Posts tagged with “StarCraft II”
SC2 Ongoing Review #4: "The Shit Never Ends"
This is my final thought collection on the Starcraft II single player. It covers from mission 19 through the end of the game. Spoilers ahead.
Once upon a time, a marshal on a backwater planet found himself in the middle of an alien war. In order for his people to survive, he joined forces with a loose cannon revolutionary hellbent on taking out the leading faction of his race in the area in order to control it himself. The marshal fought alongside the madman until he found his allies to be betrayed, and genocide against his own species committed.
To all who read this review and whine that I’ve been too harsh on “SC2″ as it is only the first third of the game’s single player because of the split nature of the release, allow me to remind you the above story took all of a dozen missions to tell, and was the first third of “StarCraft”. It was more engaging, original, and iconic than anything found on display in the missions of “Wings of Liberty”; a sequel I never could have imagined being so dull and lifeless– I truly had to play it to believe it.Read More »
SC2 Ongoing Review #2: "Fair and Balanced"
Part One here: http://savedbyatowel.com/chyrp/text/334
And let it be noted that the further this ongoing review goes, the more things will be spoiled.
When it was announced that “StarCraft II” would ship in three parts, there was an outcry that Blizzard was simply seeking to milk the fanbase across expansion packs, and that we would encounter a weaker single player experience for it. According to the missions zone of SC2, I’ve completed 9 out of 26 of the single player missions in “Wings of Liberty”, and while I don’t know if there are any bonus missions, I must say I’m feeling pretty screwed right about now. Read More »