Chapter 1044: World of Warcraft
'Four years have passed since the Alliance and the Horde fought side by side against the invasion of the Burning Legion, and despite the success of saving the continent of Azeroth, the fragile agreement between the Alliance and the Horde has long since vanished, and now the earth-shattering war drums are sounding once again,'
As the slow narration introduces the game's background, a yellowed map is revealed to the player.
On the left is Kalimdor, on which the player sees place names such as Orgrimmar and Thunderfang, while on the right is the Eastern Kingdom, which shows the names of Stormwind, Ironforge and other places.
And in between, there's a huge vortex.
After the background is introduced, the vortex in the middle slowly rotates, sucking the entire map into it, and the screen is plunged into a brief darkness.
Then, with the howl of wind and snow, a dwarf appeared on the screen.
The most conspicuous thing is the dwarf's nose, which occupies about one-seventh the size of the face.
But what amazes players the most is the effect of the visuals.
Ice slag on the brown beard, wrinkles and pores on the face, and even bloodshot dwarven eyes if you look closely.
At the same time, there is a message at the bottom of the video screen that says "The video screen is not the actual game screen", so as to tell the player that this is actually a CG animation.
But even that is enough to wow players.
It's so good, it's just amazing.
Even if it's a general CG movie, I'm afraid there is no such exquisite CG animation effect!
The background sound of the inaudible language echoed, and the dwarf twisted his neck to look around in the howling cold wind, while the camera in the video slowly zoomed out.
Holding his musket as a crutch, he stuck into the snow on the ground, and slowly walked towards the Iron Fort in front of him with the brown bear next to him.
The camera pulls higher and higher in the snowstorm, and the spectacular scene of the entire Ironforge Fort is displayed in front of the player, sitting on the snow-capped mountains, which can be seen faintly through the snowflakes, and the entrance to the Ironforges seems to be on the mountainside, which is extremely magnificent.
As the snowflakes cover the entire video, the next moment it is a quiet forest.
The night elf, dressed in cool clothes with sharp ears, was examining the broken blade in her hand, and the next moment, as if she had found something, she threw the broken blade in her hand to the ground and ran wildly into the distance.
Night Elves with a short battle in their hands cut through quiet forests, crossed mountain streams, jumped over cliffs, and finally turned into a black cheetah and rushed forward.
Stepping on the splash of water, splashing a wave at the same time, the camera of the video changed again, the strange necromancer, the meteorite that kept falling in the sky.
With a monster roar, a green Hellfire appeared behind the warlock, letting out an earth-shattering roar.
The minotaur shaman on the Thunder Cliff, spilling powder.
Before the battle was about to burn, the orc warrior waved the weapon in his hand and let out a roar.
The mages on the walls unleash fireballs to fend off the attacking hellfire.
Later, the character classes that appeared in the previous screen started to fight against each other.
The dwarf and his brown bear companions fight the minotaurs in the snow.
Night elves and orcs fight in the wilderness.
The necromancer commanded countless hellfires to attack the walls, and instead of using fireballs to fend off, the mage held his hands high to gather the power of the frost.
In the end, as the totem of the minotaur slammed down, the four big characters of "World of Warcraft" and the game's logo appeared in the center of the screen.
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After watching this CG animation, countless players were shocked.
The first is the visual impact brought by this CG animation.
If you look at the immersion of the game, even if the visual effect is better with CG animation, it may not be better than the real-time calculation.
But if it's used as a promotional video, then I won't mention the shock that this CG animation brings to players.
Without the slightest suspense, the topic of the name of the game "World of Warcraft" was directly targeted at the first place in the hot search entry.
The emotional bonus and high-level CG animation bonus points made countless players excited in an instant.
But soon, more players noticed the content in the CG promotion.
Isn't this one RTS?
Because when Nebula Games promoted "Warcraft" a few years ago, the direction of promotion this time is completely different.
Basically, it doesn't show the characteristics of heroes and classes, but simply introduces the different races in the game.
"This CG animation,Nebula Games finally remembered his identity today.,As a film manufacturer, why do you always make games without doing business?"
"I have to say that the performance effect of this CG animation can only be described by the word "awesome."
"Don't talk about CG animation, doesn't it mean that this is not a real game screen? Talking about the genre, don't you think it's not an RTS game this time? ”
"It feels very likely, haven't you seen that the name of the game has changed?"
"Do you think Nebula Games is going to be an open-world game this time? Just like Assassin's Creed: Odyssey? ”
"It's possible! Isn't the World of Warcraft game name a world? That's probably the hint! ”
"If it really becomes an open world, no matter what you guys, I'm going to really smell it anyway!"
"+1 with the real fragrance, although RTS is also very interesting, but it feels like the threshold for getting started is still too high, I think it's great to open the world!"
"Vote for the open world, but even if it's not an open world, I feel that ARPG or a linear RPG like Final Fantasy is also interesting, of course, provided that Mr. Yang stops making tragedies, I can't bear it."
"Relax, this is not a new IP, I can't think of the tragedy of "Warcraft", and the plot of Warcraft is not Lin Jiayi's participation."
"It's exciting to think about it, will it be the same model as The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim? Players can choose each race and begin the story of Azeroth, joining the Alliance or the Horde, and fighting between the factions while falling short of the Burning Legion's re-invasion. ”
With the release of the CG promotional video, countless players began to discuss excitedly.
First of all, a group of old emotional players, expressing the excitement of finally seeing the sequel.
Then there are ordinary players who say how shocking the game's CG animation is.
Of course, in the end, it returned to the most important and most important theme content that players paid the most attention to.
What kind of game is this game, which looks like it should be the sequel to Warcraft, called World of Warcraft?
This is the one point that attracts the attention of the most players.