There’s enough graphical mayhem to slow down my 2008 Macbook Pro on even the middle settings, but it definitely looks more appealing the more your rig can handle.Īs far as game play goes, the single player campaign is the perfect way to introduce old and new players alike to the nuances of Starcraft 2. Battles feature dozens of units or more at once, creating scenes rife with gunfire, explosions, flashing lasers, pulsing energy shields, and everything else that you would imagine happens when three science fiction races clash in combat. Speaking of presentation, the visual aspect of Starcraft 2 is wonderful. The cinematic quality and voice acting are both evidence that Blizzard needs to make movies, not just video games, as there are big budget Hollywood pictures that could certainly learn a thing or two from Blizzard’s presentation of the Starcraft 2 epic.
The storyline is fairly one-dimensional and the dialogue is very straightforward, but the presentation of each is phenomenal. In Wings of Liberty, this is only the Terran campaign, following the human hero Jim Raynor as he simultaneously attempts to lead a rebellion against tyrant dictator Arcturus Mengsk and redeem the once-lover-now-Zerg-queen Sarah Kerrigan. The core of the initial Starcraft 2 experience is in the single player campaign. As the genre name implies, this all happens in real-time, as opposed to in a turn-based environment. At any given point in time, you might be controlling anywhere from one to one hundred units while managing one or more home bases, including resource gathering, construction, unit building, and technology/upgrade research. That means that you have complete control over the logistical and tactical aspects of an army of futuristic humans (Terrans), super advanced aliens with incredible technology (Protoss), or brutal monsters the likes of which some of your nightmares have never seen (Zerg). I got a chance to play through each of the facets of this behemoth of a game and this is what I have to say about it.įor the uninitiated, Starcraft 2 is a real-time strategy game based on a science fiction universe. The biggest game to hit stores this summer is without a doubt Blizzard’s latest creation and sequel to the 1998 original hit, Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty.
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