Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void

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  1. Fran_cisco
    Nov 21, 2015
    3
    TL&DR: If you loved the story and lore from the original Starcraft, you're gonna hate this game.

    The good: Excellent gameplay, very fun to play. The bad: Awful story ruins the lore, it's pretty much a ripoff of Warcraft 3 and mass effect. Poor writing Cringe worthy dialogs Unbalanced multiplayer preceded by months of lies by the development team that in the end didn't change    TL&DR: If you loved the story and lore from the original Starcraft, you're gonna hate this game.

    The good:
    Excellent gameplay, very fun to play.

    The bad:
    Awful story ruins the lore, it's pretty much a ripoff of Warcraft 3 and mass effect.
    Poor writing
    Cringe worthy dialogs

    Unbalanced multiplayer preceded by months of lies by the development team that in the end didn't change anything to core design flaws.    … Expand
  2. sabiusman
    Nov 27, 2015
    4
    As a Strategy game, Legacy is absolutely breathtaking. I love every aspect of it.

    But I didn't come to Starcraft 2 for the game, I came for the plot, and oh boy is this an absolutely hideous end to one of my most beloved games.

    I am pretty sure that you agree with me if you loved the first Starcraft's plot, and you don't if you didn't so there's not much else to say.
  3. cbon
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    The single player campaign is very good, lots of variety and how a mission is done. Blizzard is the grandmaster when it comes to how to make single player RTS seem fresh and unique even though it is a RTS. Cinematics is top rate on their cut-scenes as well.

    But we know what is going to keep players playing this for a long time is the multiplayer and boy has blizzard revamped the    The single player campaign is very good, lots of variety and how a mission is done. Blizzard is the grandmaster when it comes to how to make single player RTS seem fresh and unique even though it is a RTS. Cinematics is top rate on their cut-scenes as well.

    But we know what is going to keep players playing this for a long time is the multiplayer and boy has blizzard revamped the multiplayer options like the new co-op missions, archon mod and the daily tournaments every 2 hours or so. I was very impressed they made it a point to update the multiplayer aspect of the game because it was getting stale by the end of Heart of the Storm. I give it a 10 because basically the culmination of years and years of testing that finally blizzard nailed it on the head the multiplayer aspect of game. The single player is worth the admission itself but the multiplayer is worth a lot more then what the price tag is because you will be playing this game for a very long time and that is what is going to give SC2 the longevity that some games lack.    … Expand
  4. TheRager
    Nov 14, 2015
    4
    Starcraft and SC Brood War are two of my favorite games ever. I waited 12 years for Wings of Liberty and although it was more of a Hollywoodish +12 rated sci-fi action movie than the dark sci-fi thriller what I expected I really enjoyed it and give it a 9/10 in my book. The Heart of the Swarm was also a great game in 2013, but it had a lot more flaws than its prequel: very easy and simpleStarcraft and SC Brood War are two of my favorite games ever. I waited 12 years for Wings of Liberty and although it was more of a Hollywoodish +12 rated sci-fi action movie than the dark sci-fi thriller what I expected I really enjoyed it and give it a 9/10 in my book. The Heart of the Swarm was also a great game in 2013, but it had a lot more flaws than its prequel: very easy and simple missions, an even more simple "good vs. evil" story, a totally unbearable main character (SC1 Kerrigan is the best female video game character ever, but this "new" incarnation of her is just simple super boring and sexist) - so let's say that HotS was a decent 8/10. The multiplayer was great in both games although the minor balance flaws. So I was really looking forward for Legacy of the Void... but as you can see my given score it's didn't really met with my not even so high expectations.

    - The story: the weakest part of the whole game, 1/10 at most. In the beginning I was "oh man it's like 300 in the space, dumb but at least enjoyable". In the end then "OMFG this s*it is like Twilight in the space" (yes and I hate Twilight by heart). The protoss characters are 1 dimensional idiots (beside Alarak - that guy was really great), Amon is a really lame antagonist, there are no emotions, no explanations, the Xel'nagas are copied from Mass Effect 3 Leviathan, and the f*cking romance subplot between Raynor and Kerrigan is so dumb that I can't even tell you and the ending is... I literally cried in pain. As I said above, without Alarak this would be a well deserved 0/10.

    - The sounds: although most of the voiceovers are generally good, the protoss characters has near to no special in their voices. The others are... good as ever but nothing special. Luckily for Blizzard the music is great and catchy so they got a 9/10 here.

    - The graphics: the gameplay graphics is generally okay as always, but really too cartoony. I was positively disappointed though in the cutscenes made with the game engine - those are really nice but still, not something really smashing. The CGI videos are great as ever. Here goes a 8/10 for this.

    - Singleplayer gameplay: a huge step backwards again, reminds of the SC1 "Destroy all enemy" type objectives with the base building and "A" mashing. The difficulty is a basically a joke beside the epilogue mission 2, it was pretty tough in brutal. The new units and the Spear of Adun are interesting at first but no big deal here either. The campaign gameplay wasn't boring just really mediocre afterall - so here's the well deserved 6/10 for it.

    - Multiplayer gameplay: surprisingly good! I've seen this kind of coop gameplay here and there before but it's really enjoyable. The 6 six new units are varied between terrible and great: Cyclone is a joke, Liberator is interesting, Adepts are pretty annoying but also cool, Ravager is really forgettable, just like the Disruptor but Lukers are AMAZING - as a Brood War veteran zerg player I really like to use them again! All other balance changes are generally okay and the sped up gameplay is strange at first but ultimately it's not that bad. Summarizing all this I give multi 9/10.

    Verdict: this game is okay, but really mediocre if I want to be honest. The biggest problem is that this is not really "Starcrafty" anymore - ofc it has everything but this is still a mess without a real soul. For this my heart is bleeding but I have to give it 6/10... wait... this dumb garbage cost me 35 €!!!! For this overpriced DLC I could have bought 2 or 3 better games!!!! Let's lower its score to 4/10 and now my soul in peace again. Au revoir.    … Expand
  5. cdecl
    Jul 31, 2016
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Not much here to say. Polished, honorable (albeit stupid) campaign, occasional glitches on Windows 10. But the game is ruined. Worst decision ever to use 12 workers; now is "Quake with minerals", no build orders (other than hide the building - make prism - upgrade adepts rate of fire - spam adepts - GG). One of the best RTSes ever sacrifices just to make... what? Speedier games? MOBA prequels? I don't know. I see no use for LotV other than make some characters for Heroes of the Storm.

    No wonder streaming is like 0.5K SC2 and 15K Broodwar. Almost everyone with half a brain re-switched to BW and never looked back, scene is dying because the game is not interesting anymore. Bought for the collection and campaign mostly.    … Expand
  6. Ruegrong
    Apr 19, 2017
    5
    really crappy matchmaking, with a major letdown campaign. Game will match you with ok guys, then randomly give you the worst teammates leagues below you. Platinum tier 1 matched with bronze and gold league teammates with platinum opposing team. What a joke
  7. bobant92
    Nov 29, 2015
    5
    It's a generally "weaker" version of previous installments. Less customization, boring missions, plothole infested totally predictable dumb story(I wouldn't have added this if the other aspects would be OK, since its a strategy game, but the important elements are bad too). Don't expect missions interesting missions like in HotS(ex.: visiting zerg home planet) There is a jump at the endIt's a generally "weaker" version of previous installments. Less customization, boring missions, plothole infested totally predictable dumb story(I wouldn't have added this if the other aspects would be OK, since its a strategy game, but the important elements are bad too). Don't expect missions interesting missions like in HotS(ex.: visiting zerg home planet) There is a jump at the end where it turns from sci-fi to some high fantasyish setting thing which makes no sense, and you will have a wtf moment, but not the good kind.

    Only buy if you are in for the heavy multiplayer.    … Expand
  8. Hellion
    Jul 17, 2016
    7
    Great gameplay but the story has lost the grit and edginess that made the original and Brood War great. So much potential but instead they put the story on the back burner and instead have some stupid disney/star wars style script. Really sad for such a great universe. The Protoss also look terrible in this game compared to the first. I guess I am getting old but don't understand whyGreat gameplay but the story has lost the grit and edginess that made the original and Brood War great. So much potential but instead they put the story on the back burner and instead have some stupid disney/star wars style script. Really sad for such a great universe. The Protoss also look terrible in this game compared to the first. I guess I am getting old but don't understand why Blizzard started blending their different games to all look and sound the same. Overall though this is a must for Starcraft fans.… Expand
  9. theirrelephants
    Mar 7, 2016
    1
    "This isn't even my final form." - Sarah Kerrigan.

    Someone needs to put a bullet into whoever wrote this steaming pile of a garbage, and then empty the rest of the CLIP into whoever thought it was okay to charge separately for each campaign.

    1/10 because making me pay extra for each campaign is some EA tier judaism.
  10. Rtheom
    Nov 29, 2015
    6
    If you liked the first two, you'll like this one. The plot continues to be an inane mess and the multiplayer becomes ever more unfriendly toward anyone that doesn't devote their life to playing it. Existing players have already bought it. New folks should just stay way and go back to Starcraft 1.
  11. mrklingon
    Nov 29, 2015
    1
    Nothing I can really add that hasn't been said.

    The dialogue and storyboard in general is just really dumb. It doesn't have the sophistication and good storytelling SC1 did. The people that took over the story in SC2 were just plain stupid people or they were pandering to a very young audience. Playing through the missions themselves as "OK" at best. I never really finished a mission    Nothing I can really add that hasn't been said.

    The dialogue and storyboard in general is just really dumb. It doesn't have the sophistication and good storytelling SC1 did. The people that took over the story in SC2 were just plain stupid people or they were pandering to a very young audience.

    Playing through the missions themselves as "OK" at best. I never really finished a mission and wanted to play it again. With the horrible story and mediocre gameplay, I found the campaign to really drag on in the last few missions and I was ready for it to end. I had to put the difficulty on "hard" to get a modicum of a challenge out of most missions without it just being artificially difficult and I'm by no means an SC pro. The missions are very linear and you generally had to complete the mission in the way that was laid out for you.

