{"id":4914,"date":"2010-08-18T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2010-08-18T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:23:04","slug":"starcraft-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/starcraft-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Starcraft II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/star21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4915 alignright\" title=\"star21\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/star21-150x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>Blizzard always makes an impact. It began when Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans and then Starcraft defined real-time strategy forever. Diable became the top action RPG and you&#8217;ve probably heard of World of Warcraft. Warcraft 3, many years ago, basically just updated the traditional gameplay and added better graphics. That&#8217;s exactly what Starcraft II does. Updates the formula without changing it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I became burned out on RTS somewhere around Warcraft 3 and Age of Mythology. I&#8217;m tired of resources, build queues and lassoing my troops for small battles of attrition. It&#8217;s a game style where micromanagement can trump tactics and that&#8217;s no longer my cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>So, I don&#8217;t like Starcraft II, even though the Zerg are an awesome opponent, Battlenet multiplayer is smooth and friendly and even though the game is pretty great. It also has an interesting menu system I&#8217;ll leave you to discover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/star2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4916\" title=\"star2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/star2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>I just wish they updated the AI instead of just the graphics overhaul. As always it&#8217;s simple and a quality experience but I can&#8217;t help, despite the years, that the gameplay is played out and Starcraft could have used a lot more innovation than simply being Warcraft III with better and space-ier graphics.<\/p>\n<p>The game features blood and tiny people screaming when they die but it&#8217;s all on a very small scale. T-Teen is about right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard always makes an impact. It began when Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans and then Starcraft defined real-time strategy forever. Diable became the top action RPG and you&#8217;ve probably heard of World of Warcraft. Warcraft 3, many years ago, basically just updated the traditional gameplay and added better graphics. That&#8217;s exactly what Starcraft II does. Updates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}