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5th May 2010 08:10 PM
Darren Allan
Fed up of Warcraft, and its massively multiplayer world filled with dusty old dungeons, and cantankerous old raid bosses? Ready for a change of pace?
Perhaps a switch to sci-fi and the return of StarCraft will be the cure to pep up your enthusiasm for Blizzard.
You won’t have long to wait, as the company has announced that Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty will be released on July 27th.
It seems like a long time ago since the first StarCraft was released, mainly because it was – twelve years, in fact.
Wings of Liberty will pick the story up from where StarCraft: Brood War left off, and what’s really smart is the campaign will feature choices in the missions you undertake, with branching paths rather than a pure linear structure.
The protoss, terrans and zerg will of course be back, except rendered in a new 3D graphics engine.
Naturally, online play will be paramount, as StarCraft has long been a bastion of competitive computer gaming.
A new version of Battle.net has been designed with a number of enhancements, from leagues and ladders, to statistics tracking, voice communication, even cloud file storage.
Challenge mode mini-games will be included in the package, designed to introduce the basics of multiplayer strategies to novices.
Oh, and there’ll be a new map editor, too. It sounds like the development time spent on this long-awaited sequel hasn’t been wasted.
Fingers crossed this turns out to be the case.
Darren Allan
Fed up of Warcraft, and its massively multiplayer world filled with dusty old dungeons, and cantankerous old raid bosses? Ready for a change of pace?
Perhaps a switch to sci-fi and the return of StarCraft will be the cure to pep up your enthusiasm for Blizzard.
You won’t have long to wait, as the company has announced that Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty will be released on July 27th.
It seems like a long time ago since the first StarCraft was released, mainly because it was – twelve years, in fact.
Wings of Liberty will pick the story up from where StarCraft: Brood War left off, and what’s really smart is the campaign will feature choices in the missions you undertake, with branching paths rather than a pure linear structure.
The protoss, terrans and zerg will of course be back, except rendered in a new 3D graphics engine.
Naturally, online play will be paramount, as StarCraft has long been a bastion of competitive computer gaming.
A new version of Battle.net has been designed with a number of enhancements, from leagues and ladders, to statistics tracking, voice communication, even cloud file storage.
Challenge mode mini-games will be included in the package, designed to introduce the basics of multiplayer strategies to novices.
Oh, and there’ll be a new map editor, too. It sounds like the development time spent on this long-awaited sequel hasn’t been wasted.
Fingers crossed this turns out to be the case.