    All in all very disappointing and I feel Blizz has done to SC what they did to Diablo and of course Warcraft.
    Blizzard is definitely not what they used to be.    … Expand
  12. elyh
    Feb 14, 2016
    5
    I was expecting more from the last starcraft release...

    This is just a rehash of the two previous games with protoss flavor... If you haven't had your fill with the two previous expansion... Eat your heart out!

    IMO Wings Of Liberty and Heart of The Swarm were better games.
  13. atr577
    Nov 17, 2015
    1
    Starcraft is awesome, but this final part looked bad to me for its plot. If felt like elves in space, lots of magic and things left just unexplained. In the beginning, SC was way more materialistic and real game, where weapons were guns and aliens were bloody beasts trying to rip your gut.

    Now we fight with energies and spirit, we have "the Void" without explaining what that is, units    Starcraft is awesome, but this final part looked bad to me for its plot. If felt like elves in space, lots of magic and things left just unexplained. In the beginning, SC was way more materialistic and real game, where weapons were guns and aliens were bloody beasts trying to rip your gut.

    Now we fight with energies and spirit, we have "the Void" without explaining what that is, units are made of the same void, Kerrigan turns into an ancient alien but keeps her image, the zerg are really just misunderstood and have a big heart for everyone. Soap opera very much.

    And everybody living in peace in the end - it makes the story look like a fairy tale still more.    … Expand
  14. edawg
    Jul 20, 2017
    0
    its just not fun. the matchmaking is horrible. you either easily win or you lose 10 games straight. poorly done and not fun at all.
    also the story is weak, graphics are dated, load times are long, and matchmaking takes 5-10min to find a 3v3.
  15. NostalgiaGamer
    Nov 20, 2015
    0
    I paid $40 for this? The plot is unsophisticated and predictable, following recent trends in science fiction. The alien characters are very cliche and are not believable to the slightest degree. Even the main protagonist made me cringe and skip every time he spoke in his forced, melodramatic way.The gameplay just amounts to a giant re-skin of Wings of Liberty units minus all theI paid $40 for this? The plot is unsophisticated and predictable, following recent trends in science fiction. The alien characters are very cliche and are not believable to the slightest degree. Even the main protagonist made me cringe and skip every time he spoke in his forced, melodramatic way.The gameplay just amounts to a giant re-skin of Wings of Liberty units minus all the exploration, story branches, and lovable characters in the first installment of the Starcraft 2 saga. What a let down. If I could have at least explored the inside of the Protoss vessel and see all the great feats of "culture and engineering" that the characters alluded to, I might have actually enjoyed the game.… Expand
  16. Vasault
    Nov 21, 2015
    2
    what a horrible way to end up a fantastic saga, this is the worst ending of a saga ever, no need to tell you why, finish the game, if you've been playing since 99 you're gonna cry of sadness, if you're a casual scum or a blizzard fanboy, you'll probably give this game a 10/10, because there is absolutely no reason to give a good score to this massive fail, what a bad ending, seriously SOwhat a horrible way to end up a fantastic saga, this is the worst ending of a saga ever, no need to tell you why, finish the game, if you've been playing since 99 you're gonna cry of sadness, if you're a casual scum or a blizzard fanboy, you'll probably give this game a 10/10, because there is absolutely no reason to give a good score to this massive fail, what a bad ending, seriously SO BAD, is like watching a disney movie… Expand
  17. mrblackdx
    Nov 16, 2015
    7
    So I'm going to review the bit I'm interested in, the single player campaign. To compensate for what the game is also about (the multiplayer), I'm going to split my score in two, and automatically rate the MP 5 points, it's an E-Sport at the end of the day, and deserves all credit where its due.

    Single Player overall score (not an aggregate) - 2/5 Core Gameplay - 4/5 The game is    So I'm going to review the bit I'm interested in, the single player campaign. To compensate for what the game is also about (the multiplayer), I'm going to split my score in two, and automatically rate the MP 5 points, it's an E-Sport at the end of the day, and deserves all credit where its due.

    Single Player overall score (not an aggregate) - 2/5

    Core Gameplay - 4/5

    The game is unchanged from its original gameplay, and this is the expected Starcraft 2 goodness. No complaints here and no noticeable innovations, but its fun at its core, so deserves credit in that regard.

    Protoss/Campaign specific Gameplay mechanics - 1/5.

    This doesn't score a 0 for the following - the ship powers were interesting.

    Everything else was basically a reskinned version of what HotS originally had;

    Mission Structure; Terrans had the "pick your route", Zerg has the "pick a set of missions per planet", Protoss has "pick a set of missions per planet, sometimes you get to go back to that planet..."

    Terrans had Research, Zerg had Kerrigan leveling (but can re-choose her abilities at any time), Protoss has Spear of Adun leveling (but can redirect the abilities at any time)

    Terrans had unit upgrades dependent on credits, Zerg had mutations (but can re-choose at any time), Protoss has tribes (but can re-choose at any time). The Protoss tribes (with a few exceptions) are usually just reskins of the same type of unit with a slightly different type of attack or a slightly different passive ability. They aren't all massively different like High Templar compared to Dark Archon for example, or stalker/dragoon to the other ranged unit (can't remember the name)

    Any for un-related extras, Terrans had mercenaries and Zerg had evolutions, Protoss has...?

    Also, it was pitched way back that while the Terrans are about scraping by on resource, Zerg being about focusing on Kerrigan and evolution of her swarm, Protoss would be about diplomacy.

    I'm paraphrasing but I'm pretty sure the emphasis was implied that you are trying to get as many tribes on your side but you couldn't win them all. I envisioned a Starfox/FTL like scenario, where you start going down a certain path and you block off the option of other routes, based on the fact you are annoying certain tribes. For example, lets say picking Tal'darim would inevitably annoy the Nerazim, which means you lock yourself from using Dark-Templar etc etc

    Story - 2/5

    How would I rate the story of Wol or HotS? 2/5. The story's are fine, but they aren't intricate or as deep or raw as the originals. They've gone for the Hollywood-esque cliche form of storytelling, and that's fine I guess. It works, its functional, its a little interesting. But compared it could have been much more mature in its characterisation, plot and intrigue. Mensk was an interesting character in the first game, and now in the SC2 trilogy he's a cardboard cut out villain.

    Soundtrack - 2/5

    It sounds like a bit of a mish mash of WoL and HotS, which each had their own unique sounds, this feels lacking or borrowed from the other campaigns. WoL had the Folksy-Techno guitar which made you feel like a real cowboy struggling to fight with a rag tag band of misfits against much greater foes, but you had the old faithful human ingenuity on your side. HotS just had orchestral percussion making you feel godlike as you mowed down your enemies with a swarm of zerglings. This has... tracks from the other games a lot? Not really noticed it while I was playing (which is a bad thing).

    Level Design - 2/5

    50% of the levels are "build up base, kill thing at x, maybe move near or kill thing at y". Don't get even close to WoL level design.

    Overall I hoped so much more from the Protoss campaign and while it wraps up things nicely story wise, it didn't do it to the gameplay quality it could have been, replayability is thrown out the window for something more generic , and makes HotS feel more generic by copying its style.    … Expand
  18. izman15
    Nov 16, 2015
    6
    Big fan of the series, but disappointed in this last installment. The previous 2 games hyped Kerragan and her importance to defeating the hybrids but she does literally nothing till the prologue. Also there isn't even the illusion of choice. The previous two games you could affect the story by making key decisions on which side to take or who to save, in this one, nothing. Also there is noBig fan of the series, but disappointed in this last installment. The previous 2 games hyped Kerragan and her importance to defeating the hybrids but she does literally nothing till the prologue. Also there isn't even the illusion of choice. The previous two games you could affect the story by making key decisions on which side to take or who to save, in this one, nothing. Also there is no variety in missions no fleet command or stealth infiltration just assault or defend. The heroes are fun to play with and enjoyably overpowered but they don't progress like in Heart of the Swarm and the upgrade system isn't very rewarding. The Spear of Adune should be an awesome ship with lots to do and see, but you are locked into three rooms and there isn't any of the detail or discoverables (that I have found) that are a Blizzard hallmark. It just seems like this expansion was phoned in, they released it because they had to. No interesting new units (other than the new mega turret which is way too expensive to be practical), just returns of old units or new skins. They made this game because they had to, it felt flat and empty.… Expand
  19. eXiledrts
    Jan 2, 2016
    4
    I want to start this review by saying I am a huge fan on Starcraft. I played Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm daily, and was high diamond throughout those expansions. I am now diamond on Legacy of the Void, and I have encountered so many problems that blizzard has yet to address in ladder.

    Singleplayer and Co-op: Once again, blizzard delivered a work of art for campaign. It's    I want to start this review by saying I am a huge fan on Starcraft. I played Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm daily, and was high diamond throughout those expansions. I am now diamond on Legacy of the Void, and I have encountered so many problems that blizzard has yet to address in ladder.

    Singleplayer and Co-op:
    Once again, blizzard delivered a work of art for campaign. It's Co-Op missions promote online play, however attract a different kind of people than those who grind competitive matches. The singleplayer and Co-Op, as well as arcade, deserve an 7/10

    Multiplayer:

    Being a player of all 3 races I can weight in about every match up. To be quite frank, a game's beta is supposed to be the time to balance units and promote fun gameplay; Legacy of the Void Multiplayer feels like it is still in beta.

    Zerg, a slimy race once based around the idea of overwhelming opponents with lots of cheap fast units, is incredible overpowered compared to the other 2 races. Playing zerg at a high level is barely fun anymore, as you end up defeating opponents who are clearly more skilled than you. The macro changes made from wol/hots -> lotv were an accidental buff to the race. Over 60% of players above platinum play Zerg, and the average Zerg win rate is 56% (as opposed to the 48-52 percent for all races in previous expansions).

    Blizzard was many of times credited on being masters of balance, promoting skilled play. They failed horrible in LoTV.

    Another problem with the game is that blizzard is attempting a new matchmaking system to reduce times in queue. This however, has lead to common "mismatches", where players as low as platinum play grandmasters (top 200 players in the region) often. This complete failure of a matchmaking adjustment takes almost all enjoyment out of many ladder games.

