Blizzard always does awesome CGI. Preordered since the beta access promo and can't wait.

I played the crap out of the first one, I had read they were planning on releasing single player campaigns on three different disk. One for each of the races with the Terran being first, the others to follow later, is that still the case?

That is good news, I was afraid when Activision bought them they would turn greedy and charge $150 for the whole lot!

Wait... Trying to care.

Trying to care...

Well I failed.

I'm going to have to pass on Starcraft 2. While I'm a huge Blizzard fan and I did enjoy the original for about a month I still think Company of Heroes is a much much better and funner game. I really like how you can only have 1 account per cd-key as this prevents smurfing which is common in CoH community. I like how they have different leagues for players to play in that reflect their skill level. Combined with no smurfing it makes for a much better experience when playing online in a vs game. Co-op or bot stomps are not nearly as fun in Starcraft 2 as CoH either.

In CoH you have seperate ranks for vs gameplay and bot stomps. This is kind of cool because when you lose a bot stomp you lose rank and the AI is no pushover that's for sure. So while Starcraft 2 has the vs leagues and 1 account restriction, it doesn't have ranked bot stomps which I find a nice alternative to vs play. Blizzard is usually good at improving on an already good concept and making it even better but in this case they just failed to see the larger picture. Not to mention the gameplay is well boring to say the least.

I was planing on waiting till after Christmas just to see what happens with it plus Elemental will be eating up most of my free time. I have waited 12 years for it so I can wait some more. I was really unhappy to hear that Activision  bought them thinking they would ruin another good game. My cousin worked for Blizzard, but quit soon after their acquisition by Activision. So I lost my in on what they were up to.

And yet people keep buying the same shooters over and over and over again. Go figure.

Im a HUGE CoH fan.

one of the few RTS where if you place 5 infantry correctly you can hold off 20 other units.

I played the beta of SC2. And basically i kept seeing spammed units. Basically people just creating 100 of one unit and then invade. It was so dumb. I really want to skip this game out.

and as said i do feel that even thought this game took 12 years and like 4 million dollars to make, its basically StarCraft 1.5. All that money and time just to add 3d graphics.

Meh, like most of blizzards games in the last ten years, this is overated.

I am sure it will make billions though.

COH is by far superior to this, and I actually am personally sticking to Dawn of war 2. I am one of the people who think that game is breath of fresh air for the genre. Tactics and skill actually matter, you don't need base building to have an in depth rts, and there is always conflict within 30 seconds in that game.

Playing the beta of SC just seemed stale and all down to the spam..

yeah no thanks.

Wow good to see not too many people here arent that excited about StarCraft 2.But i would love to see the CG story line.

Like i said i think CoH is pretty much the definition of a strategy game. So much tactics. So thats #1 on my list.

I like DOW2 but only the campaign. Multiplayer feels chaotic and not very tactful.

Its like CoH is football. You line up your guys in a formation have a brief time of extreme action, And line them up again.

DOW2 is more like soccer. Just run around the map, going back and forth. not to mention the the mandatory auto-match is the biggest Piece of Shiit i ever seen in PC gaming. Lv60, 50, 5  VS LV 10, 5, 3.  Who will win?

Interesting.

"Oh look, it's a thread about StarCraft. Isn't that an RTS game? I bet people would like to know about my dislike of RTS games. I should make a post in a thread about an RTS game about how much I don't really enjoy RTS games. My opinion must be known!"

Hyperbole aside, I played the SC2 beta extensively. I was kind of disappointed by the lack of unit types. The game also seemed to be faster paced, which is a good thing in some respects but the first game was filled with huge lasting battles and the feeling that I got from the beta was that those simply don't exist anymore. It could take fifteen minutes to build your army and the battle is over in 35 seconds.

That being said, when I do finally get StarCraft 2, it will be for the campaign mode.

I like the cinematic and storyline. Therefor I preload the game, haven't buy it yet. Battlenet pricing and transaction on SC2 will be available at 27 *sigh*

I probably going to buy this on my local gamestore instead of digital download.