Blizzard Announces StarCraft 2

We'll be returning once again to the world of StarCraft, it appears, and not in the form of a Massively Multiplayer game. Blizzard has announced StarCraft 2 at their packed event in Seoul, South Korea. IGN is liveblogging the event, describing gameplay footage being played as well as full cinematics. From the description of ongoing events there are massive changes to the way the game plays, new units, a physics system within the game engine, and the capability to show over 100 units onscreen at a time. "Showing gameplay footage - Looks like protoss ships - floating over asteroid/ base structure - entering protoss ase - similar looking buildings - vespene gas still in the game - character pane shows up on right side - some protoss guy - shifts to terran bases floating on rockets over same type of territory - sill collecting crystals as resources - marines load out. Dustin is actually playing the game - nothing in the game is final." Additional coverage from Milky at 1up.

i for one...

[legallyillegal]

...welcome our new ZERGLIasddAS24Y6JNGG-G--SAD9ODASIDAS98244128990WQA NO CARRIER

Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

Even SC2 beat out Duke Nukem Whenever...

May I be the first to say...

[Karganeth]

KEKEKEKEKE ZERG RUSH!

My Wife for Hire!!!!

[Steavis]

....Or was that "My life for Aiur!" I could never tell what those damn zealots were saying.

Re:Awesome

[Puff of Logic]

However, the reports of having hundreds of zerglings makes it seem like it might be more of a macro scale RTS.

No problem. Since 1998, I've upgraded my system somewhat. I can now spawn as many overlords as necessary!

Re:Starcraft 2

[solios]

Word. I hated War3 - it slammed all of the most irritating elements of RPGs on top of an RTS and wound up being a severely unenjoyable experience as a result. I can't think of a Blizzard title I've enjoyed less.

Hopefully Starcraft 2 is Improved Starcraft. If their previous release pattern is anything to go by, it should be. Then Starcraft 3 will suck ass, then we'll have World Of Starcraft, which won't suck.

Another crisis averted

[tehSpork]

In other news, the rest of the world released a huge sigh of relief as the Doomsday Clock [damninteresting.com] was turned back. A spokesman for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was quoted as saying "A Starcraft MMO could have ended it all. We may never know how close we came to the complete and utter destruction of society as we know it."

Round 2

[Nihilgeist]

StarCraft is back for more. Will my academic career survive this time?

Re:Another crisis averted

[Puff of Logic]

Indeed. Penny Arcade's Gabe will also continue to be able to see his family [penny-arcade.com].

Re:Round 2

[Anonymous Coward]

Out of curiosity, how long have you been in school?

Re:My Wife for Hire!!!!

[Rocketship Underpant]

"My life for Eire"? Irish nationalists, you know...

Re:BleahBleahBleah.

[Shinra]

>>it seems that they decided not to mess with a winning combination

If it ain't broke, why fix it?

Seriously, Starcraft is an RTS, and to make it anything else in the main series (As opposed to a spin-off or a side-game)
would be an insult to the millions who play Starcraft.

I am likely going to preorder this anyway.

Appropriate use of a well-used quote

[GFree]

I, for one, welcome our new Zerg overlords.

*whisper: dude, we don't have any overlords*

SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS!

Re:BleahBleahBleah.

[DrSkwid]

"Starcraft in 3d in Directx 9 with particles systems and a few minor tweaks to the gameplay."

I'd buy that for a dollar!

oh god

[chillax137]

i'm starting grad school next semester. i hope to god that sc2 is delayed long enough for me to get my phd.

Re:My Wife for Hire!!!!

[Lachrymite]

The first time I saw someone playing WC3, I thought "My life for the Horde!" was "My wife is a whore!"

Damn you Blizzard!

[Lee148]

I was done with PC gaming. I had picked up a Wii to satisfy any semi-casual craving for gaming. My last windows PC was transformed into a sexy Ubuntu + Beryl box. I told myself that not even Spore or Team Fortress 2 could bring me back. I was out, man. No more buying more RAM, Multi-Core CPUs, or overpriced video cards on an annual basis. But then they had to do this...

Anyone know where I can get a good price on a nvidia 8800?

Re:i for one...

[Clockworkalien]

welcome our new overlord overlords?

Re:Awesome

[PyroMosh]

Exactly. Just like everyone stopped playing Starcraft when Warcraft III came out!