Starcraft 2!

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:09 am

3:00 - FMV sequence in a spaceship - looks Terran - zooming in on a metal door - door opening - reveals a guy with a cigar in chains - prisoner - door shuts behind him - there's so much bass the room is shaking - guy steps into some kind of metallic devicce - legs are strapped in - guy rising toward ceiling - Korean text on screen got people very excited - another part of the machine is dropping metal arms on him - machine whirring - applying armor to his torso - extremly detailed visuals here - now guy is strapping on gloves - armor is molding together - seems like a Terran marine - rockets turn on - zerg now onscreen - Marine delivers a line - StarCraft 2 officially announced.

3:05 - Morheim says everyone eager to see actual game - going to show actual gameplay - bringing up SC2 lead designer. Dustin Browder.

3:07 - Showing gameplay footage - Looks like protoss ships - floating over asteroid/ base structure - entering protoss ase - similar looking buildings - vespene gas still in the game - character pane shows up on right side - some protoss guy - shifts to terran bases floating on rockets over same type of territory - sill collecting crystals as resources - marines load out. Dustin is actually playing the game - nothing in the game is final.

3:09 - controlling protoss zealots - still has psi blades and personal shield - new charge ability that let him quickly close range on enemies. Siege tanks shown - still the same type of behavior where they can lock down - take out zealots really quickly - new protoss unit - called immortals - have special shield that only activates upon being powerfully attacked - siege tanks could barely do any damage to them.

More to come!

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:15 am

http://pc.ign.com/articles/788/788627p1.html

Running commentary is there.

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:09 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXoekeDIW8

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/imgs_1.html

NESchampion · Post by **NESchampion** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:26 am

The word is out it seems. Real question is, how will it compete against Supreme Commander and C&C 3? It has the advantage of being released later, so will be fresher and may appeal to gamers bored with both the current games.... I'm not sure though.

I needs my strategic zoom from SupCom.

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:51 am

It has the distinct advantage of being Starcraft.

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:14 am

What GF said.

Starcraft is one of the most respected and highly held RTS games ever made, while many consider the Broodwar expansion to be the best expansion ever made for a video game.

Blizzard absolutely nailed it once and with the longevity SC has shown, i would be fairly confident that they can do it again.

Post by **paazin** » Sat May 19, 2007 11:28 am

Swift wrote:What GF said.

Starcraft is one of the most respected and highly held RTS games ever made, while many consider the Broodwar expansion to be the best expansion ever made for a video game.

Blizzard absolutely nailed it once and with the longevity SC has shown, i would be fairly confident that they can do it again.

yeah, considering they managed to get it to be the state religion of south korea, it's rather impressive

Ros-King · Post by **Ros-King** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:52 pm

*Drools*

I cant wait to see how the single player story develops from the original, which left us off with such a cliff hanger.

And Id imagine BNET play is going to be insane to the max.

Two thumbs up so far.

Burt · Post by **Burt** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:57 pm

Hell, it's about time.

Sargiel · Post by **Sargiel** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:13 pm

Yeah looks great

And in true Blizzard fashion it's already confirmed it will be cross platform with a nice Mac release ... *cough* unlike NWN2 *cough*

mxlm · Post by **mxlm** » Sat May 19, 2007 5:18 pm

God is great!

Post by **paazin** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:11 pm

mxlm wrote:God is great!

you talkin' about our god or their god?

Grand Fromage · Post by **Grand Fromage** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:26 pm

Sargiel wrote:Yeah looks great And in true Blizzard fashion it's already confirmed it will be cross platform with a nice Mac release ... *cough* unlike NWN2 *cough*

Blizzard has enough money to waste time making a mac version.

MY LIFE FOR AIUR!

mxlm · Post by **mxlm** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:45 pm

paazaliciuos wrote:you talkin' about our god or their god?

There is no 'our' here. There is no 'their'. There is only 'my'--my God. I don't share.

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:14 pm

Sargiel wrote:Yeah looks great And in true Blizzard fashion it's already confirmed it will be cross platform with a nice Mac release ... *cough* unlike NWN2 *cough*

Not that cross platform was ever in doubt. Every single Blizzard release from (at the very least) diablo 1 was mac compatible on the same discs.