Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal - Full Orc Campaign Gameplay & Story (Walkthrough / Speedrun)

This is a complete playthrough of the Orc Campaign, spliced together from individual recordings of each level. Played on Battle.net Edition v2.02 with Fog of War enabled.

[@Evokai6419]

Imagine a universe where Reforged was amazing and they had plans to do the same to the first two warcraft games? I cry every time man.

[@KUNAIfever]

they couldve just said remastered than reforged

[@MerlynMusicman]

I'd pay £30 for the Warcraft 1,2 and BtDP campaigns redone in the Warcraft 3 Reforged engine as a DLC :p

[@Tremmor500]

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[@davidtimmer596]

@@MerlynMusicman Sadly, not gonna happen, because of Blizzard's reputation.

[@nikypercea]

i know this is an old comment, but there is a game out there called armies of exigo, and in my opinion is like the remastered version of all warcraft games. if you are willing to play it, note that you will need a direct x9 emulator program (if you want to have the 3D unit portraits displayed, you can play it without it though)

[@Ihere123]

It's kinda funny when playing the Orcs! Back then, this is what I thought: - The Great Hall looks like a Christmas house. See the horns by the entrance? If you pan the camera and looking away from it, they can be mistakingly resemble candy canes. Even the lights, banner, and decorations are also mistaken for ornaments, and christmas lights and decorations! Plus, the brown structure completes this by looking alot like gingerbread! - The Orc Warriors, when facing left or right, looks alot like Santa themselves! But, when facing diagonally, they look alot like either Santa bending down to smoke a pipe, or holding a rifle. I just can't seem to get away from this ever since! - The sound of being berserk by Ogre-Mages is as if they are insanely drunk. WhauauuAaUaUuAuAaUAAUAUUAUAAUAUUH! - When an Orc dies, the sound is as if they're roaring rather than meeting death. OOOOOAAAAGH! - Most structure sounds, when selecting them, are hilarious! The Altar, for example, sounds as if two Orcs were conversating so dumbfounded, they don't know what they're actually talking about!

[@Douglasfirsandnoiselessdrapes]

I also missed the peons real face for way too long. I always thought that their right ear is an injured eye, and they only have one normal eye (looking left and up), their right tusk is their mouth (smiling), and the thing between their right war and eye is their nose.

[@DamienthePious]

I always thought the Christmas thing too! And I always thought the peon was looking to our left and his right tusk was his mouth.

[@thereisnotryv1971]

The Great Hall is absolutely Christmas-themed in the snow and I can't be convinced otherwise

[@MyNigellus]

The narrator reading the story is still so awesome. Perfect diction and sound effects. Best old and future memories since I hope I will complete the game 20 times more again ;d

[@Haephasto]

Back when they still knew how to pronounce Kul Tiras. Sigh.

[@ElijahIan]

How can you play this game today??? 😢 I used to play this on a 1995 pc 😂

[@MyNigellus]

@@ElijahIan It still both looks and plays good. Just look at it, how could you possibly deny its greatness. I love it, `100 years later

[@ElijahIan]

@@MyNigellus oh you misunderstood me bro!! Lol I am asking how can one play this game ?? I am very computer illiterate so ima asking what do I need to play today!! Haha I love this game

[@goatlord7310]

​@ephesians3987 I know what you mean. I've tried playing this again on my 12 year old alienware laptop and as soon as you move the cursor to the edge of the screen you're instantly across the map.

[@gydorack]

Wow Grom's voice. This is like finding out that Abraham Lincoln's voice was squeaky like a teapot.

[@goatcheezius2399]

He sounds like the Zerg Overlord unit from Starcraft except he can speak English lol

[@nonyabuisness6642]

I had never played this game and after reading this I was excited to hear his voice. Bruh

[@tassadar9623]

tHe WaRsOnG aRe SuPrEmE

[@infestchristopher1457]

I know huh?

[@lukelim5094]

I forgot totally about Grom Voice.

[@joelwallenius2877]

I never grow tired of the Bloodlust spellcast sound. Iconic!

