Campaign info... and the Hyperion.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/810/810676p1.html

Confirmed in that screenshot in the cockpit of the ship, probably cruiser.

Marine=Findlay (duh)
Other guy=Raynor
Official looking guy=Matter Horner

Apparently you can control your (raynor) character in the bridge and they each offer unique dialoge, very RPG-WC3-ish.

The ship known as the Hyperion (better be badass and not just another BC) is pretty much your Ebon Hawk for SC2. It says you can pursue a side of a story given to you in the Hyperion, I wonderi f this means you can actually fight on it... It says theres a mutiny brewing and you can choose to "pursue" it... maybe control units and stuff onboard the ship? In the ship you can purhase upgrades during the campaign, so you dont always start out with a command center and scv's. You can buy them from money earned during missions. From the Starmap in the middle of the screen you can get an over view f the galaxy I assume, lots of info (history and whatever) and thats also where you choose/start your mission

It sounds like you choose your missions, but I doubt it because they threw in the word 'linear' before... The mission revolved around getting an Artifact from Toss, then Raynor is warned it has Xel'Naga origins by Zeratul sounsd like they;re carpooling. ZOMG SPOILERS...

Seriously, I thought there was no single player campaign at BlizzCon

 

Re: Campaign info... and the breifing room.

Well, that's.....Different.

 

ya i will continue the following of what i found at blizzcon there a abit of reveal about the aspect of the single player. During the StarCraft II presentation, Blizzard showed lots of the single player aspects and features.

while controlling Jim Raynor. He was able to interact with the different characters on board (including Tychus Findlay), take different missions, upgrade his arsenal with money, and view information about the various planets in the Koprulu system.



Pardo took a mission to steal some artifacts from a nearby planet. When the mission was completed, he took Raynor for a short walk within the corridors of the Hyperion, "to have a drink". Suddenly, all the lights buzz around him, and from the dark corridor, Zeratul emerges wounded, and collapses on the floor.Before the in-game cutscene ends, he tells Raynor

"James Raynor"

"Zeratul!"
"I bring tidings of doom, the Xel'naga returns, the cycle nears its end, the artifacts are the key"
"Key to what?"
"To the end of all things"


which of couse i guess the xel naga come to destory us?

i found it at scl when i take a look well.

 

OMG, THAT'S SOOOOO FABULOUS!!!!!!!!
Can't w8 to find more about the story
And i find the new in-game cutscenes delicious :O:O:O

 

Man thats crap... the wounded guy saying "they have returned" "the artifacts are the key". Come on... these guys have to be more original.

 

Well then its very interesting mission system but the "artifacts" thing seems alittle un original but i have to wait untill the game come out to take a better look:
Also this means that the Xel'naga and possibly the hybrids will be in the game as well i can say that it must revolove around some form of an universal cycle of creation/destruction and that this is coming once again to a full turn as it is said in the quick dialogue that "to the end of all things" and Duran said that the hybrid was the completion of a cycle during dark origin.

 

How is the campaign maker fan supposed to make briefings now with such a complex system?

 

Ummm you will find a way.......

In reality hopefully just before you land on the planet there is a briefing screen with the character heads and thus a custom briefing will most likely be a room on a ship then all players will select the galaxy map click on the mission and the custom briefing will start OR:

They may include an intire second editor which would allow you to alter the inside of the ship to fit whatever custom missions you see fit!

 

It looks really good, but it's kinda off.....The people, especially Tychus look sorta cut out and pasted into the bridge....It needs smoothing, which of course it will receive.

 

who the person in the back in the chair?

 

just some random person.

when i heard raynors voice, it annoyed me at first, but by the end of the demo i thought it sounded alright. zeratul has a different voice actor too, and he sounds fine as well.

 

rpg final fantasy like in campaign briefings? npcs? new pre buying and upgrading system? cinematic like in game cut scenes? and mission of your choice? wow! this is groundbreaking! awesome.

i think the terran dominion will not be a playable race on the campaing. the terran campaign will be composed of raynor's raiders and the UED(the logo in starcraft 2 . com is that of the UED ~flacon~). i think mengks will die on this one, he will be the main villain not kerrigan.

wow! xelnaga is comming to destroy everything? wow! like the undeead in warcraft. definitely a new race in the starcraft 2 exapansion. or not ^^

 

But Jim's face changed a lot. I cannot recognize him at all. In SC1 he was a little bit fat and had a round face, but not he becomes handsome.

 

yeah, it did. but then its been 10 years of solid drinking and pissin on the dominion.

 

I personally enjoyed every moment of the briefing room demo. It was amazing to watch, and I think SC2 is going to just blow our socks off with the amount of depth involved. Y'know what else guys? I have an inkling that the REASON they're providing so much "unnecessary" information might be to facilitate the production of... a World of Starcraft kind of thing. That's obviously just a far-flung guess of mine, but hey, there's hopin'. I personally love the Starcraft universe a lot more than that of Warcraft's. Things, characters, places, seem more "tangible" and in a sense I think that having it be sort of a sci-fi thing allows the player to empathize a bit more with the characters.

Okay, sorry back to the topic. GREAT character models. Zeratul looked pretty badass. I personally liked the original Zeratul voiceover better, but meh, not bad. So I guess we can all say that Zeratul is the same guy as seen on the wallpaper on the official site. Hehe... kinda modeled my sig after that one, as a couple of you have noticed. It's interesting to see Zeratul preserve the old look though; makes me wonder if the new DTs are an "advanced" version in a narrative sense and not just an arbitrary redesign.

Okay, lastly, is anyone else stoked as all hell when thinking about what the Protoss or ZERG briefing rooms are gonna be like? My God, if I get to control Kerrigan waltzin' around that'll be just too damn awesome (even if she IS going to be kinda grody lookin' due to infestation). Haha.

 

Na, with the Zerg ones, you're gonna control a Cerebrate squelching around....Heh heh.

Actually, as cool as this is, I would like to see different things for each race.

 

Noooooo! That's blasphemy! Blizzard would not rob us of the chance to control/view Kerrigan upclose! They already jipped us of Nova. Whatever, d00d, if it's really a fatass Cerebrate I'm coming after you ;P

 

it will probably end up being artanis or zeratul for protoss on the bridge of a carrier. or in a mothership.

haha if youre a cerebrate, what would you do? squirm across the room? try to go down stairs and just slip and flop down?

 

*TOTALLY RANDOM ARCHLIMIT*

With those posts, we had almost the same number...
You: 146
Me: 1464
Heh heh....Yes, I find that funny.

Anyways.

You'll probably be Artanis....He's now the leader of the Light Protoss. If they do them the same way, the Protoss better be pretty freaking awesome. I was about to say "I've always wanted to see a Carrier's bridge" but then I realized we had...

Na, you'd rope yourself to a couple a Ultras to drag you around....

 

I had a dream I saw a cinemtica of the Hyperion... and it wasn't a Battlecruiser. Odd huh? Im still on the second demo of gameplay, wanna see the campaign ones now!!!