Starcraft II?!

[Black Mage]

Originally Posted by Black Mage

I hope a Dead Rising 2 is in the making soon. Also the number one game i wish had a newer installment would be starcraft. Im not talking some bs like starcraft ghost, that game is NEVER coming out .

Yea remember that post? Well i couldnt be more happy if i tried. Starcraft FINALLY got a sequel.

Blizzard had big news to announce this past weekend and i knew in my mind what it was going to be. Bingo Starcraft II

This is more of a preview than a review i just want to share my awsome finding.

www.blizzard.com I love the tagline its been almost 10 years since Blizzard let us have one of the best RTS of all time.

- Video opened with transformation from prisoner to Terran marine
- The game is CONFIRMED
- Minerals and vespine gas are confirmed
- Zealots still have shields and psi blades. New charge attack to let them rush at enemies
- Still have Siege Tanks. They still Siege. Not much else to say
- New unit: Protoss Immortals - have special shield that only activates upon being powerfully attacked - siege tanks could barely do any damage to them.
- Terran reapers - can hop across unever terrain with jump packs - two types of small pistols that don't activate immortals
- Protoss now have the ability to create shields whereever they want. Protoss can now warp in units from manufacturing facilities anything within pylon range
-New protoss unit - stalker - can teleport - quadripedal thing - can keep blinking forward - seems to be a shot cooldown on the ability.
- Zerg have giant worms that dispense Zergling armies
-Protoss can use phase fields and teleporting abilities to create an army anywhere on the battlefield
-Protoss colossus - huge unit that can blast out dual lasers and use long legs to traverse differences in terrain height - in the demo two of them obliterate about fifty or so zerglings. Weak against air
Zerglings can mutate into suicidal bomb things thar roll across the ground - very powerful explosions
- Protoss Pheonix - can overcharge guns for multiple projectile blast - but after blast the ship is rendered inert for a short period.
- Pross Warprey - flying unit that does increased damage the longer it hits a target with it's continuous blue laser. Useful against structures as well. Weak against small fire. Marines were shown to take them out.
- Protoss mother ship. Can only have 1 at a time. Cost a ton. special abilities include timebomb that slows all enemy missiles inside - shows terran missle launcher shooting in projectiles that stop in the field before they reach the ship - when field ends missiles drop the ground - planet cracker attack - giant lasers stream from ship to ground - ship can be moved around while planet cracker laser is active - the ship looks like a metallic, triangular sand dollar - mothership can create a black hole anywhere it wannts to - creates distortion that actually sucks ships in and destroys them - in the demo the black hole destroyed four terran battle cruisers in about ten seconds.
- Physics engine allows for debris to roll down slopes.
- Video ends with 100+ Zerglings swarming on screen with no slowdown. They spell out "GG" and are nuked by 3 Terran nukes.
- A Things to Come clip is shown with new landscapes including Terran ruins and Zerg landscapes.

Im sorry if you dont know anything about SC cause you probly wont understand anything above this sentence. As for me im a SC freak. I use to play for like 10 hours at a time almost everyday.

Ive uploaded the CG trailer for it on youtube for you. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ay4SYS7JWfU

Here are the screen shots and artwork for the game.

http://www.starcraft2.com/screenshot.xml?2

http://www.starcraft2.com/artwork.xml

Any comments?

[BadKarm]

I was honesty still hoping for Diablo III, but Starcraft 2 will do just fine

[Black Mage]

Wow finally a reply. I didnt think anyone here cared at all. Maybe the memebrs here seem TOO into rpgs and dont play much else. I was reading somewhere that they might be showing Diablo III at a convention soon.

[BadKarm]

I hope so... but I guess it's smart to do Starcraft 2 since Diablo II is still going pretty strong, but I still can't wait for D3.

I heard that they are taking Korean progamers and having them help with the gameplay design for S2.

[Black Mage]

Thats good. I was really worried they were gonna go all graphics and lack gameplay strongly, but looks like they are gonna do it right.

[BadKarm]

Yeah, but you know when they are using Korean Pro Gamers to help design it's going to make the game 10 times more difficult than the first SC. Granted, that is half the fun.

[Black Mage]

I couldnt even beat the first SC its WAY to hard towards the end. Some missions are just plain out insane. I dont really care all that much about storyline, although i will play it alot, i really want online. As long as its good im good.