    Unranked play, however, is a lot more fun. Since there is no pressure of losing ladder points or mmr, unranked play has a calming tone to it. However, it should be noted that unranked players are often matched against players playing ranked. This is another problem with the multiplayer, as generally people who play unranked are trying wacky strategies or trying a different race. This leads to further mismatching.

    There are many other balancing problems regarding 1 base Protoss and Terran play in almost all match up, most of it revolving around the adept, liberator and siege tank, overall, the current LoTV mutiplayer is not in a playable state, does not promote fun play and does not help skilled players in races other than zerg be regularly successful. I give the multiplayer experience in Legacy a 2/10, and that is being generous.

    Although annoying at times, the new chat and visual overhaul that hit servers right before the release of LoTV is a large improvement of that found in Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm.

    Replays are something that is mainly unique to Starcraft, and remains with the new expansion    … Expand
  20. Kelembribor21
    Jan 11, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game has great gameplay , some interesting new units , though i have feeling the developers got lazy after Heart of the Swarm there is lot of reused art and units from part 1 and 2 of trilogy but the thing that is worst is horrible story that destroys all the legacy of original Starcraft so they can i guess make intro for World of Starcraft and cash in ...… Expand
  21. HikariWS
    Apr 10, 2016
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was a big fun of SC and played it for years. I was expecting SC2 to be the same. Not the same game with updated graph engine, but a fun game that would last at least the same 10 years.

    The first episode was fun on the campain side, but was frustrating for MP. Protoss was nerfed by losing goon while Zerg and specially Terra were buffed with stronger units.

    I expected the second episode to fix that, but it just made things worse. Protoss was limited to the "Death Ball" strat, while zerg was buffed even more.

    At this point I don't care anymore, I just wanted to watch the last episode and put SC2 down. I was frustrated that we barely had Protoss in CGs for 2 episodes and expected to have it fixed in last, and have all characters unitied led by Protoss.

    What LotV brought was even greater frustration. Story went into new and unexpressive characters and left Raynor and Sara away. There was no explanation at all on the consequences of Amon not being able to control the Zerg or a Sara x Amon fight for that control. On the ontrary, Amon was able to control the whole Protoss!!

    It looked like story writers lost their imagination for the last episode, or maybe they just left to another company and new ones were unable to hold?

    For multiplayer I didn't even bother, I'm not wasting my time playing this game anymore. I give 2 score points for the intro video, the only good thing in this game.    … Expand
  22. Tacobadgers
    Nov 13, 2015
    9
    Fantastic end to one of my favorite childhood games! I cannot stress enough how awesome this campaign is. A fitting end to the story that started so long ago. While my interest in the multiplayer ended with Brood war the campaign is easily good enough to justify the 40 dollar price tag.
  23. zheega
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    I must say Blizzard really did a good job on this one. HOTS (2nd expansion) was maybe a bit bland and the storytelling was a bit erratic, but LOtV has a lot of everything. Missions themselves lack a bit in variety, but they are well though-out and enjoyable. Cutscenes and movies are better than ever, and the music is EPIC. Please check out Starcraft 2 LOTV Soundtrack on Youtube. I haven'tI must say Blizzard really did a good job on this one. HOTS (2nd expansion) was maybe a bit bland and the storytelling was a bit erratic, but LOtV has a lot of everything. Missions themselves lack a bit in variety, but they are well though-out and enjoyable. Cutscenes and movies are better than ever, and the music is EPIC. Please check out Starcraft 2 LOTV Soundtrack on Youtube. I haven't played the multi-player yet, but I welcome the addition of automatic tournaments. Playing the campaign on BRUTAL is actually BRUTAL and very fun. Too bad that RTS games are not as popular as they should be (maybe 1v1 multiplayer is a bit too demanding and scares a lot of people), but I think this game will be played for at least 10+ years and have a very active pro-scene. Starcraft 1 was the big daddy of eSports way back in 1998 after all. It is only fitting it all ends with an epic expansion.… Expand
  24. Revan1139
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Great campaign as well as many improvements to the multiplayer. The extra campaign content coming and the addition of allied commanders, or co-op mission, also give the game more replay ability for less serious players.
  25. Kiseki
    Nov 13, 2015
    7
    Technically speaking the game is great.

    Positive: Looks very pretty, good UI and good additional game modes and features. Good cinematic and cut-scenes. Campaign is very well done. You unlock different variants of units including popular ones from broodwar as you progress. Neutral: Real-time strategy game with a very heavy RPG influence maybe also Action game influence as    Technically speaking the game is great.

    Positive:

    Looks very pretty, good UI and good additional game modes and features.
    Good cinematic and cut-scenes.
    Campaign is very well done. You unlock different variants of units including popular ones from broodwar as you progress.

    Neutral:

    Real-time strategy game with a very heavy RPG influence maybe also Action game influence as well. Lots of special abilities to use. People to talk to in your base and level up your abilities in between missions. Many missions are very restrictive and heavily scripted, feels more like an RPG level. Not a big fan of this element. remember how the primal zerg from heart of the swarm is essentially the same as the diablo 3 boss lord of lies? thats what I mean. This game is essentially a hybrid which makes blizzard Amon lol.

    Music comes across very strong and dramatic, even good, but not quite great. doesnt resonate with the scenes to generate excitement. Music switch between different screens however is not well done, its just cut off and a different track suddenly blast at you - partly because the track starts off on full blast. so 1 sec quite, next second full blast and its not a pleasant
    ther. just doesnt fit together well.

    Negative:

    Missions are nothing new. Pretty much copies of wings of liberty and heart of the swarm. Defend temple/artifact, run from oblivion and giant laser.

    Multiplayer game is too fast paced. New units are grossly overpowered    … Expand
  26. capthavic
    Nov 11, 2015
    8
    Gameplay wise it's still the king of the RTS hill, with solid mechanics and lots of quality missions even if they obviously reused some mission designs. Story wise...it was decent (if a little cliche) till the epilogue missions. Not going to spoil it here but let's just say that I was literally yelling "WTF ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" at my screen at certain reveal that really annoyed me. AlsoGameplay wise it's still the king of the RTS hill, with solid mechanics and lots of quality missions even if they obviously reused some mission designs. Story wise...it was decent (if a little cliche) till the epilogue missions. Not going to spoil it here but let's just say that I was literally yelling "WTF ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" at my screen at certain reveal that really annoyed me. Also the final ending felt really flat, sappy, and groan inducing. At least for me it was. It does tie up all the loose ends I guess but honestly I would have liked it better if they had just stopped where the main campaign ended. Also the Xel'naga look like discount Cthulhu monsters...really Blizz, that's the best you could come up with?

    Anyway that stuff aside I did enjoy the game overall.    … Expand
  27. Henry0012
    Feb 7, 2016
    0
    The story was very cliche, but the campaign missions were pretty fun if you just ignore the story. However, my main complain is about MP balance and gameplay since Starcraft is a competitive RTS. Legacy of the Void pretty much killed Starcraft 2 for me. As a Terran player, this game is no longer fun to play. It's rather frustrating and stressful to be honest as a master league. The wholeThe story was very cliche, but the campaign missions were pretty fun if you just ignore the story. However, my main complain is about MP balance and gameplay since Starcraft is a competitive RTS. Legacy of the Void pretty much killed Starcraft 2 for me. As a Terran player, this game is no longer fun to play. It's rather frustrating and stressful to be honest as a master league. The whole expansion pretty much nerf Terran from economic changes and unit designs. I won't get much into balance specifics, but it honestly feel like an uphill battle from the start. And once it gets to the late game like when the 8 armored ultralisk came out, it's pretty much over. Terran used to have mid-early game advantage to secure a competitive late game, but that's hardly the case now. I think many of the pros share the same feeling and many legendary Terran players have retired since Legacy of the Void came out. Other pro players like Polt seems to share the same frustration.

    Balance aside, the worst part is that the development team took forever to make changes. The obviously broken Protoss adept, it took them over 2 months after release a slight nerf to it. They had the whole beta to themselves, and I just don't see how they release such a broken game. Hots was patched very quick like the overpowered hell bat drops. At this rate, I feel like many Terran players will just move on and put SC2 to rest.

    I would honestly save your money if you're Terran players. Even if my argument is invalid, it's just not fun to play Terran anymore. It's going to require not only a simple balance change to the units, but also a fundamental changes how Terran work to make it more interesting in which I highly doubt it will happen. I can't even play mech anymore, and massing MMM for the last 5 years can get very old quick.

    If you're casual players, the coop missions are free and I think they are better than the paid campaign.    … Expand
  28. TheWaffle
    Nov 14, 2015
    7
    LotV has moments of brilliance, when storytelling and gameplay combine into great moments. Unfortunately, they're few in number in the third entry in the SC2 saga. The second and third installments just don't measure up to the greatness that was Wings of Liberty, when the story was enthralling, the gameplay was innovative, and the graphics stood out. The engine is showing its age, andLotV has moments of brilliance, when storytelling and gameplay combine into great moments. Unfortunately, they're few in number in the third entry in the SC2 saga. The second and third installments just don't measure up to the greatness that was Wings of Liberty, when the story was enthralling, the gameplay was innovative, and the graphics stood out. The engine is showing its age, and bizarrely Legacy runs on much lower graphics settings than Wings did, at least on my Mac. Graphical glitches are abundant, which is surprising considering its the same game engine and they've been working on Legacy for two years.

    Multiplayer is not changed enough to warrant much mention. It'd take a pretty dedicated player to discern the new maps and units. If I took two months off from playing HotS you could probably convince me that nothing changed.

