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    StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

    Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Mar 12, 2013

    The second chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy, Heart of the Swarm is a science fiction-themed real-time strategy game for PC and Mac. Players take control of the vicious Zerg faction in an interstellar war against the hard-nosed Terrans and psionic Protoss.

    Heart of the Swarm Ending Video Leaked - Great Job Blizzard!

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    KaosAngel

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    #1  Edited By KaosAngel

    Well, the game hasn't even been given a date yet but it looks like the ending is already leaked out. 
     
    It's not the final version, and it's still done with the early Maya concept, but the voice acting is there.  Also, for some reason they are using the Transformer's Soundtrack...weird.  I guess it's filler. 
     
    Luckily Kotaku saved it before YouTube took it down due to Blizzard's request. 
     
    Enjoy 
     
    EDIT:  My mistake, I should be thanking the company that takes care of Blizzard's CGI stuff.  Thank you "the third floor", enjoy your future employment with Blizzard.

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    #2  Edited By Jeffsekai

    Why would people want to watch this now? 
     
    You're just gonna have to wait 3-4 years to see what happens after.

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    #3  Edited By Jeust

    Nice video. If this is really the ending, I bet Blizzard is going to change it. 

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    #4  Edited By Animasta
    @Jeffsekai said:

    " Why would people want to watch this now?  You're just gonna have to wait 3-4 years to see what happens after. "

    I assume it would have been touched up but damn, that CGI does not look very great.
     
    and I happen to not give a shit about starcraft, so there!
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    #5  Edited By nintendoeats

    A: Don't watch it if you care.

    B: The games not out, they can change it.

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    #6  Edited By Oldirtybearon

    The biggest thing about this leak is that it shows just how far away HotS is. =/

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    #7  Edited By Colin

    That's a pretty bad leak, kind of feel sorry for them :\

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    #8  Edited By Jeust
    @Laketown said:
    " @Jeffsekai said:

    " Why would people want to watch this now?  You're just gonna have to wait 3-4 years to see what happens after. "

    I assume it would have been touched up but damn, that CGI does not look very great.  and I happen to not give a shit about starcraft, so there! "
    It is probably just one of the concepts that precedes the crafting of the final version of the sequence. Still I liked the ending. 
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    #9  Edited By LlamaLlama

    I read somewhere that this was going to be the ending for Wings before they changed it.
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    #10  Edited By dtat
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    #11  Edited By KaosAngel
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    #13  Edited By dtat
    @KaosAngel: Ugh well that would be too bad. I really like normal Kerrigan. Even in the first game.
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    #14  Edited By ReyGitano

    Wow, it's going to be so difficult to avoid spoilers for this game now.

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    #15  Edited By KaosAngel
    @billnyethesciencepie:   Although a good theory, I think it is from a future game and the reason why the date is last year is because they produced all the cut scenes at once. 

    Because if they waited and did it before each expansion then, who knows what will happen in the future, it would suck for Blizzard if god forbid the voice actor for Jim Raynor was tragically mauled to death by squirrels. 

    The overall storyline has probably already been determined for a long time and even if you loved single player, it isn't exactly a complex story.
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    #16  Edited By RsistncE

    LOL

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    #17  Edited By shiftymagician

    If this was the intended ending for Heart of the Swarm, then I gotta say, it was an immensely boring and uninspired conclusion.  Again, this whole story is turning out to be quite flat it seems.

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    #18  Edited By Dany
    @billnyethesciencepie said:
    " Look at the date on the top right, april 08 2009.   Was prolly the original ending to wings, before they changed. "
    Well, I have not watched hte entire clip nor actually played the game but I know some stuff about how it ends but I doubt they would start doing cinematics if the story wasn't laid out yet
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    #19  Edited By ColinWright

    Obviously not final. 

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    #20  Edited By LibraryDues

    Yikes, I cannot imagine how demoralizing this would be for people working on the game. 
     
    That being said, yeah, I watched it.

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    #21  Edited By Donos
    @KaosAngel: Yeah, but whasn't she already psychic, and thus already able to? I have no doubt this is a direct continuation from the end of Wings of Liberty, but it doesn't quite make sense compared to the character presented there.
     
