This is high drama and the writing aims for majesty and for a heroic tone that sometimes feels out of place. The characters are larger than life, none more than the Queen of Blades herself, who emotes through the cutscenes, sheds tears for Raynor, swears revenge, struggles with her dark nature and the call of the Zerg Swarm.
Sarah Kerrigan might have regained her humanity, but the relative peace instituted at the end of Wings of Liberty cannot last and within about one hour of starting the real-time strategy experience, gamers will have witnessed two events put the entire cast of characters back on the warpath. Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm is not a game about nuances or about the eternal battle between good and evil.īlizzard has managed to keep the narrative personal and intimate even as vast armies clash during the cutscenes and huge spaceships are destroyed in mere moments, which is a feat by itself. Now, close to 3 years later, the development team is ready to deploy the second chapter in the saga, called Heart of the Swarm, which focuses on the exploits of one Sarah Kerrigan and her Zerg faction.īlizzard is not yet telling the Starcraft story that I want to hear, but the single-player campaign it has created is a true spectacle, while the multiplayer adds enough changes to make it attractive once again even to hardcore players who know every tactic linked to Wings of Liberty. So I was somewhat disappointed when Blizzard chose to tackle an entirely new story thread with Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, although I enjoyed the tale of redemption and unrequited love that the game was trying to tell.
I was also dying to learn how the mysterious ending of Broodwar could play out. I loved Jim Raynor and his heroic stance and the spiritual superiority of the Protoss and over time, I came to appreciate the way the three main races of the universe were locked in continuous combat with each other because of circumstances and betrayals rather than out of genuine hatred. I played the original Starcraft and its Broodwar expansion quite a bit when I was young, fascinated by the simplicity and elegance of the strategy system and by the cool story that Blizzard was telling, with larger than life characters and more twists and turns than any science fiction series.
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