With an entertaining story, solid characters, timeless graphics, and endless multiplayer fun (DotA!), this is the best.
User Rating: 10 | Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne PC
I have been playing Warcraft games since I was not but a tike, spending majority of my '01 summer playing Warcraft II, continuing on to Warcraft 3: RoC back in '03, and then Warcraft 3: TFT in the summer of '04. Over time I have continued to play this, my favorite game of all time, for absolutely ridiculous amounts of time, putting in a total of 1000 hours split nearly perfectly between WoW and WC3 in the last year and a half. I have played this game and the non-expansion for somewhere around 2000 hours, so I know it in and out. First of all is the campaign. People really knock on the Warcraft universe' topsy turvy lore, but the tale told in Warcraft 3 and TFT is one of the best of all time, going deeper than the black and white concepts found in other Blizzard games, where sometimes a character may expectedly play the good guy or the bad guy for a bit. Just about every character in WC3 does something that is not a good decision, from Malfurion to Whisperwind to Illidan, but they all have their high points. The graphics are really triangular, with very rough edges, but I personally find no fault with graphics of this quality, just like any Blizzard game, they have their own artistry, and it works just fine for me, these 5 years later. If every developer could make a game as quality as this, I would take these graphics every time. Sound is... Sound, this and that beating on that and this, everything you click on has a sound effect, and in true Blizzard tradition, if you keep on clicking on a character it will eventually say something really funny or quirky. And then the multiplayer... I have only actually beaten WC3 and TFT once, it is the multiplayer that keeps me coming back for more. I have put away hours of my life facing other human opponents in skirmishes and such, but the real high point is the sheer amount of creativity that can be employed from the games expansive world editor. Everything from psycho crazy games like sheep tag to roleplaying games where you can build any scenario or terrain you want, to Defense of the Ancients, the most famous and well known TFT custom map, where you strategically level and equip a hero of your choosing from the 90+ heroes. Overall, the whole game is just amazing, and if for some god forsaken reason you have not consumed at least a hundred hours of your life into this game, well, you are simply missing out. 
