They've been working on that for years now. You will need all 4 CDs in order to play, and the project is made to be like SC, not SC2 at all.
False hopes...
QUOTE(NeoNightmareX @ Sep 23 2004, 01:25 PM)
ive actually see some pics of Starcraft: The Xel'Naga Vengeance, and its sc with some new units and has WC3 graphics, pretty cool
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OMG! That was a mod someone was working on for some other game. It got shut down by blizzard.
Is warcraft 3 really that bad? I remember playing wc3 in beta on warforge. The blizzard editor, from what I remember, seemed the be a lot better than sc. You could do more things. I contemplated going out and getting wc3 just to play ums. I dunno if my computer could handle it though. My geforce4 card fried or something and I'm stuck back on a gf2 card. (gf4 card will start normally... but after like 2 minutes, it would freeze the computer... lower resolution = more time before it froze... and suggestions?

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But yeah... I don't think blizzard is in a rush to make sc2 because I don't think they can handle the pressure to live up to sc1. SC1 is like, thee most strategic game. Other rts's seem to have more cheesy ways of winning.
Obviously as Tsuka (or whatever his name is) said, Blizzard is at the VERY LEAST in the planning stages of StarCraft 2. All you have to do is go look at the postings of blizzard employees at their forums, asking people what they want to see in SC2. There are like 20 topics in there. That means 2-3 years, plus 1-2 more years for good measure (knowing Blizzard). There is NO WAY they wouldn't make the game because SC is TOO GOOD? LOL? What kind of reasoning is that? They won't make a sequel to a sucessful game? How dumb is that?
As for the game itself, I highly doubt it will be anything like WC3, if you've read the topics posted at Blizzard's forums, you can actually realize why WC3 sucks so :censored:ing hardcore. People tried defending WC3, and people argued against it. Amazingly, it was Blizzard who finally put their finger on the reason WC3 SUCKS SO :censored:ING BAD! It's because of Hardcore vs. Softcore counters. WC3 will never have any comebacks, you can mass anything and win. Nothing perfectly counters something else like it does in SC. SC deals out major punishment, reavers, High Templars, Siege Tanks, Lurkers, etc. You screw up and you get raped in SC. If you screw up in WC3 it's like nothing happened. And to throw the balance off even further, Heros! I highly doubt any of that will be in SC2.
This is just my hopes, but I really hope they won't put in another race. StarCraft is a wonderful and perfectly balanced game as it is. Rock paper scissors is only three, it's easier to balance three things. If they stick in more races it will be harder to balance and not as fun. Plus, who are they going to add? Uber strong Hybrids? Xel'Naga? Those are more like neutral races. The hybrids are a combination of ZERG and PROTOSS into a perfect race. Just like the burning legion in WC3 is uber l33t, those guys have to be too. They can't be a race. Also, making the Xel'Naga a race would suck, cause they're all dead. At best a FEW survived. Like Duran, who could be one. Or something.
SUMMARY: SC2 is at the least, being planned. It's also probably not going to be like WC3. I hope.