    I expected more innovation, new dimensions of gameplay, a reworked competitive scene, but in the end Legacy is really just more of the same. There's nothing new that couldn't have been put in the original WoL campaign five years ago. The missions are formulaic and not terribly compelling: hold out for 10 minutes, get from point A to point B but avoid the large laser. Really, I just thought there'd be more.    … Expand
  29. DeusXCom
    Feb 24, 2017
    6
    Solid closure to the Starcraft 2 story, but arguably the weakest of the 3. Main problem is that if you've played previous terran and zerg campaigns, this is basically playing the same thing for the 3rd time, even some missions feel rehashed. Not to talk about the fact that the story shouldn't have been divided into 3 games and should have been released complete from the start, but that'sSolid closure to the Starcraft 2 story, but arguably the weakest of the 3. Main problem is that if you've played previous terran and zerg campaigns, this is basically playing the same thing for the 3rd time, even some missions feel rehashed. Not to talk about the fact that the story shouldn't have been divided into 3 games and should have been released complete from the start, but that's another discussion. When I finished previous 2 campaigns I was excited and was looking forward to another, but when I finished Legacy Of The Void I was just happy that it's finally over and that's never a good sign. Still worth a playthrough, but... 6/10… Expand
  30. DirtyDishSoap
    Feb 3, 2016
    7
    I won't touch multiplayer, this is single player
    I really wanted to love this game...While it's not terrible, it's just...lacking? It doesn't have the same amount of depth compared to WoL and HotS. It actally borrowed a lot from HotS but in a bad way. The diplomacy mechanic that was promised is non-existent, giving us a very linear approach of how we want to complete the game. The    I won't touch multiplayer, this is single player
    I really wanted to love this game...While it's not terrible, it's just...lacking? It doesn't have the same amount of depth compared to WoL and HotS. It actally borrowed a lot from HotS but in a bad way. The diplomacy mechanic that was promised is non-existent, giving us a very linear approach of how we want to complete the game. The missions are almost all the same, there's nothing really new added to each, just mass a unit, press a somewhere on the map and just laugh at how easy it is. While normal isn't exactly hard, I remember getting a challenge out of the other two installments (somewhat, I'm a filthy casual when it comes to RTS's.) but this game just doesn't feel the same, it just lacks heart, pure and simple.

    Story wise, there are plenty of plot holes and question marks. I was hoping to see Ulrezaj or maybe even half the damn heroes that showed up in the "vision" given by Tassadar, but they're all missing, not a single mention to any of them or whereabouts. At the end of the game, I'm just left disappointed.

    It's the worst Starcraft to have come out, not sure if the Nova add-on will clear up the plot holes, but I still find that that's no excuse to leave so much content out on what is supposedly the closing trilogy.

    While it's the worst, however, I still would like to add that Starcraft itself is still a wonderful game to play and to have fun with, but if you're looking for a story or some closure, you'll be left sad.    … Expand
  31. Veska
    Nov 10, 2015
    9
    + Story. Really nice and really great, how ends this "trilogy"
    + Prottos heroes and units in campaing
    + Voices of actors + 13 hours on easy + Prize. + You dont need other games for play it. + Rebalance MP (I play only 3 matches for try new units) + CGI cinematics and films in SC engine - I need next part of this universe! Masterpiece of RTS. Really. This is game, that you love    + Story. Really nice and really great, how ends this "trilogy"
    + Prottos heroes and units in campaing
    + Voices of actors
    + 13 hours on easy
    + Prize.
    + You dont need other games for play it.
    + Rebalance MP (I play only 3 matches for try new units)
    + CGI cinematics and films in SC engine

    - I need next part of this universe!

    Masterpiece of RTS. Really. This is game, that you love it, if you love RTS. Great SP and MP for 2/3 prize of others AAA titles. Blizzard came, destroyed all and win this:) This year is awesome for good games and this game is one of them:)    … Expand
  32. L_Coops
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    The single player campaign is above and beyond the other two in terms of story telling and level design. Blizzard have outdone themselves with the final game of the trilogy for Starcraft 2 and a fitting ending to the series. I'm glad to see it go out on a high.
  33. Subterra
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Amazing campaign and an incredible multiplayer experiance.... the best game ever made just got somewhat better buy it now ! amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing
  34. Wonder_Boy
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    While I thought the previous two instalments really lacked in the script and campaign department, Legacy of the Void is absolute perfection. What an amazingly well executed end to the trilogy.
  35. skiperhacker
    Nov 11, 2015
    9
    The campaign kept me, personally, at the edge of the seat in a couple of instances, which I found most welcome. Out of Wings and Liberty and Heart of the Swarm, Legacy of the Void is without a doubt THE best campaign out of the 3.
    The game gets a worthy ending for the Starcraft 2 series.
    The cinematics in the campaign also stand out in their quality. Also, it gets a most welcome update    The campaign kept me, personally, at the edge of the seat in a couple of instances, which I found most welcome. Out of Wings and Liberty and Heart of the Swarm, Legacy of the Void is without a doubt THE best campaign out of the 3.
    The game gets a worthy ending for the Starcraft 2 series.
    The cinematics in the campaign also stand out in their quality.
    Also, it gets a most welcome update to the multiplayer, which might just break the dominance of Zerg players.

    One thing stuck out as not that great, while playing on Casual (just for the story, and then I move on upwards in difficulty for the challenge) is that the last two Epilogue missions were very hard. Supposing you, the reader, played already Wings of Liberty, All In mission on Hard difficulty is nothing compared the the last two from the Epilogue (coming from someone who finished WoL and HoS on Brutal). I didn't try yet these two at higher difficulty, but if on Casual I had to try at least 3 times each, I dare not ask how hard they are at higher difficulty.    … Expand
  36. arcboundavenger
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    The story is incredible. A perfect dot for Starcraft series. This should be the best RTS ever, and best expansion of this year. Buy it now, you won't regret.
  37. HANRYANG
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    뛰어난 연출과 스토리는 기본, 이전작의 게임성을 잘 버무려 마지막 스타크래프트라는 이름에 걸맞는 작품을 만들어냈다. 결말의 일본만화 스타일만 좀 자제했으면 좋았을 뻔...좋은 사후관리를 통해 e스포츠의 흥행도 함께하길 기원해본다.
    (Excellent presentation and story are basic , toss well before the start of the game and created a work worthy of the name of the last Starcraft . If you refrain from some Japanese cartoon style ending just want to watch it originated nearly ... along with a    뛰어난 연출과 스토리는 기본, 이전작의 게임성을 잘 버무려 마지막 스타크래프트라는 이름에 걸맞는 작품을 만들어냈다. 결말의 일본만화 스타일만 좀 자제했으면 좋았을 뻔...좋은 사후관리를 통해 e스포츠의 흥행도 함께하길 기원해본다.
    (Excellent presentation and story are basic , toss well before the start of the game and created a work worthy of the name of the last Starcraft . If you refrain from some Japanese cartoon style ending just want to watch it originated nearly ... along with a good follow-up through the success of e-sports have been nice .)    … Expand
  38. jiayojames
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    The greatest RTS of all time now has its final chapter. Great campaign and unparalleled multi player. If you only play 1 strategy game in your entire life, make it starcraft.
  39. Yegwen
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Best entry in the series hands off. The scale of pure epic-ness of the campaign made me gape at the screen like a child when he sees a Christmas tree light up for the first time.
  40. Lordgrey
    Dec 2, 2015
    3
    Boring...very-very-very boring part. Two first chapters of starcraft 2 trilogy have ultimately more atmospheric and interesting campaign. Game is a lemon, I want my money back./
  41. MaXiMuS_54
    Nov 13, 2015
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Story-wise things got kicked off pretty quickly and I felt encouraged to play more. There were plenty of missions to play with a lot of units, including SC1 units. Co-op missions were finally added, which people have been wanting for ages. Also you're able to deploy things from your main battleship like orbital bombardment which is a nice touch. However there is no space battle where you get to use the Grand fleet. Also near the end the story became lackluster. There was 0 character conflict, everyone was in agreement. They hype up this battle against Amon but the Zerg and Terran are mostly nowhere to be found in most of this campaign except at the very end. Apparently they were pointlessly defending their worlds or something while the Protoss did the heavy lifting.… Expand
  42. ThecriticGoD
    Mar 24, 2016
    8
    The campaign is slightly worse than the previous ones, there are some new cool features like more hero-usage, but overall the campaign is much easier, til the point it's no challenging at all to beat in brutal and then the storyline is soooo bad in this one I have to say, however it's still good fun and the multiplayer is great, with faster games and new interesting units, can't rate itThe campaign is slightly worse than the previous ones, there are some new cool features like more hero-usage, but overall the campaign is much easier, til the point it's no challenging at all to beat in brutal and then the storyline is soooo bad in this one I have to say, however it's still good fun and the multiplayer is great, with faster games and new interesting units, can't rate it more than 8 because of the poor storyline ending though.… Expand
  43. jwark
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    The campaign is amazing. It surpasses wings of liberty and heart of the swarm. No one can do RTS like blizzard can. I have been waiting for this for years and am definitely not disappointed.
  44. FriTzy
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    At long last we face with our true enemy. To be honest this game story is the best. =)) Hype is real ! Blizzard should keep doing RTS games. And I really want to see a new starcraft movie or novel. This game world is amazin balanced. You always find a way to love each race, even zergs ! ( Queen of Blades:) But now its time for Auir ! En taro Tassadar! En taro ARTANIS !
  45. Lightprayer
    Nov 10, 2015
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you don't care about the story of this game and just want a good RTS this game is really good, probably the best RTS right now on the market, the missions are ok and the difficulty is pretty balanced.

    As a fan of the original SC though I must say I am really disappointed how the story of all SC2 went down.
    I hoped that with the final expansion they would redeem themselves and give SC2 the proper ending it deserved.
    What we got instead was just more disappointment.

    Spoilers ahead so don't read any further if you want to avoid them.

    -First of all the protoss are protoss just for their look: if you just changed the looks of the protoss and made them humans you wouldn't really be able to find differences, their features as an alien race have long been forgotten, as Blizzard decided to take even the Khala out of the equation; forget the great epic speeches from Tassadar, Artanis and Zeratul from the original game too.
    -There are just 3 hybrids units in the whole game...
    -The death of Zeratul: it happens really, really early in the game and in the freaking anime samurai slashing style against a corrupted Artanis. It left a really bad taste in my mouth to see him go down like this and after not being used at all in this campaign aside from going into temples to read the profecy or whatever.
    Without writing too much let's go directly to the end of the story.
    -The long awaited XelNagas are revealed to be some elephant-squid giants (really Blizzard?) and Kerrigan becomes one of them because of the plot. She then returns to her love (that came out of nowhere) Jim and they walk into the light. What a joke.    … Expand
  46. JaJinMoRi
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    훌륭한 연출, 성우들의 명연기, 스타크래프트 2 시리즈의 마무리로 더할 나위 없었다.
    (Excellent directing, Great acting, Perfect finish of Starcraft 2 series.)
  47. biednyrobbo
    Nov 12, 2015
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Spoiler Alert:

    Plot: Biggest disappointment, Every second word in LOTS is about honour, glory, tradition, unification and other noble sparkles. Every third is void, misery, pain and bla bla bla. Lots of talk, no information at all. Why Amon wanted to destroy the world? What are his motives? Amon become Xel Naga like Kerrigan years ago, and now consider him as a antagonist because Blizzard says so? Whole Amon story is so weak, without good background, plot is flat as my exgirl chest.

