We received an invite to see Heart of the Swarm earlier today, promising that we’d see a small portion of the game’s campaign, but warning that we won’t see any changes or additions to the multiplayer side of StarCraft II at this stage.
Blizzard has indicated that it plans a different approach for the first StarCraft II expansion, one that focuses on Sarah Kerrigan and the Zerg legions for its campaign. It’s expected that Heart of the Swarm will include some RPG-like mechanics and perhaps include new Zerg units.
Just because Blizzard is planning to show off Heart of the Swarm next month doesn’t necessarily mean it’s due this year. Blizzard has indicated that we will likely see the next StarCraft II game in early 2012. We got our first look at the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty campaign nearly a year in advance of the game’s release.
Heart of the Swarm is the second part of a planned StarCraft II trilogy.
Dave Glasson
Friday, April 22, 2011 at 5:15 PMDont care. Bring on Diablo 3.
Fenixius
Friday, April 22, 2011 at 5:56 PMDon’t care. Give me more Starcraft.
CyK
Friday, April 22, 2011 at 9:41 PMDont care that you don’t care. Bring on Diablo 3.
Fred
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 12:21 PMDon’t care that you don’t care about him not caring about Diablo III; MOAR Starcraft 2.
Nirguna
Friday, April 22, 2011 at 9:16 PMAgreed. Been waiting… what… the best part of 10 years for Diablo III… *sigh*
Ben
Friday, April 22, 2011 at 6:26 PMFinally. Been waiting to get a look at the second installment for a while now.