While little has been lost in the conversion to 3D, little has
been gained either, although admittedly the move is nowhere near as
disappointing as Command & Conquer's abortive foray into voxels. The
switch to 3D has opened up significant scope for in-game cutscenes,
but for the purposes of pure gameplay WarCraft may as well have
remained in two dimensions. Camera rotation and movement is
shockingly limited; you can't zoom out (and the default camera is
very tight indeed, often making it impossible to see an entire
skirmish on screen at once) and the 3D terrain is very obviously a
polygonal sheet draped over a resolutely 2D map."

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