Westwood Studios were also the ones who made the very first Diablo-like game, all the way back in 2000: Nox. They really were trying to emulate Blizzard's success. Too bad they failed.
Manuel Díaz it’s clearly an American doing a quasi-British impression. It’s also awesome, child me was able to do this (clearly fabricated and extant only in Warcraft 2 cutscenes) accent due to natural childhood mimicry ability.
"The once mighty army of Azeroth lay among the blackened charred remains of Stormwind Keep. Those that escaped fled across the great sea, bringing tales of the suffering they had faced at the hands of the Orcish Hordes."
Brood War was an amazing expansion, but it held nothing to Warcraft 2, and the Tides of Darkness. Hell, long before Brood War abandon long before B.Net and even StarCraft there was an expansion for Tides of Darkness that originally released shortly after I bought Kali Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness. Known as Beyond the Dark Portal. Story Wise? Far superior to Diablo, it’s only contender at the time. I remember loving Kali and War1/2 (Didn’t care much for Diablo or it’s expansion Hellfire, but hellfire is the superior version. Blizzard just use to know how to make every game better. Oddly enough it was the same way they do it now….. Paid DLC. Expansions are literally all DLC crammed as a ‘new game’ when all it did was add hero’s, a new story element and some music. Much like they did starting with D3, then D3: w/e. All it did was add to the story and add some music and a character and cost three times as much as the old expansions did to make up for inflation. Hell, I remember being blown away they offered B.net free once StarCraft was released (I myself didn’t even touch SC until a month or so before Brood War, cuz I knew their angle. They made epic games, but best to wait at least a year to play it so you can get the full game experience. ) but where was I? Oh yeah, B.net blew me away. Especially when they rebranded all the games except SC as just a single disc with all expansions and with War2, all these free bonus maps to play on a free server. Anyone giving anything to play online for free was just unheard of!!! I remember a few years later Sega Channel dropped too, just like B.net but less features abs it cost more than a game every month. So B.net was where I truly learned the fun of multiplayer games. But ANYWAY!!! I don’t get the hate on Activison-Blizzard anymore. Sure the games don’t play as good, but they aren’t any more money hungry than they’ve ever been. They always operated with release buggy and charge to fix later, here’s a free thing to trick you into thinking we care with B.net.
Probably my favorite WarCraft cutscene of all time. The ending of the cinematic just leaves you begging for more as those two forces get closer and closer to combat. I love how it doesn't even show you the beginning of the battle, just the two readying themselves for the conflict about to happen. And that music is just killer. Perfect for the mood. I really hope WarCraft will one day return to the RTS roots. I have no interest in WoW.
Haha good memories from elementary school days. This game was basically my introduction to PC gaming and is thus probably the biggest reason I ended up in the IT industry.
I remember my cousin bringing this game when he came over to stay with us for a few days. I was around 9, and he was around 15. He then began playing it, with me watching. I remember complaining about the game being boring, with him still on the first missions and all. However, as the missions progressed and the battles became bigger and more interesting, I was in love with this game. After he left, he left me a copy of the game for my own leisure. You could not believe how excited I was.
probably my favorite all time game. this owned my childhood. i was so proud when i finally beat both campaigns without cheat codes! this game is actually pretty difficult for its time.
Wow, this takes me back. I remember the first time I saw this I thought the graphics were incredibly good. The dwarven cannons come out of the portholes at different speeds! Great vid.
Warcraft II epitomizes what Warcraft should be. A really simple, dark and brutal story while at the same time not taking itself seriously at all, with lots of charm and cartoony humor. And FAST fun gameplay with a high skill threshold.
Unlikely since the movie tells a different storyline. In the first movie Stormwind/Azeroth essentially defeats the Horde while according to Warcraft lore they are utterly crushed.
