The first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy focuses on the struggles of the Terran race, as seen through the eyes of Commander Jim Raynor, leader of the rebel group Raynor's Raiders.
Give it a month or two, and all those looking to play online will either try hard and stick, or just go back to something else. Hell, if the UMS community fixes, they might just stick around for DotA and whatnot.
It's like comparing a sponge with a grit blaster, there's just no point. They do fundamentally different things (unless you are into grit blasting yourself).
- Have a frustrating and mind numingly annoying multiplayer?
- Is the single player campaign 5-6 hours long?
- Is the single player filled with plot holes?
If you answered yes to all of those questions, then yes, Starcraft 2 is the new Modern Warfare 2.
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1. Yes, you have a lot of people who are jerks on SC2. 2. To some yes... 3. Well...the achievement says to beat the game under 6 hours, so yes? 4. Oh hell yes there are plot holes...
Ok. At first I thought you were talking about the type of game in the title. But, when I saw the post then it made sense. In that case then yeah, they're alike. Just like how IW took out dedicated servers, Blizzard is pulling custom made maps.
" They have a lot in common... -Both are coming from highly received original titles -Both games have extremely polished albeit shorter single player campaigns. -Both games have excellent multiplayer that are a bit hard to get into since the communities are generally very experienced. -Both games had boycotts. -Both games are published by Activision, and cost more money than they probably should. "
Do you see the Activision logo anywhere here? No? Well then you're wrong.
" Not really. SC2 is way harder to get into than MW2, which means not as many non-gamers will play it. Also SC2 is only on PC, and that limits the number of people that will play it. This means that it's playerbase will not be as big, especially not with the non-gamer crowd. "
non-gamers don't play games duh "
I'm so sorry, Casual gamers won't play it as much.
" They have a lot in common... -Both are coming from highly received original titles -Both games have extremely polished albeit shorter single player campaigns. -Both games have excellent multiplayer that are a bit hard to get into since the communities are generally very experienced. -Both games had boycotts. -Both games are published by Activision, and cost more money than they probably should. "
Do you see the Activision logo anywhere here? No? Well then you're wrong. "
@xplodedd: No they aren't. If that were true, than infinity ward would be the same company, and Activision's Logo is all over any of their games.
And the "shorter" campaign complaint is really getting tired. It could be probably 20 hours to beat SC2 on normal. I did every mission and did a few on hard to get achievements. There is no way it took me that long to beat all of Starcraft 1.
It is funny that you compare MW2 and SC2 for short campaigns. MW2's campaign is like 5 hours long. THAT is short.
If you would actually read that Wikipage you would know that "Activision-Blizzard" is the new name for Vivendi games. The company that OWNS Activison and Blizzard, and Activision-Blizzard is owned by Vivendi SA, a french company. Activision is still a video game publisher for everything they pump out, while Blizzard actually publishes its game under its own name.
They renamed Vivendi Games when Vivendi SA acquired Activision for name recognition.
Activision and Blizzard are SEPARATE companies under the Activision-Blizzard Company. The merge was the publishing side. Blizzard still makes games only, and Activision still publishes games only. They are NOT the same company.
Just like Activision isn't on Blizzard products; Blizzard isn't on Activision products.
You can keep saying that they are the same, but that doesn't make it so.
I thought you didn't know about the merger at first, but now I see this is a semantics argument.
They both belong to the same corporation. I think the distinction you want to make is asinine.
To illustrate: MW2 was developed by Infinity Ward, a subsidiary of Activision, in turn a subsidiary of Activision-Blizzard. SC2 was developed by blizzard, a subsidiary of Activision-Blizzard. The money's all going to the same place.
The new Modern Warfare 2 is gonna be Black Ops or Halo: Reach since the Call of Duty name and the Halo name seem to draw an unwarranted hate from people.
Starcraft II, is backed by a loyal Blizzard fanbase.
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