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StarCraft II – Preview

by on Mar.23, 2009, under games

StarCraft II - logo

HELL, IT’S ABOUT TIME!

StarCraft II continues the epic saga of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. These three distinct and powerful races will clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the legendary original, StarCraft. Legions of veteran, upgraded, and brand-new unit types will do battle across the galaxy, as each faction struggles for survival.

StarCraft 2 was announced in 19 may 2007, almost 2 years ago :) And was believed that the realease date will be somewhere in 2008. Blizzard never gaved us the release date… Only said that they will release StarCraft II “When it’s done” :)

Besides that they said that

“At this point, it’s too early to provide an initial estimate on the release date. As with all Blizzard Entertainment games, we will take as much time as needed to ensure the game is as fun, balanced, and polished as possible.”

Soo… :) StarCraft 2 will be:

  • Fast-paced, hard-hitting, tightly balanced competitive real-time strategy gameplay that recaptures and improves on the magic of the original game
  • Three completely distinct races: Protoss, Terran, and Zerg
  • New units and gameplay mechanics further distinguish each race
  • Groundbreaking single-player campaign
  • Vibrant new 3D-graphics engine with support for dazzling visual effects and massive unit and army sizes
  • Full multiplayer support, with new competitive features and matchmaking utilities available through Battle.net
  • Full map-making and scripting tools to give players incredible freedom in customizing and personalizing their gameplay experience

Let’s take single paragraph and analize it… So :) tightly balanced competitive real time strategy gameplay… I think everyone of you who is reading this post played StarCraft or if not, at least heard about the game… A very balanced game indeead (talking here about the Brood War because we all know that StarCraft Original had the Terrans be the worst race you could play with). After more than 10 years after the game was released there are still competitions out there… And even plenty of them. And were talking about a very very old game but still extreamly exciting!

StarCraft 2 will come with not only fresh maps, a fresh new “vibrant” 3D graphics engine that will have DirectX 10 support for dazzling effects, but StarCraft II will have the same balanced races: ZERG, PROTOSS AND TERRAN, and now with serveral new units that will place their foot into the EPIC BATTLE and last but not least a improved gameplay in both singleplayer and multiplayer.

So let’s see…

Terran BadgeTerran

The first thing I noticed about the Terrans was a new ability they have implemented into the Supply Depots. We all remember the times we put supply’s in from of our exits to prevent the enemy from entering dirrectly into our base right? Well… Now we have the ability to burry the supply so that our troops won’t be blocked inside as what happend in StarCraft :) So that’s one plus point for Blizzard.

Not let’s watch together this Terran Gameplay video :)


First we notice that BattleCruiser :) That not only has the Yamato cannon but now you can research a new type of weapon: The Plasma torpedoe, that give battlecruisers an armament capable of saturating a target area with a lethal deluge of fire, ideal for breaking up oncoming attack waves or ravaging a defensive position. As you have seen that mayhem which was unleashed over the marines :)

Soo… Other new units will be: Reaper, AH/G-24 Banshee, Viking, Thor, TF-620 Nomad, and a new building: Sensor Tower… Besides that all kind of new addons to the old building and the ability to burrow “upgrades” from one building to another… :d

protoss-badge

PROTOSS

New units: Immortal, Stalker, Phase Prism, Phoenix, Colossus, Warp Ray, Twilight Archon, Mothership

StarCraft – BroodWar (Offence is the best defence? No! :) Protoss Canon & Corsair are the best defence! ) :D Hihi :P

I won’t talk much for the Protoss, i will let the gameplay video to do that for me… But i would like to say that besides the Carrier now we have another SuperShip -> The MotherShip :)


:) Hihi… Protoss rullez :P

And the last of our 3 unique races:

The anthropoid race… THE ZERG!

zerg-badge

ZERG

There’s nothing here to say… Just iach! Enjoy…

And of course in the final… The best way to see how this game it is is too see a BATTLE REPORT! :D Soo.. Here it is! :P Enjoy! :D I like the way this people talk in this Battle Report… It’s like at a live footbal match heard at the Radio :P :) )

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