![]() ![]() Then you spend those resources on buildings that manufacture your armed forces. Once you build up your defensive and offensive forces, you send swarms of attackers to overwhelm your enemy’s base. It’s pretty simple, but the original StarCraft was well executed. StarCraft II is even better, in my opinion. I played the game on a PC with a 3.2-gigahertz Intel processor and an Nvidia Fermi-based graphics card. You can theoretically play it on a much lesser machine. The graphics look beautiful, even though view is way above the battlefield action, in bird’s-eye-view style at an angle. You can see waves of soldiers from above, but nothing up close. Sales were brisk out of the gate, with more than 1.5 million players buying the game in its first two days. The game cements the reputation of its creator, Blizzard Entertainment, as the progenitor of outstanding entertainment in an age where it’s very easy to cut corners on game quality. ![]() Blizzard certainly did not take 12 years to finish this game, as it had to use lots of resources to deal with the success of World of Warcraft. This discipline could very well pay off, as at least one analyst estimates that StarCraft II could generate $350 million in revenues this year for Blizzard and its parent company, Activision Blizzard.īut it had the patience to do Starcraft II right, to experiment and start over, and to release the game only when it was clear that it was more fun than its predecessor. I am one of those millions of original fans who has played the sequel regularly since its debut. I still fondly remember the online StarCraft games I played with a small circle of friends and I’m looking forward to renewing those ties via StarCraft II, now that many of those friends have grown up and started their families. None of those old friends have as much time to play as they used to. But StarCraft II is one of the few games I will lose sleep over. On Metacritic, a review aggregator, StarCraft II has scored 93 out of 100. ![]()
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