Let me guess. You saw the remastered version, but it was disapppointing, and you wanted to see a truly badass fight between these two. Yeah, i'm here for the same reason too.
Yup. Despite the looks, animation is on par (keep in mind they had very strict budget and time constraints when making this) and Illidan getting hit here makes at least some kind of sense, unlike in the reforged cutscene
I did, this actually looks like a fighting scene, reforged doesnt make any sense and that fighting is so stiff, very disappointing, + no music in that new one, sad.
This one looks more energetic and the swings have weight (except for maybe arthas’s first strike on Illidan. The sound effect was kinda weak, but Illidan was nearly on the floor).
Despite being shorter than reforged, the camera work captures the dynamic feel of the fight. Reforged feels slow and barely looks like it's made by a studio that already has so much experience making animations.
Idk, i actually like the first swing. It does not tell, but shows that Arthas hits are insanely strong, to the point where a freaking half-demon night elf demon hunter was brought on his knees...
Even years later, after seeing WoW's cinematics such as the Broken Shore and the Ending of the Nightwell, this fight is still so damn impressive looking, considering it was made in-engine in Warcraft 3.
This trailer has smooth animation, music, tension and visible effort put into it. The reforged trailer has neither of those. Imagine releasing a cinematic in 2020 that is worse than a cinematic from 2003..
Note that the in-game animation between Illidan and Arthas was originally planned to be a video cinematic. Time constraints, however, forced the scene to be done inside the game. The developers have said that their greatest regret about this change is that many assumed Illidan died, when the video would have revealed that Illidan survived to watch Arthas's transformation. Source: wowwiki
0:35 Arthas: It's over Illidan. I have the high ground! 0:36 Arthas: Don't try it! 0:38 Illidan: YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER! 0:53 Arthas: YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE LEGION, NOT JOIN THEM! 0:54 Illidan: I HATE YOU! 0:55 Arthas: You were my brother, Illidan. I loved you.
0:36 and look at this bad ass swing! you can feel the heavy yummy swing on the animation. I wanted that on beautiful graphics HD 4k shit etc. not the kiddy jump slash he did from reforged.
He puts his fuckin' strength into that swing here. They turned this fight into an anime battle in Reforged. WTF were those smiles before the fight? Or that stupid knee slide?
I dislike reforged version but it is much better then original. Reforged at least looks like fight... here Illidan just jumps and let Arthas to kill himself. It looks so terrible. (reforged ending version is stupid too but has some logic).
@@heavyhug1098 well same as saying kid Goku killing King Picolo using his head is terrible. Illidan took a big jump into the air and that was his biggest mistake but it's understandable cuz he underestimated Arthas' abilities. Charge + critical strike is the combo that took down illidan, illidan was in the air so his defense = 0 which means he took the critical damage from the charge. What's so terrible about that???
In Rise of the Lich King,this fight happened differently: When Illidan dodged Arthas' sweep (as shown in the cinematic) he transformed in his demon form and stomped Arthas to the point where he dropped on the ground unconscious. Then,Illidan went on a power trip and started gloating.However Frostmourne changed to "survival mode" and took direct control of Arthas' body. So when Illidan tried to finish him, Arthas(Frostmourne) slashed Illidan in the chest with superhuman speed and defeated him.
It's a joke. You're able to fight Illidan during the Burning Crusade expansion, a Level 70 based expansion. The Lich King (Arthas) is fought during The Wrath of The Lich King expansion. A Level 80 based expansion.
I love my Demon Hunter, fun as hell, but my Unholy DK has become a powerhouse of awesomeness (from an RP-perspective my DK is kinda an older-brother to the Demon Hunter, both existed before they became what they were from a time that gets a little tricky, with Gnomie involveD)
I'm only disappointed because Illidan is thousands of years old and should have an amazing culmination of skill. I guess the raw power of frostmourne is also neat but I wish it didn't look like illidan was just plain rekt .
well it was 2003.. i mean..they had to create a scene made in the game engine itself and for the time i bet that was crazy hard.. not saying that a 3 minute fight would of been tyring.
Yeah but he was for about 10000 (according to Loreology he has about 1100) of these years imprisoned, and there is not much opportunity to train in prison... also Arthas was boosted by Lich King (mor ethen before) on that moment.
Arthas was at the peak of his skill and power. He was trained by the best, and he had fought the best (Uther). He's not some other random human. And I don't think you could say Illidan got wrecked, it was a balanced duel until Arthas got the upper hand.
