StarCraft II

All right if you still haven't figured it out, I guess I'll tell you. The "mystery image" seen a post before last is some concept art from an upcoming game from Blizzard, called StarCraft II. I am a bit skeptical as to how good this game will be when it comes out, because Blizzard as been letting me down a lot lately.

Even though I play Blizzard's MMORPG: World of Warcraft (WoW), and the expansion, The Burning Crusade, the game is still disappointing to me for a number of reasons. I won't get into those right now because it's off topic. That's not the only thing they've dropped the ball on. They were also supposed to release a console game (on PS2, XBOX), based in the StarCraft universe called StarCraft: Ghost. After hiring an external company to develop this title, Nihilistic Software, they decided the company wasn't right for the project and "concluded their collaboration with Blizzard".

They took what Nihilistic had done with the game, and hired Swingin' Ape Studios to develop the rest. Blizzard continued hype for the game, publishing numerous press releases, and creating an official StarCraft II: Ghost web page with trailers and game play videos. Shortly after this Blizzard put an indefinite hold on production of the game, and merged Swingin' Ape Studios into Blizzard.


With the cancellation of ghost, and with many of the original StarCraft and Diablo (another Blizzard title) staff leaving the company to do other things, I remain apprehensive. Can Blizzard pull this off? I don't know, put I hope for the best. If you would like to see more of the game go to Blizzard's StarCraft II site, it has more details, flashy videos, and more artwork.