The box art for the Warcraft games had the same Warcraft logo with subtitles (e.g. Tides of Darkness) and have been a popular part of Warcraft culture. The Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and Warcraft II boxes both had a rivaling orc and human on either side.
Warcraft III introduced multiple covers, one for each race. When you bought directly from Blizzard Entertainment they would send you a random box cover, but the contents were all the same. Most stores however did not have all four. The release of The Frozen Throne only had one box cover however, it hosted Arthas Menethil after his transformation into a death knight. Currently only the human and orc covers for Reign of Chaos are recognized in that on the battle chest, they use the orc cover, and on the Battle.net accounts it is the human.
When the World of Warcraft came out, it had a Horde and Alliance cover. The Horde version with an orc in the circle and a tauren armed with an halberd outside of it. The Alliance version they had a night elf in the circle with a dwarf with a gun on the border. However the Alliance cover was more popularly stocked in most retail stores by far. In the Battle Chest and the product catalogs, the night elf cover is the only one shown. Since then, every expansion for World of Warcraft only had one cover version.
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Packaging[]
III: Reign of Chaos - Human box
III: Reign of Chaos - Night Elf box
III: Reign of Chaos - Orc box
III: Reign of Chaos - Undead box
Covers[]
III: Reign of Chaos, featuring an orc
World of Warcraft, Night Elf and Dwarf version
World of Warcraft, Orc and Tauren version
After The Burning Crusade was added to the base game
After Wrath of the Lich King was added to the base game
After Cataclysm was added to the base game
A few months prior to Warlords of Draenor release
Battle Chests[]
Cover art for Warcraft: Battle Chest
Cover art for Warcraft II: Battle Chest
Cover art for Warcraft III: Battle Chest
Cover art for Warcraft III: Battle Chest alternate version
Cover art for the original World of Warcraft Battle Chest
Cover art for the 2011 World of Warcraft Battle Chest
Cover art for the 2012 World of Warcraft Battle Chest
Cover art for the 2013 World of Warcraft Package