
But there are some minor changes which affect gameplay, and require some new strategies to ensure success. In Beyond the Dark Portal, you start off with almost all of the technologies at your disposal, and you'd best be prepared to use them (strangely-and this is my only complaint about the expansion pack-you don't get everything right away, and some vital units are inexplicably unavailable in the early scenarios).Īpart from a new environment to represent the Orcish world, nothing has been added to the game.

Even the most jaded orc or human will be challenged by the new levels, which thankfully dispense with the tutorial nature which made the early portion of Tides of Darkness somewhat tedious. Set in the Orcish homeland, this expansion pack for Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness adds 24 new single-player scenarios and nearly 50 multi-player scenarios, all for a bargain-basement price.īe prepared: The new solo scenarios are hard with a capital H-A-R-D.


Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the wasteland, along comes Beyond the Dark Portal.
