Friday, December 1, 2006

World of Warcraft

Warcraft: Orcs and Humans is a real-time strategy computer game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment [1] in 1994. Originally developed for DOS, the game was subsequently ported to version 7 of Mac OS making it fully playable on the Macintoshes of the era. Currently an open source project, game engine Alpha, has as one of its goals to Recreate the game engine of Warcraft 1. The project is in early development. The real-time strategy genre had been pioneered by Dune 2, among other games, but Warcraft (along with Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer) is widely credited for the genre's rise in popularity. Warcraft and its sequels went on to become one of the most successful franchises in computer gaming history.

The game is set in the Kingdom of Azeroth, part of the fictional Warcraft Universe. The events that take place in this game are known in Warcraft lore as the First War or the Great War.

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