Blizzard Announcement Has Come!
All over my face, and I like it.
Starcraft II was announced about twelve hours ago. Since then, I've slept and had a chance to see some of the footage from the WWI. The game looks sweet, and sounds sweet, and has sweet units with sweet abilities. There's a Terran unit with jump jets for getting over cliffs and a Protoss unit with long legs for walking over cliffs. But there were plenty of ground units that still honored cliffs, so I'm not worried that they will become meaningless.
Zerglings are even scarier 3D, but the footage I saw didn't have much zerg at all. The demonstration was played as Protoss primarily against Terran, with no mention of a possible new race. I later read that Blizzard has said there will be no fourth race (oh well). The game looks modern AND looks like Starcraft. GG.
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Blizzard's FAQ page is quite heartening, especially the parts about it being XP compatible and highle scalable.
http://starcraft2.com/faq.xml
I'm sure a lot of what we have seen will change between now and release, with certain placeholders already evident in the early trailers, but it looks like the game is on the right track.
I hope Hydralisks come back....
*Highly scalable
Well, the rest of Blizzard's site has some interesting info as well. No more dragoons? They appear to have been replaced by Immortals.
Some awesome wallpapers too. Zeratul FTW
Revamped Battle.net is a welcome announcement, as is the return of the map editor.
I know this was possible in the original, but it seems like there might be more than two levels of terrain, which could mix things up.
http://starcraft2.com/screenshot.xml?10
I mean, it definitely looks like that siege tank on the right has higher ground.
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