I'm rather surprised no one has created a thread about the release of SC 2. Anyone have it? Your thoughts on it?

I like the short cinematics before each mission, the armory, and the simple UI(much like the first one). The game starts off slow with a tutorial feel, but I'm hoping it picks up speed.

Yeah, I love the new LAN features and how we can play toge...

Oh wait, nevermind.

It's awesome, no doubt about it. I'm mainly interested in multiplayer, but the campaign feels very well done. The new research system and general feel of the in between missions part is cool, and the brutal difficulty is just that. Blizzard did this well!

I hardly think they will charge full price for the next campaigns. And that's interesting, because the game is actually fairly cheap here in Norway (although prices vary as much as $30 between the various retailers).

Saw it today in game but didn't want to buy.

Only recently bought Witcher, haven't even put the CD in the computer yet.

My little brother just bought it yesterday.

It's immediately noticable to me that it suffers from Blizzard's "I live up my own ass so I don't see faults anymore" syndrome. The dialog cinematic voice acting is sub-par for what they're advertising. The animation (the movement of the characters) is very robotic and almost lifeless. Mass Effect 1 was levels above Starcraft 2.

The game run on a semi-recent computer runs like piss except on lowest detail. In which case it looks like Warcraft 3: Starcraft, and everything looks like 3-D models walking on top of a terran map with a completely different art style.

All that aside, so far, the gameplay looks and feels fun. So once you peel away all of Blizzard's ego BS, it's not so bad. The few movie cinematics I've seen pretty cool looking.

Also, the game tries to make it more like you play Reynar and you have to go to "the bar" screen, click on a mercenary guy to hire mercenaries, and click on the television to watch announcements, etc. It's like I'm watching someone play Wing Commander--except the interface is less responsive.

I haven't tried multiplayer yet. I do have significant faith in Blizzard's ability to create a balanced game. I just hope it's more like Starcraft than Warcraft 3 (which I never really liked.)

I bought it, i knew I'd buy it eventually so why not juts get it now. (okay so i got home late, after drinking a few, and totally made an impulse buy) I hate how its only 1/3rd of the missions but i think online play is entirely complete anyways. Starcraft 1 had that bloody brood war expansion pack anyways which you needed to buy if you wanted to play online with others anyways.

i'm a total n00b. Played the computer on medium. It was a ZvP and i tried to do a standard and got squashed by stalker rush with 3 zealots. When I'm good enough I'd like to play some a.cc'ers like back in brood war days.

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Feel free to add me. I haven't ranked outside of beta yet but I'll probably end up being silver.

Ranked gold. Anyone else finish their placement matches? What'd you place?

Well, 59$ CAD are only 43€ according to google. That would be ok for me. But 59€ = 79.5$ CAD, that's its price here And they wonder why so many people pirate games here

I have to admit, just watching the single player campiegn is fun. My little brother is on a world where the sun just rapidly turned into a red giant and is growing fast. It will consume the world where the artifact that he needs is located. They drop in anyway, and the map is being consumed by fire from the left of the map and slowly propogating to the right. Seeing the trees and world slowly burned as it turns is a really fun an original way to make a ticking clock plot drive.

I'm pretty far into the single-player campaign now. Blizzard made a serious effort to make the missions as varied and creative as possible, which I'm enjoying a ton. It's inspiring me to try to one-up them and make something even better in the editor.

I also like how they try to challenge you by introducing related bonus goals, which are also usually pretty fun themselves. A good mix of guidance and freedom and even the Hyperion interactions are growing on me. Just played the first Protoss mission last night.

Agreed that the price is high for a game but I expected that and saved my pennies accordingly. I don't buy games often and I knew I wouldn't regret it.

Oh, and congrats on the Platinum rank, Derezo! If you don't mind playing a lowly Gold player, I'd love a round or two.

And even more expensive here, since they are usually imported from Europe and then resold for even more $$$. Starcraft 2 costs ~80USD :X (most new games cost ~60USD though)