DualShockers writes, "Now let me start by saying that this is not a review and that any of my stated opinions are liable to change since this is only a first impressions piece. With all of that aside, here are some first impressions that I have gotten from Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty. Let’s focus on the campaign, since that is where I feel the bulk of the change occurred.
After completing the first mission, you can immediately see the difference between this new version and the original. To start, you are presented with a semi-interactive bar environment containing a few items with which you can briefly interact. After a few missions, your between mission environment upgrades to that of a battle cruiser with multiple rooms that each serve an interactive purpose. Players can head to the armory to buy in-game upgrades for their units or head up to the bar and see if there are any new mercenaries for hire...."
PAX EAST has officially confirmed that Blizzard and 2K Games are amongst the bigger names attending the show. This would be two of the bigger names to return to live U.S. shows since the Covid Pandemic.
Good to hear. Past couple of years the show floor is getting smaller & smaller, with more space everywhere. Food truck trucks made their way on to the expo hall floor last year. Haven't seen that since 2012.
We stopped going to PAX West and let local team cover it. We could not justify airfare, rental car, food, hotel, etc for indies.
The gaming world is in mourning following the unexpected passing of longtime Blizzard art director Bill Petras at the age of 54. Bill Petras began his Blizzard journey in 1997, earning his first credits on the groundbreaking real-time strategy game StarCraft.
Leading domestic game companies have entered into an unprecedented competition to win orders for Starcraft, Blizzard's representative IP (intellectual property).
Weird MS is letting go of a good IP. I don’t mind it but hopefully the best dev wins and I’m not sure who that is outbid those.
What they are bidding for are exclusive rights to develop the IP. Microsoft/blizzard is essentially licensing it out to the highest bidder, not selling the IP.
I wonder if we'll see Starcraft Ghost come out of this. And if we do, I wonder if it'll be a free-to-play gacha game.
Given the potential developers, looks inevitable there will be free to play gacha versions. But given south korea’s love for starcraft there would be one that is inline with starcraft 1&2.
Might want to expect some sort of backdoor cheat that only south koreans know of lol 🤣
Game looks great, wish my computer could handle it though.
I'm going to pick this up. This year the RTS around have been trash. I am excited by the fact that all my friends will be playing this online plus the fact I can sell my own user-created maps on the Battle.net system. I'm also interested in chatting with other Blizzard players.
But seriously, how can this be the only good RTS of 2010? I expected it to be one of the best, or the best, but it seriously has NO competition.
Good first impressions. That said, any idea how long the campaign mode is at this point, and more importantly, is there any replayability outside of multiplayer?
This might be the RTS that gets me back into the genre...
Starcraft...2.....is....so.... good....must....go... back....to.....it......now