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New Details For StarCraft 2's Zerg

Posted by Soulskill on from the expect-more-at-blizzcon dept.

Blizzard had a playable demo of StarCraft 2 running at Leipzig, and Kotaku's Michael McWhertor had a chance to sit down and spend some time playing the Zerg. The Zerg weren't available in previous demos; the Protoss and Terran campaigns were showcased earlier. GameSpy took the opportunity to interview two Blizzard employees about what people can expect from the game. Gameplay footage is also available which shows a Terran vs. Zerg battle. Blizzard PR rep Bob Colayco had this to say: "One thing that's new, as you go through the campaign... you know, normally in RTS games how they start you off with a couple of units and then it's like, 'Okay, two missions later we're going to give you tanks...' One of the things we're looking at doing with StarCraft II's campaign is putting the choice more in the players' hands. So maybe you like dealing more with infantry? You can purchase those upgrades and make your marines and other infantry stronger. Or else you'll save up the credits you get from the missions to get tanks sooner than you normally could."

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  1. Re:Linked video... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39088.html

  2. Re:Linked video... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39089.html

    Hi-Def video link

  3. Re:Linked video... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Cannot Create More Units

  4. Re:Woah, all of a sudden the Zerg are out?!? by Daengbo · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the humor impaired, Ke ke ke is the romanization of the Korean text laugh. I'd type the real thing, but Slash won't accept it.

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  5. Re:Linked video... by SpazmodeusG · · Score: 2, Informative

    Protoss can build an unlimited number of buildings at the same time using 1 probe and that probe can go back to harvesting whilst the buildings are being built.
    On maps with lots of resources you might be building several things at once early on. That's several less peons terran and zerg have harvesting.

  6. Re:Linked video... by vux984 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sprite-based games were obviously limited to that resolution, because with the technology sprites could not be scaled for arbitrary resolutions.

    They didn't have to scale it, they could have simply let you see more onscreen at once. They didn't to keep a level playing field.

  7. Re:I will never forgive the Zerg by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm a little slow... please explain this further, what does the name "Kerrigan" have to do with "Tanya"??

    Something to do with figure skating.

  8. Re:I will never forgive the Zerg by Bedouin+X · · Score: 5, Informative

    (There's a joke in there somewhere)

    Perhaps the fact that the same person voiced both characters?

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  9. Re:bullcrap by AioKits · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you liked Total Annihilation, you'll probably like Supreme Commander. Good stuff. Reminds me of TA a lot.

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  10. Re:bullcrap by Salamande · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds like you might want to check out Sins of a Solar Empire.