Brand-New StarCraft II Commercial Leaked Early

[blackhole1]

I once vowed that I would never be like those sad fanboys who camp in front of a store a week in advance. This trailer makes me want to cop out of this vow...

Heavens have mercy on the world's nerd population.

 

[Plurralbles]

yeah, they don't have to advertise... I'm buying it guys, however, it'll be better than any other ads running righ tnow...

Two days after my birthday... THANKS BLIZZARD : D

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Man, I hadn't realized how much I'd missed hearing that snake-like bastard Arcturus Mengsk speak until now. Let's hope they can come up with some reason for him to say "Macintosh" in the actual game.

Finally. An answer to the elusive "Will SC2 be available for Mac on launch date"?
I was so glad to hear that at the end.
Everyone at every game store I go to claims to only be getting the PC version. There must be some place I can track down the Mac version on launch date. Does anyone know if it will be available on the Blizzard Store?

 

[Sebenko]

Woo, advertising a PC exclusive game? Madness!

That never happens!

Advert itself looks kinda "generic sci-fi" though.

 

[GoGo_Boy]

Yeah... an NBA GAME?!?! Look, I don't see ads for Gatoraide and sports equipment in my gaming mags.

How about advertising Starcraft to people who care about Starcraft? Just a thought. I'm sure that prime-time NBA airtime is crazy expensive, all to put the game in front of a lot of people who won't care.

I will remember this next time Bobby Kotick pokes his gopher face up out of a hole and starts bitching about how expensive it is to make games these days.

Not sure if serious...

It should be obvious that such a trailer is not aimed at those who are already following Starcraft 2 latey. I mean we love to see cinematics but we already know about it.
Are you hating Blizzard now for advertising their game to non-starcraft players? IT'S A CONSPIRACY, I guess :>

Edit:
It should also be obvious that posting such a 1A cinematic will draw more attention to the game than some gameplay sequences. And this advertisement is expensive, so why put in some gameplay that can be seen all over the place anyways.

 

[Jonluw]

I love how the badass manly-voice turned into random, inaudible mumbling about the age rating or something at the end.

 

[Eruanno]

Added another one at my Vimeo (not finished converting yet, will be up soon)

http://vimeo.com/12483950

 

[starhaven]

The woman at 0:12 seconds looks exactly like the Eldar Farseer from the Dawn of War II cinematic intro, except with different armour.

...You mean Sarah Kerrigan?
Because that HAS to be Kerrigan, right? Alone, fighting a gazillion zerg, left by mr. Jerkface Mengsk, later to be swooped up into a nice little egg.

Goddamn I love Kerrigan. She's one of the best video game villains ever.

its true because you want her to have her payback but u dont really want the zerg to win unless ur a zerg lover ofcourse

 

[pirateninj4]

The woman at 0:12 seconds looks exactly like the Eldar Farseer from the Dawn of War II cinematic intro, except with different armour.

...You mean Sarah Kerrigan?
Because that HAS to be Kerrigan, right? Alone, fighting a gazillion zerg, left by mr. Jerkface Mengsk, later to be swooped up into a nice little egg.

Goddamn I love Kerrigan. She's one of the best video game villains ever.

I thought they were making a new Ghost character...didn't Kerrigan turn into a Zerg or something?

 

[Eruanno]

The woman at 0:12 seconds looks exactly like the Eldar Farseer from the Dawn of War II cinematic intro, except with different armour.

...You mean Sarah Kerrigan?
Because that HAS to be Kerrigan, right? Alone, fighting a gazillion zerg, left by mr. Jerkface Mengsk, later to be swooped up into a nice little egg.

Goddamn I love Kerrigan. She's one of the best video game villains ever.

its true because you want her to have her payback but u dont really want the zerg to win unless ur a zerg lover ofcourse

You're problably on to something. I think Kerrigan is a great villain, but I feel sort of sorry for her, and I kind of want her to have her payback. At the same time, Emperor Mengsk is a great villain as well, and I don't want him to get whacked either.
And the protoss don't currently have any villains as such, they are just awesome in general.

...I guess what I'm saying is, the characters are awesome, and I want them to keep beating on eachother for ever

 

[Jandau]

The woman at 0:12 seconds looks exactly like the Eldar Farseer from the Dawn of War II cinematic intro, except with different armour.

...You mean Sarah Kerrigan?
Because that HAS to be Kerrigan, right? Alone, fighting a gazillion zerg, left by mr. Jerkface Mengsk, later to be swooped up into a nice little egg.

Goddamn I love Kerrigan. She's one of the best video game villains ever.

I thought they were making a new Ghost character...didn't Kerrigan turn into a Zerg or something?

I think that's a flashback of the time she got captured.

 

[scotth266]

The commercial gives us 13 seconds of new footage. That's about it.

I dunno, while I'm pleased to see the production values are high, I was sort of expecting a little more.

 

[Pendragon9]

Gotta love Zeratul, jumping around like Yoda and slashing zerg left and right.

 

[John Funk]

Man, I hadn't realized how much I'd missed hearing that snake-like bastard Arcturus Mengsk speak until now. Let's hope they can come up with some reason for him to say "Macintosh" in the actual game.

Finally. An answer to the elusive "Will SC2 be available for Mac on launch date"?
I was so glad to hear that at the end.
Everyone at every game store I go to claims to only be getting the PC version. There must be some place I can track down the Mac version on launch date. Does anyone know if it will be available on the Blizzard Store?

If it's anything like every other Blizzard game, the PC version IS the Mac version. You install both from the same CD.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Hmm... that voice... was that that Confederacy General... you know... the one that defected to Mengk's side? I can't remember his name... but I'm pretty sure that's his voice...

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Man, I hadn't realized how much I'd missed hearing that snake-like bastard Arcturus Mengsk speak until now. Let's hope they can come up with some reason for him to say "Macintosh" in the actual game.

Finally. An answer to the elusive "Will SC2 be available for Mac on launch date"?
I was so glad to hear that at the end.
Everyone at every game store I go to claims to only be getting the PC version. There must be some place I can track down the Mac version on launch date. Does anyone know if it will be available on the Blizzard Store?

If it's anything like every other Blizzard game, the PC version IS the Mac version. You install both from the same CD.

Thanks JF, good to know. Can anyone confirm this?

 

[Rauten]

Hmm... that voice... was that that Confederacy General... you know... the one that defected to Mengk's side? I can't remember his name... but I'm pretty sure that's his voice...

Edmund Duke? As in, the OTHER jerkface that serves the big jerkface responsible for the creation of the self-entitled Queen ***** of the Universe?

I'm personally hoping that Kerrigan rips them both to shreds by her own hands, but unfortunately, I doubt that'll happen.

 

[Grigori361]

FInally saw it, and I think I may need new pants.

 

[Canid117]

Hmm I noticed pre Queen of blades Sarah Kerrigan. Does that mean we are going to have some prequel missions set during the original Starcraft?