Anyone? I've bought it in store right after it was released and my first impression is: Great game. Even my weak notebook can play it and it looks decent even on low quality.

I was disappointed that it only has the Terran campaign but on the other hand the campaign is huuuge plus after each mission there's an in game cutscene.

What's your opinion?

Bought it yesterday as well and first i was disappointed about no Zerg and Protoss campaign too (i love zergs) but then i realized it's actually better this way, cause the campaign is so nice with many missions, details, achievements, upgrades, etc.
I wonder when they will release Heart of the Swarm for the Zerg Campaign but we will see.

The game is really awesome so far, i loved to play StarCraft (especially with broodwar) and this is just super fun. The hard missions are actually pretty hard sometimes lol but i am not a really good RTS gamer anyway. Though i want to collect all the achievements later on.

And i might even enjoy the multiplayer more than the old game (im not a big fan of multiplayer matches except with people i know, and in coop hehe) but achievements push my motivations to game a lot actuall, and there are a lot of multiplayer achievements.

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I tested the closed beta for GamersGlobal.de - and no, I don`t think that I`ll buy it. But I`m looking forward to Mafia II and will be the first in the local game store who`ll buy it

http://www.gamersglobal.de/user-artikel/so-wirkt-starcraft-2-auf-blizzard-neulinge

I saw the beta running before.

How is the online gaming?
Is there a matchmaking, that also take the players skill into account?

What I never liked in multiplayer games was that I had
to play against much better players, wich was just frustrating.

I will probably buy it like all the other Blizzard games.
Not shure when though.

I haven't played online yet but i know they will check your skills to find good opponents, i saw that in a review.

You can also start with a Practice League game which is an easier version of the multiplayer game (time is slower, etc). So that's good for practicing.

Thats good.
I always suggested to have a "noob zone", that takes
down the competition enough to attract multiplayer beginners,
and "block" out good players.

Yeah exactly. And that's what they did so i will do some multiplayer matches as well. I didn't play the StarCraft Mutiplayer cause i always lost in the first 3 minutes hehe. The players just became too good after years and it's hard to find new gamer who were interesting playing an old game.

Read the German review here (from Jörg Langer): http://www.gamersglobal.de/test/starcraft-2
Should be one of the most objective reviews around the internet.

I'm gonna buy it once it's more cheap. I'm only interested in the singeplayer campaign anyway and Blizzard usually is good at this. I still have my doubts though that their concept of a story split in three parts will play out well. You usually cannot do that with a game like Starcraft. You're very limited in terms of mission design an most missions stayed fresh because you get a couple of new units. That totally doesn't work for a design where each faction has around 30 missions as even with additional units it's usually just about killing all enemies, moving certain stuff at certain locations or playing against a timer...

There of course also is the multiplayer part but I don't care about it. I dislike Starcraft'S extreme micro intensive and click spammy gameplay. There also are many things I simply find annoying like putting an extractor on a geyser, aborting it and building it again so you block your enemy. Things like that don't have much to do with "strategy" to my mind but just are annoying clickfests. If you like that it's ok for me but I prefer other games for a competitive multiplayer mode which concentrate more around strategy than around clicking right...

From the article:



Transl: The first 3 missions are totally simple and lacking ideas... etc.

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Well, the of course they need to be. Strange for him to comment this way.
Its of course designed for beginners.
Wich have to familiarize with the game.
Putting too much additional to the learning the core gameplay
is not a good design regarding the learning curve.