Yeah, Gul'dan is still alive, and depending if we might have Airships instead, even if this is what made WoW alot different from RTS thanks to spaceships (also turned out that Draenor and Azeroth are planets, and "Demons" are in fact space aliens all along). I mean they still have Dranei in the movies, so there might be a chance of a spaceship landing and someone decided to make Airships out of it.
Haha, I remember seeing this for the first time, and how I thought it was the most amazing animation I'd ever seen... How far Blizz's cutscenes have come!
I remember playing this in 1996 and it was EPIC. There was a new kid on the block also called "WESTWOOD Studios" and they produced a little game called "COMMAND & CONQUER" which I'd go onto love! I love that series, but I remember this hit from Blizzard taking a lot of notice. I love that narrator's voice. He's the Don Lafontaine of video game intros.
Agreed! it does a fantastic job conveying a real sense of epic foreboding, and dated though the graphics are, I feel they hold up fairlly well. The music also, is totally unforgettable. Still one of my favorites
I am a HUGE Warcraft fan and this game got me in to the series and definitely my favorite. I have played every warcraft out there and every one of them i enjoy VERY MUCH including WoW. The thing with WoW is its hard to get used to like me. When I first played i hated it because i wasnt used to that kind of game BUT I grew to like it. The blood elves are the only horde paladins and dranei are the only alliance shamans which makes sense. The lore is still fantastic.
At one time, it was one of the temporary Alliances I spoke of, and the mutual friendship between the two hasn't even begun to flood through to the rest of the Alliance, or the Horde. They still despise each other.
it's just amazing how peopleare keeping track of the flow from warcraft 2 to wow. I can' t believe people actually bother to come way back to warcraft 2 and post comment here. and it's 2010 and this was released back in 1995when I was 3rd grade. Damn I miss the old days.
omg man... i remember the first time my oldest brother bought this and i coulnt stop playing it.. lol... man i use to love the intro... well i still do lol.. man really awesome game
I was raised on that game (and C&C, DN3D. Doom...). I know that to majority of nowadays gamers this animation might seem utterly archaic, but it's the wayit was back in my days. Wait, I'm still a gamer so my days aren't over... yet...
When I was a kid, I used to play Warcraft II with my friends. First we created a huge army full of all kinds of knights :D Then we put Ameno song by Era on and attacked and killed all the orcs and laughed a lot xD AMENOO!! Good childhood memories indeed.
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I remember this game when a little company called Westwood Studios was releasing a game called Command & Conquer. The true war of RTS had begun.
Ah yes Dawn of the Golden Age
Until EA consumed it whole. Westwood had talent.
cnc wwas dogshite
Westwood Studios: You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
Westwood Studios were also the ones who made the very first Diablo-like game, all the way back in 2000: Nox. They really were trying to emulate Blizzard's success. Too bad they failed.
The narrator has such an epic voice!
That's Bill Roper
GeekStar I want him to narrate my wedding.
He is very motivated
Is Brithish :v
Manuel Díaz it’s clearly an American doing a quasi-British impression. It’s also awesome, child me was able to do this (clearly fabricated and extant only in Warcraft 2 cutscenes) accent due to natural childhood mimicry ability.
This cinematic is 17 years old, and I still get goosebumps from this opening movie.
Make it 26.
@@SystemUpdate310 holy fuckin shit...
@@SystemUpdate31027 now….😂
@@SystemUpdate310 lol
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YOUR SOUNDCARD WORKS PERFECTLY!!
IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!
lol
yes i laughed at that as a kid i was like what's a sound card lol
I heard this voice in my head and it's been years
"The once mighty army of Azeroth lay among the blackened charred remains of Stormwind Keep. Those that escaped fled across the great sea, bringing tales of the suffering they had faced at the hands of the Orcish Hordes."
AAAAAAAAAAH Thank you. I always thought the speakes says Orcish Orcs ^^. I had this misunderstanding since i was a young kid.
