Heart of the Swarm

Recently, I acquired starcraft II heart of the swarm as a birthday present (I'm old now, yay!)

If you intend on doing the same, I recommend checking out the the Tech Derp Game Shop, with coupon code DERP4U, to have it 2$ cheaper than Amazon. Blizzard charges more than amazon does.

I can't really give a multiplayer review as I haven't played it.



I was seriously impressed. It's an artistic masterpiece. Throughout the gameplay, I kept feeling really moved. The character development and attention to detail was fantastic. The cinematics were great. When I finished it, I was screaming (quietly, it was 4am) for more. I now emotionally emphasize with the zerg, when I used to think them mindless horrible creatures.

I WANT MORE DAG NAB IT.

So, I'm going to say upfront, I'm not really normally a zerg player. In SC1, they were my last race of choice, and in Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, I found them awkward and ugly.

Heart of the swarm changed all that. The amount of flexibility they added was amazing.

The units are awesome. I was happy to see a lot of old favorites back into the single player.

As to the campaign, missions were compelling.

There were some odd evolutionary challenge missions that I didn't notice at first, that add unusual upgrades to your units. They were mutually exclusive upgrades, which made it so your decisions matter. You can actually have 2 significantly different play throughs of the same campaign because of different evolutionary changes.

All in all, I felt completely immersed, as if the story was real. Blizzard has a masterpiece in this one. I really loved this game. The epic is real.

Totally worth it.