Warcraft II | Pre-Release Alpha Demo

This is an early alpha version of Warcraft II, a real-time strategy game done by Blizzard Entertainment in 1995. This demo from August 1995 was shipped to several PC magazines for preview use. It was not intented to be given to the end-user. Today, you're free to try it, but Blizzard does not provide any support.

Regarding to the gameplay, it is still pretty close to the original game, but it already provides SVGA graphics, larger maps, a new fog of war and new units and buildings, even though you can use a few of them only. One interesting thing is that there are four types of resources: gold, lumber, oil and ore.

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[poundu27]

Best music ever.

[dessan18]

What's with the burps?

[G9King]

I always thought that AOE was the first game to have four kinds of resources. I'm impressed that WC II had it planned first...

[halopwner179]

lol footman peasant.

[PaladinAustin]

where can i find a free download of this?

[IntelGMA]

wow, ore

[leetwaffle]

Ugh. The peasant voice... It doesn't fit at all. D:

[ilikepiedontu]

@PoohunterGames lol no, but there is a released alpha version of this game. This is the demo, and first mission of WC2 Human campaign. Pretty sure you know that already tho but yeah, those burps weren't in the game lol

[thekkl]

All the differences I see involve it having originally been more complex. It's a good thing they decided to change that. Also this whole 'ORE' thing explains why they would make an almost impassible terrain.

[PoohunterGames]

Alpha demo? Did youtube even exist back then?

[TheRealDemonicIdiot]

*burp*