Starcraft 2 - First look

Thursday 22 May 2008

Once upon a time, back in 1998 i was round a friends house. This friend of mine was playing Starcraft: Brood War, after the both of us spending about 6 hours doing LAN matches against each other i went out and purchased the game, at least once a year since i have busted out the game and kicked some Zerg in the head.


The announcement of Starcraft 2 you can imagine lit up my seemingly otherwise dreary life. That being said the wait is proving to be an arduous one and the infrequent updates by Blizzard are really starting to irritate me, i do not see why Blizzard feel the need to announce an eagerly awaited game such as: Starcraft: Ghost (which they then axed), Wrath of the Lich King and Starcraft 2 when they are not planning on releasing them in the next millennium, all it does is increase the hype and make the game a possible letdown, let us not forget Halo 3 (congratulations Bungie).


While I'm ranting about this i would like to pick up on a couple of things i have noticed about Starcraft in that it's 3 playable races the Terran, Zerg and Protoss draw unnatural similarities with the Aliens, Predators and Marines, in that the Protoss are a highly developed warrior race who are well up themselves (Predators), the Zerg are a parasitic alien life form that need a host in order to evolve (Aliens). Finally the Terran who are the human marines though i suppose i cant really rant about that, because a futuristic RTS just wouldn't be right if the humans and their clearly inferior technology didn't hand in which side gains victory.


Anyway enough of how massive games companys make me want to do nasty things to them with desert Forks. Starcraft 2 does as all sequels so often do by taking up the story where its predecessor left off, in this case the aftermath of the War with the Zerg, my guess is that they are all going to come back even worse with the harbinger of death Sarah Kerrigan (see left), and cause the Terran and Protoss a whole lot of trouble.


I have been looking at the Website and watching videos and i must say i am very impressed with what Blizzard have done with the game, the graphical improvements are. So far as i can tell they have made the races a lot more balanced and fair unlike the last game where anyone playing as the protoss could just spam Zealots in an anal raping tactic, or the Terran with their ghosts and the seemingly unstoppable nuclear bombs.


I am also happy to see the return of Jim Raynor after helping the Protoss at the end of the last game he seems to have butched up a bit taken up smoking cigars and now he looks completely different.


Well as a final couple of present i leave you the overly lengthy and not really that interesting opening trailer which blizzard released just before Blizzcon last year, also the Protoss in game introduction giving you a quick look at in game action

Labels: PC, RTS, Starcraft 2

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