As we have seen in the Terran demo, during the thors first attack the camera seems to roll around to 3D view, i thought this was sweet because it showed more detail and kinda looked liked you were looking onto the battle. Wouldnt it be cool if we could go into this view and view the world like this!? EDIT: this would also be great for video taping battles for youtube or maybe actually having a website that can handle better quality videos of battles then youtube.
i think you will be allowed zoom in/out and camera rotation, they showed it in the first gameplay trailer.
It wasn't a cinematic. If Blizzard does do a battlecam though I actually trust them not to have it focus on lowly marines doing nothing while there is an epic battle going on
The whole point of it is the camera is supposed to focus on an object of interest providing you with a cinematic view of the battle that is difficult to attain with the regular camera. Controling your units from some of these angles would be sub-optimal due to the field of vision
They've already stated that you can zoom and rotate to pretty much any view you want on any unit you want. They said it's basically a first person camera if you would like. Players were able to test this interface at BlizzCon.
I wrote something about the view in the game in this thread, on point 5. http://www.starcraft2forum.org/forums/index.php?topic=2436.0 We should be able to move our "camera" wherever we want. And it is also a good suggestion to allow us to save the video of the battle, and to send it to youtube.