    Gameplay. Repeatable. Single is single-use. Missions are forcing you to use one, fixed by developers strategy, mostly well know from HOTS and WOL. Multi - few new units, but ball of death strategy stays on, and that can get bored...

    And more from me. Its outrageous that blizzard games graphics are so similar. You can take xel naga power infused kerrigan and put her into diablo III. Explosions, rays and whole models in my opinion are repetitious. Even gameplay between starcraft and warcraft III is almost identical. Switch Iron claws to zealot psi blades. So big studio, and only one guy is developing graphic style?...
    Female Protoss.... Protoss with breast and bras... Well, when I was playing first starcraft I though that protoss are so telekinetic and so psionic that they dont breed like horses. How stupid I was... Only differences between terrans and protoss are again noble sparkles...

    In summary I am 28 years old big fan of Starcraft 1, maybe because, in my opinion, it was made by people to people, not by managers, market strategists, public relations specialists. I am no longer a marketing target to blizzard...    … Expand
  48. myxolov
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    awesome story, deep campaing. interesting choice, some times you wanna cry or laught. Interesting gameplay features, and mechanics. I was really exiting. i can highly recomend it. Epic battles and heroes. and this ending...i was relly crying and i am so happy.
  49. Palmaero
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    Amazing as always Blizzard ;) Great campaign, interesting story, music and voices are perfect. And most important thing - Great gameplay. Masterpiece every RTS fan has to play. GG Blizzard.
  50. richard_diver
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    One of the best games I have ever played, and an absolutely fantastic end to the trilogy. I loved every minute of the game. Thank you blizzard for this magical experience!
  51. SnafuYT
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    In my honest opinion, I thought that Blizzard would have a very hard job on their hands with legacy of the void. Ending a 17 year old story was never easy and I'm glad to say that I was very pleasantly surprised. Finished the campaign in two days time and it was a great ride! Well-written and packed with awesome moments! Kudos to them!

    As for the multiplayer, I knew what to expect since    In my honest opinion, I thought that Blizzard would have a very hard job on their hands with legacy of the void. Ending a 17 year old story was never easy and I'm glad to say that I was very pleasantly surprised. Finished the campaign in two days time and it was a great ride! Well-written and packed with awesome moments! Kudos to them!

    As for the multiplayer, I knew what to expect since I've played with the game since beta. LotV is a completely different and better game. Sure some will say that starcraft competitive scene is the hardest out but equally the game now offers a redesigned tutorial system ,new modes like co-op ,archon and your usual team games (2v2 etc). Newbies will have a much much more easier time to either just play those for fun, use them as learning and practice tool to get into the 1v1 scene or both! Oh and did I mention automated tournaments? This for me is the greatest addition. The future sure looks bright for Starcraft, expect additional support from Blizzard as they mentioned they will continue releasing new contents, re-design the competitive ladder and continuously balance the game and introducing new units if they ever find it to be necessary.    … Expand
  52. AthanasiosT
    Dec 29, 2015
    10
    Even if the Protoss aren't as "cool" as the other two factions, I enjoyed this third part of Starcraft, as much as the other two. Graphics, sound and playability were excellent and so was the story. Along with Red Alert, this game is in my best two RTS of all time.
  53. CriErr
    Nov 13, 2015
    4
    Most of dialogues is filler, those which is not - full of exposition written for 8yo. As end for Epic Space Saga Trilogy this game is complete failure. All other people who review this as 10/10 campaign great, just cant make a step behind their f2 A Click gameplay and actually listen dialogues and how bad those written.
    Multiplayer features are great, but campaign ruined game for me.
  54. Harlot
    Nov 17, 2015
    9
    Damn is it a good finish to the trilogy. One of the best storytelling experiences (if not the best) I've ever experienced in an RTS game. Gameplay mechanics are tweaked just the right way, playing against others is a thrilling as always and difficulty level is just suffiently punishing :D.
  55. manzar
    Nov 13, 2015
    10
    The Single Player campaign has kept me on my toes for close to 15 hours of game play. I've beat the game on hard, and now want to try myself at the Brutal difficulty. I believe that's the more realistic approach with the end-of-the-universe style of enemy that's portrayed in the campaign. Every mission is emotive, skillful and very well done. There are enough mission types to keep everyoneThe Single Player campaign has kept me on my toes for close to 15 hours of game play. I've beat the game on hard, and now want to try myself at the Brutal difficulty. I believe that's the more realistic approach with the end-of-the-universe style of enemy that's portrayed in the campaign. Every mission is emotive, skillful and very well done. There are enough mission types to keep everyone interested. The core game play is very rewarding. Of the 3 Starcraft 2 campaigns, this is the strongest one. It really doesn't look at small scale warfare. It looks at global (or sector-wide) conflicts. This is truly a game that's geared for the person who wants to feel a great sense of accomplishment at the end of game play.
    There are enough new features in the game to easily justify the $40 price tag.    … Expand
  56. Michalina
    Nov 19, 2015
    10
    I love this game! The entire series is awesome, every one should play even on low difficulty. Beautiful cut scenes. Single player campaign has one of the most epic plots. Good job :)
  57. Encore22
    Nov 11, 2015
    9
    Improvements along the board, More entertaining story mechanics which awards the player rather than punishing. Epic story with all the plot lines coming together. Good difficulty level. Fun story units, entertaining conversations. And of course, the best single player RTS gameplay ever created.

    The multiplayer has also been improved, fixing a lot of the issues players had with the    Improvements along the board, More entertaining story mechanics which awards the player rather than punishing. Epic story with all the plot lines coming together. Good difficulty level. Fun story units, entertaining conversations. And of course, the best single player RTS gameplay ever created.

    The multiplayer has also been improved, fixing a lot of the issues players had with the previous iterations, making macro gameplay easier as well as having the players start with more workers, which removes the boring 3-4 min build up time which was required in every game pre LOTV.

    LOTV solidifies Starcrafts role as the supreme RTS game in single player, as well as multiplayer.    … Expand
  58. btcx
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After spending 12 hours to finish the campaign, I sat at my desk quietly for an hour just to comprehend the epic-ness of the story that had just unfolded before me.

    Thank you for the beautiful ending to a story that I have followed so closely since childhood.

    (ascended kerrigan is kinda weird though)    … Expand
  59. Sakkyoku
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    With a Revamped Multiplayer, One of the Best Campaigns in the series history, and promised continued support for the game post launch, I would call this game a must buy for anything even slightly interested in the RTS genre.
  60. ZaPaAl
    Dec 1, 2015
    8
    Nice gameplay, a few interesting missions and one epic (Zeratul) cutscene. Sadly story and characters are weak, maybe the weakest of the series. It's very basic story only lies hidden behind a complicated and overburdened presentation.

    Campaign Normal Difficulty is more like too easy, Hard Difficulty just a bit too laborious. Multiplayer is probably quite fun, but I didn't dare, as to    Nice gameplay, a few interesting missions and one epic (Zeratul) cutscene. Sadly story and characters are weak, maybe the weakest of the series. It's very basic story only lies hidden behind a complicated and overburdened presentation.

    Campaign Normal Difficulty is more like too easy, Hard Difficulty just a bit too laborious. Multiplayer is probably quite fun, but I didn't dare, as to what I have seen, you need a serious time investment to get anywhere near acceptable.

    You probably can't skip it, and I did like playing, but having seen the end, I feel some regrets. Expect a story in the weaker regions of Wings of Liberty. It's nothing totally unexpected, but they should have made it matter more.    … Expand
  61. rob707
    Dec 11, 2015
    10
    Legacy rocks, archon mode is going to shake up the competitive scene in a great way. Time to start training for the big leagues, grab your skillshot xr everyone haha.
  62. Gwyndolin
    Nov 17, 2015
    10
    OK let's just get the ugly part out of the way...if you are still playing Starcraft 2 for its story, I offer you my sincerest sympathy right now. It's worse than Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm, because at least the former are so cheesy that it's funny...whereas the Protoss race is just so serious and boring throughout.

    OK now for the good parts that make it the best RTS in    OK let's just get the ugly part out of the way...if you are still playing Starcraft 2 for its story, I offer you my sincerest sympathy right now. It's worse than Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm, because at least the former are so cheesy that it's funny...whereas the Protoss race is just so serious and boring throughout.

    OK now for the good parts that make it the best RTS in existence right now.

    Single-player Campaign - Best designed campaign missions. Cool campaign exclusive units and abilities. As someone who mains Zerg, the campaign's learning curve was perfect to introduce me to Protoss game mechanics.
    The CG remains Blizzard quality, which means they are extremely well done and fun to watch. A total contrast to the crappy story and dialogue.

    Multi-player Versus -
    1 vs 1: I gotta say it's rough coming back, the last time I played SC2 competitively was 2010/11 during WoL. It's depressing going from remotely good (reached Diamond Rank 12 of my division after 250+ 1v1s) to a straight n00b. APM dropped from 100 to like 50... but I digress. The overall changes were very positive, it encourages more action rather than the old meta of "harass each other while building a 200/200 deathball" because you are forced to aggressively expand from the start. The beginning amount of workers went from 6 to 12 so your build orders will have to change, and it really enables players to pile on the aggression early on if they choose to, or if you are a Zerg, be really greedy and 3 hatch right off the bat. The new units breath fresh air into the game as well, you have to remember 1 new unit in an RTS game = many many new army compositions and strategies.
    Archon Mode: Fun alternative to your typical 2v2. It's actually pretty crazy what you can do with 2 mediocre players.
    Co-op Missions: Like Archon mode, it's another less stressful mode for less hardcore players. Some of these missions I feel like I'm playing Dota or something.

