If you haven’t checked out his earlier StarCraft II related pieces, there’s Confessions of a StarCraft addict and the first part of his multiplayer review here…

The hardest part of talking about a multiplayer experience is where exactly to start. I racked my brain to come up with a way to explore the topic while being comprehensive, understandable and entertaining. I decided to break it into bite-size slices [Nachos: And even still, we split it into three!] and explore the different parts independently. Read the rest of this entry →

StarCraft is, as far as I know, the only computer game on the planet that has ever been officially classed as a national sport. StarCraft II has some enormous shoes to fill. What made StarCraft such a classic was the way Blizzard managed to get three very distinct races in almost perfect balance. While there have been balanced games before and since, it is usually maintained by only allowing races to have several ‘race only’ troops, all the while keeping the bulk of the force the same. Not so for StarCraft. Each race has its very own flavour and a completely different way of doing things. Read the rest of this entry →