14 DAY TRIAL // There has been a lot of talk about StarCraft II recently, largely because the development team at Blizzard announced that LAN support for the multiplayer would not be included in the game. Even though fans made a lot of petitions backing up the need for LAN support, as we reported yesterday, the corporation defends its view point.
Now, Blizzard's Dustin Browder talks with Shacknews about the variety of single-player missions that will have to keep players without an Internet connection busy. He goes on to say that the creative team went further away from the typical ‘build a base, destroy your opponent’ recipe, as each of the missions will be a minigame.
“We've got a mission right now where every five minutes, lava rises and kills everything on the ground. Everything dies. You've got to get to the high ground or die. We've got a mission right now where infested Terrans are attacking at night, but they're hiding in the ground by day, so you need to just hold out all night long like you're in I Am Legend. Like, "I've got to live!" and then day, "Get 'em! Kill 'em while they sleep!" And you run out and you burn everything as fast as you can, and then when darkness starts coming you have to get back and hide out.”
Also, the mission won't be linear, making the whole experience that much more enjoyable, as you will be able to come back to the ones that were too hard at the beginning: “I'm going to go get myself something powerful and come back here and make this one suffer.”
Ranging in time from 15 to 45 minutes, the missions will each provide unique content, which will be different from one to another. They will be accessed from a central hub, adding a new layer of strategy to the RTS, which doesn't want to change a lot of things from the original title.
Upon hearing this piece of news: Do you think that the rich and varied missions will make up for the lack of LAN support or should Blizzard still include such an option in the final game? Leave us a comment with your thoughts on this matter.