Anyone know if there are really only 3 races?

I think that in the campaign you will only be able to play the 3 original races but in multi-player you will have the option of Xel-Naga and the Hybrid

 

Actually, I think that the Xel Naga and hybrid races could happen but probably in an expansion, that would make sense.

 

That's an interesting idea, sort of a Dawn of War approach to the whole thing. I'm not sure if people would like that though. Apparently Blizz has already stated that there are only going to be 3 playable races.

 

ten bucks says they trash the infested terrans...OR MAYBE...there is a whole new race with in the zerg dealing with infestation

 

My money is definitely on having only three races, but apparently Blizzard already stated that I'll have to check that out... Although, if there was a new race, I'd like to see the zerg/protoss hybrid. It'd be so bad ass... even though I'm a Terran player.

 

maybe a hybrid race will be npc like in the naga's from WC 3

 

That's what I was thinking... It would be kind of cool to make maps with hybrid units too. ^_^

 

Just a tad a head of you, KoN

 

Yeah, at the round table discussion after the announcement, it was covered.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6171172.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;1
From the article: "The panel also confirmed that the sequel will have only the three factions of the Protoss, Terrans, and Zerg; there will be no fourth faction."

I also saw the video of the discussion, and they said that while the Hybrids and Xel'Naga might play a role in the game, they will not be player-controllable races.

 

I think in single player there will be more than 3, but you wont get to play them.

In warcraft 3 the frozen throne,The Naga, the dreanai and some others i cant remeber all have a basic skeleton of builder units and buildings, warriors etc, but you cant play them actually in multi player (you can open up world editor and put them in if you want but there horribly imbalanced) this is probably the most likely scenario

 

There will only be 3 races in sc2; but I got a feeling that they may surprise us with a new race in the expansion.

 

Never mind the expansion, just make sure this one makes it to the shelves asap!

 

Never mind the expansion?!?!? Lord of Destruction was a major improvement over Diablo 2, the Frozen Throne really made Warcraft 3 an easily scriptable and modable game, Brood War put in a few more units and doubled the storyline... And the Burning Crusade added 2 more crappy races, bla, bla, bla...

 

There will probley be the three basic races where u can play, im going with blizzard will make u face the hybrid-race and make them ungodly powerful so u really have to use statgey to beat them ,then in a later expansion theyll town down the hybrids and let u play em. they might do the same thing with the xnegal or w/e but i doubt it cuse the idea of being able to use them is odd, they did creat 2 of the races so it would only make sense if they can kick everyone eles ass.

 

A number. You can first see it in the FAQ section of Blizzard's StarCraft 2 site: http://www.starcraft2.com/faq.xml
You can also watch the hour long questioning conference at WWI from this link: http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/vids_1.html
The second one answers not only the question concerning races but a number of others, except it can be a tad annoying with all of the Korean translations, without them it'd be as half as long.

 

I think that it's impossible for the Hybrids to get their own playable race. It's downright silly for a few scattered specimens to start a varied and balanced race. The Xel'Naga, on the other hand could come as a scouting force at first, so they'd be NPCs. In the expansion, I think that they'll come with a war-fleet and capture Aiur or something and THEN make it playable.

 

Don't fix what aint broken. Let's stick with Terran Protoss ZERG

 

There might be a fourth race in the expansion, but they have defended their reasoning for only having 3 races in StarCraft II many, many times, and I would be very surprised if they added another one at this point.

 

i hope they add the xel-naga and the hybrids as playable races, many of you guys are just affraid of change, and that is lame, if aint broken dont fix it? well if you are not going to add anything new then dont do anything at all, its the big changes the ones that act as gas to lit the fire of greatness, rock paper, sissors?, well there are many ways to balance this, there is a pre stablished context in wich those two races fit perfectly, we have the tecnology, blizzard had 10 years to think some pretty cool units, strategies, dinamics
etc, so what if they said that there will be no fourth race? if you dont remember a few weeks before the wwi, they were still STRONGLY denning the fact that they were working on starcraft 2, its blizzard, they are geniuses, they wont give us all the surprises in the beta stage of the game!
And having them as a non playable race as the naga? that would be lame, it could be as not having them at all, yeah i know about the map editor, but even the best map cannot compare to a blizz made race.

Also, leaving the extra races to the expansion? well thats a cheap resourse to sell their game isn´t it? they fit now, perfectly, both of them, it´s not like the hybrids are just a few 1000, duran said that he planted the seed in thousands of worlds, and i bet that if they are like zerg, a few hundreds will do enough so they are pretty numerous right now. Dont go with the wave of developers that make games just to sell them, not in this game at least, all that balancing issue almost everybody seems to have here, it´s just "mental", i mean, yeah it´s a very important factor in the game, but seriously, many have taken blizzards work as godly, and to be honest it never was, so let them try NEW things, if you want your 3 base races, well, just play with them, dont play with people that use the others, or just playu starcraft 1, there is a "perfect" balance there!, its a game people! i want to have fun! not live to play the game!, i want to return from a party and if i still have energy kick somebody´s ass in starcraft 2 you are using the balance thing as a huge barrier, no im sorry as a huge boulder to block every new thing, every cool concept, every new unit, "it´s not starcraftish", well it´s starcraft 2ish (lol), keep an open mind my friends, i think that great things remain to be seen, and a new race could be of course, in my opinion, perfect for this game.

 

yah. but we are just improving want aint broken. and well said sagathox.

dont forget the UED race for the expansion too. 2 human faction in starcraft 2.

i think xelnaga will be a race composing mostly of hybrid units?

NEW races for starcraft 2 expansion please!