Starcraft 2 confirmed! Pics inside!

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/imgs_1.html

 

lol it looks good

 

Omg Omg Omg Omg Omg Starcraft Ftw!!!!

 

What's the weird robot on the 1st pic. I can't recognize, could it be the Zerg who evolved so much?

 

OMG CANT WAIT ~!!! hehe ,

 

wat weird robot? it looks more like protoss vs terran to me

and yeah those pics look amazing!

makes me wanna get my old SC game out and play!

 

what platform is this game avaliable on?

regards.

John.

 

PC for sure... "Maybe" would be on Xbox360 like cnc3, i guess...

 

Ah man. I was wishing Blizzard was gonna announce Diablo 3. Oh well, can't have all my wishes come perfectly true I suppose

 

Just play Titan Quest and it's expansion...

 

Yes! Another RTS! And it's Starcraft 2! Hopefully it will be as good as or better than the original. I have high expectations from Blizzard. They take forever to release a game and when they do, it's always a good game.

 

There's already Diablo 2 but there's no Starcraft 2... so i think it is fair that Starcraft is the 1st one to be out... hopefully it doesnt turn out to be like the Starcraft Ghost...

(They took forever coz they were too busy minding their $cow WoW...)

 

that looks pretty nice

 

Looks like a nice game.

 

Graphics look pretty sick. I hope the 3D element doesn't ruin SCII like it ruined WCIII.

 

Hope it doesn't end up as another Starcraft:Ghost.

Wow.....the graphics are cool. wonder what are the minimum requirements for this game?

 

eh? wc3 was so good. and they did a good job balancing it considering how many more features there were compared to starcraft.

On topic though, it looks like a sweet game. A lot have people have been waiting forever for this.

 

What exactly is Diablo and Starcraft?

 

Common ghost, your just playing around right?

And your the guy that was looking for a good RTS!

 

Whats a rock, and how long do you stay under it before you don't know what they are?

 

go to www.gametrailers.com for some gameplay footages and of course, the official announcement trailer!

I just read from gamespot.com and during the SCII announcement in South Korea, they didn't mention anything about system requirement, however the game does use pixel shader 2.0 as you can tell from the screenshots and videos. So, yes, you probably need a decent graphic card (with shader 2.0 supported)

 

OMGOMGOMG! Holy >_<

I hope the game is released sometime this year

 

Probably won't be. IGN said the Beta may be out by the end of the year so i'm thinking early 08.

 

OH DROOL (as long as I get my carriers and plasma cannons back)

 

I wouldn't worry much about the system requirements. Blizzard games have traditionally been very scalable with low requirements, which allows them to have a very large target market. Probably the highest it'll be a 2.4GHz P4, 512MB of RAM in XP, and a PS2.0 generation GPU or a bit higher than C&C3's requirements. I'm particularly happy that there will be a Mac version as always.

My hope is that Battlenet will continue to be free. I'd hate for them to switch to some type of subcription service for online play like WoW.

 

Oh my god I'm excited! This is really cool. I love how they retained the original Starcraft look (like you can immediately tell its a Terran Command Center and a Protoss Pylon), yet its so graphically advanced! Good job Blizzard!

I hope its released soon...I can't wait that long . I'm particularily interested in the Protoss Mothership .

 

That gameplay footage (looks like Terran vs. Protoss) looks amazing!!

 

Yey, I'm in dire need of a new RTS; WCIII has gotten old, and nothing else seems to appeal to me as much as the Blizzard RTSs.

 

Heellz Yes!

 

I was looking for a good RTS. ^_^

I've only played the Command And Conquer Series and Company of Heroes.

I've never played Dawn of War, Starcraft, and Diablo.

How fun is it?

 

You think they'll add another race?

 

Doubt they'd add a new race. Be kinda pointless, the three they have rock so hard be overkill

Downloading Cinematic Trailer now. WEEEE

 

They won't add any new races, just the original 3 races.

see the FAQ: http://www.starcraft2.com/faq.xml

 

To Ghost_Recon, Starcraft basically pioneered the RTS we know today. Its one of the most revered games in history, some people still play Starcraft 1 to this day! Mostly because the plot is so well-thought.

