Sincerest form of flattery?īlizzard, of course, is quite used to people stealing ideas from its best-selling series of strategy games, but we can't remember ever seeing anyone so brazenly lift wholesale from another strategy title before now.

The problem is, we weren't describing Warcraft III a moment ago we were describing Armies of Exigo, a game which wants so desperately to be Warcraft III that it actually gets quite embarrassing at times, like an excessively self-delusional Elvis impersonator who insists that he really is the King, despite the fact that he's actually a 47 year-old bricklayer from Bedford. If you're looking confused right now, we can only assume that you haven't played Blizzard's Warcraft III - a seminal excursion into the real-time strategy genre which followed pretty much precisely the plotline we just described, albeit with quite a wonderful twist. The two forces rush headlong into an almighty barney, but it turns out that the real enemy is set to emerge from the shadows, with an evil force from beyond the stars seeking to take over the world, albeit somewhat handicapped by the peculiar refusal to build anything on ground that isn't covered in purple muck - presumably because it would clash terribly with the curtains, or something. In a fantasy world made up largely of quaint little villages full of people who don't object to being dragged from their farms and forced to mine gold or hack down the local forests all day long, the Men and the Elves have an alliance which holds back the beast hordes - ogres, trolls, that sort of thing.

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