The lights are on
With StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty less than a week away from release, I was already basically a big drooling ball of excitement who's been thinking about nothing but Blizzard's sci-fi RTS epic for a while now. Just ask my co-workers. I won't shut up about it. Just when they thought it couldn't get any worse, Blizzard releases this new TOTALLY INCREDIBLE trailer.
Titled "Ghosts of the Past," this two-and-a-half minute video was released as a bonus to the StarCraft II community for getting enough people to sign up at the "Join the Dominion" website. It shows off a whole lot of everyone's favorite Terran, Jim Raynor, as he contemplates some regret-filled moments from the series past and begins planning for the future.
There are some big hints to the direction of StarCraft II's plot, so if you plan to go into the single-player campaign totally fresh next week, hold off from watching this video. But for anyone who's not worried, I highly recommend viewing it, even if you're not a StarCraft fan. This is yet another testament to Blizzard's skill at crafting insanely visually impressive trailers and compelling characters and stories.
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Is it wrong to admit I cried a little?
My wife and I saw the SC2 tv commercial, and initially thought it was for a new movie coming out. Actually, I'm pretty sure I'd pay $15 to go see a feature length movie put on by the Blizzard cinematic team.
Hooooooly mother of god.
As long as I have to build additional pylons, I have no doubt that Blizzard will create the next greatest game of all time.
that made me almost cry because i do not have a good enough computer. i thought that was the movie trailer it was that good and to think it is a RTS amazing
Why is this not a movie?? That was the best trailer I've seen in ages!
6 days, 6 long days
Sweet mother of mercy!
So beautifully epic. Actually makes me more excited for the campaign than the MP. And not just because I must have put anywhere between 50-100 hours into the beta.
I've been waiting for this game for over ten years. I can't believe its next week.
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How can they do this to us?
We have to wait another week and they throw out a trailer like this...
These next five days will not go by fast enough D:
This is definitely one of the best game trailers I have ever seen.
I see that the staff of GI is almost as excited as me that starcraft 2 is coming next week... Almost
Want. Want. Want want want. want-want. Want. Want!
Waited...so...long...
I came.
God I hope these are cinematic shots in the games. PLEASE let this stuff actually be in the game!
holy sh!t...i think a part of me died of awesomeness overload
Really wish they would make all this into a full length straight to blu-ray cg movie TT_TT. A guy can dream right.
Didnt Andy Macnamara just write an article on how developers should stop making big budget pre rendered cg trailers if the game doesnt actually look like that? Well I agree with him. This is false advertising. This trailer gives you the idea that it's a hardcore action game when in reality it's a hardcore RTS and no battle in that game is going to be this epic. Get the game if you like the rts genre not if you want to see a big budget sci fi epic.