It's been ten years since we last got our hands on a new StarCraft title, and the 11 million people who played the original are more than ready for a true sequel after being teased with the cancelled StarCraft: Ghost. Enter StarCraft II, which has the potential to be the greatest real-time strategy title of all time.
StarCraft II will consist of three separate titles for PC and Mac, as announced by developer Blizzard. The first entry, Wings of Liberty, will be the base game. It will be followed by two expansion packs, Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void.
Three completely different and balanced races are in the mix for SC2: the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. To make things easier for you, especially if you are a gamer born after 1995, let's put this in Halo terms: Terran = UNSC, Protoss = Covenant, and Zerg = Flood.
Blizzard announced this week that they expect the game, formerly slated for a Holiday '09 release, to debut in 2010. With Blizzard's notorious perfectionism, expect the team to be hard at work well into 2010 before we see a final build-keep in mind, too, that there's still a lengthy beta period in the future that needs to be finished before the game releases to the general public. If you want to learn how to sign up for the beta, check out http://www.starcraft2.com/beta-faq.xml .
After reading our preview here at MegaGames, you'll be holding your breath until then.*
*MegaGames does not recommend actually holding your breath until then.
