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Dragutin's Warcraft III -- Frozen Throne (PC)
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| [February 9, 2007 07:23:05 PM]
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There are several different types of tower defenses, from those you play by yourself, building towers along cliffs, to those you have to maze so units don't get by and play on a team. Green TD is an example of a team based game- however many people are playing determines how many spawns of creep there are that the players must kill each wave. In games like Element TD, however, a player is only responsible for him/herself, and any screw-ups the player undergoes affects only him/herself.
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| [February 9, 2007 07:20:46 PM]
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Revisiting Warcraft 3:
DOTA is a really fun, time consuming game, but unless you're already pretty good at playing people can be really unkind towards you. Since one player can really drag the team down (especially if the team has fewer than the full 5) individual player responsibility is really high. The games usually last an hour, and a banlist is in place to kick people who have left games from games that start up, making sure that nobody leaves a DOTA game unless they wish to risk getting added to a banlist.
I started playing games that weren't so time consuming as DOTA like tower defenses. These are also UMS games that take advantage of the rpg capabilities of warcraft 3. The player must build and upgrade towers with money and kill creep walking by the towers to get more money.
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| [February 9, 2007 07:16:29 PM]
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So I played more warcraft today. Warcraft is a really fun RTS that incorporates RPG elements. When building up an economy and an army inside your base, you must also train heroes that can level up and give bonuses to units around them. At level 6, heroes get a really big skill as well that dramatically enhances base destruction capabilities. A Night Elf hero, the Priestess of the Moon, gets 'starfall', which is a continuous cast to rain down death upon all buildings and units in a certain area around the hero. A human hero, the Archmage, gets the ability to teleport 24 units at once to anywhere on the map, perfect for a surprise back-door attack.
Blizzard has been known to make really good map editors for its games, and this is no exception. When looking for custom games, nearly all one can find are UMS (user map scenario) games. One of the most popular games is DOTA, defense of the ancients, in which a player controls a single hero and is part of a team that tries to destroy the other team's base while defending their own. This game works perfectly within the framework of warcraft 3 because of the included RPG elements in the game.
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Dragutin's Warcraft III -- Frozen Throne (PC)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 15 March, 2005
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