Well, at the lack of a Starcraft thread, I decided that this needed a place in the humble abode of Video Gaming discussion.

Starcraft 2 is still being developed, but it proves to be the best RTS so far (in my opinion of course)

Blizzard announced the release date of Starcraft 2 as..."when its ready" which is kinda irritating but not unexpected.

The game will feature full 3D graphics with brilliant backdrops and animations. It's going to be a very nice looking game.

They are releasing units every now and then, and so far they have a bunch of Protoss and Terran units featured.

Quick rundown :

Protoss has units like the Zealot again(with a new Rush ability, yay), teleporting Stalkers, the Dragoon unit replacements that has a special shield that makes them very strong against large attacks (like those darn Siege Tanks), and then there's an air unit that can be deployed to become a Pylon. =D

Interestingly enough, the Protoss is now able to teleport units to any location that a pylon is present, meaning fast movement to take a base. =)
Also, they have these huge walker units that can walk over cliffs.

And the Photon Cannons are now Phase Cannons, that can MOVE.

The Terran is not bad either. The buildings now fly a lot faster, and the Command Centre is able to carry 4 SCV's. No more lifting off your Command Centre for a rush, and watching your SCV's all get slaughtered. You can also upgrade the CC to have a huge cannon to attack enemies. =D
Units include once more the Marines, though they can now get a shield as an upgrade, then there's jump-jet marines that can jump over cliffs. They have a Banshee, a new flying unit that's fast and agile and can cloak. They also have a funky replacement for the Goliath.
The new unit is able to transform between a mech and a flying ship. How cool is that!
Then...there's the Thor, which is evil. It's a humoungous slow moving mech-ish unit that's very powerful. It is built by SCV's.

So far not much has been revealed of the Zerg, except they have this Nydus Worm that can come out somewhere, and then deposit hundreds of Zerg.

Oh yeah, talking about hundreds of Zerg, the unit selection limit is now removed! Meaning you can now select over 100 Zerg units at once and slaughter your enemies. Booya.

So, anyway, I'll update this as new units arrive on the SC site. Stay tuned! Oh, and by all means discuss if you want.

I cant wait ay.
Few new videos up on there site than last time I checked.
Hate to say it, but I think im looking foward to halo wars more than im looking foward to SC2.

Nah, I still think SC2'll be the best game out since...Starcraft 1. =D

hehehe, you might want to watch this then .

That was really funny. =D

This of course, is also quite hilarous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwOp8WEqlRI&mode=related&search=

I am very excited for SC2 to come out.

what i know about star craft 2 is that it is nealy the same at star craft 1 there is no new races to go and it will just look good but i cant wait till it comes out

Well, gameplay might be similar to Starcraft 1, and yes, there's no new races, but all the races are getting a huge overhaul, with hundreds of new abilities and extra stuff.

And of course the graphics are improved. =P

It is no way nearly the same as SC1...
The whole game will play different. the only things I think are the same is the fact that the races are the same, and it plays as a RTS.

Maybe you should check the website..

Well, in a sense, the play-style will be similar, as many of the units have similar stats, but because of the 3D enviroment, things will be waay different inevitebly.

http://www.starcraft2.com.

Check it out.

I'm sorry but without the new race, as a Starcraft fan i feel ripped off( and it's not just that). I think I might not even buy it do to the lack of the new race. Hell, the storyline was even set up for it. Unless they kept it a huge secret and there will be a fourth race it kinda fails to what it should of been.


The updated graphics and new abilities are garbage. I mean it's as if they just went "Lets skin WC3 to Starcraft add in a broodwaresk expansion and we'll act like its a major improvement on the game." For Starcraft to look as cartoonishy as it does is a crime(Seriously). To me it's a shame such garbage is going to do good just because of the name.

Im sorry.. what.. cartoony??
It dosnt look like a cartoon at all.. its got full 3d models which are detailed as ****.. how do you say cartoony?

How can you say they arent cartoony. It looks like playing a CGI cartoon regardless of how detailed it is.

Well, rejecting a game soley based on graphics and the lack of a team is a bad judgment. I suggest lending a copy from someone when it is released, and trying it. You might like it. The total different strategies they implemented for the race (Like the teleportation of the Protoss, Terran buildings are now even faster and CC can carry SCV's, Zerg Queen is now 1 unit that can move instantly wherever creep is) and many other things, this is hardly a "WC3 skin" as you call it.

Don't judge a game because it doesn't have what you wanted.

I am a SC fan, and I love the game already.

As for cartoonish, I see no cartoonish-ness about it. As Bigbob mentioned, those are high quality, high polygon models as far as I know, and the colors are completely fitting. I don't see your point.

I'm a fan of the game I can't wait for the story to continue. I wonder what happened to Raynor?

I awaiting this game too the only problems is I think my comp will not be able to handle it but Oh well I can hope that it does.

yay... this feels like Warcraft 3 all over again. (I know I know, there were new races in that one but still...)

I just see this as a graphically redesigned starcraft 1. Sure, new story and maps but essentially the same game. That is what Blizzard does. Sure it updates the game to fit the current graphics and AI engines of the day but essentially they've had 2 game lines. 1. Starcraft/Warcraft and 2. Diablo/World of Warcraft

that may not seem right to people but I hope you understand my distiction. You have the RTS line and the 3rd person RPG. That's all that Blizzard is. Repackaged over and over and over. Are they fun? Definately. Is the story good - usually. I just don't see a whole lot more than new graphics and that is something that I've grown to hate about video game progression. I find that most games are moving towards a focus on graphics and leave the storyline underdeveloped.

Okay, I'm done the old guy rant for the day.

i was looking forward to this until they announced it would be a 3 game series. now it wasnt that fact that puts me off but the fact that each part is based around one race only, with 30 odd missions per race.

i have no problem with 30 missions, but would prefer it a little mixed, shows that events are happening simultaneously, where splitting into 3 games based by race means what, that the terrans do stuff for 3 odd months while the zerg an protoss sit around playing go fish?

i blame the corporate giants for the whole thing of focusing on the graphics. they want you to buy the game, their greedy, all they want is as much money as they can get for as little effort. lets face it, when your buying games, people in general have a tendency to buy what LOOKS good, without checking on playability.

thats why i still play old school games and dont touch the new stuff for the most part

http://www.starcraft2.com/features/battlereports/1.xml

okay... my opinion has improved slightly of the game. Not that I'm suggesting that it is actually very different from starcraft because it isn't.... but it actually looks like they've add a fair bit to the game to give it more variety now.

And where did you hear that they were splitting the game up? That just sounds stupid to me.

oh lame.... I just looked it up and it was all over the web. I think it's a terrible idea. Unless you pay for the game once and can download the new content later or something.... although that wouldn't work all that well.

Bad idea! Release the entire game all at once. I'd rather wait 6 months to get the entire game.

i wasted so much of my life playing the first one.. wow... i dont know how ill get through college after it comes out