I knew it was going to happen during my holiday, but I have to admit I’d completely forgotten about it till this evening when I started going through Digg again for the first time in quite a while.

What did I find? Watch and discover ;-)

Everyone knows I hate RTS games. Ironically, the original StarCraft is the only RTS game I ever actually played from start to finish. Literally. I never finished the first Age of Empires or even started the others. I never got into Command & Conquer or Warcraft or any of the other many games out there that were so “great”. RTS games just never interested me in the slightest. They were boring.

But the story of StarCraft is what kept me stuck on the game. I essentially ignored the gameplay elements of it because I was pretty engrossed within the storyline.

Looking at all the game play videos that have started emerging of this new version has me seriously thinking I might play this one as well. Honestly, it really does look so very sexy. The interface is truly one of the best 3D environments I’ve personally seen for an RTS in a long time. Unfortunately they haven’t shown game play on many different types of terrain yet, but who knows what we’ll see in the future. For now it looks very hot.

From what I’ve read from Blizzard and the interviews they’ve done, this is going to be even more targetted at PvP than the first one was. Looking at it, that doesn’t surprise me. Battle.net is going to be revitalisted by the looks of things. Hopefully cheating won’t be as big of an issue now as it used to be. Tis essentially what totally killed the Diablo experience for me.

Still, we’ve got a long way to go till we know one way or the other. Heres hoping it lives up to the expectations people have built up over the past 10 years or so.