    On top of all that you have user generated custom games in the Arcade mode...

    In conclusion, this is the best RTS game available bar none and I am certain Blizzard will keep improving the multiplayer with updates and rebalances to the meta.    … Expand
  63. T3chstepper
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Well, great ending to great trilogy. Wonderful campaign, good variety of missions and very interesting story. Plus to this, expansion adds variety to multiplayer. And of course, magnificent cinematics. Great game
  64. AgentOSX
    Nov 14, 2015
    10
    This is the best of the Starcraft II series. An absolutely fantastic ending to a terrific story. If you have played through the Starcraft Universe and like it even a little bit, this is for you.

    Worth every cent.
  65. LordNord
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    I'm a big Starcraft fan. I like all part of this game. It's a brilliant end of this series. The single player story was awesome. Prologue has 3 Missions, after the main story has 19 and the Epilogue more 3 missions. My opinion the game started really about mission 9 in main story. And the epilogue was the real good part of The Legacy of the Void. Thanks Blizzard for this awesome game andI'm a big Starcraft fan. I like all part of this game. It's a brilliant end of this series. The single player story was awesome. Prologue has 3 Missions, after the main story has 19 and the Epilogue more 3 missions. My opinion the game started really about mission 9 in main story. And the epilogue was the real good part of The Legacy of the Void. Thanks Blizzard for this awesome game and full story. Best Regards.: LordNord… Expand
  66. jokerdeus
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    I am playing Starcraft since the very beginning. I agree that Broodwar had a nice feeling that is not quite here anymore with SCII.

    But with all the changes brought by Blizzard to make the gameplay much more dynamic and less relying on deathballs and turtle strategies, I think Legacy of the Void is as great as Broodwar in its own way. This game is made by true game makers who knows    I am playing Starcraft since the very beginning. I agree that Broodwar had a nice feeling that is not quite here anymore with SCII.

    But with all the changes brought by Blizzard to make the gameplay much more dynamic and less relying on deathballs and turtle strategies, I think Legacy of the Void is as great as Broodwar in its own way.

    This game is made by true game makers who knows how to deal with balance mechanics, and not by some **** marketing decision makers.
    You can also rely on Blizzard's team to maintain it for years.

    Starcraft 2 remains without any doubts the best contemporary strategy video game, and the deepest as well.

    I highly recommend it.    … Expand
  67. devonherbert
    Nov 10, 2015
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Blizzard delivers on my high expectation for the finale. As someone who has waited five yeara to play a next gen protoss campaign this delivers soooo much. It not only is innovative in the rts field. The stories epic moments seriously made me tear up from the sheer awe of them. This is a must own for any space fans.… Expand
  68. faceless-1
    Nov 11, 2015
    8
    Just like hearth of the storm, great single player missions with **** story. The Multi player is good as ever and new mods are fun. The only problem i have with this game is again story. SC 1, brood war and even SC2 wings of liberty had great main plots, but HoS and this got just ****ty C trash instead of story.
  69. Gschmax
    Nov 16, 2015
    10
    A long journey gets to its end. Im very pleased with this addon, and i am a Zerg player. The story is well told, the action keeps you on track, and every mission seems unique. Shout out to Blizzard, for putting that much effort into this last part of Starcraft 2.

    I play this game on an old laptop ( Dual Core 2,8Ghz, Radeon HD 4670 Mobility, 4GB Ram DDR2, Win 8.1) and it runs decent,    A long journey gets to its end. Im very pleased with this addon, and i am a Zerg player. The story is well told, the action keeps you on track, and every mission seems unique. Shout out to Blizzard, for putting that much effort into this last part of Starcraft 2.

    I play this game on an old laptop ( Dual Core 2,8Ghz, Radeon HD 4670 Mobility, 4GB Ram DDR2, Win 8.1) and it runs decent, maybe some improvements will come with future patches.

    The multiplayer is the best "value per coin" you can get, i spent easily thousand hours with all these mods, especially the remakes of old wc 3 maps. The coopmissions and Archonmode are the best thing, that could happen to everyone with a good friend, who is not into rts. Just try it out, and get addicted.

    Thanks Blizzard, and to everyone else: gl&hf !    … Expand
  70. Menog
    Nov 13, 2015
    10
    Amazing game and a fitting conclusion to a beloved storyline (even if a bit cheesy at time) but indeed worth it. I simply loved the conclusion of an amazing saga and I'm happy blizzard didn't overextended it.
  71. timastaz
    Nov 13, 2015
    10
    The final expansion to the Starcraft 2 trilogy. Truly Blizzard quality, one of the only games to come out this year without bugs and runs without issues. Other developers take note, release a game only when it's ready.
  72. EvilTerrorizer
    Dec 15, 2015
    9
    Great single player campaign; overall an awesome conclusion to the story that ties in everything. I would actually say this is the best campaign, with cinematics everywhere.

    The multiplayer side is meh-okay. I'm mostly playing arcade, which is custom rules and mods not related to base game. I might play ladder at some point but I'm not really into the fast-paced micro-fest anymore    Great single player campaign; overall an awesome conclusion to the story that ties in everything. I would actually say this is the best campaign, with cinematics everywhere.

    The multiplayer side is meh-okay. I'm mostly playing arcade, which is custom rules and mods not related to base game. I might play ladder at some point but I'm not really into the fast-paced micro-fest anymore (guess I'm too old for that, i.e. not a teen). I know it's supposed to be an RTS, but it seems like the Real part now stands for Hectic... I played a few unranked team games and I find the game usually is decided within the first 10-15 minutes, with very few options for either side to recover after that. Also seems air is over-powered, but that's just me... in a team environment this in-balance leads to bunker mentality at start and air rush from cliff side... most of the time... yawn

    My high score is primarily due to the fact that I loved the campaign; and I have a soft spot for Starcraft in general. In Starcraft 1 I found multiplayer was better...    … Expand
  73. Daigoust
    Nov 22, 2015
    6
    O jogo é mais do mesmo e para quem gosta de Starcraft é o suficiente (infelizmente). gráficos não mudaram e a historia é interessante, porem não empolgante. Tenho a sensação que poderia ser melhor e maior. Mais parece uma expansão do que um novo jogo. O preço de lançamento é um pouquinho mais alto do que o justo.
  74. choochoo
    Nov 24, 2015
    10
    Game of the year in my book. Great single player story line, awesome cinematic and multiplayer gameplay. I wish Wings of Liberty and Heart of the swarm were this good.
  75. Rohan888
    Dec 4, 2015
    10
    Starcraft II Game started with dialogue ''Hell.....Its about time''.And now ended with the same dialogue.Awesome Series of game.Hope we have the continuation of starcraft series.
  76. tiho
    Dec 29, 2015
    10
    Definitely the best of the trilogy. SP is pretty fun, personally I liked the story (I don't take it too seriously like some people seem to), and the variety in units' special abilities. And of course MP is still great, with the cool addition of the Archon mode for two players to play the same race together.
  77. TimW001
    Jan 5, 2016
    8
    Of the Starcraft II series this may be the best of the three. I really enjoyed the single player campaign. It was long and had several challenging missions and also was unique from teh other three. You play through a prologue, main story, and have an epilogue as well. It is worth the purchase price. The story wraps up this 15 year story line with a little bit of happiness. There's also aOf the Starcraft II series this may be the best of the three. I really enjoyed the single player campaign. It was long and had several challenging missions and also was unique from teh other three. You play through a prologue, main story, and have an epilogue as well. It is worth the purchase price. The story wraps up this 15 year story line with a little bit of happiness. There's also a co-op campaign which can be very fun, but fairly repetitive. And the typical multiplayer everyone knows for Starcraft. A good expansion to a great series.
    Cons: Story still do not live up to Starcraft and Broodwar originals. Most of the missions on single player were te same bit with new units. Either you destroy some power things on different planet, or you defend something for a time.    … Expand
  78. LoneWolfSones
    Mar 21, 2016
    10
    Starcraft II Legacy of the Void is a fitting conclusion to the Starcraft II trilogy. Blizzard once again proves its talent for crafting a compelling RTS campaign. I won't lie. There are some very strong emotional beats in this game and Blizzard's excellent cutscenes deliver it with their customary flair.

    The mechanics are largely the same and the structure is similar to Wings of Liberty    Starcraft II Legacy of the Void is a fitting conclusion to the Starcraft II trilogy. Blizzard once again proves its talent for crafting a compelling RTS campaign. I won't lie. There are some very strong emotional beats in this game and Blizzard's excellent cutscenes deliver it with their customary flair.

    The mechanics are largely the same and the structure is similar to Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm. You have branching mission paths that allow you to choose which you want to take. As a result you earn new units which can then be augmented further into different variations. These variations offer an incredible level of control over the make up of your forces and allow for new tactics.

    What I liked the most about Legacy of the Void was just how different each mission feels. The objectives are varied and present some tense moments. All of these factors come to make one satisfying package that caps off SCII.    … Expand
  79. tentatur
    Jan 21, 2016
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I Complete this great game .... !! 3 expansion of Starcraft 2 saga: LEGACY OF VOID or "Legacy of the Void".

    If you've played before, it is an unforgettable epilogue. But you've never played, try to buy these gold pieces, because I guarantee one year nasty games.

    SUMMARY: It tells the story of race "Protoss" (there are two more races: Humans and ZERG); with individual stories of characters such as: Zearatul, the Xel'naga, the great Reinor, Kerrigan, Artanis, Zelendis and many more.

    SINGLE PLAYER HISTORY: 10 Best of the Game; addictive.
    VIDEO AND GRAPHICS: 6.5
    Cinematic: 7 pins, excited to ruffle the hair !!!
    SOUND: 7 Excellent
    MULTIPLAYER (online): 6.5
    Gameplay: 6.5 (Normal is medium, but HARD, very difficult)

    us.battle.net/sc2/es/legacy-of-the-void/#header

    ASPECTS OF THE GAME DETAILS:
    The graphics and video Use a CPU Alienware notebook gamer (I7, 16GG RAM, 256 SDD hd, nvidia 980m to take full advantage of the graphics options in "ULTRA" .- looks and feels amazing.