Eager to engage in battle once again, the Orcs constructed ships of war to bear them across the Great Sea
*The Orcish warriors yearned for the sound of battle to fill the air, and looked toward the horizon for new blood to spill*
@@erikurizita6702 With weapons forged by their new allies, the Humans made haste to prepare for the onslaught
@@paowoww *While Dwarven Canon we’re being loaded, others armed themselves with Elven steel and blade*
EAGER TO ENGAGE IN BATTLE ONCE AGAIN, THE ORCS CONSTRUCTED SHIPS OF WAR TO FARE THEM ACROSS THE GREAT SEA. Chills are going down my spine!
Mine too!!!!!
LOK'TAR OGAR!
To bear them not fare*
The manliest game intro ... ever
Brood War would like a word with you
yep old school blizzard lol when blizzard was good
Pre-activision blizz still blows my mind.
Brood War was an amazing expansion, but it held nothing to Warcraft 2, and the Tides of Darkness.
Hell, long before Brood War abandon long before B.Net and even StarCraft there was an expansion for Tides of Darkness that originally released shortly after I bought Kali Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness. Known as Beyond the Dark Portal. Story Wise? Far superior to Diablo, it’s only contender at the time.
I remember loving Kali and War1/2 (Didn’t care much for Diablo or it’s expansion Hellfire, but hellfire is the superior version. Blizzard just use to know how to make every game better. Oddly enough it was the same way they do it now….. Paid DLC. Expansions are literally all DLC crammed as a ‘new game’ when all it did was add hero’s, a new story element and some music. Much like they did starting with D3, then D3: w/e. All it did was add to the story and add some music and a character and cost three times as much as the old expansions did to make up for inflation.
Hell, I remember being blown away they offered B.net free once StarCraft was released (I myself didn’t even touch SC until a month or so before Brood War, cuz I knew their angle. They made epic games, but best to wait at least a year to play it so you can get the full game experience. ) but where was I? Oh yeah, B.net blew me away. Especially when they rebranded all the games except SC as just a single disc with all expansions and with War2, all these free bonus maps to play on a free server. Anyone giving anything to play online for free was just unheard of!!! I remember a few years later Sega Channel dropped too, just like B.net but less features abs it cost more than a game every month. So B.net was where I truly learned the fun of multiplayer games.
But ANYWAY!!! I don’t get the hate on Activison-Blizzard anymore. Sure the games don’t play as good, but they aren’t any more money hungry than they’ve ever been. They always operated with release buggy and charge to fix later, here’s a free thing to trick you into thinking we care with B.net.
The Orcish warriors YYYYRNED for the sounds of battle
To fill the air, and looked over to the horizon for new blood to spill.
Holy crap
@@Zaba_the_Dogling Not such a cuddly antagonist are they?
Probably my favorite WarCraft cutscene of all time. The ending of the cinematic just leaves you begging for more as those two forces get closer and closer to combat. I love how it doesn't even show you the beginning of the battle, just the two readying themselves for the conflict about to happen. And that music is just killer. Perfect for the mood.
I really hope WarCraft will one day return to the RTS roots. I have no interest in WoW.
+Travis Linton I hope it won't
All time favourite game intro, nothing can honestly beat this shit.
Still gives me goosebumps today.
"Uncle Lothar wants you!"
-W3 Footman
Back when Warcraft is a Warcraft
+n1ghtb3h3m0th yeah it's not like thousands are being slaughtered in WC3 and WoW's lore. Oh wait
This game was really a masterpiece! One of my first games... Oh, memories...
I like WoW and Warcraft 3 but this will always be my favorite. One of my favorite RTSs also.
I love the cheesy heavy metal-type announcer. I feel like its the intro to a Dragonforce concert or something.
Haha good memories from elementary school days. This game was basically my introduction to PC gaming and is thus probably the biggest reason I ended up in the IT industry.
Ships of waaaar. Legend.
I remember my cousin bringing this game when he came over to stay with us for a few days. I was around 9, and he was around 15.
