Blizzard Unleashes Final, Jaw-Dropping StarCraft II Launch Trailer

[Enigmers]

My first thought was "Shit, I can't wait."

My second was "I bet they all have T-shirts that say 'I spent $100 million on Wings of Liberty only to have misinformed people tell me I made a third of a game' "

I want to play a FPS Starcraft game now, not some RTS thing. I will get it eventually but only for the story line.

Take this with a grain of salt, but I read online (a quote from someone who was apparently working at Blizzard) that Starcraft: Ghost was pretty much done when it was canceled, it was about par with other games on the market at the time, but not up to Blizzard's standards, so they scrapped it.

I took that with a few spoonfuls of salt when I read it and it still busted my balls a bit.

 

[IxionIndustries]

Looks like an action movie advert...

And it scares me.

 

[Elesar]

Based on this trailer they made a movie.
An enjoyable movie, with some cool action sequences and b-movie dialogue. But it doesn't look like a video game trailer, it looks like a movie trailer.

 

[lee1287]

is this an online game or pc or what?

your kidding right?

No? My question still stands.

 

[Aenir]

Sweet Jesus and Hallelujah.

 

[Project_Xii]

And those who wonder why they don't bring out a full CGI movie. Those CGI cinematics take forever to produce.

Indeed. The famed Witcher intro video took a year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTAfDCth0rg&feature=related

But it was well worth it. Incredible sequence.

 

[Projo]

So it's gonna be, like, a knock-off of Warhammer 40K?

That's been SC in a nutshell since day one.

 

[Quesa]

Blizzard's strategy has always been to craft a movie that the gameplay connects you to. I hate RTS and I adore every Blizzard game.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Holy Jesus!*goes to change his pants*

*comes back minutes later* This is the best game trailer made by Blizzard yet! Can't wait 'till Tuesday!

Oh and perhaps we can hope that they will make a Starcraft movie as well as they are planning to do for WoW,that would be amazing.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

O.O

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I NEED THIS GAME NOW! D:

 

[Masteryuri666]

Yep definite nerdgasm right there and good God I want Raynor's sniper rifle in that last clip. The downside that I'll probably find with this Wing's of Liberty is that the story will be too Terran focused for my taste. I know that SC2 is gonna be a trilogy but I do love my Queen of Blades.

 

[John Funk]

People who play the "clickfest" card tend to not play strategy games at all and see the professional gamers and proceed to somehow draw the line between them and the average SC player while not drawing the same line for whatever professional players play THEIR game and the casual audience in said game.

Okay, this being the internet and all, I cant really back up my pedigree (read: I wont show you my collection of games), but I have played, in the traditional RTS genre:
a, Every C&C game (apart from the last, which _does not exsist_, in my opinion)
b, Every Paradox Interactive title (CK,EU2,EU3,Vicky,Hoi",HoI3)
c, Supreme Commander&FA
d, Homeworld, HW:C, HW2
e, Sins Of a Solar Empire
f, Master Of Orion II (again, III does not exsist)
g, the rest I cant be arsked to remember at 2 in the night

So, believe me, I do have plenty of reference to call most of the style that SC promoted a "clickfest".

Again; they're different types of games. DOW2 was a very intimate RTS that was more of an RTS-RPG. StarCraft is an "action RTS," where quick micromanagement, good use of individual skills and fast reactions are key to victory - but so are standard strategy concepts like info gathering, map control, macromanagement, etc.

It's a different type of RTS. Putting it against SupCom or Homeworld or DOW2 is like comparing Fallout to Zelda.

SC2 is still one of the best games I've played in ages in multiplayer beta format. It is pure and distilled fun.

 

[The Youth Counselor]

Not trying to incur the wrath of Blizzard fanboys but... who wrote that script? George Lucas? It was awful! And the voice-acting wasn't much better. "Zerg, incoming" -- what is this, Toy Story?

Don't insult Toy Story. Pixar's storytelling and dialogue has always been top notch and Oscar worthy. The last movie made me bawl like a baby and for someone with a Despicable Me avatar, you should show respect.

But yeah, the dialogue was as campy and cliche as it gets, but it's a trailer and you're just trying to be as dramatic and expository as possible in a limited amount of time. Cue the orchestral music and the special effects and you got viewers with blood pumping who are eager to pre-order.

 

[zahr]

Oh, all right, I'll download the campaign and see if it's decent enough to balance out StarCraft's traditionally terrible, terrible gameplay.

God knows I'd never pay for that, as it makes for the most pathetic sort of multiplayer imaginable.

 

[Timbydude]

Blizzard's cinematic department should start making it into a full fletched movie. I'm impressed by the quality a gaming such as Blizzard can produce unlike some other company we know too well...

Out of curiosity, what company are you referring to? I'm not trying to bait you, I honestly just don't know what you mean.

OT: I am now fully inspired to finally play the original Starcraft.

I mean. Play it again. Because. You know. I've definitely tried it. At some point.

 

[exp. 99]

I feel slightly overwhelmed by the positive response here, guys.

I gotta ask, am I the only person unimpressed?

Sure, the video was pretty cool. Well rendered, it reference the original game in a good way, but it's only a two minute video. Lets compare it to Killzone 2; I recall this epic vid showing supposed gameplay where the player is part of this beachhead style aerial assault that leads to all kinds of awesomeness. After playing the game, though...it failed to convey the feeling the vid was trying to display. I know I'm stepping on some toes here, but I really didn't care for KZ2 all that much.

On the other hand, I really can't say I'm liking the plot turn this has. It's starting to look more and more like a tired old retold fantasy story. Hero is downtrodden, but is reached by group looking to stick it to the man, whom hero has history with. Hero says no. The man does something that pisses the hero off, likely involving getting folks killed over alien monsters/undead/pissed off neonazi country/etc and being inactive or deliberately being a bad person. Hero joins good guy group, and starts revolution. Revolution cancels when previously mentioned monstrous third party steps up, hero goes to kick monster tail, following the advice of mysterious elven/protoss/wizened old human sage to find magical macguffin. Hero finds macguffin, likely contested by the man, beats down the man and then triumphs over the monsters. This is pretty general fantasy novel material here, and I'm not convinced Blizzard can pull it off in a way convincing enough to make it worth the time.

All I can say is, it's somewhat bemusing to see so many people assuming a foregone conclusion about the game's quality outside of what light shone on multiplayer from the beta.

Hope somebody passes on word and proves me wrong when its released. I'd love to see this be a great follow up to a legend. But I have my doubts, and think I'll bum a copy off a friend for some offline play (if Bliz hasn't coerced that ability) before forking over any cash.