Evolution of SC

I am amazed that we didnt have anything about Pre-release SC so here it is. The history about SC from Pre-Alpha to about the release of BW. look / read and be amazed at what could have been our fav. RTS game today

http://www.sc2legacy.com/content/starcraft-encyclopedia-4/starcraft-evolution-12/

here is another site that had more pics. of Pre-Alpha SC : http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alphabeta/ealpha.html

while the first link have all their details on the same page, they have less pics., the 2nd link has different pics. but is consists of 4 small pages.

i tried to find a site that i found several years back( about 7 years ago really ) that was much more detailed but it looks like its no longer around. too bad that i couldnt find that one site, that site had many details of pre-release SC that are lost now, the only things that i remember from that site was the fact that Overlord could have transported 64 zerglings, or that Hydralisks used to be a melee unit (that last one lasted pretty much to a month or so before release of the game, explains why they didnt shoot spines in the cinematic. )

 

I've seen these before. Frankly it's quite amazing how the game changed over the years. If you look at the screenshots from pre-alpha and compare it to the final version, you could basically see the graphics technology improving before your eyes.

 

SC had better graphics in one of his early stages.. Blizzard decided they will not use those, so that more ppl could enjoy the game

 

We had it completely covered in several threads. If search didn't give you anything then those threads were lost during the move.

 

Yeah, kuvasz is right, I have seen thise one I think 5 times on the forums, a whole thread was even about it.

 

If the pics on the 2nd link and meant to be these 'better' graphics. I disagree withe the above statement. I think those graphics look disgusting and I'm glad blizzard did not use them. I love the current starcraft graphics.
Just because graphics require a larger cpu or a tougher graphics dosn't mean their better.
(Please don't take this as a personal attack because it isn't)

 

Wasn't there another name for it, I remember a trailer on one of the warcraft games for some space RTS that wasn't starcraft.

 

That would be Pax Imperia. I don't remember seeing the trailer but that's the only other space RTS they *were* making.

 

Zerg was called Zurg I think, but someone had copiryght so they dropped it.

 

That was Toy Story. Zurg was that one doll/action figure that tried to take over the world or something.

 

Ok, Zerg is also a better name

 

Good thing they stayed as 'Zerg' afterwards

 

Yeah, not like Zirg,Zarg or Zorg

 

Or nightmare invaders

 

I loved showing this to people who said SC2 looked cartoony