He then began playing it, with me watching. I remember complaining about the game being boring, with him still on the first missions and all. However, as the missions progressed and the battles became bigger and more interesting, I was in love with this game.
After he left, he left me a copy of the game for my own leisure. You could not believe how excited I was.
probably my favorite all time game. this owned my childhood. i was so proud when i finally beat both campaigns without cheat codes! this game is actually pretty difficult for its time.
First PS1 game I ever bought from the rental place.
Got it on GOG years later, still fun :)
Nearly two decades later and the final thirty seconds of this video, man... awesome.
one of my fave games ever, good memories
Wow, this takes me back. I remember the first time I saw this I thought the graphics were incredibly good. The dwarven cannons come out of the portholes at different speeds! Great vid.
Cool games ❗💻🖥️🕹️🎮😁👍😁👍
Ahh the memories. Love this game. Elementary school. 2004. Bliss days.
3rd grade of 1999 school teaching. ;-)
Warcraft II epitomizes what Warcraft should be. A really simple, dark and brutal story while at the same time not taking itself seriously at all, with lots of charm and cartoony humor. And FAST fun gameplay with a high skill threshold.
I loved this intro, used to watch it constantly. Classic game and it had the best cutscenes.
That feeling when you are almost 30 and played this game almost all the free time during childhood to feel good 😄
10 years
never forget this masterpiece
20 years actually :p
indeed, what whas i thinking? :p
its heaps long man :/
Blizzard truly has a history of awesome cinematics. What a way to set the stage for a game!
I hope that if there ever be warcraft 2 movie this exact trailer will be recreated.
that would be awesome for 2018
Unlikely since the movie tells a different storyline. In the first movie Stormwind/Azeroth essentially defeats the Horde while according to Warcraft lore they are utterly crushed.
Yeah, Gul'dan is still alive, and depending if we might have Airships instead, even if this is what made WoW alot different from RTS thanks to spaceships (also turned out that Draenor and Azeroth are planets, and "Demons" are in fact space aliens all along).
I mean they still have Dranei in the movies, so there might be a chance of a spaceship landing and someone decided to make Airships out of it.
Haha, I remember seeing this for the first time, and how I thought it was the most amazing animation I'd ever seen... How far Blizz's cutscenes have come!
As Daenerys was sailing to Westeros with her fleet, the scene really reminded me to this :)
Blasphemy :O
Fuck off with your game of thrones shit
Riki How about you fuck off yourself?
this is by far one of my top ten fac games ive played this game so much
I feel so old watching this....... best part was dreaming about this with exactly that look alike graphics...
Whoever it was, I... LOVED this voice! It was quite entertaining hahaha, still brings a smile to my face today.
old dope blizzard before the dark times
older than me?
I was playing it on DOS back in the late 90s, was still at the University
its game editor was kick ass & gave hours of replayablity
As a little kid I first played Warcraft 3 but even I have to admit the narration of the Warcraft 2 intro is fantastic
my god holy shit is this really that old? damn things older than me, wish i couldve played it at the time
This game was awesome when it came out! I loved it to pieces :D
So far ahead of its time.
One of the best games ever !!
and the voice of the narrator was cool too
I can listen to this w loops, what a classic.
Warcraft 2's intro rocks.
I love the music.
This was so great! Is great! I remember reading the manuel story bits over and over ...
Memories!
I played this game too much in my youth, and am glad I did.
One of the best ones in history, no doubt.
I remember playing this in 1996 and it was EPIC. There was a new kid on the block also called "WESTWOOD Studios" and they produced a little game called "COMMAND & CONQUER" which I'd go onto love! I love that series, but I remember this hit from Blizzard taking a lot of notice. I love that narrator's voice. He's the Don Lafontaine of video game intros.
Great game. I really enjoyed playing this when I was younger, think I was about 13 at the time. Good memories.