It was explained that at this time Arthas was at the peak of his power before becoming the LK, he had both his self gained experience and skill as a skilled healer necromancer death knight along with all the power Ner'zhul could grant him. Even with all this, it would be difficult still to face one of the strongest beings in existence of WC lore... During this fight neither of them used magic and preferred pure physical combat, thou we all know who would win in magic. Even then, Illidan is no pushover at anything, he merely grew careless in timing and measuring his jump, then received a critical counter attack. In weapon power, DO NOT underestimate Illidan's weapon, (The twinblades of azzinoth) it's at least half as strong as frostmourne and got enchanted later on in WoW. It won't break to frostmourne and could clash against it time and time again, but would not survive a critical blow from frostmourne... It was carelessness... And budget. Please take not of this all commenters Show less
Ovidiu Diumea You're right, it was a balanced fight. Not if Illidan was not someone with no honour thou. He honours melee combat a lot, and I like it that way. My badass Illidan :). Coz if Illidan used his arcane magic at this fight, Arthas would probably last at best 10 minutes. All heroes have to die one day, he may be a villain, but never a betrayer in my heart... he was a victim of power. Bye illidan, don't revive in Warlords of Draenor plz, unless you would lose your demonic powers and become and allied hero... and marry MAIEV !!!! that is awesomee OOOOHH
I guess he miscalculated his powers but wanted to do what you say, so he flew back because it needs a second to transform. That was the moment for Arthas to make the fatal blow. Miscalculation can happen to the very best BUT let''s not forget that at that time WoW and all the Addons didn't exist. In WC 3 + FT they were always equal strong. They had a fight before this (in the campaign mission where you find the Skullhead of Gul'dan with Illidan) and after they fight and decide it's a draw, Arthas tricked his hunger for power and told him about the skull. So much Characters were brought back in WoW who you thought were dead in WC 3 FT and some characters were made much more powerful then they should have been back in the day. But to keep WoW intact they bring back everyone they like for new stories. For me personal they were always equal! That was the very reason for this "final" story fight. The Campaign about these two were made to meet before the top of the Frozen Throne in a equal fight. Oh i see the text is a bit long, hope someone will still read it ^^
I always wondered why they went with this particular animation style instead of the same as previous cinematic cutscenes. It doesn't look nearly as good as the others.
This was rendered in game! As in at any point (if you had mouse control) you could walk a peon in the middle of their epic battle. It wasn't a budget problem or anything like that, because a cinematic followed directly after. I think they did it because they could. They wanted to show off how their engine would render a complex fight scene like this with scripted unit anims.
ChaosCollection no this isn't footage of actual gameplay, but it IS rendered within the game using map scripting and custom animations and effects. Using the WCIII World Editor you can find these two custom model files and watch their animations. You could possibly recreate this movie except IDK how they set up the sky.
Maybe this fight was a bit too short and the models weren't great but the music helped a lot and I liked how it felt like one mistake would end the fight. The way Arthas threw everything into his strikes was awesome, in the remaster he seems slow and like he was too weak to really swing Frostmourne. Having him win the fight decisively is fine, after all this was Arthas at the peak of his power before becoming the Lich King.
It was explained that at this time Arthas was at the peak of his power before becoming the LK, he had both his self gained experience and skill as a skilled healer necromancer death knight along with all the power Ner'zhul could grant him. Even with all this, it would be difficult still to face one of the strongest beings in existence of WC lore... During this fight neither of them used magic and preferred pure physical combat, thou we all know who would win in magic. Even then, Illidan is no pushover at anything, he merely grew careless in timing and measuring his jump, then received a critical counter attack. In weapon power, DO NOT underestimate Illidan's weapon, (The twinblades of azzinoth) it's at least half as strong as frostmourne and got enchanted later on in WoW. It won't break to frostmourne and could clash against it time and time again, but would not survive a critical blow from frostmourne... It was carelessness... And budget. Please take not of this all commenters u Mirin
@@corpchannel2523 There was a description of this fight in : "Arthas : Rise of The Lich King" . Ilidan was one of the most powerful beings on Azeroth. One of the most talented sorcerer of his time (War of the Ancient). Fell (which Ilidan is using) is one of the most devastating force in Warcraft Universe. I guess Ilidan is more powerful in magic than Arthas. Lich King is maybe stronger (because he draws his energy straight from Shadowlands and has a big connection to it) Ilidan had a chance to kill Arthas. He was stronger (first blow send Arthas on his knee and Ilidan start insult him). He was too confident and it was a reason why he lost this fight. Arthas deafet him because he stay focused .
