Posts tagged with “Kerrigan”

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 #3: "Retcons and Reactions"

The following covers the middle third of the game—from about the first “choice”, just past the second choice, and all of the crystal-based campaign (for a total of 19 missions completed).  Spoilers abound.

Well, the game was going pretty piss poorly for a bit there. The arrival of the Protoss triggered a choice in how to proceed, and I jumped at the chance to swear my allegiance to the noble race.  I haven’t heard what happens if you try to protect the Zerg-infected Terran colonists, but I’m doubting they get cured, so it’s not a choice with which I hold any particular concern.  I am curious how choices will play out in the later game, but I wonder if all roads will eventually converge no matter what.  Read More »