StarCraft 2 to be released as a trilogy

by Ross Miller on Oct 10th 2008 6:55PM

And here you thought there'd be no big StarCraft 2 announcement after its conspicuous absence from the BlizzCon 2008 opening ceremony. Rob Pardo, executive vice-president of game design at Blizzard announced that the campaign version of the game will be a trilogy, each part focusing on a separate race.

Terrans - Wings of Liberty
Zerg - Heart of the Swarm
Protoss - Legacy of the Void

Sure, it's not a release date, but for those still hopeful, there's always tomorrow night's closing ceremonies. We'll get more info on this as we have it, like will it all be in one box? Will we have to buy separate discs? Can we have it now, please?

Update: Yes, you'll have to buy separate discs. According to Pardo, "It's a separate product. Look at the next two as expansion packs, but will have the feel of stand alone products." Meaning yes, we'll be charging you more money.

Tags: blizzard, blizzcon-2008, breakingnews, Mac, PC, starcraft, starcraft-2

Reader Comments (128)

Oh Great. Activision strikes again...

Guitar Hero XXXII
StarCraft XV
Call Of Duty X
Diablo VIII
What next?
Oh Yeah. Probably Tony Hawk LXIX.

You think they'd have enough money from WoW eh?

Wow, that is gay as fuck

Starcraft 3: Finishing the Game You Thought You Finished Before

I mean... Just look at my nick... It's been with me for years... I hate those guys so much.

i've always bought all Blizzard games bc they were quality products and worth supporting (except WoW bc I don't want to continue paying to play--i just skipped playing that one)

But now, I'm gonna pirate the **** out of sc2. vote me up if you plan to do the same.

Whine like you mean it blizz will prob just release one product if the fan base is mad enough

What if each of the three SC3 'chapters' has as much content and is as well-made as a regular triple-A game?

Does the fact that there's more than one of them somehow dampen the experience?

@ pers

I'm sorry, but there is never a good excuse to pirate a game. By pirating this (or any other) PC game you aren't telling Blizzard that they are making a bad move, you are telling the world you are a fucking childish, douche-bag THIEF.

If you don't support the move, let Blizzard know through the proper channels, and if it really pisses you off that much then don't buy the game. But for christ's sake, by pirating a game you aren't punishing anyone except all the other people that enjoy the PC as a gaming platform.

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That being said....I think this move is incredibly lame and REEKS of Activision sticking there money-grubbing nose into Blizzards affairs. Lets face it, Blizzard has always been about supreme quality AND quantity w/ their games. I honestly don't think this would have happened had Vivendi (Blizzard's old owners) not merged w/ Activision. This just straight up bites and reeks of nothing more then a money-grab.

I'm a fucking childish, douche-bag THIEF, so this news doesn't bother me.

ehhhhhh, what :| ?

WTF!!! (MGS Alert sound)

exactly...

Super lame... it better be worth it.

I cant lie to you and say it will be....This is Activision we are talking about...

hmm. they must have known we'd buy it anyway. cheeky bastards

Its like Spore all over again......its like they WANT it to become the most torrented game ever.

Meh. I hope they don't do this with Diablo III

I second that

You mean Diablo III: Lord of Hatred, Diablo III: Lord of Destruction, and Diablo III: Lord of Terror?

Nooooo don't give them ideas.

so your splitting the campaign into 3 parts. okay blizzard give us a good excuse now that the first part isn't out yet.

If EA can crank out a new C&C each year you guys can get this shit down faster now that Activision is paying the bills.

Maybe Blizzard wants to make a quality product?

I second Sora. Blizzard doesn't need Activision to pay the bills.

It'd beter be fairly long campaigns for each race. There were three separate campaigns in the origianl installment - all in one package and three in Brood Wars - also all in one package. If each individual campaign isn't about as long as all three from the original or Brood Wars, I'll be a liitle wary of buying into Starcraft II. Does it look like one of the best RTS's ever? Yes, but that won't justify over-charging the consumer for something that was considered standard on their previous installations.

For me, anything much longer for a campaign for a single race than what was in the original SC and BW, would get pretty damn boring. In the original, IMO the race switches came at exactly the right time before playing through the previous part got stale.

They better just make each one a normal length and priced at like $15 or something.

Yeah, fat chance.

I love Starcraft, but that's bullshit.

It'd better not be $50 a game...

Ameeeen brotha', you speak tha' truth of the Lord!!

The only way I'd buy it if the first was $40 and the others were $20-$30.

But even then it's a ripoff, and I second all the people who will choose "other methods" to get the game because that is frankly total bullshit.

PokéCraft!

This is not how I wanted to envision that.

Gotta construct 'em all!

So I guess that means that you buy one and then pirate the other two? I wonder if online play will be restricted to the race that you purchase, cause that would suck.

They didn't say each version would only have one race -- "each part *focusing* on a separate race." (Emphasis mine).

This doesn't sound good but I think it's way overblown and perhaps slightly misleading. I could be wrong, but I'm expecting something much more in the way of Tides of Darkness, Brood Wars, Frozen Throne -- a meaty expansion.

Wow, and I thought it was taking them long enough already. It will be 2015 and people will still be finishing StarCraft 2.

What they didn't mention is that you have to buy and install all three in order to select that race in multiplayer, thus ensuring that the Zerg expansion outsells all other expansions by an order of a magnitude...

Oh son of a bitch. They better price it as per episode content. Also, the number of Starcrafts you buy better not interfere with multiplayer.

It better be something like Orange Box, where you can get all three for the price of a normal game or just get one race at a time if you're a weirdo. Seriously, does this make any sense to anyone? WTF.

So is this Blizzard's latest innovation for PC gaming? Selling one game as three seperate games? Sounds like a ripoff to me.

Will players who are only interested in online gaming have to buy all three disks to be competitive?

I'll say it because none else seems to have the balls to...

Fuck Blizzard.

Starcraft 2 split up into 3 seperate products?? Bullshit...

Diablo 3 turning out to be Diablo 2 with a facelift? Lame and uninsteresting.

The innovative company of yesteryear is dead.

The company that completely scrapped Starcraft and re-built after fans revolted is gone and buried.

They're all about the money now and the Activision merger is making it worse.

Are we thinking about the same Blizzard? The Blizzard I know hardly revolutionises at all, but rather takes ideas and polishes them stupidly well.

I can't really think of anything Blizzard did that was revolutionary in the past other than perhaps Battle.net.

HEY THERE!! Some of us would have settled for a facelifted D2. Have you gone back to play D2 only to realize it looks like pixelated crap, because it runs at many less pixels than your LCD? I want to play it but I can't, it hurts my eyes!

I have.. I couldn't play through the whole game it looked so painful.

Dear Blizzard,

Fuck you.

Signed, Starcraft 1 fans

Make that at least two of us.

Me three, real sh*tty move on them...

I hope they make it so that I won't have to buy all three games to enjoy the full multiplayer.

I was going to pick this up day one, but instead I think I'll just play the original starcraft a second time - it's out now, and you get a complete game in one package instead of it being broken up into three separate parts so they can charge you three times for what should be all one game. Unless they're $20 a piece, count me out.

I have absolutely no problem believing that all 3 will be released at the same time.

I'm pretty sure there's going to be a deluxe package for 99$ and then all 3 seperate for 39$ a pop.

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