Slaughter Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 Rumours has been floating around for a while that Blizzard would announce a new game using the StarCraft IP. Today they did, and it's the sequel to StarCraft called StarCraft II! Terran, Zerg and Protoss are back with brand new units in their arsenal, and Blizzard promise to make this an adventure to remember. Given Blizzards history of game making and financial strength, chances are they'll make good on the promise. You can read the full press release by clicking "View article", and trailers, screens and more at the official StarCraft II website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted May 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 Blizzard Entertainment today unveiled StarCraft II, the sequel to its award-winning real-time strategy game StarCraft, at the 2007 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational event in Seoul, South Korea. The announcement took place inside the Olympic Gymnastics Arena, in front of thousands of attendees, who received a presentation that included a StarCraft II cinematic trailer and a gameplay demonstration by the development team. Designed to be the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game, StarCraft II will feature the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races, overhauled and re-imagined with Blizzard’s signature approach to game balance. Each race will be further distinguished from the others, with several new units and new gameplay mechanics, as well as new abilities for some of the classic StarCraft units that will be making a reappearance in the game. StarCraft II will also feature a custom 3D-graphics engine with realistic physics and the ability to render several large, highly detailed units and massive armies on-screen simultaneously. “With StarCraft II, we’ll be able to do everything we wanted to do with the original StarCraft and more,” stated Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “We recognize that expectations are high following the long-running popularity of the original game, but we plan to meet those expectations and deliver an engaging, action-packed, competitive experience that StarCraft players and strategy gamers worldwide will enjoy.” StarCraft II will include a unique single-player campaign, as well as fast-paced online play through an upgraded version of Blizzard’s renowned online gaming service, Battle.net. In addition, the game will come with a powerful, full-featured map editor that will put the same tools used by Blizzard’s designers into the hands of players. Blizzard is developing StarCraft II for simultaneous release on the Windows and Macintosh PC platforms. Further information about the game, including details on the single-player, multiplayer, and map-editor features, as well as system requirements, pricing, and availability, will be announced in the months ahead. To learn more about StarCraft II, please visit the official website at www.starcraft2.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 Holy cow... !! :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted May 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 You bet! It's been a long time since a RTS excited me, but I've really been looking forwards to StarCraft II! I was horrified when the rumours about a MMO surfaced, but luckily that was just idiotic rumours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolatemouse Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 The return of a long waited myth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted May 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 Q&A at GameSpot (from press conference). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matri Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 Gotta say, that Siege Tank looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 Looks like the return of decent RTSs! With SC and Command & Conquer 3 we're in business! Edit: Those Protoss spider-robots look really nasty.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preda Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 *snaps fingers* Clocks are ticking: tic-toc, tic-toc. Development looks quite far gone, and multiplayer seems to be already done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted May 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 ... Development looks quite far gone, and multiplayer seems to be already done.According to the Q&A they started working on the game back in 2003. With almost 4 years of development and unlimited resources, they should be pretty far along alright! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matri Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 Let's just hope it doesn't need to be patched out-of-the-box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatfarm Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Let's just hope it doesn't need to be patched out-of-the-box. You mean like TBC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Looks really impressing, wow. Ahem, but i have to confess that i never liked the first Starcraft and it's addon, i was more the Total_Annihilation-type Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 :digs in: Just a question... What - besides the theme - do you guys think will make SC2 unique? I'm sorry but IMO it is just another RTS with a nice story. In MP it still boils down to faster clicking. :awaits assault: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatfarm Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 I enjoyed SC but I LOVED Total Annihilation. Played that much more (doesn't hurt that that's the one I owned). But yeah, SC was fun, but not quite what I was looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aralez Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 hatfarm, have you tried the new SupCom patch? They basically terraformed the whole game, wow! Best patch i EVER saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatfarm Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 Hmm.. I haven't ever tried that. I thought about reinstalling it after I started reading this stuff (I also talked about it over the weekend) but I can't find my copy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted June 23, 2007 Report Share Posted June 23, 2007 StarCraft II preview, part 1, part 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimli Posted June 23, 2007 Report Share Posted June 23, 2007 The first link is not working properly, it redirects to SC (creating a new post). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted June 23, 2007 Report Share Posted June 23, 2007 My bad, too may tabs open, fixed, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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