The results from these placement matches determine your league. When you first go online,you are given the opportunity to try 5 practice matches before going onto 5 more placement matches. Multiplayer is where the game truely shines. The script feels childish and unconvincing at times. My main disappointment was the watering down of the characters compared to how they were portrayed in the classic starcraft. Casual players may enjoy the missions alot more than the nostalgic players. There are about 30 mission in this game,about as much as seen in the original. The missions while unique from each other lack the strategic structure of the starcraft 1 missions. (The original camapign was more of a long tutorial for the online game) The singleplayer portion of the game falls short of the original. If you just want LAN play, then bite the bullet, buy the game, and be surprised how happy you will be. Starcraft II is excellent and worth the $60. Take advice from people who have already bought it. This means they based their review on the beta, speculative or rumored information, or on irrelevant data (such as Blizzard's new policy for forum-posting). Most of the negative reviews on this game (at the writing of this review) were written before release. In my opinion, you should ignore any reviews of a product if the writer hasn't actually purchased it. You get the full game with all capability, as well as the campaign, for the $60. Others have also said something about needing to buy the game 3 times to get all the races. This means that LAN games can still play at practically the same speed as traditional LAN games. All players players must have valid copies of the game and be signed into, but the servers still detect that you're on LAN and give you host.

This brings me to another point that others have complained about: Starcraft II does not have the traditional LAN capability. Also considering that the PC gaming industry is being destroyed by piracy, I'm glad Blizzard is still releasing a great game at a reasonable price.

With all the work Bizzard puts into making near-perfect balance, gameplay, and variety, the $60 MSRP for Starcraft II is completely fair. With inflation, that would be about $54 today.

I did a quick search to find the MSRP of Starcraft I when it was released in 1998, and along with MANY jetskis for sale, I found what I was looking for: $40 for the game ($30 for the expansion). Graphics are wonderful and have lots of customization, so I can play it on my 3-year-old laptop and my beast of a desktop - both of which still look great.Īs for the price, yes it seems a bit steep, but it's completely reasonable. This is an incredible game and a great sequel to the original.

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