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Blizzard Announces StarCraft 2

Posted by Zonk on from the my-life-for-aiur-again dept.

We'll be returning once again to the world of StarCraft, it appears, and not in the form of a Massively Multiplayer game. Blizzard has announced StarCraft 2 at their packed event in Seoul, South Korea. IGN is liveblogging the event, describing gameplay footage being played as well as full cinematics. From the description of ongoing events there are massive changes to the way the game plays, new units, a physics system within the game engine, and the capability to show over 100 units onscreen at a time. "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." Additional coverage from Milky at 1up.

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  1. CGI Trailer on YouTube by Myria · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here

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  2. Screenshots available by mgiuca · · Score: 4, Informative

    IGN has posted screenshots here.

    Looks incredibly cool graphically, though at the moment it looks like the gameplay is exactly the same as StarCraft. I wonder if there'll be some gameplay announcements soon.

  3. Ingame Video on YouTube by Nicolay77 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJB-Z54R61s

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  4. Re:Needs translation by SilentOneNCW · · Score: 2, Informative

    Jim Raynor's end quote in Korean: "What took you so long?"

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  5. Starcraft 2 Website Up by Panseh · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.starcraft2.com/ now up

  6. Re:Thats funny...... by Toridas · · Score: 3, Informative

    Close. It's actually Starkiller, a mod for C&C Generals.

  7. Re:Needs translation by wc_paladin · · Score: 2, Informative

    in the english trailer he says "Hell, it's about time"

  8. Re:It has some heroes... by Hemogoblin · · Score: 2, Informative

    That doesn't sound like a hero because they don't make any mention of earning experience, leveling up, or getting equipment. It just sounds like a really expensive and badass unit. A carrier++ if you will.

  9. Re:Mac vs. Linux gaming... by AHumbleOpinion · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think, for simple and sound business reasons, it will be quite a while before anyone major takes a risk on Linux gaming again.

    During that "golden era" of Linux gaming, even id publicly stated they support Linux because they think it is a cool thing to do, not because it made business sense at the time.

  10. Re:Are you a joke or are you for real ? by WilliamSChips · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think StarCraft was the first RTS game I played that had three races, though.
    Dune II(which predates even the game retronymed Tiberian Dawn, and was created by Westwood) had House Atreides, House Harkonnen, and House Ordos, though I don't know if you played it.
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  11. Re:It has some heroes... by Cheapy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Seems more of a "Super Unit" than a Hero. Kind of like the Mothership in C&C3 on the Scrin side.

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  12. Re:Rehash? O RLY? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, Blizzard has said that they've learned not to announce things until they're almost done. They've said themselves the only thing left is tweaking the balance between the sides. The engine is polished, the physics are polished, they have voice acting done in at least 2 languages that I know of (Korean and English). The game has been in development for four years now, and rumor has it that we'll be seeing it either holiday season this year or early next year. Blizzard has stated SC2 will be out before the 10th anniversary of the original coming out.

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