Starcraft 2 Art and TDs
Few realise just how popular the Starcraft2 franchise really is. Another of the market leaders from big-gaming house Blizzard (the makers of World of Warcraft and Warcraft3) – with their Starcraft franchise they have really captured the Asian market specifically – as opposed to totally dominating in USA and Europe.
As a result of the popularity of Starcraft and Starcraft2, many off-shoot sites and blogs have popped up – including a whole niche dedicated to Starcraft Artwork. Spaceage images, cool cutting edge designs and amazing modern drawings are now all over the web.
StarCraft II (SC2) is the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game, and the sequel to the hit original, StarCraft. The newest release from the Blizzard stable has 3 very distinct and evenly matched races, the protoss, terran, and zerg, which have been totally remodeled and re-imagined with several new units for the individual races, as well as new moves for some of the original units that are returning.
A new site that has popped up recently is www.starcraft2.pro which has a good blend of the newish starcraft artwork and some cool video / youtube trailers of the game.
One area that Starcraft has really excelled in, is the mods. Tower defences (similar to how mods took off for Warcraft3 – eg: DOTA (defence of the ancients) etc) have really become a powerful driving for the starcraft game.
Some of the most popular tower defences being:
Flash Tower Defence for SC2
Wings of Liberty TD
Multi-map plays for SC2
Spawning even further is the inter-clan battles for SC2. Its interesting to see that Blizzard really inherited the whole clan scene, as most of it came from third-party free mods. Blizzard may have designed SC2 and WC3 – but the free mods and interconnection of gamers through battlenet (battle.net) really saw the community and free mods take off.
Tower defences have become a hugely popular game in their own right. And most if not all internet cafes around the world (certainly gaming cafes) are filled with clans battling each other usually in a TD, DOTA or mod for one of the SC2 or WC3 games.
The other term you’ll hear constantly is the “Starcraft Zerg” a race (most common) in the game is chosen by the player. The other 2 races are protos and terran and its an ongoing in-game war as to which race will reign supreme.
You can also get a good view of some official starcraftII artwork at the following blizzard blog location:
http://kr.starcraft2.com/artwork.xml
Enjoy!
