Blizzard’s standards have always been extremely high, and many of their planned games fall short because they fall short of the desired height of excellence. One of his is this Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, which was canceled in 1998 but recently leaked online.

This is a classic graphic adventure (even back then). A point-and-click game with 2D hand-crafted animations that puts you in the shoes of Thrall in the pre-narrated events of his Warcraft III, returning to real-time strategy just like its predecessor. As for the control system, it has absorbed much from that seen in adventures such as LucasArts’ Sam & Max and The Curse of Sarushima, and the verb system has been abandoned to provide a more intuitive treatment in which possible actions are indicated. rice field. In a small window on the element itself that allows interaction.

Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans is a fantastic graphical adventure, and although the leaked version is not final, the game is practically complete, including professional dubbing and high-quality cinematic scenes. It’s a shame that in the video game field, the technology used in publishing a product trumps intrinsic quality.