Campaign trailers suggested that fans would be receiving a different style of visual storytelling compared to the original game, but as with so many other promised parts of Warcraft 3: Reforged, Blizzard ditched that idea at some point in the development process. They’ve preserved that story seemingly too well. Is the goal of a remaster to capture as much as possible about an earlier piece of work, and simply give it a fresh coat of paint for a new era? Or should developers dig deep into the guts of the game and truly modernize it, creating what is essentially a new game starting with the skeleton of a classic?īlizzard Entertainment attempts to take the middle road between these two options with Warcraft 3: Reforged, and so far it has been a disaster.ĭespite describing Reforged as a “reimagining” at BlizzCon 2018, the developers later said they planned to preserve the story due to fan feedback.
The teams working on remastered games always have a difficult choice to make.
