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It's not as well-rounded as Warcraft on the human scale, however. Fans of trad space opera will be well satisfied by this thumping yarn, especially in its occasional, spectacularly well-made CG cut-scenes.

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It's relatively easy to pick up, mind though Wings of Liberty exemplifies Blizzard's easy way with grandstanding reversals and epic sweep, StarCraft hasn't got anything like as tangled up in geopolitics and lore as the Warcraft series has. Wings of Liberty's installer helpfully recaps the important plot points of StarCraft and the Brood War expansion, including love interest Kerrigan's betrayal and transformation into the Zerg Queen of Blades. Downtrodden space-faring humans piloting chunky, battered retro-futuristic mechs, the Terrans led by resistance hero Jim Raynor are caught in a three-way intergalactic struggle between former allies turned evil empire the Dominion, rapacious biomechanical menace the Zerg, and high-tech, high-church alien zealots the Protoss. Your first step on the StarCraft II journey is Wings of Liberty itself, the campaign mode told almost entirely from the point of view of the Terrans, one of the game's three races. What's so clever about StarCraft II is that it's been built big through technology, finesse, depth, insane attention to detail and, above all, structural brilliance. A strategy game with thousands of units and maps and hundreds of hours of grind would just be unwieldy and overbearing. Not to be outdone in thinking big by the guys across the hall, Blizzard's strategy team has delivered an RTS on an MMO scale.Įven with the time - seven years since Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne - and the bottomless resources they've had, that's not something you can do by brute force. It is an immense game - and this is just Wings of Liberty, the first part of the StarCraft II trilogy. One week in, and I'm barely in the foothills of that climb.

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Conscious of its intimidating complexity and speed - of the yawning gulf between the curious, casual World of Warcraft player who will pick it up on a whim and the 300-clicks-a-minute eSports pro who's been training for it since childhood - Blizzard has built StarCraft II as an epic crescendo: a parabolic ascent through multi-layered campaign, challenge, skirmish and co-operative modes and then multiplayer ladder competition that stretches off into the vanishing-point distance. It still comes as something of a shock: the urgent, breathless acceleration playing this game requires of your fingers and your brain, darting around the map, micro-managing, multitasking, watching your hastily-improvised tactics blossom or collapse in busy, laser-scattered chaos that always seems a beat ahead of you.īut there's another rhythm building in the background, behind every mission and skirmish, and this one is very, very slow. We don't expect these hit point changes to have a super significant impact on the game, but the current numbers felt way too low.Įurogamer's Oli Welsh awarded Blizzard's long-awaited sequel a resounding 9/10 when it arrived on PCs back in August.'StarCraft II is fast.' The first words I wrote about Blizzard's real-time strategy sequel, almost two and a half years ago, may well have been an exercise in stating the profoundly obvious - but they bear repeating all the same. We're making a number of increases to the health of zerg buildings, which will make the very vulnerable zerg technology structures more resistant to raids.

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The reaper speed upgrade will require the Factory, which is meant to weaken a lot of the early terran reaper attacks that dominate so many matches, especially in team games.

The Barracks are going to require a Supply Depot, which will impact a lot of early terran reaper pushes.

Fungal Growth will now prevent Blink, which will give zerg a way to stop endlessly Blinking stalkers which can be very challenging to deal with in large numbers.

This will allow roaches to be more effective in large groups, giving the zerg more options in the mid to end game.

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No exact date has been announced for the patch yet, but here's a list of what it does, courtesy of Blizzard's design director Dustin Browder. Not only that but the Zerg are on the receiving end of a disproportionate number of beatings at the hands of the Protoss. A posting on reveals that they're only used by players 25.3 per cent of the time. The change has been prompted by stats which show the Zerg are far and away the least popular of StarCraft's three species.

A new patch for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will tweak the Zerg race to make them a more tempting proposition, developer Blizzard has announced.