It took me about eight or nine minutes to finish the first mission, although I was admittedly stopping to admire the scenery, which features nice touches like billboards that read "Real Men Drill Deep!" and so on. Raynor is trying to encourage the colonists to join in the fight, and they'll occasionally talk back with lines like "We ain't allowed to have guns!" Eventually they'll join in with molotovs and their bare fists.Īfter the first mission, you'll notice that Starcraft 2 now has achievements.Īfter the first mission, you'll notice that Starcraft 2 now has achievements. You can also now hit the "Alt" button to display the health of everything on screen. Throughout the first mission, tutorials will pop up that can be accessed at any time in the tutorials menu, and they now come complete with videos showing you exactly what they're talking about. Raynor and seven marines have to destroy an outpost on Mar Sara, and unlock weapons caches stolen from the colonists.Īlong the way, you'll blast several large holoboards that feature Mengsk spouting propaganda, and they explode with a satisfying boom. Raynor's first mission finds him tasked with helping the locals battle the Terran Dominion. The talking-head computer adjutant (the Ghost in the Shell-looking woman from the first game) relays mesages to Raynor, although now instead of her narrating the next mission, you'll see a character calling for help, offering you a lucrative deal, or wanting you to investigate something. Everything is clickable, and more items appear depending on the missions you've completed. The bar contains a jukebox (clickable but not yet working), a bulletin board (full of thank you cards from kids, a lipstick-kissed napkin from the Miss Sara competition winner, and more), and a holo-console that Raynor can access to read about mission opportunities. Jim Raynor, and Raynor holding down a whiskey bottle in Joey Ray's Bar on Mar Sara. Things have boiled down to Arcturus Mengsk vs. It's been four years since the events of the Brood War.
The new Battle.Net wasn't ready either, but even with those things in mind, there was a ton of new stuff to see.Ī fully rendered, three-dimensiona Jim Raynor begins the game in a dusty (and similarly 3D!) bar, drinking his woes away. They're cramming so much into the game that parts of it weren't even ready to show to us yet. Read on to find out what you'll be doing with Jim Raynor throughout the 30 or so missions in StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty.%Gallery-69481%īlizzard stressed to us that the game is still very much a "work in progress" and the delay they announced not long after our visit can certainly attest to that. One thing is for sure: this isn't anything like the old StarCraft single-player campaign.
We recently spent a day at Blizzard's campus learning all about StarCraft 2's Wings of Liberty Terran campaign, the first in a series with the Zerg and Protoss expansions coming at a later date.
We've told you all about the multiplayer and its upcoming changes, but the single-player experience has been one gigantic black hole. Well, forget everything you know about the single-player campaign in StarCraft 2. Forget everything you know about StarCraft 2.