New Trailer featuring Single Player storyline
pure ossimness, i happen to think it’s the story that made StarCraft great.
In case you haven’t heard…
STAR CRAFT II IS OFFICIALLY OUT!!!
The day has finally come!
How did this work out for you btw?
I didn’t get it, cause i needed out of country shipping T_T
Looks like BB made an oopsie and cancelled all pre-orders rather than just the price mistake ones. Ouch. So, they gave customers a $10 digital coupon in hopes they’ll re-pre-order.
Installing now. They play a recap of what happened already, during the install. Genius! 
Doing my install now, will post my info later!
character code is 852
I just finished the main game yesterday, holy crap char is awesome.
is the story as good as before? i haven’t gotten my hands on the game yet
I think the story is just as good as the first and much more in depth (Better then BroodWars). Most importantly the story is the main focus of the campaign now. Far more cinematics, when you aren’t in mission you are in the world of the story and some of the choices you make will determine which missions you play and upgrades you get.
Better yet, this is just the first of three parts to this story. I’m already blown away and IMO the best is yet to come.
Got this last week, have been playing the hell out of it. Really great game! I’ll post my character ID later.
Good reviews. 9.5 outta 10.
Print:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starcraft2/review.html
Spoilers abound.
Hey there. Updated the thread title to remove “Beta Open” and make this a general Starcraft II thread.
My first impressions are a little mixed. Granted, this is only after one night of play.
Graphics
Cut scenes: vascilate between gorgeous and dated graphics which I find distracting
Gameplay: At first I was shocked at how similair the gameplay graphics were to the original. At first I found this slightly annoying but soon came to appreciate they didn’t fix something that wasn’t broken.
Gameplay
Ingame action: This is where it was like putting on an old favorite shirt. They didn’t monkey with the mechanics too much which I like.
Between scenarios: I like this improvement the best of all. Ability to interact with your environment, select armory upgrades, research Protoss or Zerg improvements.
Gripes
All in all I probably played only 4 or 5 missions. My gripe (and this was a serious downer for me) was 2 of the missions felt familiar, 1 of which I swear is a copy and paste from the original game. The “Defend your position from the Zerg swarm for 10 minutes so we can fly the colonists to safety” mission felt like deja vu. I knew where everything was after once glance at the map and placed bunkers exactly as I did 15 years ago.
That being said, I am looking forward to playing more. Perhaps it is by design that they are initially presenting the player with maps that are based on old ones while you readjust to the game. Truth be told I was a huge fan of the original game which is why I have trouble not comparing the two.
Please be kind and not post spoilers! Half the joy of this game is the story.
I think they actually put in a lot of effort to make it look similar to the original (in fact if you go and watch some of the original’s yutube video, you’d be surprised how crappy it looks today… in my head it looks just like the new one…)
Especially if you have seen some of the custome built maps (aka totally different games), it’s clear that they have built a pretty amazing and advanced 3D engine for this game. To restrain themselves and present it in the old ways probably took some effort.
I loves it so much
heh no one is doing any kind of detection in game, I’m running ramshack with dark templars
it’s really hard to get detection for Protoss and Zerg in this version. Photon Canons are almost useless (super short range), Overlords no longer has detection…