24th February 2004, 3:00 AM
i agree about the friends bickering thing...although i felt it actually added to the game a little when there were only 2 of us (3 and we couldn't get anything done). anyway, once in 2 player i was given the bonus "don't heal yourself" and my room mate was given the bonus "don't cast spells." unfotunately in multiplayer you can't freeze the game to use items like you can in the single player adventure and my greedy bastard of a room mate wouldn't cast cure on me because he wanted his bonus BAAAAAAAAD. so i ran around for most of the boss fight with one heart screaming in terror and yelling at him to cure me before finally saying "fuck it" and running in and killing the boss. still had 1/2 heart left too. anyway, afterwords we both had a good laugh about the whole thing and i realized what makes the multiplayer so fun. (although 3 player was no fun at all IMO, then again we were playing with a girl from across the hall and it was her first time and we were both fairly experienced...the fact still remains that she was terrible and i died too many times trying to cast life on her...maybe if the third player didn't suck it'd be more fun). anyway, it's a fun game but i haven't played it in a while because warcraft 3 is like cigarettes, you can pull yourself away for a little while but eventually you start to miss it and you always end up hooked again.
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