCraft. However the project was cancelled as Blizzard Entertainment sent a "cease and desist" letter to the project developers in July 2003. It concerned the use of the –Craft in the name and the inclusion of ideas which were to similar to Warcraft II. The game is being developed again under the name Stratagus.Overview
Sequels
Trivia
Legacy