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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: E136: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Description: Warcraft II is one of the most influential RTS games of all time. It brought the genre to the mainstream with insane sales, and set the standard for UI and tech trees for years to come. Blizzard had cracked the code on what made RTS games tick, and it laid the groundwork for the classics that would come in its wake.But for all its influence, how much fun is Warcraft II to actually play today? Does it suffer from its far more simplistic mechanics and mirrored factions, or is there something elegant and refined about a mor...