[Aaron]

it is great 2 see a game that was made so long ago come back and be so good and fun to play the single player was so great giving u a choice off what 2 do and how u want 2 do it upgade your units and a never ending story all the way though it.the online play is wonderful allways someone on 2 play very good.the ending off the single player was good it made me cry.i'm not going 2 tell u what happen i will let u find that out yourself

this game is a 10\10 game

now next year the 2 expansion protoss and zerg and i have been told there will have up 2 40missions 2 play so it should be really good 2 see what there do next and yea it will still have the great online play. now 2 :drinks_wine: and have a good day

[GameOver]

LOL better than Command and COnquer then that has steadily got worse since Zero Hour.
but the story in the last one made you go wtf? the good guys were actually the bad guys and kane was an enlightened being who was just trying to save mankind the whole series :P

Or Highlander, two great movies with the premise they were immortals, then the third one throws a curveball that they were really aliens. WTF:P

[Aaron]

wtf are u on about give me what ever you are on holy crap

[dizNgage]

Aaron, on 28 July 2010 - 04:19 PM, said:

wtf are u on about give me what ever you are on holy crap

LMFAO rate that comment ahahaha

i cant wait till this weekend, gonna buy sc2 then nerd it at a net cafe. burning that i have work that night tho haha.

for some reason i get games mostly for their multiplayer, i mean i cant play games without having someone to talk to otherwise i go insane haha

[Panthro]

LOL Aron you wrote a fanboy review I recon I can condense that down to : "I love starcraft2 buy it and love it with me!"

although I do see it has some reasons to love it.... wonder what Zero punctuation will say on it :)

[GameOver]

Aaron, on 28 July 2010 - 04:49 PM, said:

wtf are u on about give me what ever you are on holy crap
it is great 2 see a game that was made so long ago come back and be so good and fun to play the single player was so great giving u a choice off what 2 do and how u want 2 do it upgade your units and a never ending story all the way though it.

Something that tapered off with Command and Conquer and just threw in Highlander for another reference of something that started good then the story got too weird :P

Something i don't particularly agree with though, not sure who really went first but certainly C&C has been pumped out alot of times inbetween Starcraft releases

Just from watching previews, it's obviously a clone of Command and Conquer style in unit types and overallgame play, almost identical designs for weapon types and looks/upgrades to the last few C&C games and atleast 1 race that looks very similar to the Alien race from Command and Conquer 3

Taking the best bits from C&C and expanding maybe

and the use of a blue crystal thats harvested for currency just like Tiberium in C&C which also came in the form of the same looking coloured crystals as starcraft 2 uses aswell as a plant like growth

Anyways i will still get it, if nothing more than i love strategy builders and it can't be much worse gameplay wise then the last 2 C&C games that sucked, other than graphically :(

This post has been edited by GameOver: 29 July 2010 - 10:18 AM

[Karnage]

Panthro, on 28 July 2010 - 07:35 PM, said:

LOL Aron you wrote a fanboy review I recon I can condense that down to : "I love starcraft2 buy it and love it with me!"

hahaha

[GameOver]

My turn... LOL

I did pick it up today and have been playing it for a few hours.
Like it in it's the same as Command and Conquer/Warhammer. so easy to get into
There is atleast one mini games like an arcade machine in the 3rd zone that plays a Phonenix type space game.
Graphics are good, sound is pretty good
Inbetween animated cinetography is very good. When you compare it to C&C's live action video sequences
Gameplay is fairly quick

The storyline isn't linear, you have multiple choices in what u want to do next with rewards giving either research towards the Zerg or Proteas research lines.

Also each mission gives points that can be spent in the arious areas to buy upgrades for units and base equipment, and ofcourse unlock new units
k thats the good bits
now the erks. :P

The voice overs are quiet and on the same volume as the sound effects so it's hard to hear them with that constant western style music playing in the background which i might add you can't turn off. I disabled music and still that plays

Various things that are hardly original and taken from other franchises.
the races in general are Warhammer 40K races, just renamed. can't recall if that was intentional back in the day
unit types, gameplay is indentical to C&C

The Zerg race is very similar to the Zorn from C&C , they act very similar but actually the Zerg is more like Warhammer/Starship Troopers with the aliens being insectoids. not to mention the base units and way you build is very much the same as C&C's Zorn, units are more like Warhammer though at the moment.

The following is an exert from Blizzard

Quote

Stylistic Inspiration as is customary with many Blizzard works, many of StarCraft's concepts and artistic elements were inspired by, or were otherwise similar to, those found in existing science fiction. Elements from the movie Aliens recurred frequently in the terrans. Elements from Starship Troopers, both Heinlein's novel and the movie by the same name, and the miniatures war game Warhammer 40,000 may also be found. These may be some of the more prominent examples. The full extent of the inspiring corpus is too large to list or examine here, and the above should merely be indicative of its breadth.

ie we took other people's ideas and used them as our own, however it's not jsut the art that is the same :)

couple of minor ones. the third place you unlock is called the Cantina and is a bar - need i say more :) all it's missing is aliens walking around and playing that repetitive music and Hahn solo/Chewbacca :)

one planet is named Moria. um Lord of The Rings anyone. Hell the guy who runs the Armory is your typical Gimli looking Dwarf LOL

Overall still give it 8 of 10 atm, the playability will be there longer than the letdowns that were the last 2 C&C's

This post has been edited by GameOver: 29 July 2010 - 03:37 PM

[Aaron]

hey gameover whats your number so i can add u on starcraft 2 dude put your mouse over your avatar and see what the number is we can have a game or 2

[dizNgage]

@gameover i once wrote moria by accident when creating a wc3 map and didnt even notice (back in my old map making days). just ran with it ye. maybe its the same story? or maybe they havent even heard of lord of the rings haha

[Sgt.Pepper]

I can't help but to think this one belongs in the "Torrent Download Basket".

[Maj. Bad Touch]

Sgt.Pepper said:

I can't help but to think this one belongs in the "Torrent Download Basket".

Agreed. Much better games to pay for :D
Soz Aaron

This post has been edited by Maj. Bad Touch: 29 July 2010 - 10:14 PM

[Aaron]

well all i can say is to the ppl that but it at least there getting there money worth to those Torrent loser well suck shit for getting nothing

[GameOver]

Actually it's alot of fun :P
I can look past all the things ripped off of other games. I got my copy for $69
They may have cheated on the gameplay and ideas for races, weapons etc. but they spent alot of time on the cutscenes

Alot like WOW, The trailers make the game look epic :P

[xXx]

GameOver, on 30 July 2010 - 08:51 AM, said:

The trailers make the game look epic :P

wikipedia's definition of an epic game : :shock1:

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9496/civvbox.jpg

[Aaron]

i think that u look up the epic shit game and look what came up civ

[dizNgage]

the intro cenematic made me wet :P

[Sgt.Pepper]

Aaron, on 29 July 2010 - 10:33 PM, said:

well all i can say is to the ppl that but it at least there getting there money worth to those Torrent loser well suck shit for getting nothing

lol Aaron... i'm still waiting for the day I only have to read your post once.

[Aaron]

i'm waiting for the day when you go 2 hell but hey looks like we are both waiting for something

[Maj. Bad Touch]

hey aaron i agree with you that it is a good game.
My copy doesnt let u play online but the single player
is amazing.

There are very good cut scenes, good story and a lot
of choice when it comes to upgrades. I especially like the
research upgrades. lol only got the zerg ones for now
but still is good.

Worth a good look at people, however I'm not sure if its
worth the tag atm, sorry aaron.