StarCraft Friggin' II!!!

[WILL]

Hoo yeah! :D

I'm not usually the type to go nuts over a new game so much, but I've been waiting for this for ages. Me and a friend of mine bought 2 copies of this game to play via LAN together and we literally worn out the retail CDs. I'm not kiddin' ya. They just wouldn't read anymore.

Still to this day, I'd argue that StarCraft (with the Broodwar expansion) is the epiphany of what makes a great RTS game. WarCraft III was ok, but it was no SC.

The best part of this is that they are optimizing it for large amounts of units and units! :D Go Zerg onslaught! :thumbup:

One thing that I am glad to say about Blizzard though, the head has come out of the hole. I thought I'd never see the end of the WoW rut they got themselves into. I was afraid that we'd end up seeing another 'fallen Sierra'. :o


Check out Blizzard's official StarCraft II site! (http://www.starcraft2.com/)

[wodzu]

I am still playing SC on BattleNet. I have about 1500 games played there :) For me there is no better RTS than SC:) I'll just hope they will SC2 more secure, because maphack spoils the game so badly...

[WILL]

I agree, cheats only ruin a balanced game.

Whatever they do they better learn from WarCraft III. I was very disappointed with it after playing for some time. The expansion pack was how it should have been released in the first place.

The biggest annoyance is the unit limit. It's way too small. I guess they were thinking of hardware requirements and they didn't want to freeze up everyones system, but hell. most units took up 2 or more population points. You end up with a single bunch of units to guard your base and another small bunch to launch attacks and thats it. You can't take on too many opponents at once because you reach your unit limit and get overrun way too easily.

That and the AI in RTS games really should be WAAAAAAY better than it is now. The days of 'Poke Poke Rush' is starting to get really old now. Would be nice to get some real tacticians in there during game development.

[WILL]

Some trailers:

Cinematic Trailer

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Game Play Video Part 1/4

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[Traveler]

Can't wait till it's out! Rumors are around Q4 2007, although (as usual) Blizzard says it will be released when its ready.

About the vid's, do yourself a favor and download the original ones at http://www.starcraft2.com. It might take a bit longer, but its worth it.

[Setharian]

Q4 for beta is the rumor :)

[WILL]

By all means let them take time. The more attention to detail the better it will be on release. Mind you they probably have enough designers, testers and developers to sink a Nimitz. :P