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Review Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty

Surely not everyone is familiar with the reason for the wide fame of the first part of this game. It was an innovative strategy, with a reference to a millimeter with a balance. There were 3 races: protosss, terrane, grains. Playing any of them could defeat the enemy belonging to another race. The factors of the win were the number of your gray matter and the ability to quickly clat on hot keys, demonstrating the miracles of microcontrol. Nevertheless, this truth is true only for the Internet battles that are actively carried out, up to the release of Starcraft 2. Tournaments were also held, regularly, for 11 years, again before the release of today’s guy.
But undeservedly forgetting about the plot of the first part, we literally tear off the most tidb (well, or almost) piece. The main idea was that there was a sudden attack of an alien infection, called graves. This threat shifted everything in its path, and of course, she reached the planet of Mar-Sara, where one of the main heroes lived, Jim Reinon. In the past, the criminal, now in the position of sheriff on the provincial and deserted planet. Forced to defend himself on his own, he teaches a popular uprising and begins to destroy the buildings of the Confederations infected with the virus of Zergovs. The Confederation, in response, calls Reinon a criminal and begins to hunt for him.

The ally of Jim was a certain Arctur Mengsk, the leader of the Korshall’s Son terrorist group, which rebelled against the tyrannical regime of the Confederation. Assistant Arcture was, Sarah Kerrigan, who later had to become the leader.

The “sons” moved the knowledge that it was the Confederation that caused Zergs, getting rid of the planets objectionable to the regime, by installing the psi of radiators. But here everything went wrong – now the unknown race of protosss has appeared. Burned the entire planet, inhabited by grains and disappeared, as suddenly as it appeared.

After a series of incidents, Arcturus allowed ambitions and greed to capture the justice. Forced his people to paint an unfortunate psi-emitter, to install him on the planet of the capital of the Confederation. He ordered Sarah to protect the car from the protosss, subsequently throwing her to die, indirectly contributing to the creation of an unusual grave – Queen of Blacks. And if you lower the most epic part of the plot, it would not be spite of you how you might have thought (and how did you even think about this. 1!1), then the queen of the blades became the head of the swarm, instead. Well, now, to completely delve into, what’s what, run to Wikipedia! And so far we will move on to the history of the second part of the great brainchild of Blizzard.
A drunken revolutionary.

Actions begins in a banal bar, when the main character, this time is not an nameless commander, but the same Jim Reinon, sipping whiskey.

The confederation was destroyed. But Dominion appeared in its place, which, in fact, was no different from the same confederation. Unless with flags. Flyaaagiaii … Uh … ahem … yeah! Jim, of course, was against this regime, and again became a rebel. With a movement that has an incredibly original name – “Rainon raiders”. Remembering the dead, in a sense, Sarah, Jim decides to deliver the first blow to the dominion. And literally in the next mission, a Tykus appears, a former accomplice in criminal affairs, and a business partner in this part of the game. He comes not just to stay, see, but offer Jim to start hunting for artifacts, which the dominion is so violently looking for.

After the successful operation of Jim and Taikus, the second coming of the Zergs begins (to understand when the first one was still over, I will say that it was in the moment when Sarah Kerrigan intercepted power over graves). Dominion refuses to help the colonists on remote planets. Everyone in a panic is asking for help. And Jim helps them (it would seem, why do we need this?), and those, in return, offer him information about those very artifacts. And in the addition of the Universe, the danger is again in danger, even the graves (!) that are a momentary threat.

But in order not to disclose what the matter ended there, we will only say that the tasks of the colonists and the pursuit of artifacts are very related to the plot, since they will be the decisive force in the game of the game. And yet there will be side tasks besides them. They bring a variety of bonuses in the form of new units (combat units), or loans and research points, the need for which we say below.

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“Who to hang?!”
In general, gameplay of strategies of this kind (with a full base) is not very diverse. This is where Blizzard’s skills enters the game. The same almost all missions are arranged not just “demolish to hell”. Rather, the enemy is there for the background screensaver, so that the game would not seem. There will be such tasks as for example, to shake gas from protoss. And it would seem banal gas? But no, special, called “breathing of the gods”. From the name it comes out how many protosss protect him. Or collect 8,000 resources on the planet rich in minerals. Just? Yes, no matter how! The planet is volcanic, and in addition to unstable. Every 4 minutes lava rises, which, as you know, is never useful to our little soldiers. Yes, and the enemy is running out, because of this you have to spend part of the obtained resources.

