Yeah, pretty huge files. The trailer, and the gameplay example videos are up on YouTube, much faster downloads, but lower resolution, of course.

I just hope they keep the hero units only in single player mode. I loved starcraft multiplayer and hated warcraft 3 multiplayer. The hero units in Warcraft 3 multiplayer runied it. RTS should be about building up and army, not leveling up a hero who can kill a whole army. If I wanted to level someone up I'd go play a rpg.

Exactly.. That is why I like WarCraft2 over WarCraft 3.. lol You know.. I haven't talked to anyone yet who likes the Hero concept..

A Starcraft movie would kick so much a#@! So would a Warhammer 40K movie. But no, the Hollywood idiots would rather remake crappy movies from the past. I guess people just don't like Science Fiction.

Graphics aside, this game would be worth it just for the cut scenes. I think I must have watched the marine suit up in power armor like 15 times yesterday. I never get tired of some good video game cut scenes.

I remember for some reason, I was really in to the WarCraft II intro movie. I never got tired of watching the orcs about ready to assault the humans. Also, I have watched the scene in Warcraft 3 where the evil human prince (forget his name) comes back to the kingdom and betrays and slays his own father with frostmourne. Video game producers are practically better than movie producers when it comes to making film!!

Hey, what's wrong with starship troopers? yes a bit different story but those infantry bugs look exactly like the ones in starcraft!

Personally i did not like the campaign in starcraft... i was very dissapointed to discover i had to be the enemy!! stupid. Also the easy level is broken or somthing since i cannot get back into the game after a few years??

I like the moddability WC3 had, to this day you can still log on a find some new amazing map or game to play.

Sadly the community there is... detrimental at best and usually if you do join a new game you get flammed for beign a noob and making someone lose the all so important Magical Half Sphere of the Boogerfaced Blarg monster.

LOL That is the nature of Battle.net sadly.. :/ Ahh well, that is why I do LAN or call a few friends and play them instead of other people online. If I do play online and I hear anyone complain about someone else being a noob (even if it's coming from a team member) I'll backstab them by forming some sort of allience with the collective noobs and someone else I know in the game and wipe them out. lol Then I tell them they are a noob for not beating a bunch of noobs. lol Makes me smile inside.

Hmm...
-Hardened sheilds
-Leaping units
-Units so big that they can walk over cliffs
-Exploding zerglings (after mutating)
-Weapon overloading
-Motherships
-etc...

The game play looks like its going to be interesting. Its worth keeping an eye on.

My only concern at this time is, are they going to nerf the Terran Battlecruiser? The Battlecruiser is the closest thing to an ultimate unit in Starcraft. Now they have developed (in the demo, not yet final) Warp rays that deal more damage the longer they continue to fire on a single target.

I don't know about you, but I happen to enjoy building a fleet of Battlecruisers so I can ravage my enemy forces. Very satisfying.

Yep, so of course in consideration of that fact, i am confused as to why the humans are made out to be such weaklings in the campaign story line... fairly sucky eh?

What does NOOB stand for? I know it basically means a new, inexperienced game player, but I never learned what it means exactly.

What does NOOB stand for? I know it basically means a new, inexperienced game player, but I never learned what it means exactly.

BTW, Mystikmind, I never said that I didn't like Starship Troopers. Quite the contrary, I loved that movie. I just wish they made more movies like it. Like a Warhammer 40K movie or a StarCraft movie. I think a StarCraft movie would do alot better than a Transformers movie, although I am sure I will go to see that movie when it comes out this summer.

lol! I am assumming you watched the Terran movie cut scenes? "Thank God for cold fusion!" "I love you Sarge". I mean the Terrans are a bunch of redneck convicts in power armor. I think the way they protrayed the humans in StarCraft is hillarious.

The Terrans are kind of stupid and they always fight each other (kind of like the orcs in Warhammer 40K) , but they always get the job done..... somehow. They are the comic relief in the game as the Zerg and Protoss are shown as being much more serious.

Yea we definately could use more movies like it.... oh boy did i ever love that bunker defence part in the movie,,, absolutely AWESOME!

Yes i am waiting for that transformers movie too!!

Those cuts scene appearing at Sigraph is what got me into 3D Studio Max. I love those movies. A few of my friends will remind me of them when they say, "Hey Lester, what'a a zergling doing so far out here, unless... Oh $#@&!." and then I'll finish with, "I love you Sarge" LOL Love them movies!

2-5 months we still hafe to wate for the god most dar to call a game  

Waiting for Diablo 3 now...

Neh. I thought the single player campaign was atrocious and boring. Sure the story was pretty decent, but every mission was fought the same. It was pretty much you vs. an AI who already had a base. Since you got damn-near all the techs by the halfway point of each campaign anyway, it was just 'build carriers/battlecruisers/guardians, attack-move'. Honestly, they couldn't have made more boring missions if they TRIED.

I ended up cheating through half of them because they were the same crap over and over.

As for multiplayer, I really don't give a rats-ass about RTS multiplayer, as it's always about nothing more than build orders and pre-planned 'strategies' someone else made. There's no REAL strategy about any of it. And unlike, say, an FPS game where if you're not very good, there's usually someone else you can still beat on or just have fun doing other things, in an RTS you pretty much just lose, and it's a waste of your time even playing.

Sounds like you wasted your time reading this thread and posting to it.

Hi!

That's to the very last sentence EXACTLY my experience. The very best mission was the one where I as Zerg had to eradice another Zerg. Fighting for his nearest under-developed base was for me the best experience in a whole campaign. The rest was just "keep low profile until you get the ultimate 'tech', then kick ass" mode. I tried many approaches, but NOTHING worked against already set bases and free level 2-3 defending units. Somewhere half way through the campaign I just turned on god mode, only to see how the story will unfold.

BR, Iztok

While I admit the artistry and effort put into the original Starcraft...it wasn't a game that suited my playing style and tastes. So the announcement of a sequel just gets a shoulder shrug from me, I am afraid.