The Warcraft movie trailer remade in WoW is the truest adaptation of game to film

Video game movies have long been critiqued for not being faithful to their source material, but it looks like someone has finally gotten it right - even if "right" in this case means "looks like it could be running on a Dell from 2004." Blizzard fan Ivan Kuzkin has taken footage from the upcoming Warcraft movie and remade it, entirely in World of Warcraft graphics. And I have to say, it's pretty dang impressive work:

Kuzkin may be using the updated character models released by Blizzard in 2014, but even those are still based on framework that's more than a decade old. In other words, accomplishing this task wasn't easy, as evidenced by the number of passes Kuzkin shows in his making-of video. But if you're still unconvinced of how spot-on Kuzkin's version is compared to the upcoming film, why not watch them side-by-side?

It's been awhile since I last logged in and explored the worlds of Azeroth and Draenor. Mayhaps it's time I brought my Shaman out of retirement…

Directed by Duncan Jones and starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, and Ben Schnetzer, Warcraft: The Beginning opens in UK cinemas June 3, 2016 and in the US on June 10, 2016.

Images: Blizzard/Legendary

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