Banana Scoop

I’ll try to cover the main campaign for Wings of Liberty. Pretty much you take control of a group of rebellious marines led by the honorable Jim Raynor, who has it out for Arcturus Megsk, leader of the Terrans after the last war. Insane stuff goes down and you find yourself battling the Zerg, led by Sarah Kerrigan, who was a ghost (type of unit) from the last game now turned zerg queen hivemind thingy. Many fights are had and many marines are killed in the process, but good guys win to some extent with a lot of fluff in between involving the Protoss. I won’t spoil it for anyone but it’s fairly interesting, although in my opinion an RTS style game is meant for multiplayer, not the solo campaign. There are a few plot twists and a kind of choice mechanism that dictates which units you make available for yourself throughout the rest of the game, which lends itself to a lot of motive for replays if you just want to get a feel for how the campaign units work. Keep in mind, however, that not all of the units you get to use during the campaign are free for use during the multiplayer games (the Goliath or the Firebat for example).

Moving along, due to the massive following and incredibly popular E-Sports scene in Korea, Starcraft has become a staple in a lot of bars around the world, with people watching VoD’s of their favorite Starcraft competitors duking it out on large flat panel displays. This in and of itself represents just how big a leap video games have taken from the original pong and 8-bit arcade games. Starcraft has revolutionized and popularized a scene that has been long overdue for some time in the spotlight. This isn’t to say that it will immediately be followed by the average person, but I believe that with a few years time it may just become more popular to watch than baseball or football. Granted, those will always be major staples of our time and the next, but who’s to say that we can’t also watch people running marines, marauders and medivacs across the map to assault the enemy expansion? I would love to see the E-Sports seen take off in such a way, but that’s not more than wistful thinking as of right now, despite the major tournaments and large cash prizes for the most dedicated, talented players.

I recommend you pick it up if you were a fan of the original if you haven’t already with the first expansion revolving around the Zerg coming out sometime this year if I’m not mistaken (maybe? Don’t hurt me for getting it wrong! Hopefully you’ve enjoyed my dissection of the very surface of Starcraft 2, tune in next week to see what we’ll be covering next!

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