[@AngelWasTaken533]

Thank you for not skipping any cinematics or mission debriefs!

[@nikolasweischner3560]

Death coils in this game were always so terrifying, even when I replayed it a year ago. Just pops your units.

[@zombieGI]

Nothing is more scary than polymorph. Even this guy made mass dragons every time there were mages with poly

[@edwardpikul55]

Amazing gameplay! Brings back so much memories and nostalgia.

[@TheSamosaCritic]

It is terrible. Can't imagine playing this after Warcraft 3 .

[@Pathogen7]

I like to spice up difficult things that I need to read by doing the "orc briefing voice" in my head.

[@123TauruZ321]

I consider this art. If just people that lived ordinary lives knew how much work it is and how difficult it is to play this fast and consistent.

[@AAAA-cn2qk]

standardized lives?

[@123TauruZ321]

@@AAAA-cn2qk Didn't know what else to call it. Normalized? A4? Linear?

[@The-jy3yq]

@@123TauruZ321 normal is a fitting one Ordinal? Something like that

[@123TauruZ321]

@@The-jy3yq Ordinary. Thanks.

[@pianoandguitarlover2773]

Bloodlust in WC2 was so over-powered.

[@mouse3355]

Now I've been really impressed how the play is so clean and fast at the same time!

[@nikypercea]

aaa.... the good old days when you could punch a building to oblivion, and the units where bigger than the building they came from :D awesome game play man... the speed you play on is godlike level :P

[@cybtb]

I remember dreaming at the time about when games would look as good as the intros... !! Now my phone can render better graphics live.

[@snowbork252]

Old games are still more fun, graphics be damned.

[@zdenkobrlica2856]

I Love old strategy games. Your performance is outstanding!

[@sredniahawajska3650]

I still remember well this day when i was 11 years old, went with Mom to buy this game. I am an old fart now, and this game is still with me. W1, W2, W3, Frozen Throne, and then WoW, amazing adventure, hats off to Blizzard, absolutely the best game, and story ever.

[@balbarith45]

Every time I hear the sound effect for the death knights decay spell, it makes me have the urge to break out my deep fryer to cook something.

[@NostraDavid2]

Seeing Korgath Bloodfist say "need a hand?" got a giggle out of me. (his clan replace one of their hands with a blade).

[@stolasthegreatprince4166]

Dude, how much cocaine did Grom snort during this era?

[@magnusm4]

He got kicked in the balls after the first war for months, that and sandpaper cigarettes will do that to you

[@Olagfigh]

I always imagine him as a orc berserker these days... until War3 came out and he became old fart

[@MrUser1million]

The sound of his voice is why he is called Hellscream.

[@RedGrobo]

All of it.

[@agihammerthief8953]

This is your warchief on demon blood

[@SeoulMan]

If only Ner'zhul knew what fate was awaiting him in the Twisting Nether...

[@dragonslair951167]

And you, the player, get to be a lich!

[@TheSquidPro]

They don't call it the twisting nether for nothing Ner'Zhul, prepare your soul to be used as a hole.

[@LordThomasPassion]

Wait , NerZhul ? As in the OG Lich King?

[@dragonslair951167]

@@LordThomasPassion Correct. Ner'Zhul escaped into the Twisting Nether, only to be greeted by his demonic master, Kil'jaeden, who was most displeased with his failure to conquer humanity. Kil'jaeden trapped his spirit within a suit of armor, frozen in a block of ice, and placed him in Northrend, giving him a new mandate: spread a plague of undeath with his new powers and destroy Lordaeron. Ner'Zhul's lieutenants, meanwhile, were all transformed into liches (Which is why many of them don't have human names).

[@LordThomasPassion]

@@dragonslair951167 do we know which Lich was the player from this game? And what happened to the alliance forces that followed into the nether?

[@ku3ya]

The method with an accelerated magician under protection is simply brilliant 🙌

[@maypierd9270]

Finally Smth for keeping me awake at night

[@tenchimuyo69]

Its an Orc campaign but all I see are Ogres.

