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In 1996, a lot of things happened in this world, but the release of a new game in the United States is the most important for many game fans.

Robert is a German American, a sixteen-year-old high school student, an inconspicuous person in school. He is neither a sensational player, such as a basketball team, a football team, nor a guy who only knows how to study or fall into depravity. He is ordinary but has a hobby, which is playing games, and his level is extremely high. He is well-known in the high school game circle in New York and is known as the German tank.

Today, Robert is here to buy a subsequent version of a real-time strategy game. In his opinion, this game called Warcraft still has many shortcomings, but it is also a unique and good game on the market at present. For experts like him, those games without difficulty challenges have long been tired of playing. They are pursuing games that are more difficult and can be studied for a long time.

This time, the company, which was originally called Silicon and Neural Keys, is now renamed Blizzard, sent a message that their company was acquired by the new boss. The game has been greatly optimized and improved, adding two new races and neutral races, adding a new subversive hero concept, adding the concept of war fog, comprehensive updates of the number of troops and skills, new campaigns and custom map functions, all of which fascinated him.

"Good packaging!" When Robert got the game disc he liked, he was attracted by his packaging. An old white-bearded man riding a horse, a knight with a square-headed hammer with a left-handed axe and a hammer with a cow horn helmet with a blood-red cape, and an elves wearing three fireballs surrounded by three fireballs. It was obvious that they were in a group, and on the other side were another group of elves, a man holding two huge strange scimitars with cloth strips, a monster with a human head and a deer body, a woman riding a white tiger with a bow and arrow, and a woman wearing a cloak with a round knife wheel in her hand.

The group of people who were opposite each other looked like they were not good birds at first glance. A green orc with two long fangs in his mouth and a long sword in his mouth, one was an old man riding a wolf, and the other was a tauren holding a totem pole in his hand. The last was a strange tall and thin man with a hunched waist and a flying knife. The other group of people could tell at first glance that they were undead, a knight riding a skeleton horse wearing black armor and a sword emitting cold air, a mage wearing a robe and a wizard with no facial features, a demon with wings behind him and a huge beetle monster.

"What a cool TMD! Are these two new races added? The Undead and the Night Elf are so cool! Are these guys heroes? That's really good."

When Robert flipped over the disc packaging, he saw several strange heroes, one was a panda with a wine gourd, one was a black archer, one was a man with a head and snake body, one was a demon with a halberd in his hand and four hooves, one was a short man with axe in his hand, one was a fire-ridden guy, one was a strange ogre with a villain on his back, one was a robot with two big pliers, and finally one was an ape with a big stick in his hand.

If it were a Chinese, he would exclaim. Isn’t this the Monkey King Sun Wukong? This is the new neutral hero that Wang Huan added to add a little more Chinese color. Why are there two goblins and two undead? The only hero in the Chinese style is only one panda. Although the panda has the most chances of playing among neutral heroes, and even the starting pandas are extremely popular, isn’t it more satisfying to have multiple monkeys?

Robert returned home quickly, and he didn't care about anything. No matter how his brother and sister played or how his mother was nagging, he just wanted to quickly play this game that looked so cool.

The game installation time is quite long. Robert understands this very well, because the game is as high as one G, which is not a small game. The game instructions also marked the minimum computer configuration. After looking at the configuration on the instruction manual, he found that his computer is barely better than the lowest one and cannot use many game effects, otherwise the computer memory will be seriously insufficient, which makes him determined to work and earn money to buy a high-configuration computer.

Finally the game was installed. Robert quickly double-clicked the cool icon on the desktop, and then the desktop went black, followed by a one-minute gorgeous game animation, starting from humans to night elves, orcs, undeads, and those neutral races appeared in front of him one by one. Various powerful troops and magic skills made him exclaim. This is the game in his mind!

The game options include single-player battles, network battles, campaigns, and game settings. Robert first studied the game settings and turned off many game effects and functions according to the minimum configuration. This is for the smoothest running of the game, and then he chose the campaign function.

There are as many as ten battles, and there is also an initial battle for beginners to teach. This time, he taught the player how to operate, and he quickly understood the principle of the operation.

"This is the hero! A game unit that can gradually grow, strengthen skills and talents to get powerful equipment, is amazing!"

That's right, Wang Huan's design is different from the original version. For example, if the talent is added, the Night Elf has the invisible talent in the sky, which is not balanced. So he referred to World of Warcraft and other games to design a set of talents. This talent will be strengthened at level 6, 8, and 10 to finally achieve the strongest effect. There is no need to add points, as long as the level reaches it will be automatically strengthened. The skill has also been adjusted. Many useless skills have been replaced by him with useful skills, and the upgrade speed has also been accelerated. When adding points to skill, you cannot have the maximum level 3 skills, two level 2, one level 1 and one ultimate move. This increases the difficulty of game control, but the playability has increased.

Robert spent a whole day playing the battle, and he didn't get into bed until three o'clock in the middle of the night. He could barely sleep for a while due to excitement and fatigue. The next day after he arrived at school, he couldn't wait to find friends in the game club to share his fun.

"Oh! MAN! We bought it yesterday, okay! Too bad, this game is really difficult and the operation requirements are too high! Not only do you need to control heroes but also those soldiers, a bunch of skills need to be controlled, it is not easy to become a master."

Yes! The difficulty of Warcraft is very high, which is also the reason why the DOTA game that operates a hero alone in the future is very popular. Reducing the difficulty of operation is the only way to popularize games. Warcraft can become an excellent e-sports game, but it is difficult to become a national stand-alone game. At least its high operating threshold will block most ordinary people.

The debate between DOTA and League of Legends in later generations is not worth mentioning in Wang Huan's opinion, especially the operational difficulties of DOTA players are too weak. Can DOTA compete with Warcraft? If you don't want Warcraft players to mock you, then don't mock League of Legends players. DOTA adopted Warcraft games in game engines and animation styles, then it will inevitably fall behind with the passage of time. This is an indisputable fact. If DOTA upgrades early, there is still a chance for League of Legends to make a comeback?

However, in this era, although the operation is quite difficult, players' enthusiasm can ignore these things. Soon a wave of Warcraft craze was set off across the United States, especially its Battle Network function allows players to compete. This already has some functions of online games, which is the most exciting. Countless people began to study this game, and Blizzard Company was also preparing to launch the first Warcraft All-American Championship in time, which is also the prototype of the famous WCG in the future.
Chapter completed!