Demon hunter 10 lvl pwns DK in WarCraft 3 1v1 easily :) You may put Illidan 10 lvl vs Arthas 10 lvl with map editor. Arthas has no chance in any case. With magic or without. With any artifacts.
Somehow this still looks better than the new version. The music, the cinematography, just everything man. How are you keep fucking up so hard Blizzard?
universe slow but the animation are way more better and the fight sequence makes way more sense. People expecting a full cinematic are stupid cause it was never a full cinematic to begin with.
Daniel Thorne It would not be possible because arthas had no way to make death knights from Night elves at the time. The Lich Kings first generation were currupted paladins. Not to mention Illidan is part demon, which makes it entirely impossible.
This video was made in 2006, i was born in 2006 lol. Actually the video is even older than i am, i was born in June 6/6/2006 while this video was made in January 10/2006.
If i'm not mistaken Arthas was supposed to be weakened during this scene also and still took it to Illidan, man Illidan is one of those guys who always get their ass kicked by everyone.
He wasn't weakened Ner'zhul was giving Arthas every ounce of power he had to left to make sure he could get to the helm of domination as he knew Illidan would KILL Arthas and destroy the helm without Ner'zhuls remaining power.
I agree. I tried playing WoW for some nostalgic value ( i played when I was a kid back in the days of vanilla before the stereotypes of the players) and its just not the same anymore :(
Wtf happened to immolation, evasion and Metamorphasis? Not to mention Illidan could have just blocked Arthas' attack with his twin blades. Wtf Blizzard?
Blizzard could have made this fight good instead of having Arthas win so easily. At least have Illidan lose in a believable way instead of him just letting Arthas slice him and getting downed in one hit.
Doctor Pepper Limitations of the ingame cutscene. What htey were planning for the cinematic fight would have involved demonic and deathknight powers (and revealed illidan to have survived) but they simply ran out of time to make the video.
Yeah I know about that, but they still did a shitty job with this cutscene. Also, Illidan has the Twin Blades of Azzinoth and they're badass. How did having Fostmourne make Arthas that much more powerful than Illidan?
Amazing, this old semi-cinematic fight between Illidan and Arthas... Awesome story of a Warcraft rts can give to many people.. Most likely, people who do not know the Warcraft lore would probably thought that the blind demon looking guy is the bad guy, and that the human with white hair is the good guy... But obviously, everyone who knows the true Warcraft story, should know that it is actually the other way around, or should we say it is the vice versa of what most people who dont know Warcraft may think about this awesome battle...
I personally in the end of Wc3TFT wished for Illidan to finally kill Arthas as the Lich King to fulfill his prophecy he gained through his eyes of a great future in a Warcraft 4. The banned betrayer finally bringing peace to the world. That's what I wouldn't begrudge him of. But Illidan had to pay in one way, because as opposed to Arthas Menethil, he wasn't influenced by a great device of power, but only through words and promises and he always made his own decisions to do what he did just for the sake of power and magic. Therefore his end was far more cruel to himself than it was to Arthas, because he came back to his minds in the end and Illidan did not. I so wish for a Warcraft 4. Stop this Madness named World of Warcraft :\
When you are fighting the very skilled champion of a being that can control millions of undead across the planet, which you have backed into a corner. And said god like entity is focusing that will and power all on said champion, shit is going to happen if you don't stay on your toes.
![Jailer Defeat Cinematic - Arthas Freed & Lich King Destroyed: All Cutscenes [WoW Dragonflight Lore]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/PshKOmnHaYc/mqdefault.jpg)
Who's here after a disappointment that was the Reforged version?
It's an absolute joke.
plus 1
I mean, how does the reforged version manage to look worse? Of course the models are better, but everything about the animation is terrible imo
Plus 1
me too bro, RIP reforged
This has more frames per second than the "remastered" version.
This just looks better in general.
Cause it's only 1 minute scene
I differ
XDDD
yall are blinded by nostalgia
Let me guess. You saw the remastered version, but it was disapppointing, and you wanted to see a truly badass fight between these two. Yeah, i'm here for the same reason too.
yeaaah!
lmfao
Yeahhh boi
I need this version not reforge, reforge is cancer(
Man, the fight had so much potential too, it could've been a great way to display character and their fighting skills
Plot spoiler: Arthas was prepared.
+Johan Dale indeed
no such thing as prepax or not, do anyx nmw
More like Illidan was not prepared
fireborn2nn yeah agree
Johan Dale that’s not right
Someone came here after watching the reforged version?