[@santiagoarias9024]

The maddening sound of moving multiple troops!

[@niksatan]

This brings so much memories... o god, i am old...

[@Catboi9000]

Played this as a kid. A sone points in the campaigns the game would crash as if saying "nope. You cracked it. No more gameplay for you" It still was so much fun.

[@tyfyh622]

just like no bridge in sc lol

[@TheMouseMasterYT]

7:22 I love how close the music at this point sounds to another of my favorite games, Lords of the Realm 2 :)

[@FilkoSempai]

Thank you so much for this nostalgia 4-pack. I'm glad i found such a good quality lp

[@kyleromus6845]

I'm sure everything worked out great for Ner'zhul after stepping through the portal...

[@calvinsuu1949]

Lol yea definitely not him being tortured and turned into something else

[@LordThomasPassion]

What happened to the Shadowmoon Slayer (the orc player)?

[@matthijsvanwees5822]

Been watching you play C&C, RA & WC2. Thank you for the high quality playing and uploads. Well done👍🏻 Been a trip down memory lane. Just bought the remasterd C&C collection and will be getting WC2 battlenet (though I still have all the originals as I loved them so much as a kid). I've learned a lot by watching you play. My younger self wasn't much of a strategist... 😅 Beyond the Dark Portal kicked my ass 🤣 Not sure if you have a Dungeon Keeper playthrough. I'll check later. Another great game from that era 😈

[@StuGames]

Thanks man, have fun with the games :) I wasn't any good at them as a kid either, I was playing around with cheat codes more than playing legitimately :D Unfortunately I didn't have Dungeon Keeper as a kid although the concept intrigued me and I thought about picking it up multiple times. Unfortunately the UI seems very dated and unintuitive in that game.

[@matthijsvanwees5822]

@@StuGames Will do! Really looking forward to beating them legitimately 😇 No more glittering prizes or great days to die 🤫 I've completed Dungeon Keeper several times over the years. There's a higher resolution mode in the windows version, which helps. The main challenge with Dungeon Keeper (for me anyways) is the difficulty in micro-managing large engaments with the enemy. Also, there's quite a few creatures that attack each other on sight or who do massive area of affect damage which kills friendly units 😫 Having said all that, I do strongly encourage you to give it a try! One of my all time favorites. You can slap your imps around, hear the dark mistress's screams of pleasure reverberate around your dungeon, cruely torture your foolish goody goody enemies, converting them to your cause and... get flipped off by the universally irate and disgruntled horned reaper 😋 Love it!

[@breathstealer5486]

@@StuGames dude how did I never think of that as a kid or an adult. Using a death night as a make shift goblin sapper with death and decay and unholy armor

[@1MoreTurn]

The narrator is such a hype-beast.

[@KingHenselt]

Моя любимая стратегия !! Классика ! До сих пор помню это меню !и эти звуки!

[@turnwaiter5766]

1:35:13 "would you want a kiss? of course, master" LOL

[@pinglankek]

this and diablo 1 was my first blizzard games i played with my brother :D Such memories

[@AlexeiVoronin]

First ever appearance of Grom Hellscream in a Warcraft game!

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

1:30:20 Fun fact: The guy who made the Warcraft 1 in Warcraft 3 custom campaign added 2 bonus secret levels for both races. The first human level of which is heavyly inspired by this one in terms of gameplay and landscape.

[@uanime1]

1st mission intro: defeat the Laughing Skull clan 1st mission gameplay: defeat the Shattered Hand clan 9th mission intro: daemon guarded by Orc clans 9th mission gameplay: daemon guarded by human nations for some reason Also both Human and Orc campaigns involve destroying the Thunderlord and Bonechewer clans.

[@rallykalle8852]

What human mission involves destroying hunderlord and Bonechewer clans?

[@uanime1]

@@rallykalle8852 In mission 11, Dance of the Laughing Skull, you destroy the stronghold of the Thunderlord clan. You also attack the Bonechewer clan. Since in the 3rd Orc missions their strongholds were near each other it's possible you attack their stronghold as well.

