WarCraft III takes the individual combat and interactive environments found in role-playing games and combines them within a competitive strategic environment. It puts players in command of smaller parties of heroes and troops. They adventure and do battle in a dynamic world of living towns, wandering monsters, characters and quests, while simultaneously devising strategies to defeat their enemies.

* Four different races to command including Orcs, Humans, Night Elves and Undead, each possessing unique units, magical abilities and weapons of war.

* Skeletal and skinning animation process allows infinite frames of animation resulting in true fluid movement of 3D models.

* Advanced world design tools allowing players to customize every aspect of the game including tile sets, character art, quests, mission objectives, and unit types, AI, attributes, special abilities and spells.

* Expanded multiplayer options over Battle.net including a larger number of players per game and multiple game types including team play and questing.