Yesterday Activision Blizzard held a pre-E3 conference call, detailing a few goodies that unfortunately will not be making an appearance at this year's E3 tradeshow.
Yesterday Activision Blizzard held a pre-E3 conference call, detailing a few goodies that unfortunately will not be making an appearance at this year's E3 tradeshow. During the call, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime briefly touched on the company's plans for the upcoming sci-fi RTS game, StarCraft 2, announcing that the game won't be released until it meets the company's high standards as well as the expectations of the series' die-hard fans. However, he also mentioned an actual timeframe for the highly-anticipated PC game.
"We're targeting an end of year release--this year--for StarCraft 2," said Morhaime during the conference call.
As reported earlier, the game will be broken down into three parts, with Terrans: Wings of Liberty serving as the first installment. Wings of Liberty will actually comprise of the base single player campaign and a full multiplayer option featuring all of the races. Both the campaign and the multiplayer aspect will expand with the release of the second installment, Zerg: Heart of the Swarm, and finally the third installment, Protoss: Legacy of the Void. Zerg and Protoss are expected to hit the market later, perhaps even appearing years apart.
StarCraft 2, the long-awaited sequel to Blizzard's popular sci-fi RTS, takes place four years after the original game's expansion pack, Brood War. Many of the species and characters encountered in the original titles have returned, including Antanis, Zeratul, Jim Raynor, and more. Although Blizzard revealed the game's development back in 2007, development on the StarCraft 2 actually began back in 2003.
Presently Blizzard is gearing up for a closed beta of StarCraft 2 that is scheduled to begin this summer. Fans eager for a little pre-release taste can sign up to participate in the closed beta by creating a new Battle.Net account here.
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too many time, i lost my interest in this game.
I should F***ING HOPE SO! Be heading into DNF territory otherwise (as the first post suggests) not that blizzard would ever run out of money.
I can't wait!!! Starcraft is my all time favorite game.
so another game in episodes .... guess I'll not buy that until I can have a 'complete' package with the full game.
It had better:
1) be LAN multiplayer capabable
2) not contain (evil) desktop raping DRM
3) run on XP Pro
4) be nVidia CUDA friendly
announcing plans? "there is no try"
[quote=canceltwc4fios]It had better:
1) be LAN multiplayer capabable
2) not contain (evil) desktop raping DRM
3) run on XP Pro
4) be nVidia CUDA friendly
announcing plans? "there is no try"[/quote]
1) It's Starcraft
2) It's Blizzard
3) It's Blizzard
4) Seriously?
I don't mind paying for games to reward the company. But I don't think I'm willing to pay for a massivley delayed strategy game with graphics outdated by at least 4 years.
too many time, i lost my interest in this game.
Great games take time to develop. Quite a few people still play the orginal fyi.
I can't wait!!! Starcraft is my all time favorite game.
Amen to that. I loved the ablility to create custom maps with triggers
so another game in episodes .... guess I'll not buy that until I can have a 'complete' package with the full game.
I would say this is more like the orgininal Starcraft compared with the add-on pack Brood Wars. I highly doubt you will not get your money's worth.
1) It's Starcraft2) It's Blizzard3) It's Blizzard4) Seriously?
Exactly.
I don't mind paying for games to reward the company. But I don't think I'm willing to pay for a massivley delayed strategy game with graphics outdated by at least 4 years.
Have you taken a look at some of the screenshots lately? In any case, it was the playability that let the original starcraft realize sucess not breathtaking graphics. The new game seems to have more warcraftesque graphics. Also keep this in mind: with a massive amount of units/creatures/buildings/effects on screen, hyper-realistic graphics could bog-down computers. The other thing to remember, The slighty cartoony graphics seem to match the overall starcraft game. Anything else would be strange.
I will admit that I haven't thought about playing Starcraft in quite a long time; The development went on for a little more than I would have liked. However, I would rather wait a longer period of time then to be disapointed with EA-standard crap.
As long as gameply is fun I couldn't care less about graphics.
Game that are in development for so long do end up outdated by release date.
I'm pretty sure Blizzard will sell millions of copies without a problem.
Ughhh.
Supreme Commander ruined me for RTS games. No tactical zoom? No want.
Lol... maybe I'm a geek... It's 'Artanis' not 'Antanis' :3
I play the original with my friends a couple times out of the week. He's poor, his computer can run it, and it's fairly easy to understand. I can't wait for SC2 if just for the updated graphics and AI... I'm getting tired of looking at 256 colors, and I want to have more lulzy strategies :-\
I think SC's diehard fans are all dead by now...
As Miyamoto once said: A game that is released late is still eventually released, but a game that is released bad, will be bad forever.
But truly, a solid decade for this? I got excited, then forgot about it, then hyped again, then frustrated, then eager again, and now I simply cannot muster the interest to care again. Maybe I'll care when it comes out, or maybe I'll be too busy raising grandkids by then.
Supreme Commander ruined me for RTS games. No tactical zoom? No want.
I know!! But even without full map zoom (and independant minimap scaling and zoom), even without building queues for construction units, even without the larger number of units... I'm just glad we'll be able to select more than 12 friggen units at a time.
Supreme Commander is pretty much the only computer game I play anymore. Essentially all my other gametime is Forza 2.
SC2 isn't for us. It's for those damned Koreans who still play 90+ hours a week.
It was stated that development began in 2003. Since we are into 2009 that would make it 6 +/- years. Not a decade. Do keep in mind that they have other high priority projects which most likely had much of the staff dedicated to sc2 stolen away for a time. I highly doubt it was 6 years of full-speed-ahead devo work.
Supreme Commander was the biggest disapointment in a sequel that I have ever seen. The great thing about the original, total annihilation, was diversity. Both sides had units & structures which were different enough to warrant different strategies. I will admit that the "super units" in SupCom are interesting, and I like the upgrade to the commander unit. However, everything else seemed to me like they stamped out cookie-cutter like units/turrets to make balancing the game easier. Some features were nice, but as a whole it was a disapointment. Well, at least imho.
Yes, koreans & foreign countries do play more than we do in the us. We tend to go through games pretty quick over here. (minus mmorpg-addicted people)
I think I hear the distant sound of 1 million Koreans fapping.
I know!! But even without full map zoom (and independant minimap scaling and zoom), even without building queues for construction units, even without the larger number of units... I'm just glad we'll be able to select more than 12 friggen units at a time.
LMFAO, True!!!
Why the focus on graphics? If it looks pretty does it mean that it will necessarily be fun to play? besides it's not like the graphics are bad, they're just not cutting edge. I think anyone who knows anything about the current generation of consoles has come to the conclusion that top-quality graphics doesn't mean squat....
Wow, some of you people make me laugh, first its "We don't want to buy crap that the game companies rush out(whaa...cry....moan)" Now you have the stupidity to become hypocrits and cry "ZOMG, they took so long to develop it, I don't care if it is the most uber game in the world, they took to long.(snivel, whine, cry)" Seriously, make up your minds. Do you want the game companies to release great games that make take a bit to develop? Or. do you want EA standard games that could have been great, but did not have enough time and resources dumped into them to bring them to where they should be? Stop frakken putting on a show and grow up and make up your own minds, don't follow the not so cool naysayer crowd.
lol, the backstabbing shall continue in SC2!
You can win a beta key for sc2 on starcraftforum.org by making a video! for eg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHv7hxRXxVY
Here's my SC2 vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI