Warcraft III prerelease screenshot gallery

Pre ECTS 1999 (so before Sep 5th '99)

One Hero, tiny portrait and different Blademaster collar.

Visiting the Dragon with only one Hero and different portrait position/size

Two Heroes and a triangle cursor.

Two Heroes and the cursor from Warcraft Adventures / Warcraft II.

Two Heroes, new Orc cursor and smaller portraits.

ECTS 1999, Sep 5th '99 (also called Pre-Korea)

Around the Korean Trade show (or so), Jan 25th 2000

PC XL Demo, February 2000

Before E3 2000, Apr 19th 2000

Very short before E3 2000, May 10th 2000

One of my favourite screenshots: It looks like the Pre ECTS version, but has a bigger font size in the gold display box.

E3 2000, May 11.?-13.? 2000

Pre ECTS 2000, Aug 30 2000 or earlier (ECTS Build is Aug 31)

This version is tricky: It looks like E3 2000, but E3 2000 had no gold (But the Gold Box-Display) and the Heroes had a description when selected.
There are two subversions that show different versions of the maps.

Old maps and faked interface (official shot, not edited by someone outside Blizzard):

Old maps:

New maps

ECTS 2000, Sep ~6. 2000

Pre-Night Elves without top bar and with little XP bar

This and the following version were extremly hard to differ from eachother.

First Night Elves, Dec 4th 2000

Smarter selection(?)

Some screenshots may be from the version with big XP bar, but you can't decide, when no hero is selected.

Night Elves without top bar and with big XP bar, ~Jan 24th 2001

Night Elves with top bar, two resources, big XP bar, no XP bar border

Night Elves with top bar, two resources, big XP bar, XP bar border

Night Elves with top bar, three resources, big XP and XP bar border)

Pre E3 2001 (so March or April 2001, but published on May 21st 2001)

I simply guess, these screeshots are a little bit older.

This screenshot seems to be slightly older than the following ones (Font width/height is different and the map is buggy).

E3 2001

Pre Inside Mac Games

Inside Mac Games (Post E3 2001), May 21st 2001

Post Inside Mac Games

This screenshot is really very hard to categorize, but finally, I decided it must be after Inside Mac Games, due to the resource order and the fog of war. The Human icon instead of the Orc icon must have been caused by a wrong interface texture list.