http://pc.ign.com/articles/788/788627p1.html

3:00 - FMV sequence in a spaceship - looks Terran - zooming in on a metal door - door opening - reveals a guy with a cigar in chains - prisoner - door shuts behind him - there's so much bass the room is shaking - guy steps into some kind of metallic devicce - legs are strapped in - guy rising toward ceiling - Korean text on screen got people very excited - another part of the machine is dropping metal arms on him - machine whirring - applying armor to his torso - extremly detailed visuals here - now guy is strapping on gloves - armor is molding together - seems like a Terran marine - rockets turn on - zerg now onscreen - Marine delivers a line - StarCraft 2 officially announced.

www.starcraft2.com (cinematics, screenshots, concept art)

Gameplay videos:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=isbz7eXWEPM

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29BOYwzfrs
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNiCWQtU_s

Finally something new to play!

Any news on whether it will be another RTS or if they're going to do the FPS MMORPG thing people have been discussing?

Can't wait

http://pc.ign.com/articles/788/788627p1.html

refresh refresh refresh, being updated live. It sounds like an RTS.

I'd kill to get a chance to see the trailer they used.

It'll probably be up on Blizzard's sites and thus the rest of the internet sometime today.

Just... wow. I'm very eager to see the trailer and some of this ingame footage.

I could care less if the game itself is any good, though I'm sure it will be -- if the map editor actually manages to improve on WC3's I'd probably never get out of the house.

Maybe a Hero System so there can be DOTA 2 in a SC scenery? That would be kickass.

Given the amount of time between the release of TFT and this, I can see it being released next year no problem.

There is still at least two other projects being worked on at the moment as well with even *more* time behind them.

On that note, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if there was something relating to Diablo 3 announced sometime in the near future.

http://www.gamemeca.com/news/news_vi...=&search_text=

Early footage of the presentation.

There was no mention of Hero units in the blog update. It sounds like Blizzard opted to go with immense, unique late-game units rather than Heroes. This isn't too surprising since that was one of the things that SC zealots faulted WC3 for; the importance of your Heroes. Leveling them up, getting them items, keeping them alive, etc. Not to start a debate on that topic, I don't think it really matters.

Blizzard is obviously going to design SC2 to get every single person still playing SC to buy it. They can pretty much bank on everyone who played WC3 to buy it already, so those people still playing SC are the ones they have to really appeal to. They'll do that by maintaining the look and feel of SC faithfully and adding on to it. Which from the IGN blog descriptions, it sounds like that's exactly what they're doing.

Speculation about future Blizzard games other than SC2 should probably be kept in that other thread about the job posting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXoekeDIW8

American link.

Showoff.

Anyway, screens are up. I'm going to bed. http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/imgs_1.html

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This is going to be awesome - another RTS, hopefully something better than the "normal fare" that we've been seeing lately (I don't think I've played a truly "fun" MMO since Warcraft III).

What do you guys think the chances of this being released within 2 years is?

Very high.

Would one of our korean literate posters care to englighten me as to what the monitor reads when the crowd first cheers?

If you're fluent enough to know what the Marine is saying, that would be a fabulous additional bonus. 8)

tia

Pretty sure the marine says "wanna piece of me boy?", but I don't speak Korean. It just seems appropriate.

Just what I need to quit WoW, a nice simple low maint RTS game from the same addicting company. Come out faster please! You're the lesser of the 2 addicting evils!

Very, very good point. That may even draw the kind of reaction it received. :V We'll wait on some confirmation though.