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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
You are Sarah Kerrigan, former Queen of Blades. Once the most feared entity in the galaxy, you now wait in a cell in the depths of a high-security research laboratory. Before the murderous forces of the Terran Dominion close in, you must plot your escape to the dark reaches of space… and reclaim your living empire at the Heart of the Swarm.
Details
- Released
- March 11, 2013
- Developer
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Genres
- Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Strategy
- Publisher
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Platforms
- PC
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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
StarCraft II features the return of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg races. It's overhauled and reimagined with Blizzard's approach to game balance, and it's designed to be the ultimate competitive RTS game.
“A solid expansion, but best slanted for the competitive set”
Heart of the Swarm is a fantastic addition to the StarCraft series, and quite frankly feels on par with a $60 game. It brings almost nothing new to the table, but there’s nothing wrong with sticking to a formula you know works well. If you enjoyed Wings of Liberty, or just like RTS games in general, there’s no reason not to pick this one up.
Blizzard can still put out an excellent real-time strategy campaign that isn't just more of the same. Kerrigan's vengeful rampage may come with a generous helping of cheese and some tedious boss fights, but the chance to play with increasingly powerful units and abilities makes up for a lot – as does some inventive mission design and greater-than-average replayabilty appeal. Only time will tell if the multiplayer changes are truly improvements, but finding out will be a good time.
It’s becoming a rarity for expansion content to be as big and as bold as you’ll find in Blizzard’s Heart of the Swarm.
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm embodies an evolved RTS that shows Blizzard has taken on even more superior genes from other gaming greats, even when those greats coincidentally happen to be of their own creation. If this is what happened since Wings of Liberty, then we should be in for a real treat when Legacy of the Void drops out of hyperspace.