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First Impressions: “StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty” (reviewing the beta)
Over the weekend I was out camping and having a relatively tech free, or at least very low-tech, weekend. I even took off my watch. My only violation of this self-imposed rule was tweeting once while checking my cell phone for any calls while it had been stored away. One of the dozens of emails I got was from Blizzard giving me a product key for the StarCraft 2 Beta.
The blizzard team just saved me $60. They helped me remember why I haven’t played StarCraft or many other RTS games in the last few years. They generally suck. StarCraft is no different in that regard. Also, aside a few bells and whistles; it hasn’t changed either. Even if the campaign mode were playable, it probably wouldn’t differ much from the typical “blow up the other guys” RTS game play. I can only imagine how the nerd rage would make the Internet explode with if any hot keys or tech trees were changed from the ‘cannon’ in the past decade. Then again, gamers sticking to something they are familiar with is a subject Blizzard knows all too well (*cough* warcraft *cough*). The new installment is new lipstick and rouge applied to the old game. An overdue facelift that probably would have happened years ago if WoW didn’t make Blizzard so stinking rich to the point they could to be able to pay other people to bathe in money on their seventeenth yacht that floats on a sea of money. Granted, the graphics of StarCraft2 make the original installment game look like it was played on the Famicom, I will give them that.
This was also my first introduction to the new chat system for battle.net (since I dropped WoW like a bad habit months before its introduction), which is the Jeep of gaming communications: handy, but clunky and ugly. Just in case you happen to have any real life friends, you can search for them via facebook and add their battle.net account (real ID) to your friend’s list.
The upside to “StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty” is that people who have been playing StarCraft for the past decade (I’m talking to you South Korea) now have something else to do besides exploit the same strategies over and over. You can just keep playing the same original game and get the same experience out of it.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have additional pylons to construct.
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