Starcraft 2

I cannot wait!!! No release date yet, unfortunately. Search youtube for the videos on the site so you dont need to download the video viewer thingy.

One downside, no new races, but they said new units for each race, and i must say, it looks awesome!!!

ya but most likely 2 or year and half before it release. MASS ZERGLING FTW! back at SC2 the whole game froze when i do tat lol.

SChweetified....

Will take a year or two, jeez people have been waiting 10 years for this, lol. Awesome.

Yes, but at least now there is proof of it coming, not like the ghost which still has no complete word... I remember when the word on SC2 was it was gonna be RPG... lol.

It most likely will release faster than Duke Nukem Forever does ;)

gg yes re? :D

The game should come december 2008...

Yay, it's about time! :)

I only hope that they'll still have the map editor the same, and maybe improve the things it can do. Use Map Settings games were the best. xD More commands in the map editor = better UMS maps, no? :D

click the link, in the center, to look at a 21 minute demo movie...

What is StarCraft? Is it a like a play-station game or something?

Moosh has never played StarCraft?! One of the best real-time strategy PC games to date?!

Does Moosh live on an island in the middle of nowhere? xD

StarCraft is like WarCraft. Hopefully you've at least heard of that before. xD If not, I think that Command & Conquer games are similar.

Shade, that link is all the videos from the site just put together isnt it? Only difference is you can hear the people talk unlike the ones i watched on youtube.

I liked the 21 minute video, it had commentary to let us know what everything was, =) Thanks Shade!

I was just playing... StarCraft is probably one of the best and most addictive games ever... Can't wait for part 2!

/me drools.

That is all.

Sweetness. Pure sweetness.

classic is better than broodwars.

TH, this isn't broodwars, this is Starcraft 2. Broodwars is part 1's expansion.

someone on gamerenders said blizzard is coming out with 3 games in 2007, not just starcraft 2, maybe WarCraft IV, and Diablo 3?

I'd hope if they would only come out with 1 game instead, and put all their efforts in it...

I wouldn't mind a D3 or a WC4, but Starcraft 2 HAS to come out. Ghosts friggin rock. The clicking sound their guns make is absolutely awesome.

Warcraft already has got the 3d improvement, and will not be totally outdated soon.

Diablo and Starcraft are different, they need to be modernized pretty badly now. This is gonna make a mountain of cash fall on Blizzard yet again :)

Anyone care to explain why the marine was in prison (orange jumpsuit & legshackles)? Does Earth not have enough capable soliders, so they take any able bodied person, like Gears of War?

"TH, this isn't brood wars, this is Starcraft 2. Brood wars is part 1's expansion."

I know. Classic > brood wars > 2
that what i predict.

You kiddin me? Brood Wars is a masterpeice!

I dunno about SC-2.

On one hand, it looks great, graphics-wise, but I wonder how imbal toss will be, b/c of mothership, immortal, and colossus. And I hope they don't massively change the engine, or my 192 or so APM will have to be relearned.

And I wonder how the Korean progamers are reacting. Boxer wasn't duly impressed, and all the others are in the midst of OSL/MSL competition.

Well, they'll prob nerf the food limit down from 200 like they did in WC3, which annoyed me at first, but I got used to it.

I hope that the game has a hero system as well, or it'll feel like we've taken a step back. Also part of me wants at a fair share of micro-management, but the other part of me wants to just build, search and destroy like the first one.

thing i liked about SC was you could come back from a 5 minute rush loss and win the rest of the game. Its balanced throughout, no matter the races you're up against, yeah, they'll probably firgure out the mothership isoverpowered, unless the other two have it as well. Probably will get rid of it and replace it with 3 more things. Personally, i would really like to see a 4th race.

just watched the demo not tat impress. The graphic look nice but tats about it terran toss ability or style seem same old just old ability on diff units. colossus remind me of templar just not as powerful more hp and cant hit and run. Mother ship is the only new introduce unit i think, it wont be as powerful as it looks unless its immue to emp.. hopefully carrier still around since they didnt show on demo.

The game wont' feature heroes, they already mentioned that. They want it to be focused on resource management and large armies, not grinding a hero who can kill mass numbers of enemies when it levels up.

As for the food limit, I bet the will -increase- the limit. The graphics engine looks nice but isn't pushing realism like many new RTS games. I would wager that is because they want it to support more than 200 units on screen at the same time, rather than 30.

it just looks like the Toss are overpowered because that is what they are showing off on a semi single player campaign play. Mostly same units but with more features, and a few new units it looks like. But they will show off Zerg and Terran later on I'm sure.

Exactly, and the new toss units aren't even overpowered really, they were showing how the new units introduce a new balance in the game. They showed how you can counter enemy tactics, how they counter that, etc.

The mothership is obviously one without a "real weakness" but it can be brought down. It also isn't as powerful as the video had shown, they used all 3 special abilities because they were cheating with the unit's energy. Normally it could only pull off 1 ability in the amount of time it was on screen.

If we don't have heros and just units with unique names and a little buffed damage, it will feel like a massive downgrade after playing Warcraft 3 for so long. There are alot of custom maps that make use of actual heros.

I remember in SC, the way to 'level up' your 'hero' was to purchase upgrades. If you've ever played WC3, you'll know that a hero is more of a support unit. You can't just send a Mountain King/Lich into a mob of units, even if they're level 10, and expect to win. You use your heros in conjunction with your units, and this opens up more strategic opportunities. Of course, there are a few expceptions, such as someone using a level 10 blademaster with Bladefury, but even then, if you have tier 3 units, and have even a little bit of micromanaging skills, you'll be able to bring him down.

I think I do agree with the boost in food supply, though if they make it "Mass units and have no idea what is going on till everything is dead due to lag from your sucky videocard" games, it'll be just like Warhammer/C&C/Whatever else. I want this to be a Starcraft, not a C&C with different units/skins... The food limit should go up, but big beefy carriers should have boosted food costs as to not be able to mass 25 of them with support units flying around.

Just imagine swarming a zerg base with like 100 marines, 100 firebats, and 100 ghosts... It probably wouldn't be effective, but it'd be damn cool to see...

"If we don't have heros and just units with unique names and a little buffed damage, it will feel like a massive downgrade after playing Warcraft 3 for so long."

No, it will just feel like SC2 instead of WC3.

I like both but prefer the pure RTS feel to RTS+Heroes.

Pure RTS? ... -.- ... WC3 isn't based solely around heros. It adds another interesting dimension and sets WC3 apart from all the other RTS's out there. You are saying you want a 'build barracks, pump marines, A+Click in the middle of your opponents base'? I don't think that is strategy at all...

I think strategy is when you are strategically ravaging your opponents with counters and skill, rather than pure numbers and a lot of hectic hotkeys to your home base.