Everybody, run inside! A blizzard is coming. An epic duo of games is set for release this year for both PC and Mac formats. Blizzard Entertainment, creators of the globally famous Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft series have decided to give the players the key to unlock Starcraft II from the depth of development imprisonment for you to Zerg Rush your fellow strategists at the end of July.
It’s been a whopping twelve years since the original Starcraft hit retail shelves offering a Real Time Strategy so popular it’s played live on Korean television equal to any sport over here, people cry when their favourite Starcraft professional win the equivalent of the FA Cup and recently Starcraft professionals have been known to take bribes in their games.
As crazy as that sounds please do not let it put you off playing Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, it’s without a doubt the most enjoyable RTS game I have played and offers gaming for everybody with a love for those games similar to Command and Conquer.
The first of three chapters is due out on the 27th July and offers a fully fledged 30 mission campaign based on the human storyline aka The Terran. Alongside the story mode will be the meat of the dish, the multiplayer component for you to tackle alien races in co-operative and competitive game modes.
Starcraft is to have sold 9.5 million copies across the globe which was quite impressive back then, even if 4.5 million sales were in Korea. Starcraft II will no doubt beat those records if what I have played is anything to go by.
Another titan to see a release this year is World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. An expansion to the most popular MMORPG of all time will see the world torn asunder with an earthquake so large it’ll change the existing World of Warcraft forever.
Introducing new playable races such as the Goblin and Worgen (werewolf) will surely entice new players into the MMO and with a brand new set of quests, zones and raids for seasoned veterans like myself it’s sure to be a must have for anyone with an interest in online gaming for the PC/Mac.
Although the expansion set has yet to be given a release date, I am sure we will be seeing around the autumn time or possibly soon after, they don’t want to be steal Starcraft 2’s thunder now.
This year is a great year to get involved with PC gaming and 2011 sets to be a corker too, Blizzard third mega seller series, Diablo 3 will get a release as well as (hopefully) a sequel to Valves Portal and/or Half Life 2.
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