12 Greatest Real Time Strategy Video Games Of All Time

4. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

Warcraft III may not have reinvented the wheel as far as RTS games were concerned, but it took the staples of the genre and executed them with such poise that it is impossible not to recognise it as one of the best games of its kind ever. With its tight core gameplay, compelling campaign and addictive online multiplayer, Warcraft III offered more than enough for its memory as one of the greats to endure. The game took the Human and Orc armies of the first two games and added Night Elves and Undead as playable factions (both of which are now mainstays in Warcraft lore). Where in previous games the differences between Humans and Orcs had only been cosmetic, Warcraft III gave each of its armies very different units, structures, technologies and base-building methods which meant that everybody could pick their favourite army based on their particular playing style. The third instalment in the RTS franchise also introduced heroes; powerful commanding units which amassed experience with each enemy killed that subsequently made them more powerful. Combine these superb gameplay additions with the 3D graphics engine which made Warcraft II look like an ancient relic, and it isn€™t hard to understand why Warcraft III is lauded as the finest game in the series.