    Multiplayer platform , is in my opinion one of the best RTS of the global market , with online games with great prizes dollar sport where the digital age , it takes more and more fans . Look what is happening in countries like Korea, which is considered the "digital chess " and are increasing paid players in Latin America.

    us.battle.net/sc2/es/legacy-of-the-void/#campaign

    Final note: 6.7 VERY GOOD and unmissable game, definitely one of the options awards 2015

    Greetings " Tentatur " GL HF    … Expand
  80. Steve278
    Feb 6, 2016
    10
    best starcraft 2 expansion. multiplayer is in the best spot its ever been with diverse playstyles and exciting gameplay. the campaign was pretty good compared to the last few releases. i have played starcraft since the orginal release in 1995 and it keeps getting better. long live rts games
  81. metalmaster7789
    Feb 13, 2016
    8
    The only two downsides from this game is that they never improved the OST, which is generic and not memorable and they didn't improve the terran army. I stopped playing online when they made terrans more "tactical" when in fact they were distinguished by being bloody and not so weak. So basically when you try to change traits without considering the proportionality of strength, speed,The only two downsides from this game is that they never improved the OST, which is generic and not memorable and they didn't improve the terran army. I stopped playing online when they made terrans more "tactical" when in fact they were distinguished by being bloody and not so weak. So basically when you try to change traits without considering the proportionality of strength, speed, and cost, you get a faction that is useless against zerg and protoss. I could beat someone easily with the zerg and protoss but losing against the same person with the same faction using the terrans. Aside from all this, the game was really good.
    I bet that most of us who played the last three games muted the crappy ost and played the old one instead while playing.    … Expand
  82. CaptainBounty
    Mar 9, 2016
    9
    What they failed to do in HotS, they totally accomplished in this one. Totally living up the the original WoT regarding story, competitive balancing and everything else. A worthy finale to the starcraft universe and a must have if you liked the predecessors WoL and HotS.
  83. Kolirio
    Mar 21, 2016
    10
    I'm giving it a 98 out of 100, probably because of the way I'll ponderate the different aspects of the game. First of all, I think this is the ultimate RTS game for the most competitive scene. It's the true e-Sport where you are alone all along the path to become World Champion.

    I will start in this review with the things that I'd rate as the "worse". The Single-Player. -Let's start    I'm giving it a 98 out of 100, probably because of the way I'll ponderate the different aspects of the game. First of all, I think this is the ultimate RTS game for the most competitive scene. It's the true e-Sport where you are alone all along the path to become World Champion.

    I will start in this review with the things that I'd rate as the "worse". The Single-Player.

    -Let's start with the A.I.
    It's really poor and casualized, there isn't a real challenge on Human vs A.I. Matchups from certain level, not even giving the A.I. the so called 'cheats' (maphack, doubled income...). And there are proofs-of-concept that demonstrates what the A.I. could have been. They focused too much on the low player levels and forgot about pro scene in this -'cos ladder exists, you know-. 10/10 for new players and casual ones, 0/10 for the elite.

    -Let's continue with something we all agree, I think. The Campaing.

    A) Story: 65/100
    They did a very good job with the plot althought its really "Disney-esque" and lacks that intrigue and twisted story which made BroodWar the story I loved all these years. I'm still happy because the StarCraft Universe its full of literature and stuff for that time when you want to satiate that story-hunger. I'd rate the plot with a 85/100. BUT when we first saw the characters, it looked like they have become a "for all public" target audience work, and so it is the way the story it's told. This makes a very flat and plain the story development and a bit predictable. On the other hand, I recall every time I've cried with the beauty of the cinematics and the feeling of StarCraft becoming alive once again.

    B) Campaign gameplay. 95 / 100
    After having 2 terrible campaigns which "Hardest" difficulty mode were a joke, specially HotS - where you could easly win it with "just" Kerrigan as if you were playing Heroes of the Sworm - they have finnaly made something better.

    -The in-game missions at Brutal difficulty could challenge even the best players at some point, they made really good missions in my opinion, there is no longer a "dream composition" which you can spam for every mission. You can't even do some of the missions without the right units. The only mechanic which is a little bit repetitive its the blink use, but well... Its a damn Protoss campaign LOL.

    -The mechanics of the mission and units management were simple, as I think they should be. Never had a problem on that as I'm looking for a real time strategy and always felt that like a secondary thing which made its function, making the in-game more complex and different.

    Music and Graphics.
    -The music was always a 10/10 for me in all blizzard games from Diablo I, II, LoD, WC's, SC's. This is no exception.
    -Graphics: I won't rate this as they are very good, BUT i've got to say that since Wings of Liberty, they always had a big, big problem. The unit and movement dynamics designs were, sometimes, hard to distinguish. In broodwar you could find easly any unit in a see of them. Now try find that sneaky baneling in the big zerg swarm, ie. LUCKILY there are ways to improve this with the features they have been adding to change color intensity. I hope they can do more things about this, as the game is now finnished.

    Now, let's start with the multiplay. 100 / 100. Yes, I'm not crazy!

    ·Let's consider first one thing, which is the thousands of mods and maps there are out there. Blizzard gave us something very valuable, allowing even third-party editors. There are stunning pieces of art, so even if you get tired of ladder you can always play a cool-new game. There are even old BroodWar reworks which you can play with the exact same metagame they had. How many hours of posibilities and fun!

    BUT. There is the competitive. OH GOD! THIS IS THE **** BEST 1 vs. 1 in the HISTORY of videogames! Yes, I was a broodwar fanboy. Yes, I went back to iCCup when sc2 sucked. But lets be serious. How much time took to balance StarCraft? How many years until it was finnished (since its the top-scene which had to have the last word).
    The new time and economy dynamics are awesome, the complexity of every race its now really hardcore, and the new skillset its huge. As a Terran player I love what the mirror matchup has become. Goddamn, its crazy! This new design is also very friendly with the new players and really accesible for all the range of playerlevels to enjoy the game.
    Could be frustrating? Yes. But maybe this is exactly what I'm looking for in a game (not without rewards, but it does have some, winkle winkle). The old games between pros where a simply second in the micro would snowball you down are gone and no longer exist, this is totally about the S in the RTS thing now. Probably there will be a well defined metagame "soon", but it will be as vast (or probably even more) than broodwar's. And this, ladies, its what makes it so perfect. A 'van Gogh' painting, a 'Hemingway' book, a dissertation work by 'Carl F.Gauss' . A work of arts and science.    … Expand
  84. Hannibaal
    Aug 3, 2018
    0
    Legacy of the Void es la culminación de la trilogía que compone SC2, como tal mantiene los principales defectos de este fraudulento RTS. La historia culmina el disparate que comenzó con Wings of Liberty, yo en Lotv no sabía que pasaba, al final de la misma Kerrigan se convierte en un dios o algo así, un disparate, nada tiene sentido en esta basura de historia que se caga en lo que fuéLegacy of the Void es la culminación de la trilogía que compone SC2, como tal mantiene los principales defectos de este fraudulento RTS. La historia culmina el disparate que comenzó con Wings of Liberty, yo en Lotv no sabía que pasaba, al final de la misma Kerrigan se convierte en un dios o algo así, un disparate, nada tiene sentido en esta basura de historia que se caga en lo que fué Starcraft y Brood War. La campaña en cuanto a historia no vale nada igual que Wol y Hots, totalmente prescindible.

    Sobre el multijugador, nuevamente añaden nuevas unidades para justificar la venta del juego, unidades innecesarias. El cambio mas importante viene por la reducción de la cantidad de minerales por base, esto es debido a que los jugadores se quejaban de que en Wol y Hots solo se jugaba a dos o tres bases y querían algo mas parecido a Brood War, normal ya que este es un juego muy superior, en fin, como los inútiles de Blizzard no sabían como arreglar esta basura de juego en el que se juega siempre a all ins a dos o tres bases y el late game siempre acaba en una corta batalla (segundos dura) o choque de dos bolas de la muerte, los genios de Blizzard decidieron aumentar (aún mas) las opciones de acoso a las líneas de trabajadores, y en eso se puede resumir LOTV, un simulador de aniquilar recolectores. Eso sí, las bolas de la muerte no han desaparecido, las unidades se siguen apelotonando igual que en las dos primeras expansiones, pero se han reducido el número de estrategias viables, como ahora hay menos minerales ahora todas las partidas son a expandir lo mas pronto posible o te quedas seco, una mierda vamos. Las nuevas unidades,con el Liberator, Cyclone, Ravager, Lurker, Adept y Disruptor, todas una basura, incluidos los lurkers que aquí no funcionan como en BW sino que son un arma mas para las deathballs. Me atrevo a decir que Legacy of the Void es peor que Heart of the Swarm, el último parche de equilibrio de este era superior a esta basura que es LOTV, ya digo un simulador de aniquilar recolectores pero que mantiene las deathballs, los ejercitos que se evaporan en segundos cuando se encuentran, etc, basura, y algunos caraduras dicen que LOTV se parece al estilo Brood War argumentando que ahora si se cogen mas expansiones, no les crean, no se parece en nada.

    A esta basura que culmina al fraudulento y pseudoRTS que SC2 le otorgo un 0/10.    … Expand
  85. winpark85
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    Excellent graphics and directing... Do anyone tell me any RTS game that has nicer campaigns than it? Maybe we cannot see any more masterpiece RTS games like it.
  86. Dranlord
    Nov 13, 2015
    9
    i only play SC game for the campaign, and OMG the best one from the 3. I love how they choose to finish the story and the little extra at the end was good =D. and Of curse those cinematic blizzard is the best doing it.
  87. CrafTricks
    Nov 13, 2015
    10
    Legacy of the Void is a fitting end to the StarCraft II trilogy. It ends the story that begun with Wings of Liberty and improves upon the already incredible mission design of Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm.

    Adding to that is an incredible multiplayer, fast paced and well balanced especially keeping in mind how early on in the title's lifetime we are. That alone is enough for    Legacy of the Void is a fitting end to the StarCraft II trilogy. It ends the story that begun with Wings of Liberty and improves upon the already incredible mission design of Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm.

