Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
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Key facts
- Developer
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Publisher
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Director
- Frank Pearce Jr.
- Producer
- Chris Sigaty
- Designer
- Rob Pardo
- Writer
- Chris Metzen
- Composers
- Tracy W. Bush Victor Crews Derek Duke Jason Hayes Glenn Stafford
- Series
- Warcraft
- Platforms
- Microsoft Windows , Mac OS X
- Release
- NA : July 1, 2003 AU : July 3, 2003 EU : July 4, 2003
- Genre
- Real-time strategy
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- expansion add-on
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Series
- Warcraft
- Developer
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Platform
- Microsoft Windows
- Game mode
- multiplayer video game
- Distribution format
- read-only memory
- Designed by
- Rob Pardo
- Official website
- us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/war3
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- Commons category
- Warcraft (franchise)
- publication date
- 2003-07-01
- software version identifier
- 1.30.1
- input device
- computer mouse
- topic's main category
- Category:Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
- takes place in fictional universe
- Warcraft universe
- expansion of
- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
- set in environment
- fictional planet
- review score
- 89/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne is the expansion pack for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, a real-time strategy video game by Blizzard Entertainment. It was released worldwide on July 1, 2003, for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The Frozen Throne builds upon the story of Reign of Chaos and depicts the events after the main game's conclusion. The single-player unfolds from the perspective of two new protagonists—the Night Elf warden Maiev Shadowsong and the Blood Elf prince Kael'Thas—as well as returning protagonist Arthas Menethil. Additionally, the expansion contains Act I of a separate Horde campaign that is independent from the main storyline with Blizzard releasing Acts II and III via patch in December 2003, taking in player feedback of Act I when developing these chapters.
The expansion adds new units, buildings and heroes for each faction, two new auxiliary races, five neutral heroes (with three more later added by patches) as well as a number of tweaks to the gameplay and balancing. Sea units were reintroduced which were absent in Reign of Chaos. Battle.net-powered multiplayer was expanded by the addition of clans, automated tournaments and new maps and custom scenarios.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.