Blizzard Entertainment is revealing their new Warcraft Mobile this afternoon and we're going to be recapping it! At first glance, this game looks a lot like Supercell's Clash Royale.
You can watch the reveal live on Blizzard's website, or read on below for our recap of the announcement. You can view the official site here and pre-register on Google Play here. The App Store doesn't have pre-registrations yet.
Warcraft Arclight Rumble Developer Overview
Warcraft Arclight Rumble Cinematic
Official Site
Quote From Blizzard DELIGHT IN THE ARCLIGHT
Warcraft® Arclight Rumble™ is a mobile action strategy game set within the Warcraft universe where collectible Minis come to life to battle in frantic melee skirmishes. Play in multiple modes, including the single player campaign, going head-to-head in epic PvP battles, playing co-op, and more. Experience the true meaning of joyful chaos!
Action Strategy Gameplay
Warcraft Arclight Rumble brings you frantic mobile action strategy combined with meaningful progression and customization.
PvE and PvP
Play through epically challenging campaign maps, dungeons, and raids. Battle with your friends in co-op or against them in PvP and revel in the mayhem.
Assemble your Team
Collect over 65 Warcraft Minis and build multiple armies—good strategy is the key to victory!
THE ARCLIGHT RUMBLE EXPERIENCE
Throughout Azeroth people can’t get enough of this mysterious new machine. A new strategic sensation has swept the land, leaving joyful chaos in its wake.
POCKET-SIZED LEADERS
Leaders possess special abilities that allow them to turn the tide of battle. As the backbone of any successful army, playing to their strengths will be important. Experiment with different Leaders to adjust your strategy or replay maps for additional rewards.
Alliance
Alliance Leaders support defense, healing, and stealth tactics, as well as heavy use of Spells. Tirion Fordring, Maiev Shadowsong, and Jaina Proudmoore devote their skills to the Alliance.
Horde
Horde Leaders like Grommash Hellscream, Sneed, and Cairne Bloodhoof encourage building momentum through earning additional gold, fast attacking Troops, and enemy control with area of effect stuns.
Beast
Beast Leaders like Charlga Razorflank can disable enemy defenses, helping your numerous bestial allies stampede and overwhelm them quickly. Others like Hogger are right at home with a flurry of fast troops swarming your enemies.
Blackrock
Blackrock Leaders, including Rend Blackhand and General Drakkisath, reward you for playing heavy-hitting flying Troops and searing elemental magic users to burn opponents to a crisp.
Undead
Undead Leaders use powerful necromancy on the battlefield. As Bloodmage Thalnos uses Spells, he grows stronger with every cast. Baron Rivendare can summon endless armies of the dead to haunt the battlefield.
LEVELING UP
Whether you’re powering up Minis, unlocking new ways to play, or just on a quest to build the perfect army, there’s always a reason for one more round of Warcraft Arclight Rumble.
Collect Warcraft Minis
Collect more than 65 unique Warcraft Minis, including Leaders & Spells. Each Mini has unique abilities you’ll use to counter enemy Troops—mix and match Minis to form your strategy.
Level Up Your Army
After each battle, you'll gain experience and level up your Minis. Level up to unlock the ability to use game-changing talents!
Unlock New Challenges
Multiple modes include Conquest, Dungeons, Raids, Co-Op and PVP. Replay maps with new combinations of Leaders and Minis for additional rewards.
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This isn't the game that Peter Whalen and all the other staff went to, is it?
Clash Royale but as a pve focused game with different maps, bosses and raids. I will definetely check it out.
yikes
Basically this is how mercenaries should look like visually .
Edit: also, my lootbox-sense is tingling strongly.
Actually a dev on discord confirmed that there are no plans for lootboxes right now
...Why does that not feel reassuring?
I can safely say that I would've never in a million years expected a cover of Ballroom Blitz to be used to promote something tied to the Warcraft IP.
Blizzard's first mobile game in Warcraft universe.
Thank all the gods for Blue Stacks
Totally forgot about that. Guess I need to download it again. =)
Thanks for the reminder
I’ll probably try it, but if it really is just like Clash Royale and other similar games, I’ll drop it after a week! If I play beyond that, I’ll still never drop a dime on the title.
Looks like trash and it doesn't even run on PC, what's the point?
As another person mentioned, get an emulator like BlueStacks to run it on PC. Also, in case you missed it, this is a Mobile game....think: phones and tablets.
What's the point of what, Blizzard releasing a new game? Us covering some mobile Blizzard news?
What's the point of being negative?
they were obviously asking what the point of blizzard releasing a new game entirely on mobile is, especially when said game looks considerably worse than blizzards other mobile game and blizzard fans have made it adamantly clear that they do not want mobile only games.
whats the point of pretending that there's no negative criticism to be had?
Your mistake here is to assume that that's the target audience. Just like Diablo Immortal this is not supposed to appeal to already existing customers, but to reach no ones from a completely different, and extremely profitable, market.
so everyones just fine with activision pushing blizzard further in the direction of profit over quality? im not stupid, im fully aware that their intention with this game is to milk money out of their IP by expanding it to the platform easiest to exploit consumers on, but why are we acting like this is an okay thing to do? why are we talking about them pushing a mobile game very obviously based off an already popular and profitable mobile game like theres nothing wrong with that and that its not indicative of activision pushing the company to make more decisions based off profitability as opposed to whether or not its actually a good decision?
I think it looks great. Really high level of production value, which is to be expected from Blizzard. Alas I will never play it because I don't play anything on my phone.
will it be playable on b.net (pc)??? my iphone 5s is so bad that can't support hearthstone itself T_T
Doesn't look like it, will require an emulator.
T_T android emulators run very bad on my pc