The Starcraft 2 Beta came out.
Mar 29th 2010 15:05
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Some weeks ago the Starcraft beta was released by Blizzard, apparently you had to sign in with your Battle.net account in order to recieve some validation key.
I waited cause I know people were gonna crack it, and so they did.
I thought I wasn't gonna be able to run cause I only have an onboard graphics card, but it came out nicely.
My thoughts about it:
When I started playing a map came up right away, and a race was assigned randomly, on my first try the Zerg came up. They changed almost everything about them, most upgrades, most units and most buildings were changed.
For example the Queen now is a land unit instead of an air unit (wtf) the Hydralisk is an advanced unit and the Ultralisk is way tougher.
On the second try the Protoss came out. Most of their structures remain the same but their air units are all different, the Carrier seems to stay unchanged though. Dark templars are here but they don't merge into the Dark Archon, instead they merge into a normal Archon just like the High Templars. The Dragoons have been removed, and damn the Arbiter was removed, that was one of my favorite units from the original Starcraft.
I did hate one unit that was similar to the new Collossus but smaller, it seemed too "insectish" and it didn't look Protoss at all.
I haven't tried the Terran out yet.
In conclusion the game is still under development but I doubt the final version will be too different from the Beta, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed, but since I liked the original Starcraft so much I had asumed SC2 was gonna be worse.
On my next entry I'm gonna talk about Diablo 3, and my expectations on that game.
Thanks for your time.
Some weeks ago the Starcraft beta was released by Blizzard, apparently you had to sign in with your Battle.net account in order to recieve some validation key.
I waited cause I know people were gonna crack it, and so they did.
I thought I wasn't gonna be able to run cause I only have an onboard graphics card, but it came out nicely.
My thoughts about it:
When I started playing a map came up right away, and a race was assigned randomly, on my first try the Zerg came up. They changed almost everything about them, most upgrades, most units and most buildings were changed.
For example the Queen now is a land unit instead of an air unit (wtf) the Hydralisk is an advanced unit and the Ultralisk is way tougher.
On the second try the Protoss came out. Most of their structures remain the same but their air units are all different, the Carrier seems to stay unchanged though. Dark templars are here but they don't merge into the Dark Archon, instead they merge into a normal Archon just like the High Templars. The Dragoons have been removed, and damn the Arbiter was removed, that was one of my favorite units from the original Starcraft.
I did hate one unit that was similar to the new Collossus but smaller, it seemed too "insectish" and it didn't look Protoss at all.
I haven't tried the Terran out yet.
In conclusion the game is still under development but I doubt the final version will be too different from the Beta, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed, but since I liked the original Starcraft so much I had asumed SC2 was gonna be worse.
On my next entry I'm gonna talk about Diablo 3, and my expectations on that game.
Thanks for your time.
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net account in order to receive a validation key.
I thought I wasn't gonna be able to run it cause I only have an onboard graphics card, but it came out nicely.
In conclusion the game is still under development but I doubt the final version will be too different from the Beta, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed, but since I liked the original Starcraft so much I had assumed SC2 was gonna be worse.
I'll have to try it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcraft_2
Now I understand It feels like a very interest game.
Indeed as you said, they couldn't just go and launch SC1 with better graphics and call it SC2, but I don't know, I was expecting something different, not so radical changes I guess.
A friend of mine has tried the Terran and he says they are cool, mentioned that supply depots can be "burrowed" and bunkers can be returned in order to get the money back or something. Those are cool changes that make the game better, sames goes for making the Ultralisk tougher, but the on-foot Queen, wasn't expecting that.
Although if you think about it, it was reasonable to expect radical changes. As a Warcraft 2 fan when Warcraft 3 came out I was a bit disappointed, the game was 3D and they had changed almost everything. I guess it's their way of doing things, just like Diablo 1 to Diablo 2, don't fall in love with a Blizzard game and expect more of that on the sequel, cause it's gonna be a whole new different game (still awesome game though)
BTW if you wanna try out the Beta I can send you the links on a PM so you can download it and play it as well.
Rebeca: Thanks for you comment, indeed this is expected to be a very interesting game, mainly because it's prequel was a massive hit, I think it was awarded game of the year when it came out.
I still remember playin it at my friend's house back in high school while listening to Korn or Limp Bizkit, aaah those were the good days xDD