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The next moment, we are already replaying the scene from horror films, when the hellish crowds of infected colonists at night, and in the afternoon, when ultraviolet is burned, we run from all our feet to destroy infected settlements, in order to at least somehow reduce the danger of the enemy onslaught. It seems interesting, but there are also banal missions to destroy everything to … uh … just destroy everything to the last brick. But there are tasks where this, seemingly incredibly banal business, was given a little unconventional. You are given super -powerful combat unit, and 4 bases. Frolic as soon as you can! In the end, on the territory of these bases there are certain buildings that we need to capture. And we must safely prepare the soil, for their successful capture. For all the fun of the robot, 3 minutes are allotted. After that, you are given the base, and the task, to understand the fact that you did not have time to destroy. Take it out as you want! Buildings still need to be captured.

But as they pass, more nimble opponents will be, and, therefore, more powerful weapons are needed, coupled with new technologies. This is where we need loans with upgrade glasses. Money (loans) is used to purchase and implement improvements that a character named Swann offers us. Improvements relate to all possible units. But the buildings are also possible to finalize, this is already to the research points. For example, developing protosal technologies, you can increase gas production, and moreover, bring it to automatism. Developing the technologies of grains, it will be possible to create several new units, and in the end, even create an emulator of the mind of the hive. But you will always have to choose, since at a certain stage of discoveries there are two studies.

But how to extract these components of development?

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For each task you completed, there will be bonuses. Both loans and these research points. For example, you have a task – to rob a train, for this you will be paid loans, but at the same level there are 3 skeletons of a rare grain, for this they will give you research points.

Tasks with tasks of course, and there is also another way to get one or other development points (grains, protosss). At certain points, the game will give you a choice of what to do. For example, the settlers who survived when they infected their planet with the Zergov virus colonized a new planet – a quiet harbor. But suddenly the connection disappears, and flying up to the planet discovers that the protosss blocked it. By old friendship, we contact them. It turns out that the lovely doctor who asked them to help did not take into account the possibility that the surviving settlers are infected. And Tutu is a difficult moral choice – to bomb everything to hell or rely on this under -therapy again, and let her try to invent the medicine from the incurable (!) the virus. But why is this a difficult choice?
Characters worked out to the smallest details. For those 3 tasks that the doctor will be with you, she will already have time to shore, and it will be difficult for her to refuse. You can engage in opening and outside the missions when we are allowed to wander around the ship. You can go to the bridge and start the task, but you can go to the laboratory, read a couple of comments about the samples of the stetman (our permanent scientist). Or go to Swann, to Arsenal. Talking with this gnome -like guy is a pleasure. And the videos that are inserted between the missions are so good that they are just right to put. And it should be noted that they are all on the game engine.

The last task. At such moments I would like to tear and throw, the denouement was so close!!

Technical kick.

The sound in the game is worthy, a lot of voiced details, suitable as possible. What are the cybernetic manners of the protosss. Also, the main feature of Blizzard strategies has not gone away – what longer you poke on the unit, the bouncer he gives out the phrase. Unfortunately, because of censorship framework I can not say, for example, one of the phrases of the infantryman. But, for example, the doctor will easily say “Meet in Battle chats.net;) “.

Graphics, for the genre, very beautiful. Here they take not how much technology, how much gamma and style style. Everything is done in cartoon-serial style. And this is not cornetal eyes, like some in the World of Warcraft game. Golden mean, with permission.

A play with a powerful plot usually does not depend on the multiplayer, but here it is still a significant piece. The first thing that catches your eye is the absence of some units from a single game. This is probably done in the name of preserving the balance in the game. New units appeared, as in both game modes. The calculation of tactics is now carried out not only for reasons of the race and the first steps of the enemy, but also at the rate of the landscape, and the location of the bases. Some tactics from Starcraft are relevant. The main and most significant factor is the skill of microcontrol (management of the economic part on the keyboard (construction, training)), the speed of development. In principle, all skills will develop automatically, it is possible that you will soon control intuitively.

Author opinion:

This game will kill as much free time as you have. For it is addictive. But it can also easily infuriate the behavior of players on the field, which, for example, will mockingly shoot your slaves. There is also reiglabiness and archive of tasks in the game. The first always gives pleasure, the second makes the passage more selective, and the videos are preserved. Ah, and what ending!

In general, in order to avoid a total srach in the comments, I would like to exclude the assessment, but where without it?

Graphics: 8.5 Sound and music: 9.0 gameplay: 9.0 plot: 10 interface and management: 9.0 Bottom line: 9.0 Yes, and everything is probably what we can say about the continuation of the game, which set the genre for many years to come. A worthy continuation, which is not enough for anyone to sit aside, although it can scare away some financial manners. Like, for example, a subscription to multiplayer battles. But in general, the game, as a product, is good. It will not spoil the impression of some annoying misconduct of the developers, so we will finish right here. And next time I will tell you about the game Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. For now!