BlizzCon 2008: Starcraft 2 getting single-player trilogy
How epic is the Starcraft 2 single-player story? How about so epic that Blizzard will be releasing it as a trilogy.
At BlizzCon 2008 (October 10, 2008), Rob Pardo, the executive vice-president of game design for Blizzard, announced that indeed Starcraft 2 will be released as a trilogy rather than one giant game for Mac and PC in 2009. That means that eager Starcraft fans (me) will have to purchase the main game and the two “expansion packs” in order to find out what happens in the highly anticipated sequel.
The first of the trilogy will be the the Terran campaign subtitled Wings of Liberty. The second will be Zerg: Heart of the Swarm and the finale being the Protoss: Legacy of the Void. To lighten the blow, each pack is promised to have 26-30 missions and won’t leave any cliffhangers as the first game did for nearly a decade. Unfortunately, there was no mention of a release date for the game.
So what do you readers think about this news? Is this Blizzard trying to pry into our wallets? Or has it been so long that you already have a blank check ready and waiting? Let us know in the comment section below.
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I really don’t care if they add 100 missions per expansion, there still needs to be more content in terms of variety per expansion. New units for one, and possibly new music, and new cinematic. If the campaign has a lot of cinematic that might be worth it.
If they choose just to give extra missions per race per expansion, they may kill their sales assuming that you can play all the factions in the first one via multiplayer or skirmish matches. Because that’s probably what 70% of the fans really care about. Not the campaign.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone through a campaign in an RTS then stopped because I got bored. No matter how epic that is. The only game that has held my attention in that regard is C&C3;because of the cinematics.
on October 14, 2008 at 01:31 AM - LINK