There are also the Superhero and Warcraft III mods which mix the first-person gameplay of Counter-Strike with an experience system, allowing a player to become more powerful as they continue to play.

* In the 2002 video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, a Tree of Life is the central building of the Night Elf race.

* In popular Warcraft III custom map " Defense of the Ancients ", Akasha is the name of a female hero with the ability to create waves of sound that damage multiple units.

* Puck in the Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients

It is also an Undead unit in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and there are named necromancers in World of Warcraft.

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos ( often referred to as War3 or WC3 or RoC ) is a real time strategy video game released by Blizzard Entertainment on July 3, 2002 ( US ).

Warcraft III contains four playable races: Humans and Orcs, which had previously appeared in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, and the Night Elves and Undead, which were introduced to the Warcraft mythos in this installment.

Warcraft III < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s single-player campaign is laid out similarly to that of StarCraft ( another Blizzard game ), being told through all four of the game's races in a progressive manner.

Warcraft III won many awards including " Game of the Year " from more than six different publications.

A game of Warcraft III takes place on a map of varying size, such as large plains and fields, with terrain features like rivers, mountains, seas, or cliffs.

There are three main resources that are managed in Warcraft III: gold, lumber, and food.

Warcraft III also introduced a day / night cycle to the series.

In Warcraft III, the Night Elves and the Undead are added as playable races.

In addition, Warcraft III adds powerful new units called heroes.

A screenshot of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos campaign.

Warcraft III < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s campaign mode is broken up into five campaigns ( Including an optional prologue ), each featuring a different race which the player controls ( 2 Orc campaigns, 1 Human, 1 Undead, and 1 Night Elf ).

Unlike previous Blizzard titles, such as Warcraft II or StarCraft, players are not directed to mission briefings in which plot exposition occurs and objectives are announced ; rather, Warcraft III uses a system of " seamless quests.

Like all previous Blizzard titles since Diablo, Warcraft III uses the Battle. net multiplayer network.

Unlike previous Battle. net-enabled games, Warcraft III introduced anonymous matchmaking, automatically pairing players for games based on their skill level and game type preferences, preventing players from cheating and inflating their records artificially.

World of Warcraft has employees of Blizzard Entertainment that serve as gamemasters to help users with various problems in gameplay, chat, and other things like account and billing issues.

The history of modern Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games ( MMORPGs ) like World of Warcraft, and related virtual world genres such as the social virtual worlds exemplified by Second Life, traces directly back to the MUD genre.

Assassins have appeared in games like Diablo 2, Ragnarok Online, Lineage II, World of Warcraft, MapleStory, Guild Wars, and Conquer Online.

PC games are sometimes played in PC방 (" PC bang ," PC room ), which are similar to Internet cafes, and dedicated to LAN games of popular titles like Kart Rider, Maple Story, World of Warcraft, Mabinogi, Lineage and other Korean and foreign games.

The term microtransaction is sometimes used to refer to the sale of virtual goods in online games like World of Warcraft.

CrossOver Games, announced on 10 March 2008, was a new product that let the users play a broad range of games, " particularly games with a lot of replayability such as MMOs like World of Warcraft and the range of games from Valve e. g., Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and so on ".

In computer gaming the term is usually used to refer to a person highly skilled in multiplayer games like StarCraft, Warcraft III ( RTS / RPG-DotA ), Diablo II ( RPG ), Counter-Strike ( FPS ) and others.

*. MDX, a 3D model format used by Blizzard Entertainment in games like Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne

Moria, Dry Gulch ( a western-style variation ), and Bugs-n-Drugs ( a medical variation ) — these all presaged MUDs ( Multi-User Domain ) and MOOs ( MUD, Object Oriented ) as well as popular first-person shooters like Doom and Quake and MMORPGs ( Massively multiplayer online role-playing game ) like Everquest and World of Warcraft.

All first edition books include art from renowned artists like Sam " Samwise " Didier ( Art Director at Blizzard Entertainment ), Travis Thammer ( concept art for Warcraft III ) and Chris Metzen ( Blizzard's Vice President of Creative Development ).

* To Raid / Raiding-a group of 10 / 25 / 40 players who join forces to complete a dungeon in games like World of Warcraft

The most common usage is in the context of MMORPGs like Final Fantasy XI, World of Warcraft, Tibia, or Lineage in which it is often necessary for a character to repeatedly kill AI-controlled monsters, using basically the same strategy over again to advance their character level to be able to access newer content.

These custom scenarios can be simple terrain changes, which play like normal Warcraft games, or they can be entirely new game scenarios with custom objectives, units, items, and events, like Defense of the Ancients.

In other fantasy and role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons ( D & D, see plant creatures ), EverQuest, Thief 2: The Metal Age, Magic: The Gathering, Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Square Enix's Final Fantasy series, Warlords series and the Warcraft PC game series, Tolkien-like Ents are known as " Treants ", " Dendroids ", " Treemen ", " Woodskins " and " Treefolk ", for trademark reasons, much like Hobbits are only referred to as Halflings in such works.

Fantasy MMORPGs like The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, remain the most popular type of MMOG, with the most popular " pay-to-play " game being World of Warcraft ( by Blizzard ), which holds over 60 % of the MMORPG market, and the most popular free game being RuneScape ( by Jagex ), yet other types of MMORPG are appearing.

They most recently appeared as NPCs in Blizzard's MMORPG World of Warcraft in the dungeon Uldaman.

The largest online gaming network on the PC is Blizzard's Battle. net, used to play Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft online.

Former Blizzard North staffers including Joseph Lawrence, Wyatt Cheng and Matt Uelmen subsequently appeared in the credits of Blizzard's next retail release, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

Due to the dual storylines of the previous Warcraft games, the story can only be understood if using the proper storylines of one of the campaigns in the previous games, being the Orc Campaign on Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and the Human Campaigns on both the Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal.

In previous Warcraft games, there were only two playable races, Orcs and Humans.

Affinity Media was the previous parent company of IGE, which generated revenue from selling World of Warcraft gold, but Affinity Media later severed ties with IGE., though there is some dispute on this note.

This series comes after the Warcraft book: Day of the Dragon, but the majority of the story in the new series is set well in the past from the events of the previous book.