There is only 1 RTS game i love more than C&C, that would be Starcraft, Prepare To Meet Your Doom Zerglings

meh

Awesomeness.

Im guessing a late 2008 release date?

I so wanted it to be Diablo 3 but starcraft will do i suppose

and I say it every time a new Blizzard game is released, Blizzard make the best CGI stuff for game intro / cinematics EVER!

Yup, shame the WoW movie is live action. /sigh. It could have been [epic].

I hope they work on the in game graphics, I know they want lots of things going on screen at same time but plenty of new RTS there that look 10 times better and can have a load of things going on at same time.

Graphics look pants tbh

A lot of rumour mill going around saying they just took what was in the works and stopped when most of the company went to work on wow and some of the team recently dusting off the old hardrives and just finishing it off using the old engine and trying to make it look nice.

Tbh, they have spent too much on graphics recently, the games have been crap...

Sup Com ... Fantastic graphics engine... boring gameplay

C&C3 ... Great looking game... no lasting appeal

Now i can still go back and play WC3 and it yes it isnt the most fantastic graphics ever. But the game is amazing, and it looks decent.

PC sales have dropped recently because not enough people have the hardware to run the games well enough, you make a game too graphically intensive and you cut your market massively.

Another reason why WoW did so well, it is a reasonably low power engine

Quote from: SweensterTbh, they have spent too much on graphics recently, the games have been crap...

Sup Com ... Fantastic graphics engine... boring gameplay

C&C3 ... Great looking game... no lasting appeal

Now i can still go back and play WC3 and it yes it isnt the most fantastic graphics ever. But the game is amazing, and it looks decent.

PC sales have dropped recently because not enough people have the hardware to run the games well enough, you make a game too graphically intensive and you cut your market massively.

Another reason why WoW did so well, it is a reasonably low power engine

- Gamespot reported uk game sales were up not down ^^
- Wow was a good engine new, 2 years old now dont forget but had polygon counts on all new stuff increased and outland uses new tech in many areas but still 2 years old now
- Company Of Heroes - Great game, looks great, lots of units allowed

Alot of the uk sales now is down to more games like "The Sims" in which sales are growing, also alot of MMORPG games.

The big shiny flashy graphics titles arent selling well, just look at EAs profit figures.

I have to admit company of heroes is impressive, though with Relic having a game like DoW under its belt that isnt suprising.

Also we havent really seen that much of SC2 yet, only a few bits of footage, I would rather they keep closer to the original than go off at a tangent and spoil the brilliant SC formula.

I am actually finding the super high graphics games harder to play because the screen becomes too fussy with all the fancy effects, especially RTS games

Quote from: SweensterAlot of the uk sales now is down to more games like "The Sims" in which sales are growing, also alot of MMORPG games.

The big shiny flashy graphics titles arent selling well, just look at EAs profit figures.

I have to admit company of heroes is impressive, though with Relic having a game like DoW under its belt that isnt suprising.

Also we havent really seen that much of SC2 yet, only a few bits of footage, I would rather they keep closer to the original than go off at a tangent and spoil the brilliant SC formula.

I am actually finding the super high graphics games harder to play because the screen becomes too fussy with all the fancy effects, especially RTS games

TBH, EA has all been about graphics and the gameplay a bit poo, every time they have gobbled up a great game company the graphics improved but the gameplay slipped.
SC2 is almost done so what you see is what it will be - October release date

Question will be - will the zerg rush still work in these day and age or will it get boring to quickly - time will tell but While fun for 5 mins I do not think it would last

some screenshots from the starcraft site...

Last one looks interesting, if they have some zerg space levels, that would be cool

dont think it is solely space, it just uses a space background on impassable locations, which the flying units can move over

protos units in the first one look..... gay for a better word, lol

rest of it looks spangly, most deffinatly like that zerg rush on the 2nd to last one.
lets hope they up the number of units you can select at a time from 10 though