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April 2013
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The editors liked
Arcade games in multiplayer
A worthy story update
Missions introduce RPG elements
Varied gameplay
Fun and diverse campaign with plenty of places to visit and cover in creep
Kerrigan and her army can be upgraded in powerful
Satisfying ways
Great
Varied online play with strategic depth
Slick production values in all respects.
Excellent graphics
Creative ingame mechanics
Great replayability
New Physics model makes for much more interesting engagements
New units add a whole new mix to the multiplayer experience
New training in multiplayer allows you to get up to speed much easier
Worker count on base allows easier management of harvesting
The editors didn't like
Blizz further edges towards always-online requirements
Evolution missions don't quite work
Absurd story makes the original Starcraft seem like Shakespeare
Some multiplayer balancing issues
Lame plot
Multiplayer additions feel a wee sparse
Campaign mode has more of a RPG feel rather than RTS
The wait has been long and anxious for Heart of the Swarm, the expansion to 2010's StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. Blizzard originally hinted at a very rapid release schedule which did not exactly come to fruition. The nearly three years of development...
New Physics model makes for much more interesting engagements, New units add a whole new mix to the multiplayer experience, New training in multiplayer allows you to get up to speed much easier, worker count on base allows easier management of harvesting
Campaign mode has more of a RPG feel rather than RTS
Starcraft has had a very long history at this point and Blizzard has enhanced it well with Heart of The Swarm, for this it recieved the Bjorn3D Golden Bear Award
Arcade games in multiplayer, A worthy story update, Missions introduce RPG elements, varied gameplay
Blizz further edges towards always-online requirements, Evolution missions don't quite work
If you've enjoyed Starcraft in the past, HotS is absolutely worth a pick-up. The Arcade Mode adds a lot of great replay value to the game, the price is low compared to other full-sized games (and this is a full-sized product, even if the number of mission...
Published: 2013-03-25, Author: John , review by: Gamingnexus.com
Heart of the Swarm delivers a fun single player experience and updates to the multiplayer portion of the game. It took a while to get here and the 20 or so missions available is a little shorter experience that I would've liked for waiting two and a half ...
Abstract: StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm 12Next »The front half: a 20-odd mission campaign with a steadily evolving spread of controllable units spurred on by an earnest, overwrought story of revenge. Dig through that, learn the game’s many long and greasy rope...
Fun and diverse campaign with plenty of places to visit and cover in creep, Kerrigan and her army can be upgraded in powerful, satisfying ways, Great, varied online play with strategic depth, Slick production values in all respects.
Absurd story makes the original Starcraft seem like Shakespeare, Some multiplayer balancing issues
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm's fantastically diverse campaign and entertaining online play make up for its lackluster writing....
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 L...
Heart of the Swarm follows admirably in the footsteps of its predecessors. It's a high quality expansion to a high quality game, and further solidifies Blizzard's throne at the top of the RTS market....
Heart of the Swarm does what any good expansion should: it renews interest in a series, hones the rough edges of the original, and expands the scope of the narrative. Story-wise, the single player probably doesn't stack up to Wings of Liberty, though many...
