Starcraft 2

[Ironside]

Well after only coming to pc gaming in the past couple of years I've heard so much about this legendary game, Starcraft. So as soon as I saw SC2 was announced on GameSpot I set about absorbing as much information as possible...I couldn't care less now.

I feel the best RTS on the market is Company of Heroes, RTS should be about tactics, positioning, flanking etc. However in the Q&A session on gamespot Blizzard are actually boasting about (as opposed to WC3) a return to more emphasis on resource management and rushing...the two things I hate in RTS. This is the reason I like CoH, with the machine guns at bases from the start rushing is impossible and the resource system in CoH is brilliant.

This SC2 doesn't bring anything new to the table, heck I don't even think it has destructable environments that makes CoH and the upcoming World In Conflict (which also doesn't have resources as we know and loathe them) so visually brilliant.

Games doesn't usually age well with time, their ideas will get stolen and improved.

What made Starcraft truely brilliant at it's time was that it had 3 very different races, that they were balanced, that all units never became obsolete and one of the better stories to wrap it in. It still holds it own today though, and worth buying if you haven't tried it out yet. No rushing in SP, but acuiring new resources is vital though.

Basically the economical stuff is to find a good optimum of workers (2/crystal tops iirc, 3 for the gas plant on shortest distance), protect them, acuire new resources and churn out the correct mixture of troops (depends on what you plans and what the opponent got).
Early rushing is there though, mostly to counter teching.

FYI the static defences are much, much stronger in SC than in WCIII. To prove it, I'll ask Gregoshi to not use static defences in the campaign .

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When you hear the thud of Gregoshi fainting you'll know that he red this

I'm very pleased to hear about this BTW, they might even do something with the Umojan who certainly looks like a cut thread (although it wouldn't surprice me if Reynor got sopme connections there).