Starcraft II Bombshell

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The most important part, for single-player:

The original StarCraft, according to Pardo, had 32 missions; 12 for the Terrans, and 10 each for the Zerg and the Protoss. According to Blizzard, each of these StarCraft II games will consist of more than 30 missions.

I was listening to the panel yesterday when the news dropped, and before he said 3 titles it was basically "more, more, more". Branching missions. Choice of upgrades. More characters, each more fleshed out than before. In between missions almost sounded like Wing Commander 3 on crack.

The most important part, for multi-player:

Pardo explained that the multiplayer remains relatively unchanged; each StarCraft II game will have a fully functioning multiplayer suite with all three races playable. "[In] the shipping product, all three races will be fully featured and balanced in gameplay and also in content," he said. We asked whether that meant the multiplayer suite in each game would be exactly the same, and he said, "More than likely, the successive products will add multiplayer content; we haven't decided right now what that is." That brought up the question as to how multiplayer would work if some players only buy the first game while others only buy the second or third games. He said that they haven't made any determinations yet as to how that would work.

Devil in the details here. We'll have to see what they decide to do. I know I'll buy all three anyway because I like the story, ya know?