This is really cool, really cool. I can't wait to see more info on it. Like how will the Zergs be? Will the Sunken (the big tongue ) still exist? Oh my god this is cool. This pwns C&C3 .

 

How long is the campaign mode? REALLY LONG???? and wow!

 

I can't see what's so amazingly awesome about it. Yes, Starcraft was a great game back when it came out 10 years ago (or however old it is), and yes, the sequel will likely be a good game as well.
But it's just a RTS, and the RTS genre has evolved dramatically in the last few years. Today, Starcraft (the original game) is really showing its age, with ridiculously primitive gameplay. Yes, the story isn't bad, and as always, there's plenty of nice cinematics, and the races are reasonably well balanced, but none of this adds up to the incredible hype machine built around it.

Both Dawn of War and Company of Heroes are both vastly better games, because they took the (by now ancient) principles of Starcraft and other classic RTS'es, and built a ton of new ideas on top of them. They've raised the bar more than a little bit, so releasing SC2 with 10 year old gameplay just won't cut it.

 

sc imo still has the best gameplay of an rts to this day, probably why progaming scene of sc is so big :O

 

Well, its just been announced today, so who knows? I got a feeling that Starcraft 2 will be way more advanced than the features they're showing now. The four years they spent on this, they'd gotta be working on something .

 

ZOMG!!11!1!1one!!1!elven!1!!!one! FINALLY!!! YAY!!!

 

Do you know another game (RTS) where top players make six figure incomes, are revered as almost celebrities in their country, and appear on three major television stations dedicated to that game itself. Where you can go to college to learn how to play that game... and thats just Korea.

Not to mention world wide it has the biggest online community for any game ever. There is definitely hype around this one; especially all the rumours that have been floating around the past 10 years. o>O

 

I agree with link1313. Sure, there's hype. And Company of Heroes and C&C3 are fantastic games. But Starcraft's the classic, and Starcraft 2 is the revival of the classic, bringing what has been one the most successful and highly regarded games ever back to today's gaming standards - and possibly further, considering how little info we know on it right now.

 

Official site has also been put up earlier today

www.starcraft2.com

 

We don't even know if the gameplay will be 100% like the Original Starcraft. It's probably not possible to do it on the Fly, but it would be kickass if there were some FPS-type Gameplay on some Campaigns/Maps. Ooh to be in the ****pit of a Wraith, or to be the Ghost dropping the Nuke.

"Nuclear Launch Detected" Oh snap

Btw, the Cinematic of the Marine... OMG... I think I gotta change my shorts.

 

Hopefully they can improve upon the original without completely screwing it up. They did a good job with WCIII imo, so I have faith that it'll be a great game.

 

Haha I love the billboard "real men dig deep" in the third picture. That new unit you see in the first picture I think is a new mega unit for the Protoss..

But I am somewhat dissappointed.. I mean the graphics are decent but they look very Warcraft III-ish.. kind of cartooney and by the looks of the second screen the units take up a lot of the screen (hopefully you can bring back the camera a bit). I like Starcraft and Warcraft.. I just hope they can make it look like a 2007 version of Starcraft with all of the effects and animations that are expected today. Some new units are cool, but would a new race really hurt to add? I mean they would need to be creative with it, but I was kind of expecting to see a new race or something considering the huge unveiling this game was given. Some could argue that it would ruin the game to have a 4th race.. but do you really JUST want the Starcraft you had 10 years ago in 3d? Or do you want the Starcraft you had 10 years in 3d jacked up with a new race and tons of new units? I feel that the strategies you used in Starcraft will apply to Starcraft II.. sure a few units will have new abilities but I think they really need something groundbreaking (in terms of Starcraft gameplay) to really make this game worth it. Let's just hope Blizzard delivers