Blizzard Entertainment, the company that brought you World Of Warcraft and Diablo, has done it again. It is official, the release date for the much awaited StarCraft II: Wings Of Liberty is here! For all us big time PC gamers this is huge. We have been waiting over a decade for its release and it will be available on July 27, 2010. It is already available for preorder for the low price of $59.99 at Amazon.
StarCraft, for those of you who are new to the saga, is a one player, real-time strategy game with the main characters being the Protoss, the Terran, and the Zerg. In the original StarCraft you have the ability to choose whichever race you would like to be and upon picking your campaign the epic battle begins. You are responsible for building up your army, protecting your squad from any oncoming attacks and completing predetermined missions. The missions may sound easy, but you won’t think that when you are being attacked by the opposing army. There is even one mission where the objective is just to stay alive for thirty minutes, but if you fail to build a solid fortress you are toast once 30 seconds rolls around.
It has been confirmed that StarCraft 2 will be a continuation of StarCraft: Brood War and will include a few new characters, as well as the old ones, like Jim Raynor. Battle.net will also be offering great online multi-player capabilities, which will make the PC game that much more fun and interesting. This time the game will run on a much more advanced 3D graphics engine, which will allow for more vibrant images, backdrops, and the ability to show the detail of huge armies. The game will also feature a lot more units for each campaign. It has been said that StarCraft 2: Wings Of Liberty will focus around the Terran race, and will be followed by two expansion sets which will make it a trilogy. One, currently titled, Heart of the Swarm, will arrive later and follow the Zerg and Sarah Kerrigan and the second is tentatively titled Legacy of the Void, which will follow the Protoss. Each part of the trilogy will have somewhere close to 30 missions to complete, so it is sure to give us our money’s worth no matter which campaign we prefer.
StarCraft 2 is not only going to be released in the United States, but it has also been slated for an international release on the same date, coming out in Australia, Singapore, Mexico, Hong Kong, Russia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Europe. There is even a rumor that it will be available for download once the CD version has been released. It is already available for beta play upon pre-ordering the game, which will allow you to get a little practice before the game finally arrives.
Blizzard has been notorious for setting release dates and then changing them, so let’s cross our fingers and hope the release date really is final this time and that we are all victorious in the battles to come!
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