War of warcraft movie8/8/2023 Warcraft is a bright, colorful fantasy series, which could work onscreen, but it’s so outside the norm of what we’re expecting from this genre, it’s jarring, with neon green magic spells, enormous golden lion pauldrons, and so on. But here, it’s just.well, a video game cutscene.īut it isn’t only the visual effects. But in battle, things often become muddled, and you’ll miss the flesh and blood of LOTR’s Orcs, which result in more physically compelling fight sequences. Some of the CGI is the best you’ve ever seen, as its Orcs feel like real characters rather than digital constructs when engaged in conversation. In other words, I wasn’t just going to like it because of its homages and accurate representations of characters and places from the games.įor me, all of this starts with the aesthetics. But I’m not so entwined in Warcraft itself that it colors my opinion that way. I’m a huge video game fan and I desperately want a big budget video game movie like this to be good and succeed. So actually, I do think this all adds up to a pretty unique perspective. Lately I have been playing a lot of Hearthstone, but you won’t exactly learn too much Warcraft lore from doing that. I skipped World of Warcraft entirely, one major game I’ve simply never gotten into, partially because I tell myself I don’t like MMOs, partially because I know I’d probably get hopelessly addicted to it. I played a lot of the RTS games, but that was well over a decade ago, so I don’t recall much about the plots of those initial games. While I am certainly a “core” gamer (I do this for a living), my experience with Warcraft and its lore is limited. Since everyone wants to know your gamer “credentials” up front, here's my angle.
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