How can any gamer not get excited? It's StarCraft 2!

Alright, so I wasn't ever a hardcore StarCraft fan, but it's one of those games you could just go back to over and over again. It has a lot going for it in simple replayability. User made maps added a whole new dimension. It was one of the games that brought RTSs into the main-stream, and changed the gaming landscape.

So... yesterday, when StarCraft 2 was announced in South Korea, people went nuts. Apparently it's being designed by Dustin Browder (known for some pretty high profile RTSs like LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth II, and C&C: Red Alert 2), so there's a lot going for it.

There's a couple of things I want to mention-- first of all, the videos and screenshots for SC2 look amazing, but I'm not seeing a lot to say "This is a new StarCraft". It's almost as if they're content with remaking StarCraft and graphically overhauling it. Well, we can only hope that gameplay will be drastically different, while maintaining what made it great.

Second of all, upon watching the gameplay & art trailer on their website (www.starcraft2.com if you're interested) something occured to me. Some of the art looks a lot like they're working on expanding the world to not just encompass StarCraft2, the RTS. Is a "World of Starcraft" in the works? It sure makes sense. Blizzard's made more money than god on WoW, maybe WoS is the next step. It might not be out for a few more years, but that's fine. The release of WC3 with WoW was very similar, and we'll see where it goes next.