Introduced 1 mechanic · Warcraft III
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Hero units plus a world editor — and the custom-map scene that produced two genres.
Mechanics this game introduced
These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.
Mechanics it built on
Ideas Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
Directly influenced
The Warcraft series in this dataset
2002
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos this page
2014