StarCraft II

[Anarky]

Why isn't this a major newstopic in here or something else of at least monumental proportions? StarCraft II was announced last week. It looks phenomenal, awesomely cool and all that.




Needless to say, StarCraft I is one of my favourite games ever and I kick everyone's ass using Protoss Carriers hidden under a couple Arbiters. Anyways, the sequel already looks amazing despite only being an Alpha Build. Now then... let's have a look at the trailer of both gameplay and cut scenes. You can see those things on StarCraft2.com, the official site and a really impressive demo what gameplay will have to offer (and Blizzard using a cheat) can be found on YouTube or just click the play buttons below.






I'm in tears...

[愛]

I'm downloading the huge 1280 video. I wanna see this in full HD with my pants off.

[Peanut]

I'd say it's not here because no one really plays PC games. And I couldn't care less about another Star Craft, honestly.

[FireFly]

i wonder if any of the heroes will be back, maybe for a new ghost hero blizzard puts in Nova so she can see the light of day finally.

i've been waiting for this now if they would just give it a release date i'd be set

[Sliced]

This game looks awsome. Man its been years since I last played Brood wars. I'm gonna have to clean this old dusty Starcraft box and play a little to get back into it. I'm glad to see that Blizzard is taking this project seriously. I'm also happy to learn that they won't create a fourth race. The Xel'Naga are gonna play a big part in the game, but we won't have those hybrids we ''saw'' in Brood Wars. Wich is excellent in my opinion.

I hate when they add more races to RTS games just for the sake of doing so. I really can't wait to see wich units are leaving and wich are adding themselves in. I can't wait !

i wonder if any of the heroes will be back

Well, Kerrigan, Raynor and Zeratul are back it has been confirmed. And they won't be like those heroes in Warcraft 3, if you want more info just go places like gamespot and the likes. They're updating us with some cool stuff.

[FireFly]

Sweet thanks for the info man, now just for a release date.

[Barkworm]

This has to be some North Korean conspiracy to bring South Korea down.

[Sliced]

Release date ? In my opinion, won't be before a good year. There's a video interview with the executive producer, and he said that they would take all the time needed, that this SC 2 is far from being ready for now. I think they'll go for 2008, summer or for christmas.

And if you have $250 to spend : https://us.blizzard.com/sc2collectib...aft2/menu.html

[The Shelf]

I for one can't wait to play this, but I heard somewhere that Blizzard has already confirmed it won't be out this year. The earliest I think we can expect it would be winter '08, but I'm expecting winter '09. Knowing Blizzard, though, it may not come out until '10; they always delay their games which is why they learned to stop posting release dates until they're certain that it will be out by then.

I've started playing Brood War again, and it really is a lot of fun still. My friend and I have started looking up replays from the professional players in Korea on YouTube. I knew StarCraft was big over there, but did you guys know that they actually have, not one, but two TV stations that play nothing but video game matches all day? StarCraft is the most popular one by far, though. Those stations are like the ESPN 1 & 2 of Korea, and StarCraft is the baseball/basketball/football/soccer of Korea.

Anyway, I really like what I've seen so far of StarCraft 2, but it's a shame we'll have to wait so long to play it.

[Magdolin]

Starcraft? I love Starcraft! I die easily though. But, it's a fun game.

[HanShotFirst]

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