Starcraft 2 Announced By Blizzard!
Oh shit! Blizzard has announced that they will make Starcraft 2, a sequel to the insanely cool and highly respected 1998 real time strategy game. (Read more about Starcraft.)
Starcraft
Starcraft was brilliant, with great cut scenes, interesting game play that wasn’t always base building and three separate factions that had completely different units, structures and gameplay. The story was good and the factions (Terran, Zerg, Protoss) were well designed. And all this was back in 1998! The expansio, Brood Wars added more levels and units and made the game even better.
Starcraft 2
And now, we can go to the Starcraft universe once again… in full 3D this time with vastly improved graphics and gameplay. Check out the announcement trailer below:
Here are some gameplay videos: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
(YouTube)
From what I can see from the gameplay videos the game retains too much of the elements from the prequel and while die-hard fans will be comfortable with that I’m in favour of a more radically different interface that looks better.
I wonder if it will be better than Command & Conquer - Tiberium Wars and Generals.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Starcraft is by far the best strategy game ive played.
Do you play it ?
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
You cant call cnc Generals a good game. It was a rushed out piece of undigested crap.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Played it, Arun. It was back in the old days.
Vinny, it was a really good game. There were no problems with it, multiplayer at Zap with schoolmates was great fun and single player was excellent. Why didn’t you like it? I bet you are a Red Alert fan. Red Alert fans don’t like the Generals or GDI-Nod games.
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:47 am
i am a Tiberium fan.
Red alert was okay but soviet Vs usa games piss me off
Generals was incomplete. EA forced the guys to release it early. Zero Hour Expansion pack was the stuff they forgot to add.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:23 am
I liked CNC, the original. It was wuvverly. Red Alert was cool too, Red Alert 2 was also nice. I hate stuff that’s set up so that America’s the good guy, so Yuri’s Revenge had niceness. Tiberian Sun was interesting, there were more land deforming weapons in that game, but if you overdo the base multiplier while modifying the ai to make it tougher, you’ll have huge enemy bases that you can’t do anything about. Actually, that happened in Red Alert 1 too. RA2 had the nice Deezire mod, which was worth it. TS also had some nice mods with new models.
Generals I played once or twice. It seemed nice. Overlord tanks, rocket buggies and those mine barrels things.
Also, the Soviets are always cooler in the RA games, the (pseudo?) accents are really awesome. Besides, they’re bad, which gives them more cred than the Americans. I like how there’s not so subtle propaganda in RA2 where the Cuban special units are ‘terrorists’. Reminded me of Luis Carriles .
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:55 am
Red Alert games suck. I will ignore all references to them.
Vinny, Generals was pretty good without the expansion. They should make a sequel.
George, I know what you’re talking about in Tiberian Sun. In skirmishes the enemy and I reached a status quo. Both were equally strong and kept nuking each other and rebuilding.
You should play the whole Generals single player campaign. Great fun!
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:50 pm
then there was age of empires which i thought totally blew. warcraft was an awesome game. come to think of it all blizzard games kicked some major ass.
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:52 pm
AoE sucked man. I liked AoE Rise of Rome demo because it didn’t allow cheats. When I got the full version it was just standard base building. I got so bored I stopped playing ever since.
Blizzard rules, yeah.
Starcraft, Warcraft series, World of Warcraft and Diablo series. Every game a best seller!