The 'lost' Warcraft adventure game can now be played the way it was meant to be
Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was a point-and-click adventure game cancelled by Blizzard in 1998, and how time flies. The game was lost for most of its history, only existing in a few old screenshots and videos that floated around the internet, but in 2016 the full game suddenly appeared as a download(opens in new tab). It was playable, near-complete including cinematics and voice acting, and the individual who leaked it said: «This is my gift for all Blizzard fans, old and new.»
To which Blizzard's lawyers responded «This is my DMCA for all hosts of Warcraft Adventures, old and new.» The game is thus Out There Somewhere, in the way that nothing can ever be truly scrubbed from the internet, but don't go around bragging if you do find it.
The reason you might want to is that modder Allgemein has spent the last six years, on and off, fixing one of the biggest problems with the build, and one pretty important for an adventure game. The original leak of Warcraft Adventures was playable start to finish and included nearly all cutscenes, but the latter in particular suffered from de-synced audio and missing sound effects.
«Additionally these had been encoded with a low bitrate and suffered from a lot of compression artifacts,» writes Allgemein «A few weeks later 2 missing cutscenes were found on a DVD, but being filmed from a TV screen, these had even bigger issues.»
Allgemein has now released The Warcraft Adventure Cutscenes Remaster project, a standalone mod containing all the game's cutscenes (i.e. you'll need to track down the game yourself), including the 2 that were not present in the original leak, all completely remastered. Here are the main changes:
«From 2016–2022 I have been working on this little project
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