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Some of you might already know it, Blizzard has announced Starcraft 2 officially in Seol. So that was the secret game they where working on so hard. Not that everyone and their mother guessed it.
This is great news for lots of fans, i can remember how i went in a big shopping center in germany some years ago, to get my copy of the original Starcraft. A big shiny protoss was printed on the front cover. I finished the game as fast as i could for shure, and even got on my sisters nerves, to play some multiplayer games with me. It also came with the first RTS ingame editor i ever used, to make custom maps for a game.

Here in the YouTube Gameplay Video Number 4, you can see the used graphics engine. Starcraft has a big entertaining value in Korea. There are even television stations showing starcraft games(and soon Starcraft II probably). The best players are treatet like stars, you can only compare this to football or basketball here. Blizzard therefore said, that they use old but good looking graphics in the game, to make it run on older hardware and reach a broader audience of cause. They learned this lesson from WoW. That this does not look any old at all can be seen in the video. I personally find this statement very interesting, saying that good games don’t necessarily need super highend graphics to be good. But they do need good, balanced gameplay! That is a big motivation for independet developers. Because if you have look at some of the latest games, almost all come with extreme good looking effects. Players will then take this as a standard and regard games that cant comepete with the visual part as not so good.
But now have fun watchin this great gameplay video of Starcraft II showcasing its capabilities. It is the fourth video already, wich shows a fight between the Protoss and Terran, in an “in development engine” and even some Zergs at the End. By the way, there is no release date yet, as blizzard wants to deliver a complete, perfect game. GG