While the previous two games, Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm, featured the Terrans and Zerg respectively, Legacy of the Void features the Protoss, an alien race in decline. I asked Blizzard how it plans to do that, but nobody is sure yet (or they aren’t talking). Legacy of the Void is being sold as a standalone product instead of an expansion, which leaves Blizzard with the unenviable task of trying to explain two games of content to newcomers. This is also the conclusion of Blizzard’s StarCraft II story, though-an enormous space opera spanning three games. In other words, Blizzard is now directly catering StarCraft II to esports.

Suffice it to say, it feels like StarCraft II but faster and more aggressive-and thus more interesting to watch others play. Outside of the new units, these are tweaks that professional players will notice but will hardly register with your average player (me)-like the fact that there’s less vespene gas in each deposit, forcing you to expand faster.

I’m not here to give you a play-by-play of Legacy of the Void‘s multiplayer though, primarily because the changes made are so high-level that I’m not adequately equipped to discuss them.

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