Starcraft II Wings of Liberty

The Good:

Campaign offers a lot of variety
Awesome cinematics and great voice acting get you involved in the story
Element of choice gives campaign lots of replay value
Excellent online play featuring three disparate but balanced factions
Challenges and practice league ease neophytes into competitive play.

The Bad:

Some Battlenet inconveniences
Only one campaign.

Some sequels radically reinvent what has come before; others simply buff up a formula that already soars. To suggest that Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty does only the latter and not the former would be to sell short the fresh ideas and exciting gameplay that makes this superb real-time strategy sequel so enjoyable. Read the rest of this entry »