[@Weigazod]

back when it didn't take hours for a grunt to kill a footman

[@chatnoir1224]

Korgath Bladefist: "Need a hand?" - ha! What a troll. His clan cut their left hands.

[@CBruceNL]

Wow, just, really amazing. I had foolish thought you sac'd deathwing early in the last mission. Just really amazing.

[@gorgogrottan]

Thanks a bunch for this! Just started on the expansion

[@user-tq3vb7vw6b]

Man, i watched this 3 times. Great, just great!

[@ruffusgoodman4137]

I can't believe in all these years I just now realized the Temple of the Damned got a Triforce right next to the door kkkkkk

[@aa282171]

Excellent

[@bryanekers3472]

I twisted my nether once. It was really painful.

[@ernestlemmingway1124]

I saw it asked once somewhere else and I'll ask it hear: just how much cocaine did Grom snort? He sounds like his head's going to pop.

[@theamericanchannel3921]

Grom Hellscream, Cho'gall, Thrall, are the deadliest and most powerful NPC's.

[@unlivreunehistoire]

Finally ! I've finished the last mission ... nice play !

[@rockeazymatt]

Still putting out great content I see :) Great work Stu *thumbs up from papi

[@poiz921]

Grom has been captured so many times throughout the story

[@VK-sz4it]

But how? I thought that WC3 story is supposed to be thousand years after WC2?

[@poiz921]

@@VK-sz4it as far as I know not really, no. They are only a few years apart

[@VK-sz4it]

@@poiz921 Well, then I don't understand. Mediev had seemed to be quite an important dude. Why did nobody listen to him? I naturally concluded that a lot of time has pased since.

[@poiz921]

@@VK-sz4it it's a long time since I've actually read the lore, but i think mediv was evil, brought the orcs to the warcraft planet, died and somehow came back to repent. He doesnt reveal himself in WC3 for reasons I dont know. I think if you search on the lore wiki you'll find something

[@ValenceFlux]

The music and the voice acting is still highly entertaining and motivating hahaha.

[@whoeverwhoever400]

How did Taurens replace the Ogres?

[@ABuffWizard]

Superb run, Stu.

[@lampualadinidx9060]

BEYOND DARK PORTAL is much HARDER than TIDES OF THE DARKNESS

[@lorenzopace8213]

In starcraft you apply the "zerging" tactic, in warcraft the "ogring" one...

[@infestchristopher1457]

I still don't understand why they give Grom Hellscream a raspy version of Mike Tyson voice.

[@drfaul]

Badass gameplay

[@randomcommenter2941]

Grom looks so cool in wc2 and so silly in wc3, i mean all units look hella silly in wc3

[@DathanielTDK]

Grinning as they stepped into the twisting nether only to eat a shit pie forcefed by Kil'jaeden. Can't say Ner'zhul didn't deserve it either.

[@Spectans1]

Woops, somebody mistook Grom Hellscream for a goblin, what a shame.

[@balbarith45]

I laugh at how some of the AI just start running around randomly and die to you or your towers instead of actually fighting.

[@Neeger80]

I always played last mission that I headed to south and then made my base to where is the free gold mine. It seems that almost every mission has some backdoor way to complete it different way if you have very good skill. Playing as normal way the hardest time in last mission was killing the blue base. After I got their gold mine the rest of the mission was a piece of cake :)

[@ADT1995]

Holy cow you're great at this game... I can't imagine fighting 2 battles at once, much less 3 and still being on top of your production and unit micromanagement Also, damn I thought I made a lot of peons

[@tomaszkopszak1554]

Man, Your gameplay is masterpiece. WC II is game of my childhood. First time I beat it (Tides of Darkness) in high school but I was to scared to try Beyond the Dark Portal. I dicovered Your videos one year ago, watched most of videos from WC II. This is wholesome experience - music, sounds, graphics, game itself... And childhood memories. Few weeks ago I came back to this video and I was like... WC 2 calling again, I went through Tides of Darkness and I made my first steps into Beyond the Dark Portal. My skilled improved and I'm satisfy after beating every mission (I'm at 11 episode of Orc campaign). Stu, thank You for inspiration and showing the best of You in this game and this game itself! PS. Is Your run a world record? Best regards!