Me
Yup. Despite the looks, animation is on par (keep in mind they had very strict budget and time constraints when making this) and Illidan getting hit here makes at least some kind of sense, unlike in the reforged cutscene
I did, this actually looks like a fighting scene, reforged doesnt make any sense and that fighting is so stiff, very disappointing, + no music in that new one, sad.
Me, brother
Shit this is better than reforged's. it seems that BZ lost their technology just like warhammer 40k.
Suddenly this one isn't looking so bad anymore.
It never did.
Hououin Kyouma well now it never did :D
@@hououinkyouma3864 braindamaged
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It never did. It was a product of it's time you brainlet.
Hououin Kyouma it was a joke about relativity you inbred weeb.
This one looks more energetic and the swings have weight (except for maybe arthas’s first strike on Illidan. The sound effect was kinda weak, but Illidan was nearly on the floor).
Despite being shorter than reforged, the camera work captures the dynamic feel of the fight. Reforged feels slow and barely looks like it's made by a studio that already has so much experience making animations.
Idk, i actually like the first swing. It does not tell, but shows that Arthas hits are insanely strong, to the point where a freaking half-demon night elf demon hunter was brought on his knees...
T. Va. exactly this.
The sound effects are dope what are you talking about
Honestly I was pleasantly surprised that I actually remembered this exact sound effect.
The only one that is more memorable is dmc3 sword clinch
I guess Illidan wasn't prepared
XD
Illidan was a betrayer with a pointless purpose. He deserved it. For Arthas !
Hakkı Ertuğrul
And he had stupid weapons
or it was cold for him
or you are not prepared
Even years later, after seeing WoW's cinematics such as the Broken Shore and the Ending of the Nightwell, this fight is still so damn impressive looking, considering it was made in-engine in Warcraft 3.
This trailer has smooth animation, music, tension and visible effort put into it.
The reforged trailer has neither of those.
Imagine releasing a cinematic in 2020 that is worse than a cinematic from 2003..
Note that the in-game animation between Illidan and Arthas was originally planned to be a video cinematic. Time constraints, however, forced the scene to be done inside the game. The developers have said that their greatest regret about this change is that many assumed Illidan died, when the video would have revealed that Illidan survived to watch Arthas's transformation. Source: wowwiki
There was also alternate ending planned if arthss lost the mission. With Illidan Victory cinematic model still in the files.
0:35 Arthas: It's over Illidan. I have the high ground!
0:36 Arthas: Don't try it!
0:38 Illidan: YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER!
0:53 Arthas: YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE LEGION, NOT JOIN THEM!
0:54 Illidan: I HATE YOU!
0:55 Arthas: You were my brother, Illidan. I loved you.
LOL
WELL THEN YOURE LOST!!!
Haawlin whaddafuk
Aera Steele i love that star wars shit
well illidan was brother with an elf a druid i forgot his name was a druid of talon
0:36 and look at this bad ass swing! you can feel the heavy yummy swing on the animation. I wanted that on beautiful graphics HD 4k shit etc. not the kiddy jump slash he did from reforged.
He puts his fuckin' strength into that swing here. They turned this fight into an anime battle in Reforged. WTF were those smiles before the fight? Or that stupid knee slide?
I dislike reforged version but it is much better then original. Reforged at least looks like fight... here Illidan just jumps and let Arthas to kill himself. It looks so terrible. (reforged ending version is stupid too but has some logic).
@@heavyhug1098 some logic? charging un-armed into a sowrd is you definition for logic?
@@heavyhug1098 well same as saying kid Goku killing King Picolo using his head is terrible. Illidan took a big jump into the air and that was his biggest mistake but it's understandable cuz he underestimated Arthas' abilities. Charge + critical strike is the combo that took down illidan, illidan was in the air so his defense = 0 which means he took the critical damage from the charge. What's so terrible about that???
@@jmra99 he turned into demon... still better then just jump :|
Am i the only one who thinks this is better than remastered cinematic?
No, the remastered version is so bad....
No, I honest though it’s beyond bad
You must be blind then
@@Sabakinno The animation on the new one somehow manages to be worse than this one
@@Sabakinno Terrible animation, no fucking dramatic music
They need to remake this fight, like in Legion have Illidan remember about this confrontation and then have the fight play in a WoW cinematic way.
that would be amazing :D
wait. pls dont tell me arthas is back in legion?
Tracer He isn't, but this fight would happen in a flashback.
