Well it finally happened. Blizzard accepted me into their beta program and I was granted access to the long awaited StarCraft II. Now to put this into perspective for you, my favorite PC game of all time, that I still play often enough is StarCraft. There is something about that game in particular that has had me hooked since the 90s.
So… On to my first review. This one is going to be geared to the installation, patching and setup process. The start of the install was simple. Sign into my Battle.Net account, select StarCraft II Beta and click “Download”. That caused the Blizzard Downloaded application to launch (Those of you who play WoW should be quite familiar with that). 1.4GB later, the installer for SCII launched. Install was pretty quick. Then came the patches. This is my first (and so far only) complaint. Instead of having a rollup patch, I had to sit by for 3 hours and watch 14 patches download and install. Not a fun process, especially for an impatient person like myself.
Now that the game’s patched, it’s time to play. Turned out to be easier than I thought. Launch the app, enter my Battle.Net info, put in my selected character name, and done. Ready to play. See a few screenshots below.
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