OK so fel magic is destroying the orc world, right.what's fel magic then? Unless I missed it (which is entirely possible) they don't actually explain what this mysterious force is. Well in all honesty they don't really address this problem too well in my opinion as questins are raised almost immediately. What about people who are newbies to the franchise. I know of the franchise, the basics, but I've never played the games or read the books etc.I'm pretty sure this would be the general worry for all, how could they squeeze all this information into one opening movie without overwhelming people. The huge worry with this movie (for me) was whether or not I would be able to become engaged in the story not knowing that much about the Warcraft franchise. Obviously this is a large coincidence, but the minute it dawned on me I had to laugh. And on the human side.well we follow many characters, Kings, knights, mages etc.ĭare I mention an amusingly unfortunate parallel? You know, masses of invaders swarming across a foreign land occupied by a predominantly white people (clearly of medieval European influence).

Durotan isn't too sure about Gul'dan's evil plans.

On the orc side we follow Durotan (Toby Kebbell), chieftain of the Frostwolf clan and a generally level-headed orc. On the flip side the humans that dwell within this realm are none too happy about this, so they take up arms against the orcs. Obviously their aim is to conquer this new realm/world, and make it their own. So the all powerful (and nasty) orc warlock Gul'dan (Daniel Wu) opens a portal to the realm of Azeroth (where humans live). On the orc side of things, Draenor, the orc homeworld is being destroyed by a power called fel magic. Basically what we have here is a story from two perspectives, one from the human side and one from the orc side. So onto the movie and trying to condense this ginormous Tolkien-esque universe into a reasonable length runtime.

Legend has it Blizzard originally wanted to make Warcraft a game set in the Warhammer universe, but things just didn't work out.

But it doesn't end there, the franchise also includes novels, comics, manga, tabletop games, collectible cards etc.Now some may recognise a similarity to Games Worskshop's Warhammer franchise, and I don't blame you. Warcraft is mainly made up of five core videogames for PC's which revolve around online multiplayer role-play, strategies and digital card collecting. I say world, but maybe I should say universe because world simply seems too small for this sprawling product. The world of Warcraft is a massive franchise created by Blizzard Entertainment back in 1994.

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