07-30-2010, 07:26 PM
I haven't played any SC at all, just the original Warcraft II RTS a long time ago, but I figured I'd give SC2 a try. I haven't played any SC2 yet either -- but just a couple of comments.
(a) It has pretty tough online anti-piracy protection. You have to set up a batle.net account and register the key to play at all. Then when you play it is by default with an internet connection. You can play offline, but you need to re-register the game online every 30 days, so don't expect to go off to a desert island without internet access for a few years and bring along SC2 as your one computer game.
(b) The game manual gives 4 pages of installation instructions and 10 pages of the story so far...as someone who'd never played SC before, my eyes began swimming before me after even 3 pages about Raynor, Kerrigan, Raszagal, Duran doing god knows what against who knows whom and what knows what in every different possible combination of alliance and double cross. The daily summary of "As the World Turns" is a piece of cake compared with this story.
(a) It has pretty tough online anti-piracy protection. You have to set up a batle.net account and register the key to play at all. Then when you play it is by default with an internet connection. You can play offline, but you need to re-register the game online every 30 days, so don't expect to go off to a desert island without internet access for a few years and bring along SC2 as your one computer game.
(b) The game manual gives 4 pages of installation instructions and 10 pages of the story so far...as someone who'd never played SC before, my eyes began swimming before me after even 3 pages about Raynor, Kerrigan, Raszagal, Duran doing god knows what against who knows whom and what knows what in every different possible combination of alliance and double cross. The daily summary of "As the World Turns" is a piece of cake compared with this story.