StarCraft 2 Gameplay Video

Too much compression! I hope they release a new one. :'(

I can't wait.

While I enjoyed both SupCom and C&C3, they both has serious flaws that just made me want to go back to Starcraft. SupCom just seemed to lack soul and diversity, while C&C3 was no-where near balanced.

Hopefully Blizzard can rekindle SC's magic with SC2...

I really cant stand this guys voice.. :(

Man, I was trying so hard not to get entirely pumped up for this game entirely too far in advance, but this just put the icing on the cake.

I cannot fucking wait.

It's funny, because the vast majority of the negative viewpoints I'm reading are actually positives in my book.

I want the game to be starcraft 2. I don't want them to change the core of the original. If it was the exact same fucking game with a new cover, I would still be happy. Instead I get new shit as well, fucking awesome.

I don't want a game that is trying to be like the 'new' RTS's (Company of Heroes, Supreme Commander, etc, etc). They're off doing their own things, some of which I like, some I don't, but it's their thing. This is StarCraft, by god they need to do the starcraft thing and, fuck all the destructible environments, annoyingly huge armies, resource allocation systems, and other 'features' that just aren't StarCraft. I don't want those here.

I'm caught, hook line and sinker. There is almost nothing that could stop me from buying this game and playing it until my eyes hurt, my fingers go numb, and standing up straight becomes a chore. My friends will learn to despise me; my social life will have a funeral, and I won't regret it.

Mark my words.

I'm sorry but Company of Heros has really screwed all the new RTS's with the destructable enviorments and cover system I dont see anything in blizzard demo thats new to Genre, the Graphics look unbelievable good but thats it.

It looks good, but it still looks very vanilla RTS. I hope they go some way towards fixing some of the problems that scourge the genre. Is the pathfinding still going to be shit? Will my units still cram up around chokepoints and end up with my artillery leading the assault?

All I want is an RTS game that puts my tanks in front of my artillery and deploys a skirmish screen of infantry in front of me, without me having to micromanage every single unit movement.

I really hope the Carrier is still there... With the amount of flying units they inroduced, I get the feeling they dropped a few of the old units.

Boy you sure appreciate having a fast computer when trying to view HD vids.

Or rather, you appreciate having a fast comp after your fast comp breaks.

Hehe, there's a holograph of a stripper who has Night Elf dancing animations from World of Warcraft in that video!

3:07 in that video, on the right side of the screen.

sucks like the first one :\

I hope they make this game different enough that I'm not creamed in every online game. I barely played the first one (and got into it really late) but it seemed like everyone was a Starcraft wizard :(

For people with slower or less stable connections, www.starcraft2.com has this available through their own P2P downloader:

http://www.starcraft2.com/movies/gameplay_video/1280_StarCraft2GameplayVideo_EnglishUS.avi-downloader.exe
(0.82mb)

does this have the commentary? Kinda sucks watching it and then it pauses but you can't hear anything.

I assume this is the same one from the other day that showcased the mothership etc... except this time its official?

Looks good. I am still hoping for more interactive environments (company of heroes has really spoiled me here - I remember playing the battlefield 2142 beta/demo, and being really dissapointed when my tank couldn't smash through a tiny fence), but it looks like they've put some thought into the unit abilities, and especially how they counter each other.

Should be interesting, to say the least.