Alijamaru Ahh, I see.
and they should show us Arthas vs kael'thas
I used to watch this video all the time when I was 12. I'm now 28.
In Rise of the Lich King,this fight happened differently:
When Illidan dodged Arthas' sweep (as shown in the cinematic) he transformed in his demon form and stomped Arthas to the point where he dropped on the ground unconscious.
Then,Illidan went on a power trip and started gloating.However Frostmourne changed to "survival mode" and took direct control of Arthas' body.
So when Illidan tried to finish him, Arthas(Frostmourne) slashed Illidan in the chest with superhuman speed and defeated him.
well 10 levels is a lot. not a fair fight
?
It's a joke.
You're able to fight Illidan during the Burning Crusade expansion, a Level 70 based expansion.
The Lich King (Arthas) is fought during The Wrath of The Lich King expansion. A Level 80 based expansion.
I've seen some level 70's beat up level 80's in duels
KAREN DESU Balance pvp is shit if you are only pressing 2 buttons
rip Cataclysm
+Anime Hunter cataclysm was also trash. completely fucked up and unbalanced wrath was the shit
Illidan: You are not prepared!
Arthas: Indeed?
Illidan, my man, YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!
Damn I actually liked lllidan
He escaped i think,he didnt die.
Šimon Malík Illidan he not die, You can read wow.gamepedia
Lol can you read? :D
Pyro mancer Was there anyone who didn't?
wtfduud I hate him
level 10 arthas vs level 1 illidan
наоборот походу
+The Blue Crusader Wasn't it the other way around?
+Sania Sania level illidan,10 level arthas!
+_Flyffu _ 1 level illidan,10 arthash.
actually was level 2 arthas vs level 10 illidan
Anyone else here after watching the poorly edited version in Reforged?
The one without music, without any tension and clunky animation?
Yup the 2003 cinematic is way better imo.
Now with Legion, this fight can literally happen whenever a Death Knight and Demon Hunter PVP against each other!
I love my Demon Hunter, fun as hell, but my Unholy DK has become a powerhouse of awesomeness (from an RP-perspective my DK is kinda an older-brother to the Demon Hunter, both existed before they became what they were from a time that gets a little tricky, with Gnomie involveD)
Yes, indeed! And just like in this instance, Death Knights have the upper hand.
yea dh spins around ADHD feral druid style and dies
I think that Arthas was a Frost DK tho. You know, since the artifact for the Frost spec are the reforged shards of Frostmourne.
***** Well, he has split between unholy and frost in terms of WoW, none of his abilities really resembled anything a blood DK does.
I'm only disappointed because Illidan is thousands of years old and should have an amazing culmination of skill. I guess the raw power of frostmourne is also neat but I wish it didn't look like illidan was just plain rekt
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well it was 2003.. i mean..they had to create a scene made in the game engine itself and for the time i bet that was crazy hard.. not saying that a 3 minute fight would of been tyring.
Yeah but he was for about 10000 (according to Loreology he has about 1100) of these years imprisoned, and there is not much opportunity to train in prison... also Arthas was boosted by Lich King (mor ethen before) on that moment.
Arthas was at the peak of his skill and power. He was trained by the best, and he had fought the best (Uther). He's not some other random human. And I don't think you could say Illidan got wrecked, it was a balanced duel until Arthas got the upper hand.
It was explained that at this time Arthas was at the peak of his power before becoming the LK, he had both his self gained experience and skill as a skilled healer necromancer death knight along with all the power Ner'zhul could grant him. Even with all this, it would be difficult still to face one of the strongest beings in existence of WC lore... During this fight neither of them used magic and preferred pure physical combat, thou we all know who would win in magic. Even then, Illidan is no pushover at anything, he merely grew careless in timing and measuring his jump, then received a critical counter attack.
In weapon power, DO NOT underestimate Illidan's weapon, (The twinblades of azzinoth) it's at least half as strong as frostmourne and got enchanted later on in WoW. It won't break to frostmourne and could clash against it time and time again, but would not survive a critical blow from frostmourne... It was carelessness...
And budget.
Please take not of this all commenters
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Ovidiu Diumea You're right, it was a balanced fight. Not if Illidan was not someone with no honour thou. He honours melee combat a lot, and I like it that way. My badass Illidan :). Coz if Illidan used his arcane magic at this fight, Arthas would probably last at best 10 minutes.
All heroes have to die one day, he may be a villain, but never a betrayer in my heart... he was a victim of power. Bye illidan, don't revive in Warlords of Draenor plz, unless you would lose your demonic powers and become and allied hero... and marry MAIEV !!!! that is awesomee OOOOHH
God...amazing how this animation from 2002 has way more impact and weight in the movement than an animation from 2020.
