08-11-2010, 01:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-11-2010, 01:43 AM by Swiss Mercenary.)
My few cents:
The game itself is very good. The single-player is polished, and is about of about the right length.
Performance-wise, I get "Hiccups" on both my laptop and desktop - while running below recommended graphical settings. Given that both machines exceed the recommended requirements, this does not make me a happy panda.
Multiplayer balance looks pretty good - it's too early to tell if it's going to be as deep a game as SC:BW was, but it looks to be close.
Blizzard have completely dropped the ball on Battle.Net 2.0. It's lacking many basic social features... And is a very, very lonely place. Aside from automatic matchmaking, it's a pretty clear step backwards from the original Battle.Net.
Custom games are a complete mess. The editor is quite unstable, and the interface for playing them is atrocious - it keeps popular maps popular, and prevents new maps from breaking in, so to speak. It's impossible to fill a game on a map that's not in the top ~30.
For anyone onely interested in the single-player, 1v1 ladder, or playing custom games with their friends (Existing friends, you're not going to make any new ones on Battle.Net 2.0), the game's fantastic, as long as you can stomach Battle.Net latency, and the DRM. In other areas, Blizzard has... Dropped the ball.
Mind you, they have said that they will implement chat channels and group features in the future, but we've heard nothing about custom games, or the problems with 2v2/3v3/4v4.
The game itself is very good. The single-player is polished, and is about of about the right length.
Performance-wise, I get "Hiccups" on both my laptop and desktop - while running below recommended graphical settings. Given that both machines exceed the recommended requirements, this does not make me a happy panda.
Multiplayer balance looks pretty good - it's too early to tell if it's going to be as deep a game as SC:BW was, but it looks to be close.
Blizzard have completely dropped the ball on Battle.Net 2.0. It's lacking many basic social features... And is a very, very lonely place. Aside from automatic matchmaking, it's a pretty clear step backwards from the original Battle.Net.
Custom games are a complete mess. The editor is quite unstable, and the interface for playing them is atrocious - it keeps popular maps popular, and prevents new maps from breaking in, so to speak. It's impossible to fill a game on a map that's not in the top ~30.
For anyone onely interested in the single-player, 1v1 ladder, or playing custom games with their friends (Existing friends, you're not going to make any new ones on Battle.Net 2.0), the game's fantastic, as long as you can stomach Battle.Net latency, and the DRM. In other areas, Blizzard has... Dropped the ball.
Mind you, they have said that they will implement chat channels and group features in the future, but we've heard nothing about custom games, or the problems with 2v2/3v3/4v4.