    Adding to that is an incredible multiplayer, fast paced and well balanced especially keeping in mind how early on in the title's lifetime we are.

    That alone is enough for me to consider it a worthy buy and an easy recommendation but to top all this off there are the amazingly fun Archon Mode and Co-op Missions options, which both offer new and different ways to experience StarCraft II with friends.

    All of that combined with no serious drawbacks in my eyes make this one of my favorite games of the year and a product that anyone even remotely interested in RTS games should take a good look at.    … Expand
  88. milonguero
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Definitely the best RTS in the market. Wish there were more competition in the RTS genre. New units in this expansion will add a lot of strategy diversity to the game. Multiplayer and tournament play will benefit hugely from the changes.
  89. inonnics
    Nov 11, 2015
    10
    Ganz exakt so, und nicht anders, muss ein geniales Echtzeitstrategiespiel sein. Tolle Missionen, spitzen Atmosphäre und einzigartiger Multiplayer-Part. Danke Blizzard dafür!
  90. mark182
    Nov 19, 2015
    10
    A homage to all of the Starcraft games. A must own for Starcraft 2 players. A great finish to a long journey. The story is a little bit short, but it's worth it. Hell, it's about time.
  91. Scorcher_
    Nov 25, 2015
    9
    An epic finale to a great series. Legacy of the Void manages to capture the essence and the spirit of the original RTS we all loved. Great atmospheric campaign and awesome cinematics.
  92. Runeforged
    Nov 13, 2015
    9
    A great ending to the Starcraft 2 story is nonetheless marred by mediocre storytelling and a little too much of the same thing. Let me explain.

    To be clear here, I absolutely love Starcraft 2. I gave WoL a 10 and HotS an 8. But I'm no fanboy who's blind and can't see problems in the formula. First off, the campaign is gorgeously detailed and lots of fun to play. Being on this massive    A great ending to the Starcraft 2 story is nonetheless marred by mediocre storytelling and a little too much of the same thing. Let me explain.

    To be clear here, I absolutely love Starcraft 2. I gave WoL a 10 and HotS an 8. But I'm no fanboy who's blind and can't see problems in the formula.

    First off, the campaign is gorgeously detailed and lots of fun to play. Being on this massive Protoss ship is really cool and it looks amazing. Blizzard clearly went through great pains to nail a beautifully detailed look and style here and it pays off. The missions are all fun and some are relatively unique but there's only so much you can do in the confines of an RTS.. and this is really where the flaws begin to show. Starcraft 2 is a highly polished yet very old-school RTS game. And because it's been 5 years since WoL launched many of us have exhausted the games single player and multi player. Redundancy is a problem here. Even with the new tweaks to MP's macro and resource management along with a few new units the game doesn't feel fully refreshed. This is also a problem in the storytelling. For whatever reason Blizzard has been making very basic and sometimes dumb (Diablo 3) stories for it's games for the last 3-4 years. EVen the WoW expansions suffer greatly from poor storytelling.. and while LotV is definitely a better story than HotS it's nowhere as good as WoL or the original Starcraft.

    What we end up with is a strange mix. It's like this game is a modern classic but flawed and I dunno how else to say it lol. How can a flawed game be a classic? because it's been refined and polished expertly over many years. Anyways, worth buying and worth playing. If you're new to Starcraft 2 this is the best possible time to start playing.    … Expand
  93. Beka94
    Nov 14, 2015
    10
    I registered in Metacritic just to write a review for this terrific game
    One of the best Real Time Strategies ever. Single player campaign has one of the most epic plots ever, No bugs, No glitches, Available in most languages, MP, is good but i don't play it too much so I cant say anything bad.
  94. Gamingking007
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    Beyond magnificent! Probably the best rts game ever made! Blizzard just does it best,polished to perfection, graphics at 4K beyond belief and the whole game just makes you want too life in the Starcraft universe forever!
  95. Violett
    Nov 14, 2015
    9
    I didn’t finish the game yet, only 5 missions, but since finishing the game will take me another month or two with my playtime, I want to state my opinion.

    This is another Blizzard masterpirce, almost perfect and very well polished game. There is nothing to complain about – plot – at least for first missions – is great, same as in HotS and WoL, graphics are superb, difficulty is high    I didn’t finish the game yet, only 5 missions, but since finishing the game will take me another month or two with my playtime, I want to state my opinion.

    This is another Blizzard masterpirce, almost perfect and very well polished game. There is nothing to complain about – plot – at least for first missions – is great, same as in HotS and WoL, graphics are superb, difficulty is high enough – playing on Brutal can really add some adrenaline to your veins :)

    Another thing I want to point – is awesome cinematics – both in-game and movie-like – just great, you can really feel like you are watching a movie, you can fill epicness of the moment.

    However, I want to explain why I didn’t put 10 in the review. The game is awesome, right, but majority of the features were taken from Wings of Liberty (HotS had the same problem too) – same system with few things remade. That’s why I didn’t put 10 mark here, and that’s why I say Wings of Liberty was better – that was really new game, and this is not.    … Expand
  96. TheRedFern
    Nov 12, 2015
    8
    Starcraft 1 was the greatest strategy game ever made, the story was great, but the multiplayer and competitive scenes are what made it sore. The first two games in Starcraft two were good games, with new and interesting gameplay, but with a story that just left you indifferent. LOTV was quite the opposite, the story was FANTASTIC, it was a theatric experience in an age where Game CompanysStarcraft 1 was the greatest strategy game ever made, the story was great, but the multiplayer and competitive scenes are what made it sore. The first two games in Starcraft two were good games, with new and interesting gameplay, but with a story that just left you indifferent. LOTV was quite the opposite, the story was FANTASTIC, it was a theatric experience in an age where Game Companys no longer care about the single player experience. My only critique is that although there are very interesting game modes, most of the campaign had many levels where the objectives were just transplace from previous SC2 games...... capture these points before the enemy captures this point....… Expand
  97. BBQnaoplox111
    Nov 12, 2015
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Holy **** this **** game... The cinematic... the soundtrack... orchestra awesomeness... that ending.... the **** set pieces..... my expectations on this ending of the trilogy were so damn high after WOL... I have waited 5 years .... so good... Thank you.. Also if you like any H. P. Lovecraft lore... this and any other Blizzard game is for you... plot twist.... Shhhh… Expand
  98. WoozoR
    Nov 14, 2015
    10
    Campaing is perfect! As usual, best scenario - Blizzard. The game is looking as its previous parts, but is the best in RTS. Recommend to play campaing only if you have played previous Starcraft 2 games.
  99. Avadon
    Nov 15, 2015
    9
    I wasn't a big fan of the Wings of Liberty and HotS campaigns because they felt a bit too gimmicky to me. While I appreciate the creativity behind their design, having one gimmick for each mission made them feel a bit restricted. In Legacy of the Void, the gimmicks take a supporting role and allow the macro and the destruction of massive enemy armies to shine, like they should. The LotVI wasn't a big fan of the Wings of Liberty and HotS campaigns because they felt a bit too gimmicky to me. While I appreciate the creativity behind their design, having one gimmick for each mission made them feel a bit restricted. In Legacy of the Void, the gimmicks take a supporting role and allow the macro and the destruction of massive enemy armies to shine, like they should. The LotV campaign feels like Brood War, but even more all-out. I absolutely loved every moment of it. The production values are of course once again through the roof. The campaign stands toe to toe for me with Frozen Throne as the best one ever designed for an RTS. Multiplayer will take a while to evaluate, but between ladder, co-op missions and the Arcade, there is an absolute ton of content here. Legacy of the Void is RTS like noone apart from Blizzard can make. Fast, bombastic and extremely polished.… Expand
  100. Gothic90
    Nov 22, 2015
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Good:

    More multiplayer options like co-op and archon mode. While co-op itself is nothing new (players have been making co-op maps since SC1), the setting of commanders and the co-op group finder is quite interesting. Archon mode is also interesting.

    The story and lore of the LotV 19 levels. While I personally want to see more about other smaller Protoss tribes (like how LotV was originally advertised) and dislike the big concept of the so called "end wars", but it really is HotS being bad and LotV can't really be successful coming in saving everything.

    Overall more Starcraft in a time when RTS aren't popular is always good. I have been an RTS fan for a long time - I don't like MOBAs. I have been playing a bit of lots of old RTS games such as C&C series and loved many of them, but there aren't a lot of new RTS stuff right now.

    The not all that great:

    The "into the void" campaign. Big closure ... also big cheesy cliche.
    Only 3 levels to play as P/T/Z also leaves a lot to be desired. Revelation of Xel'Naga is quite disappointing as well.

    The variety of campaign levels is also ... meh. Too much of "there are 3/4/5 objectives on map, get them all" stuff while at the same time, enemies spawn out of nowhere to attack your base.

    Artanis being somewhat too perfect of a character (and Raynor and Kerrigan in LotV/into the void). Raynor still gets drunk from time to time in WoL and Kerrigan, while very cliched, can still be a dark hero in HotS, the three race's "protagonists" suddenly become perfect in LotV.

    Overall not that much of an upgrade over the base SC2 - and at the same time not any bonus towards WoL/HotS players. But it's been like 5 years and I can understand that.    … Expand
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#8 Best PC Game of 2015
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#26 Most Discussed PC Game of 2015
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#9 Most Shared PC Game of 2015

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88

Generally favorable reviews - based on 62 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 62
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 62
  3. Negative: 0 out of 62
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 4, 2016
    85
    The StarCraft II finale offers a decent but not breathtaking campaign and some tweaks to the multiplayer which now promotes quick, aggressive expansion. [01/2016, p.66]
  2. games(TM)
    Jan 29, 2016
    80
    This generous package will sustain and deepen the competitive side, but Legacy Of The Void also does enough not to scare away the casuals once the closing credits role and multiplayer beckons.
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  3. Gamers' Temple
    Jan 26, 2016
    94
    Overall, I can easily recommend Legacy of the Void to any current StarCraft II player, and if you're new to StarCraft II then now is the perfect time to jump in and experience the full story arc. Blizzard has once again managed to add to an already great existing game, making it better and more complete without breaking anything that made the game great in the first place.
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