It's almost like Activision's flesh-puppet no longer has the talent it had in 2002.
This fight is gonna get REFORGED boys!
Same
Xal really do you have prof
@@benjaminbasilyo1512 Yes! czcams.com/video/72UbFQO5-m0/video.html
Now it has got
maybe disappointing
poor illidan he missed out on Kingslayer title
and "Bane of the Lich King"
....
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And the free mount
lmfao if i could id put 20 thumbs up for this one xD
Death Knight vs Demon Hunter be like...
He should have teamed up with Jorah Mormont. The power of friendzone would have been overwhelmed Arthas.
XD, sad that noone upvotes this.
LOL best comment I have seen in awhile
One thing I don't understand, why didn't illidan use demon form?
I guess he miscalculated his powers but wanted to do what you say, so he flew back because it needs a second to transform. That was the moment for Arthas to make the fatal blow. Miscalculation can happen to the very best
BUT let''s not forget that at that time WoW and all the Addons didn't exist. In WC 3 + FT they were always equal strong. They had a fight before this (in the campaign mission where you find the Skullhead of Gul'dan with Illidan) and after they fight and decide it's a draw, Arthas tricked his hunger for power and told him about the skull.
So much Characters were brought back in WoW who you thought were dead in WC 3 FT and some characters were made much more powerful then they should have been back in the day. But to keep WoW intact they bring back everyone they like for new stories. For me personal they were always equal! That was the very reason for this "final" story fight. The Campaign about these two were made to meet before the top of the Frozen Throne in a equal fight.
Oh i see the text is a bit long, hope someone will still read it ^^
I'd be so happy if blizzard made a had remake of the fight. And sweet Jesus the music is fantastic
Your prayers has been answered
you are not happy anymore
I can't imagine the embarassment you had from watching reforged version.
Be careful what you wish for.
"You think you do, but you don't"
-J. Allen Brack
, President of Blizzard
I always wondered why they went with this particular animation style instead of the same as previous cinematic cutscenes.
It doesn't look nearly as good as the others.
Budget probably
This was rendered in game! As in at any point (if you had mouse control) you could walk a peon in the middle of their epic battle.
It wasn't a budget problem or anything like that, because a cinematic followed directly after. I think they did it because they could. They wanted to show off how their engine would render a complex fight scene like this with scripted unit anims.
J Del
No this is not actual in game footage
ChaosCollection no this isn't footage of actual gameplay, but it IS rendered within the game using map scripting and custom animations and effects.
Using the WCIII World Editor you can find these two custom model files and watch their animations. You could possibly recreate this movie except IDK how they set up the sky.
Fancy C.G.cutscenes are expensive.
This was made 18 years ago, posted 15 years ago and still looks incredible
"It's over, Arthas! I have the high ground!"
Longest fight ever
what is that fking jump illidan.....
It's the double jump, we get to use it in Legion
If only people criticizing this seventeen years ago knew what lies in store for them in the future.
Maybe this fight was a bit too short and the models weren't great but the music helped a lot and I liked how it felt like one mistake would end the fight. The way Arthas threw everything into his strikes was awesome, in the remaster he seems slow and like he was too weak to really swing Frostmourne. Having him win the fight decisively is fine, after all this was Arthas at the peak of his power before becoming the Lich King.
That last slash of frostmourne really looks like it's coming in towards Illidan's crotch. Low blow man, low blow.
It was explained that at this time Arthas was at the peak of his power before becoming the LK, he had both his self gained experience and skill as a skilled healer necromancer death knight along with all the power Ner'zhul could grant him. Even with all this, it would be difficult still to face one of the strongest beings in existence of WC lore... During this fight neither of them used magic and preferred pure physical combat, thou we all know who would win in magic. Even then, Illidan is no pushover at anything, he merely grew careless in timing and measuring his jump, then received a critical counter attack.
In weapon power, DO NOT underestimate Illidan's weapon, (The twinblades of azzinoth) it's at least half as strong as frostmourne and got enchanted later on in WoW. It won't break to frostmourne and could clash against it time and time again, but would not survive a critical blow from frostmourne... It was carelessness...
And budget.
