Blizzard Finally Pulls Through
It’s about time! Yesterday (19 May), Blizzard officially announced that there will be a StarCraft II. The original was released in 1998, so it looks like it will end up being a full decade in between releases. (I’m not counting the Brood War expansion pack in that number.) So far, Blizzard has only announced new units and buildings for the Protoss race, but additions and tweaks for the Terran and Zerg races will be revealed in the future. According to 1up.com, StarCraft II will be released on November 20 of this year. This seems rather quick given Blizzard’s position that they are only at the early alpha stages of development and the fact that they release some of the most polished games in the industry. I must say that the games seems pretty far along, given the gameplay videos that are available, to be called an early alpha. I would find it quite disheartening to have been working on a game since 2003 and, four years later, only be reaching the early alpha stages.
All I can say is that I can’t wait for the sequel to the greatest computer game of all time.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:01 am
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah…
Maybe Blizzard was taking so long to release the sequel because they were hard at work on a game with a real genre, an MMORPG. I’m guessing that they threw at least three developers at this StarCraft II project.
As long as they don’t pull any resources away from World of Warcraft then I don’t care
May 21st, 2007 at 9:18 am
You keep telling yourself that. We all know that your real problem is that your mind just can’t handle the complexity of an RTS, let alone dismounting before attacking.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:49 am
I’m not telling you any of the other stupid shit I do. Besides when I don’t dismount it’s sort of my way to be nice and handicap my dominating PvP power.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
now if they would just get around to making a diablo III there would be world peace…well maybe