Warcraft III is a real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2002. The game is the third installment in the Warcraft series, following Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. It is set in the fictional world of Azeroth, four years after the events at the conclusion of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness.

The game focuses on the invasion of the kingdom of Lordaeron by the Orcish Horde, and the subsequent war to expel the orcs from Lordaeron. The human Alliance and orc Horde armies are led by respective characters: Anduin Lothar and …