Please take not of this all commenters
u Mirin
Hey who will win with magic you mean illidan or arthas you said that
@@corpchannel2523 There was a description of this fight in : "Arthas : Rise of The Lich King" . Ilidan was one of the most powerful beings on Azeroth. One of the most talented sorcerer of his time (War of the Ancient). Fell (which Ilidan is using) is one of the most devastating force in Warcraft Universe. I guess Ilidan is more powerful in magic than Arthas. Lich King is maybe stronger (because he draws his energy straight from Shadowlands and has a big connection to it) Ilidan had a chance to kill Arthas. He was stronger (first blow send Arthas on his knee and Ilidan start insult him). He was too confident and it was a reason why he lost this fight. Arthas deafet him because he stay focused .
Demon hunter 10 lvl pwns DK in WarCraft 3 1v1 easily :) You may put Illidan 10 lvl vs Arthas 10 lvl with map editor. Arthas has no chance in any case. With magic or without. With any artifacts.
Its weird wen you start thinking if Ilidan had actually won this battle.
Everyone on would have died by now
The one time the villain doesn't finish off his enemy and it doesn't bite him in the ass later on
Thanks for publishing this cool cinematic!
Virgin Ilidan vs Chad Arthas
Somehow this still looks better than the new version. The music, the cinematography, just everything man. How are you keep fucking up so hard Blizzard?
If it was remade into a cinematic it would look a thousand times better.
Its already fucking better in my opion
czcams.com/video/OC9RZTD2MaI/video.html you're welcome
guess what, it's bad.
This comment didn't age well,no,not well at all,sry,i'll just drop the like cause it is 6, years old
not today buddy
Unlike every warcraft cinematics, this one is on warcraft 3 engine which is actually very cool.
FOR THE LICH KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
momo xmomox ye he is the GOD of cringe
This ones more dramatic and tense. Like a final anime battle.
I gotta say after watching the reforged version of this cutscene this one is mostly better
Please explain how?
@@renebaan7430 bruh the reforged version is slow
universe slow but the animation are way more better and the fight sequence makes way more sense. People expecting a full cinematic are stupid cause it was never a full cinematic to begin with.
It feels like a fanmade video lol
@@stevenuniverse9613 I can understand that point of view, but to say the old one is better is just a lie tbh.
I like how quick it is. Doesn’t go on until you stop caring like other epic fights
Imagine if Arthas killed illidan and converted him into a Death Knight loool
that will become him a bullshit
Daniel Thorne Illidan would have to die for that to happen, and since they're still on Azeroth...
Daniel Thorne no chance, only the lich king can make death knights.
Daniel Thorne It would not be possible because arthas had no way to make death knights from Night elves at the time. The Lich Kings first generation were currupted paladins. Not to mention Illidan is part demon, which makes it entirely impossible.
tenjek nope, the first death knights were orcs made from Gul'dan and Ner'zhul
There is a CGI scene right after this.
I guess he wasent *takes off shades* prepared.
Mister "I Am My Scars" is missing the scar he should have gotten from this encounter.
Yep, this is the right scale Frostmourne, not an anime monster hunter blade, it's a fucking usable sword.
This video was made in 2006, i was born in 2006 lol.
Actually the video is even older than i am, i was born in June 6/6/2006 while this video was made in January 10/2006.
actually the cinematic itself is from july 2003, from warcraft 3: the frozen throne
blizzard let you have those shitty warglaives, but not frostmourne baby, never frostmourne!
Other classes wouldnt want we death knights run around steal souls of everythink in WoW :)
Navhkrin that would be so op. imagine you duel a DK with Frostmourne and once he kills you, you never see that character on your account again xD
this still makes the arm hairs stand to this day great use of cinematic engine and artistic skill
Apparently being cut open in the snow drove Illidan crazy.
"That wasn't easy to get over. But don't think I didn't try!"
imagine this scene if arthas was a tauren and illidan was a gnome
WC3 -2020. Rest in peace my old friend ;(
Blizzard should really remake this cutscene
no
0:11
All of that swing for that tiny "ting!!!"
Reason why Illidan didn't say he wasn't prepared was because he saw Frostmourne.
man Illidan.........you had ONE fuckin job. dammit lol
well when i played this mission Illidan popped his demon form every time we fought over the obelisks so no. He just have it on cd. Bad timing.
finalboss lmao, true
AH good old animation, Short and sweet!
oh man blizz cinematics department has come so far. by far best cinematics out of any gaming franchize ever
If i'm not mistaken Arthas was supposed to be weakened during this scene also and still took it to Illidan, man Illidan is one of those guys who always get their ass kicked by everyone.
