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If one merely purchases the Ice Throne expansion set for the sole purpose of playing the new campaigns you are in for a treat. Same great 3-D'ish graphics and a great, creative campaign storyline as the original product (Warcraft III Reign of Chaos - a prerequisite) make the original a wonderful game. Herein ends the positives for the expansion set.

For those who might want more form the expansion set will find it very much lacking. Few new heroes and units do not really make a great additional product. Units per side increased from 90 to 100 but this is still low in my opinion. Hero limit per side is still limited to three. Game play is still noticeably slow on Pentium 4 1.6GHz machines a far cry above their recommendation of 800 MHz.

Many gamers were waiting for a better World Editor and a stuck with the same slow and rather uninspired program. Those who want to experiment with game balancing by adjusting unit values are still unable to do so legally. Blizzard Inc. maker of the Warcraft Series has a bad habit of sending a whole horde of lawyers to the doorstep, terrorizing and harassing authors of the software editors and those who host sites with this kind software.

In short price paid for enjoyment value is low, and that I think is the most important considering a computer game. Too much hype for a poor product. Pass the brickbats to Blizzard on this one.

Warcraft 3 hit over a year ago with a cliffhanger ending that left fans drooling for more. Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne continues the saga of Warcraft, with interesting new changes.

Each race gets a new hero added to the ranks, as well as several new units. These new units enhance the races with great new abilities. Aside from these new units, there are also new items to be found in the game, as well as a few joke items that refer to other Blizzard classics, like Diablo II. New Creeps are also roaming around the game, waiting to be killed by your heroes!

The story continues, and this time it is explained from different perspectives. In fact, the Alliance campaign and the Dark Elf campaigns are like playing 2 more completely new races, which you will understand once you start playing. There are also a few hidden features, such as secret levels and other easter eggs that you will have to look hard to find. Blizzard definitely put alot of time into making a quality product. There is even a bonus downloadable Orc campaign. There are only 2 new cinematics, but most of the story is explained through good in-game cutscenes, with some excellent voice acting.

Orc fans will be sorely disappointed, as they are flat-out ignored in this expansion. The Orcs have absolutely no influence or bearing on the story at all, nor are they ever mentioned once in any campaign. The bonus campaign 'The Founding of Durotar', which details their settling and adjustment into their new lands in Kalimdor, is only one chapter with many, many sub-missions. Blizzard promises that they will release more chapters to the campaign for download in coming weeks, though it is not clear how many chapters there will be, or how long the wait will be between chapters. Although the downloadable campaign is a nice feature, it is still very disappointing that the Orcs are blatantly left out of this game's primary story. The orcs have always been the most popular and more interesting of the races. To leave them out of the expansion is foolish, and was a bad move on the part of the development team. The tradition of Warcraft is truly done away with...the war of Orcs and Humans is now over and done with.

As is usual with most Blizzard expansions, the difficulty in this game is substantially greater than that of its predecessor. While not hopelessly difficult, there are some missions that are so frustrating and difficult that even long-standing Warcraft Veterans may find some of the missions too infuriating and outrageously hard to complete. I personally despised the Undead campaign...to say it was infuriating is a severe understatement. But persistence and patience will prevail in the end. As for custom games, they remain unthinkably difficult and should only be played by hardcore and expert Warcraft veterans.

I see many who are disappointed in this expansion, and though the exclusion of the Orcs was very disappointing, I see no other reason why. People seem to expect an entirely new game, but this is an EXPANSION to an existing game...if it were to add 20 new units and a new race and new this and new that, it would be too much. The purpose of an expansion is to provide more of an existing gameplay experience, while adding a few new things that enhance it overall. Frozen Throne does that quite well, and i'm very satisfied with it. Another great game from Blizzard.

Ok this game rocks!But there is no point to the game..like why did i play so much i dont know?But to tell you the truth this is the best game i have ever played and i have played a lot and this is the best! Ok there are new stuff on this game that the old one does not have like more heros, more units, everything cost more...But i recomend that if you dont have the original warcraft then dont buy this one because you have to know how to play to have fun.. So make sure you buy this game but dont become addicted like i have.