Bonus Campaign: The Founding of Durotar
The Bonus Campaign is a departure from the rest of the game and featured the three longest campaigns in the game. It has features more like an RPG similar to "
Diablo", featuring a Beastmaster named
Rexxar as he helps the orcs defend and develop their new home of
Durotar from various enemies. The Bonus Campaign is probably meant as a bridge between the traditional "Warcraft" real-time strategy genre to the latest release of Blizzard, the MMORPG of "
World of Warcraft". It was also created because the game's designers were having trouble getting the orcs involved in the main plot of "The Frozen Throne", and the RPG-style allowed Blizzard to show off many of the new features added in the World Editor, as an example of how custom maps can differ greatly from standard melee maps.
The player controls a group of two to four heroes, primarily Rexxar and a
troll Shadow Hunter named
Rokhan. The player can also gain permanent control of a
pandaren Brewmaster named
Chen Stormstout and the tauren Chieftain
Cairne Bloodhoof, as well as temporary control of Far Seer
Drek'Thar, Blademaster
Samuro,
Jaina Proudmoore, and Cairne's son,
Baine Bloodhoof. Maps are interconnected, with each one being set up as various areas of Kalimdor, such as the orc fortress city of
Orgrimmar, and a human city on the
Theramore Isles.
Initially, only one of the three acts was included in the game, allowing Blizzard to spend more time on the remaining two after release. Each act was expected to be released in a subsequent patch, but, due to delays in patch development, they were both finished and included in the first major patch in the expansion.
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