The beta for the ultra-super-duper hyped real-time strategy game, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, began yesterday. As sc2blog.com said in an early impressions post,
Blizzard has delivered. Thousands of people have already downloaded and installed the StarCraft 2 Beta, the Battle.net 2.0 platform is online and fully operational (where it counts), maps are downloaded swiftly, and finding a match takes seconds.
This sounds promising.
The full game is expected to hit shelves sometime during the first half of 2010. And, like with all Blizzard games that I know of, it will be cross-platform, letting both Windows users and us Mac users take part in the fun. (This is the main reason I love Blizzard so much.)
The beta consists of a total of ten playable maps, which is more than some modern online FPS’ can say, so I’m pretty impressed, especially considering this is just a beta. There may be even more in the final release.
There will also be the “Galaxy Editor,” which is a comprehensive and sophisticated content creation tool for the game, allowing users to create their own mods and maps, expanding the replayability and creativity in this game from “very high” to “unbelievably expanse / infinite.”
Unfortunately, I don’t yet have access to the beta, but from what I’m seeing it looks pretty amazing. Blizzard’s once again looking to not just take part in a genre, but absolutely revolutionize it.
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This looks like it will be an awesome game! Blizzard has yet to disappoint me.
Posted on February 19th, 2010 at 10:16 am
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