He wasn't weakened Ner'zhul was giving Arthas every ounce of power he had to left to make sure he could get to the helm of domination as he knew Illidan would KILL Arthas and destroy the helm without Ner'zhuls remaining power.
No Arthas was weakened when Ner'zhul gave his power he just restored Arthas' power.
@@jack07tr68 no the book states that arthas was at his absolute peak at this point
He should have claimed his soul.
"You're a pitious creature Illidan, you don't even deserve an honourable death."
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Came back so many years later, who else is HYPED too see this remade in HD??
Who ?
Pain
Oh Warcraft, how I miss you and how I lament. What have you become?
I agree. I tried playing WoW for some nostalgic value ( i played when I was a kid back in the days of vanilla before the stereotypes of the players) and its just not the same anymore :(
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Dat fight is more intense then the reforged one, and Arthas feels more crazy
DH and DK fought each other before it was wow
Wtf happened to immolation, evasion and Metamorphasis? Not to mention Illidan could have just blocked Arthas' attack with his twin blades. Wtf Blizzard?
You realise that Arthas had to win the fight for story reasons?
Blizzard could have made this fight good instead of having Arthas win so easily. At least have Illidan lose in a believable way instead of him just letting Arthas slice him and getting downed in one hit.
Doctor Pepper Limitations of the ingame cutscene. What htey were planning for the cinematic fight would have involved demonic and deathknight powers (and revealed illidan to have survived) but they simply ran out of time to make the video.
Yeah I know about that, but they still did a shitty job with this cutscene.
Also, Illidan has the Twin Blades of Azzinoth and they're badass. How did having Fostmourne make Arthas that much more powerful than Illidan?
jajaja nice coment
Then the player presses the revive button for Illidan at an Altar, lol
10 из 10. Просто 10 из 10. WarCraft 3. Помним любим скорбим
This whole last level could of been an entire movie alone lol it was just that damn good
Illidan went full Vegeta here.
Epic fight
Epic fight didn't think it was going to end.
Amazing, this old semi-cinematic fight between Illidan and Arthas... Awesome story of a Warcraft rts can give to many people.. Most likely, people who do not know the Warcraft lore would probably thought that the blind demon looking guy is the bad guy, and that the human with white hair is the good guy... But obviously, everyone who knows the true Warcraft story, should know that it is actually the other way around, or should we say it is the vice versa of what most people who dont know Warcraft may think about this awesome battle...
Illidan isn't the good guy. They are both bad.
Ovidiu Diumea YES, Illidan is INDEED a GOOD GUY... In fact, Illidan was NEVER BEEN REALLY EVIL until WoW fucked up his lore..
I personally in the end of Wc3TFT wished for Illidan to finally kill Arthas as the Lich King to fulfill his prophecy he gained through his eyes of a great future in a Warcraft 4. The banned betrayer finally bringing peace to the world. That's what I wouldn't begrudge him of. But Illidan had to pay in one way, because as opposed to Arthas Menethil, he wasn't influenced by a great device of power, but only through words and promises and he always made his own decisions to do what he did just for the sake of power and magic. Therefore his end was far more cruel to himself than it was to Arthas, because he came back to his minds in the end and Illidan did not.
I so wish for a Warcraft 4. Stop this Madness named World of Warcraft :\
illidan is cool but arthus is way cooler and should always win every fight :p
well, if you think in that way, that was the end of azeroth with the scourge without of control
Who's here after watching the reforged version?
The music, art and camera shots/angles are way better than reforged lmfao. This is much more dramatic and serious
0:38 it was at this moment Illidan knew he fucked up
Who's here after Reforge?
When you are fighting the very skilled champion of a being that can control millions of undead across the planet, which you have backed into a corner. And said god like entity is focusing that will and power all on said champion, shit is going to happen if you don't stay on your toes.
If Illidan used Metamorphosis, he might have won!
I think he used her Metamorphosis...i see Cowlegs
I used to play the whole scourge campaign again and again just to feel illidan's defeat more satisfying
Just thinking that this cinematic would be remastered in a matter of time makes me jizz in my pants
ow he he was the one who spammed forums: NERF DKs, NERF DKs
This one is much better than REFORGED!
Look this fight, and than look what Blizz call today an epic fight...
ARTHAS is now the NIGHT KING in Game of Thrones ❄️⚔️
Illidan, you were not prepared for the might of Frostmourne.
cmon FM is nothing compared to TBOA
Froustmourne hungers.
Illidan: "what are these fucking hotboxes? I was like 15 feet in the air"
This cutscene is 100 times better than WC3:Reforged version