[@StuGames]

Good luck on the hardest mission (final orc mission) coming up! I have world records in all Tides of Darkness Orc missions, it's a video from last year if you want to check it out.

[@tomaszkopszak1554]

@@StuGames Thanks! Planning to beat IT today 🔥 One thing is bothering me - it seems like smth is wrong with opponent AI. During 11 episode Dalaran (human) wasn't attacking me. I have GOG version of WC II. IT was too easy and Im not super skilled in this game. Strange. Anyway congrats on world record runs, You deserve it.✨🌞

[@lampualadinidx9060]

How to get WARCRAFT 1 game play?

[@kudikudi]

This mission with drakes took me more than your whole gameplay

[@Brandonix26]

I find it funny that peons damage 1 hp only since they are by far the strongest, constantly training their bodies while the military rest waiting for an enemy. Amazing gameplay by the way, I have watched around 10 hours of you playing different campaings 🖤

[@pipedreamer9781]

I figured they are a gentle sort who don't want to hurt anyone.

[@JohnDoe-bo5yk]

Yeah they're probably physically strong but they don't have any combat training, I'd imagine getting a hit on a trained knight would be difficult, and if you do, I doubt it would be an effective strike.

[@thaivu3146]

That screen....my gosh my past just caught up with me

[@davidefavoino8739]

can you please tell me how on heart are you so fast? and how do you move more than 9 units in a row?

[@redishdude]

Is this some remastered version? All looks so clear and defined.

[@Bloodlyshiva]

The Trolls aren't native to Draenor. So they must have come through in the retreat. They're now apparently a core part of Orcish forces. Damm, they must have bred fast.

[@diegowfrk1]

Gosh, bloodlust is so op

[@diabolicaldag]

Man I used to hate working on my base only to hear bloodlust going off in the distance like oh shit here we go

[@tyfyh622]

this campaign is much better than the original

[@wedriatuck1242]

Que de bon souvenir! merci

[@hooshangmaster]

1:29:00 sour-joo-ras. thought it was sar-gehr-as

[@dragonslair951167]

The pronunciation changed in Warcraft 3. Sar-gehr-as is the modern version.

[@jerryrose7]

Swift and aggressive start pays off really well during expansion. AI is much smarter than in ToD, as long as even the last peasant/peon is alive, those curs find a spot outta your sight to reconstruct. They also buy many upgrades. I beat both campaigns without cheating only recently, however many missions require perfect micro, which I'm lacking, so for instance the New Stormwind takes me much longer to finish, cuz I ain't fast enough to prevent the AI from expanding their base and training advanced units.

[@mikeywest2007]

What software was used to record your playthrough :)

[@alithanar8]

at 56:00 anyone else find it hilarous that KUL'TIRAS is on a mountain no where near the coast?

[@voidnebula4528]

Aarg?

[@smindigo]

IX The Tomb of Sargeras, kept getting to the last 3 paladins before the demon, I missed those damn trolls on the island, only had a troll and a deathknight at the end before picking those up, then it was easy

[@blue-9-2-199]

Animation and attack look so cute🤣🤣😄😄

[@albrown122]

Blood-lusted Ogre Magi. The answer to everything.

[@MaverickShooter9]

my 1st RTS game,the good ole days when blizzard was making good games in a brief resume.....warcraft 2 = dark ambientation and epic characters warcraft 3 = too cartoonish and not grim,it was a deception and not even matched how epic was WC2

[@stiv66630]

What warcraft 3 did good is world editor other than that i agree without that wow wouldn't probably be made people made bunch of RPG maps and it was based on that

[@mrgadget1485]

LOL @these voice actors :D

[@christianweibrecht6555]

I'm surprised deathwing was able to slip past all of blue's defenses, also blood lust appears to be overpowered

[@fabioriato]

It is. That's why nobody plays as humans in PvP.