    Anyways, I just picked this up on another site and... I don't think there's much to say about it. Yo, did you play Wings of Liberty? Did you see where that was going? Well it did.
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    #22  Edited By Overwatch
    @LlamaLlama said:
    " I read somewhere that this was going to be the ending for Wings before they changed it. "
    Yeah, I think so too. It just doesn't make sense for players who finished Wings of Liberty.
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    #23  Edited By DystopiaX
    @Laketown said:
    " @Jeffsekai said:

    " Why would people want to watch this now?  You're just gonna have to wait 3-4 years to see what happens after. "

    I assume it would have been touched up but damn, that CGI does not look very great.  and I happen to not give a shit about starcraft, so there! "
    It's a concept, so it's not in any finished state at all. ending probably isn't finalized either.
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    #24  Edited By csl316

    If Heart of the Swarm goes in this sort of direction, I'll be disappointed.  Not a fan of this new story and all the focus on Raynor and Kerrigan.  Sure, they're cool characters, but the Starcraft universe has so much more to offer than this.  SC 1 and Brood War, imo, had some of the best game storylines ever.  though the missions may not have been as diverse as the ones in Wings of Liberty, at least all of them progressed the main arcs in some fashion.  
     
    Join me as I reminisce about some of the awesome parts of the originals.  Starcraft 1 spoilers:

    In comparison, Starcraft 2's moments (so far):
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    #25  Edited By niamahai
    @LibraryDues said:
    " Yikes, I cannot imagine how demoralizing this would be for people working on the game.  That being said, yeah, I watched it. "
    can you in general tell me how it goes? tee-hee
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    #26  Edited By zagzagovich

    Wow. That's actually a great teaser for the game. I have no Idea how it came to the point of what's happening in this video, the only thing you see is what you were promised by the end of Wings and I just want to see more great CGI sequences and great missions out of the next game. If you are afraid it will spoil something don't worry, there is nothing really major in it, except for one thing and it's not explained.

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    #27  Edited By is343
    @csl316:  Multiply that SC2 spoiler by the three parts that will eventually make up the game, then bingo! The list is just long enough! :|
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    #28  Edited By csl316
    @AnZ17N said:
    " @csl316:  Multiply that SC2 spoiler by the three parts that will eventually make up the game, then bingo! The list is just long enough! :| "
    yeah dude, i sure hope so.
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    #29  Edited By BabyChooChoo

    The fact Kotaku even posts this bothers me. I'm fine with posting leaked info about a game that doesn't really tell much, but this is [possibly] the ending of their next game. This is huge. This isn't something you just throw out there years before the game comes out. You don't have to watch it, I know that, but they didn't have to post it either.

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    #30  Edited By frankxiv
    @ZagZagovich said:
    " Wow. That's actually a great teaser for the game. I have no Idea how it came to the point of what's happening in this video, the only thing you see is what you were promised by the end of Wings and I just want to see more great CGI sequences and great missions out of the next game. If you are afraid it will spoil something don't worry, there is nothing really major in it, except for one thing and it's not explained. "
    yeah. maybe i'm weird but spoilers don't really have any effect on me besides making me want to see how they got from A to B more. i knew the ending to wings of liberty before i even started the campaign and it was still fun to play though and watch everything unfold. 
     
    that said this doesn't make a whole lot of sense knowing a 3rd game is coming after it.
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    #31  Edited By MooseyMcMan
    @Laketown said:
    " @Jeffsekai said:

    " Why would people want to watch this now?  You're just gonna have to wait 3-4 years to see what happens after. "

    I assume it would have been touched up but damn, that CGI does not look very great.  and I happen to not give a shit about starcraft, so there! "
    My thoughts exactly. 
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    #32  Edited By Arkanti

    I don't get it, what about this video suggests that it would be from Heart of the Swarm, let alone be the very closing cinematic?
     
    Judging from what happens in it, and the Kerrigan model, and the date which this was made and that this somehow got leaked, it seems like it was an alternate ending for Wings of Liberty that they ditched after making the animatic for.

