The only negative i can say is that the new models/skins for the heroes don't look good, best example of this would be Kael, he looks like an 80 year old man when in fact he should look young and beautiful since he is an immortal High Elf Prince you know, same can be said about all the other heroes, I will give you that the models for Sindragosa and the Lich King look "good", while the Lich king model does somewhat still look like is from the same universe of War3, the Sindragosa model looks waaay to CGI/sophisticated and it looks like it doesn't belong at all to the War3 universe.
Now you can say this is mostly subjective, how the heroes/units look, but in my opinion is not, since the base core of this game, of War3, has a certain style of how the world looks, and how the units look, and if you drastically change that fact, then sadly the game loses some of its charm, it sure did for me, dispite the fact this custom campaign is really well done with beautiful maps, story, gameplay, quests, boss fights, the fact that the skins of some units and most of the heroes look so damn out of place and ugly, is just sad, kinda ruined the mood.
I have seen this trend with lots of map makers, not only for custom campaigns, where they implement these new HD models and replace the old ones trying to "Improve" the maps, somehow? as if that improves the maps in any way, is mostly a cop-out, is a way for some map makers to show to the public and to themselves how good their maps are, with these new HD models, but in fact is the opposite, very rarely those HD new models work, and in the other 99% of the cases they don't and only make the maps look uglier.
Is pretty much what reforged did to war3 with the new graphics, you can't just replace the old models with new HD models that look totally different and out of place, War3 is War3 because of how it looks, and when you change that you made the game worse, that's just a fact.
People don't play Warcraft 3 custom maps to see WOW models and HD models from other games that are out of place, people play War3 custom maps to experience the War3 vibes and style of the game, of the units, of the world! This style is an unique one and it shouldn't be changed/ruined.
Sorry for rambling so much about this one aspect, but i think it matters a lot, games having their own unique style and maintaining that, playing with that said style, instead of replacing it!
There are milions of Classic War3 skins and models on this site that maintain the classic war3 style, so i don't understand why people choose the HD models from other games that look out of place to implement in their maps instead of those ones...
Anyway, i didn't encounter any bugs while playing this custom campaign, i played on version 1.29 of War3
- I really liked most of it like i said, also the music was really good, i really liked that.
This is one aspect of the game that can be replaced, the music, since it doesn't take away from the original style of the game, and the music you chose fits well with the game, not taking away from it, but working with it, improving the atmosphere of the game!
- I also liked how each map had a secret to be found.
- Like other people pointed out, i wish we were able to play more with the Lich King himself, having just that 1 tiny map to play with him wasn't enough.
- My favorite mission from the whole campaign was the last one "The forgotten fortress" i have a soft spot for these kind of maps where you only need to control your heroes and you fight this long war with your allied units versus the enemy units getting deeper and deeper into the enemy teritory and winning checkpoints.
Like that one mission from the original Campaign where we have to save Illidan (in the cage) from Maiev playing with kael and Vash (and the Panda hero), these type of missions are my favorite, and i really enjoyed playing this type of mission in this custom campaign.
I liked how Sylvanas was controlled by the Lich King at first and was fighting against us.
I also liked the fight against that Undead meat king boss, that is a good example of a skin/model that works well with the war3 style.
The fight against Sindragosa was kinda weak tho, it didn't feel like she was doing much of anything, most of the times flying and being invulnerable.
The Fight against the Lich King was much better, i really liked that moment where the Lich King releases the souls of powerful slain heroes to fight us and Uther's soul was having none of that and went to attack him instead!
My rating for this Custom campaign is an
A tier with
89 points out of 100