
The game was in more of a 3rd-person perspective (which you can see if you zoom the camera in all the way), and you would explore with your hero (camera fixed on him), completing quests and defeating your opponents. Originally you exclusively controlled heroes, with your extra units being "attached" to them. Although some RPG elements are still present, many were cut. The original idea was to make it a RPS, Role Playing Strategy game, incorporating both RTS and RPG elements together. WarCraft III originally debuted at ECTS 1999 as a much different game than the final product. The Burning Legion was originally to be a playable race as well, but due to the effect it would have on their appearance in the game (the idea of having to give them peon units and balancing them out with the other races would diminish their "all-powerful" image), they were dropped down to being non-playable. The sixth race was never revealed, and the first to be dropped. The game was originally to have six fully playable races. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
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The game starts with the Orcs being freed by a new warchief from their internment camps and leave for a new continent across the sea.

After the defeat of Orcish horde at the hand of the Alliance in the second war and the destruction of the Dark portal, the remaining orcs were rounded up and put in internment camps. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos is a fantasy themed real-time strategy game with role playing elements set on the world of Azeroth.