[@jerryrose7]

Deathwing indeed is key to victory here. It takes quite some knowledge on how the AI reacts. You have to benefit from slipping Deathwing right on specific spot, so that he keeps attacking Azeroth's peasants as well as structures. Peasants begin repairs immediately when structure burns, as long as they have resources, this way they can't afford to bother training other units. As soon as you've eliminated most blue peasants, you intermittently attack newly recruited ones and their castle. As the castle burns, the peasants start repairs immediately, so focus on spitting fire at those and also the castle itself, until destroyed. This way you've pretty much avoided the worst disaster, otherwise you'd have to deal with Gryphons. Meanwhile you gotta make your move thru Kul Tiras' defense lines into Dalaran, cuz they also construct most advanced structures and send Mages and Paladins, who later threaten and obliterate your position. Lordaeron ain't much of a trouble here, safe for early game. I reflected on a single note about Deathwing and doing so I managed to compose a poem. 😄 Cheers.

[@sipher3516]

@@jerryrose7 I beat the last map the hard way, enduring Azeroth's gryphons and all. Seeing this Deathwing play in action, I was laughing out loud at how simple yet effective it was. That map wiped the floor with me like 15 times before I beat it.

[@jerryrose7]

@@sipher3516 As soon as I glimpsed Gryphons emerging out of the shadows and Mages moving towards my position which I barely conquered, I was forced to restart.

[@tanchuhong5097]

how to control the army so fast? i had download but cannot use (shift control) for army. got any link for download?

[@PhoenixAlaris93]

Damn, you make these look easy! You really need to hit the ground running with these missions otherwise it devolves into a war of attrition.

[@mehmetsevim3657]

Good way to describe my job delivering parcels for Amazon lol

[@Le-Salmon-oj8et]

Cutscenes/Dialogue Opening: 0:19 Ending: 2:19:04 Act 1 ??? 1:21 I. Slayer of The Shadowmoon 5:11 II. The Skull of Gul'dan 14:53 III. Thunderlord and Bonechewer Act 2 The Burning of Azeroth 27:44 IV. The Rift Awakens 39:48 V. Dragons of Blackrock Spire 46:11 VI. New Stormwind Act 3 The Great Sea 58:38 VII. The Seas of Azeroth 1:10:37 VIII. Assault on Kul'Tiras 1:29:23 IX. The Tomb of Sargeras Act 4 Prelude to New Worlds 1:36:48 X. Alterac 1:48:29 XI. The Eye of Dalaran 2:01:05 XII. The Dark Portal

[@ruffusgoodman4137]

You could have build houses around the towers. A little min-max to prolong their HP, but it isn't that game changing

[@tommybomby4122]

Why didn’t I think of that

[@seanclements6206]

He did it. NO, HEE DID ITT

[@snowvalkyrie]

HUMAN SCOUT: A bunch of naked Ogres with hoods on are making a beeline for our Fort! Get ready for battle!😱 PALADINS: Wait, what?!😶

[@tommybomby4122]

😳😳😳😳😳

[@youngthinker1]

Why does the food never increase or reflect how many farms you have?

[@MajinHercule]

2:20:27 And they realized very fast that they had made a huge mistake.

[@charliewatson657]

Im stuck at the yellow death knight mission. been playing since i was a kid. the unholy armor and deathand decay combo was interesting

[@Mostlyharmless1985]

It's called a mage bomb, watching this is just flooding back all the forgotten memories of this game...

[@lampualadinidx9060]

Nice old game

[@fulldecent]

These campaign maps seem to be slightly different than what I see. It's still War2Combat edition. Has there been an upgrade? (The one I see has much more aggressive comps)

[@koriandr3600]

1:34:48 daaamn

[@blue-9-2-199]

Aww the movement look so cute lol

[@MortenVoigt]

In the end of the first mission. Right after you were done smashing everything. Everyone suddenly moved slower around while you were waiting for the "victory button". How did you do that? I believe you are to play in this fast tempo but it just made me suspicious...