Agreed! it does a fantastic job conveying a real sense of epic foreboding, and dated though the graphics are, I feel they hold up fairlly well. The music also, is totally unforgettable. Still one of my favorites
Badass intro
Imagine what this would look like with their cutscenes today (the trailers, old soldier type) so much hype
the narrator is great I think, it completely suits the intro and gives it a great atmosphere
Ah, I love this movie ^^
WC2 must be one of the absolute best games of all time.
One word, EPIC!
Lovely old days.My first Strategy game.And fave game EVER!
Missing those days.
Watching this video when I was younger used to give me goosebumps.
Thanks, came here to watch the intro before starting WC2 for the first time. Thumbs'up & hope it's a good game to play..
great opening to one of the greatest games ever
Wow this takes me back.
warcraft 2 was one of the best game on that time,an awesome game
it is my favourite game 5*
powerful intro,voice sounds powerful, footage just fits perfectly.
I am a HUGE Warcraft fan and this game got me in to the series and definitely my favorite. I have played every warcraft out there and every one of them i enjoy VERY MUCH including WoW. The thing with WoW is its hard to get used to like me. When I first played i hated it because i wasnt used to that kind of game BUT I grew to like it. The blood elves are the only horde paladins and dranei are the only alliance shamans which makes sense. The lore is still fantastic.
death knights were so badass. one of many omissions from WC3 that i sorely missed...
I was on the AOL forums, in the midst of Warcraft vs. Command and Conquer arguments. Good times, good times. :-)
lol epic song indeed and epic game/story - brings back good memories :)
The Feels!
At one time, it was one of the temporary Alliances I spoke of, and the mutual friendship between the two hasn't even begun to flood through to the rest of the Alliance, or the Horde. They still despise each other.
MASSIVE flood of memories
i just LOVE IT! eternal classic!!!
ill never forget this growing up
Nostalgia!!
it's just amazing how peopleare keeping track of the flow from warcraft 2 to wow. I can' t believe people actually bother to come way back to warcraft 2 and post comment here. and it's 2010 and this was released back in 1995when I was 3rd grade. Damn I miss the old days.
yea i totally agree i miss great games like that
funny to hear this with original sound xD i've only played the german version but they sounded good aswell :) thx for uploading
Memories.... i been following warcraft since the very beginning.. and now WoW xD
Geez, I felt so nostalgic. I started playing this game when I was like 5.
aww brings back memories
Love this classic
Nice Intro, it was SO chilling back in the old days when i was too young to play this game anyway.
omg man... i remember the first time my oldest brother bought this and i coulnt stop playing it.. lol... man i use to love the intro... well i still do lol.. man really awesome game
I was raised on that game (and C&C, DN3D. Doom...). I know that to majority of nowadays gamers this animation might seem utterly archaic, but it's the wayit was back in my days.
Wait, I'm still a gamer so my days aren't over... yet...
Amazing! i love the narrator!
OMG haha this is awsome....such good memories
When I was a kid, I used to play Warcraft II with my friends. First we created a huge army full of all kinds of knights :D Then we put Ameno song by Era on and attacked and killed all the orcs and laughed a lot xD AMENOO!! Good childhood memories indeed.
Oh man, that's kickass. I loved this game.
I play Warcraft III as well, but I don't diss the game I loved when I was 6. And the way I remember it these graphics were incredible.
i love the music in the backround and hum it during math.
Love the music!
i was 9 years old and i loved diablo and warcraft 2
it was greaaat blizzard always be the best
I love music. further implementation. animation and video resolution was really a revolution in video games of that era
lol this was what got me hooked to warcraft
warcraft two so many years ago i love that game
Man the old days miss them
Remember my old Warcraft II Clan AA, we owned. So sweet times. BGH, Choc Chop farms etc. Sweeet!
I remember playing this on my PS1, those were the days.
This intro is awesome.
BRILLIANT!
Love this Soundtrack :)