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    #33  Edited By Arkanti
    @csl316: 
     
    The problem and strength of Starcraft 2 is that I feel its missions were primarily designed around gameplay, and then they figured out ways to stitch a story in around all of that. Starcraft 1 did the opposite.
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    #34  Edited By Thule

    I somehow doubt that this is the real ending, it's crap. Kerrigan gets her ass saved by Raynor again, good job making Kerrigan into even more of a damsel in distress. I really doubt Blizzard would let something like this slip out. And yes, I know it's the production company that leaked it, but I think they'd keep a tight lid on it. I don't really care anyway, we'll see it when HotS actually comes out.
     
    It was kinda hilarious though, all the characters kinda looked like handpuppets without the lips moving when they talked.

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    #35  Edited By KaosAngel
    @Thule said:
    "It was kinda hilarious though, all the characters kinda looked like handpuppets without the lips moving when they talked. "
    Check out the Pixar early shots for their movies, it's way better.  The Cars one still makes me laugh at times.
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    #36  Edited By Zolfe
    @LlamaLlama: 
    yeh im hoping you're right, cause this ending would've made the Wings ending completely meaningless
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    #37  Edited By Devitti

    Looks more like a scrapped storyboard for the wings of liberty ending. 


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    #38  Edited By gamefreak9

    I watched it cause i don't really mind crappy graphics, besides i'm sure we all knew this was coming... but i gotta say its weird when my expectations are met... i mean expected some sort of surprise, is this for real?? like is it confirmed?

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    #39  Edited By TheMustacheHero
    @Laketown said:
    " @Jeffsekai said:

    " Why would people want to watch this now?  You're just gonna have to wait 3-4 years to see what happens after. "

    I assume it would have been touched up but damn, that CGI does not look very great.  and I happen to not give a shit about starcraft, so there! "
    Are you mentally retarded? Of course it doesn't look great! It's like drawing a doodle and then comparing it to the mona lisa.
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    #40  Edited By GunslingerPanda

    It's using Transformers Soundtrack music. Faaaaake.

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    #41  Edited By KaosAngel
    @GunslingerPanda said:
    " It's using Transformers Soundtrack music. Faaaaake. "
    ...you know production companies use it for filler right?  
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    #42  Edited By The_Laughing_Man

    Now we just gotta wait 2 years to get. 

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    #43  Edited By GunslingerPanda
    @KaosAngel said:
    " @GunslingerPanda said:
    " It's using Transformers Soundtrack music. Faaaaake. "
    ...you know production companies use it for filler right?   "
    No I did not know this.
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    #44  Edited By audiosnag

    I don't think this is gonna be for HotS. Doesn't really seem to jive with the direction WoL was going.

     
    Her taking off at the end of HotS doesn't make much sense.
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    #45  Edited By KaosAngel
    @audiosnag: ...maybe that's why the last chapter will be for Protoss?   
     
    Huge war gonna happen, they need to march together, etc...
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    #46  Edited By audiosnag
    @KaosAngel: 
    The Toss chapter will definitely be all about that and I can see Kerrigan dealing with Mengsk in the Zerg campaign but I dunno. That video seems a little more final as to Kerrigans further involvement. She sorta makes it sound like she's leaving for good or something.
    Who knows, though, it's hard to tell from that little bit. All I know for sure is i want that damn game now.
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    #47  Edited By ryanwho

    If I watch it now I'll forget by the time the game is out. 
    *watches* 
    AND NOW I KNOW

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    #48  Edited By MisterChief
    @GunslingerPanda said:
    " @KaosAngel said:
    " @GunslingerPanda said:
    " It's using Transformers Soundtrack music. Faaaaake. "
    ...you know production companies use it for filler right?   "
    No I did not know this. "
    FYI There was a Last Guardian trailer that used music from Blood Simple.
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    #49  Edited By Teaspoon83

    I'll pass on watching. It is kinda like the day the last Harry Potter book came out, people waited in line to get the book and a person drives by, yelling that Snape kills Dumbledore.  Kotaku may not be as big as a dick like the person in the video but it sucks that a popular website would release this amongst the readers, news will spread, people will spoil those who tried to stay away. Sigh... sadness.
     
    I'll wait till I play the game and then I'll watch it. Don't mind waiting years for it.

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    #50  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    If I was anyone at Blizzard or indeed anyone at Third Floor I'd be pissed at whoever leaked that video.

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