From this cinematic, we can conclude that Arcturus Mengsk is a bad Starcraft II player. -Landing a Viking in front of a charging swarm, instead of on higher ground. -Not siege-moding until the enemies are in sight. No wonder he lost.
I wasn't even expecting it. I remember waking up one morning after WoL and Starcraft had made a rare video upload, and this was it. Sitting there trying to eat cereal with my mouth open, like holy shit.
What I find funny/interesting is that he's crushed mid-scream, as if the cinematic developers were saying "NO!" and were trying to imply how people just want the overuse of that sample to stop.
I am trying to think of some epic game mix ups (most of what I thought of is mainly Warhammer 40K with Starcraft), for example: swap the Terrans and the Space Marines around so it'ill be Space Marines VS Zerg and Terrans VS Tyranids, Orks, Chaos etc. hmm...Tyranids, Orks and Chaos against Zerg won't be a bad idea, I mean Tyranids are pretty similar to Zerg so it will be a close fight. Orks, well...they're Orks. And Chaos I don't know about Chaos. Anyone else got any other ideas?
You know funny thing. This is probably also the closest many people will ever get to seeing what a potential Warhammer 40k movie might look like as well.
How is that an easter egg? Easter eggs are supposed to be intentional inside jokes, hidden messages, bonuses or features in a work such as a computer programs, movies, books, or crosswords. You're pointing out the Wilhelm scream, wich gets used all the time.
You mean the Wilhelm scream? Cause that is an inside joke. Its in like hundreds of movies and trailers, it was a stock scream used way back when that people found so hilarious they use it all the time as sort of a nod/joke.
I don't play blizz games anymore but I gotta say that they have been doing the best cinematics I've ever seen... I can't even imagine how much money they would make doing a full lenght, sure it'd be expensive and it'd take forever to make but I'm pretty sure they'd make a fortune.
Mhm. Because the world's largest MMO game ever, whose 3rd expansion sold almost 2,000 copies a minute (currently holds the world record for the fastest selling computer game ever), is such a failure, right?
First off, expansion's are not games, so that "world record" is full of sh!t. Secondly, I think the popularity of Twilight and the Michael Bay Transformers movies is proof enough that popularity does NOT equal quality.
I think it does. 7.5 Million players in the US are willing to pay $15 a month for a game they love and enjoy. That means Blizzard is making over a Billion dollars a year, just off the US players. That's not including Asia, which makes up 43% of the WoW playerbase. On another note, the expansions are not counted as DLCs, and are recognized as their own games. If you don't believe the record, take it up with Guinness. Also, the definition of "popular" literally means "liked, admired or enjoyed by many people", which makes your entire argument in your last post completely pointless, and it makes you look like even more of a dumbass.
Games can make the most amazing cinematics, not just blizzard games, have you seen how amazing batman arkham origins cinematics are. I'm surprised they have not actually made a movie out of these types of animations, it would be so amazing
is the VA of Kerrigan the same with Leah's from Diablo3? when she talked, i remembered the cinematic in which she-diablo crushes the gates of the heavens.
You don't know fear till you see an army of zerg with 10 ultras, kerrigan riding a battlecruiser that is about to crash while a zergling is starting to bite your balls off.
1:35 Ultralisk: You think that hurt? Marine: Damn No but seriously, i definitly like the updated ultralisk, how it looks more like a rhino now. Because if i remember in SC1 they looked like weird mantis-with-tusks things. And i mean the player uses ultras as an end game piece, smashing defenses and bases to bits, so when I think of a living battering ram, I think of a rhino, and therefore, an ulta.
that viking sacrificed himself to make a final, to help save others. although he didn't hold up.... it's his actions that speaks volumes. i believe blizz was just expressing that.
Rendering such visuals in real-time is currently impossible even if you had the best possible hardware. Also the trailer actually features a remixed version of the song "Berserker" by Audiomachine (the original version of the song was used in the first trailer for HOS).
is there a reason kerrigans face looks different here compared to wing of liberty? her face wasnt purple befor and her eyes looks like fire befor. is she different because u can slowly become more zerg-like again in this game? is this video a vision of the future? or just a dream?
How did the Terrans not notice a massive leviathan in space, and when spores drop down it's very hard to believe there wasn't some sort of defense system in place to shoot them down. Siege tanks massed in the plaza but only 2-3 vikings in the air :P.
I love the tank at 1:04. What the driver was saying the entire time: "HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT!!!!! THAT UGLY MOTHERFACKER IS HUGE! HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!"
No. Other developers hire DIGIC and BLUR to do their trailers, but Blizzard is one of the two developers that have their own internal CG studio. (albeit not big enough for a full-fledged movie production)
not this one particularly but a friend of mine who was working as modeller told me that it took a long time for blizz to do wings of liberty cgi. You know, tychus getting geared as marine? Frankly if u know anything about cgi proccess you'd understand its quite believable.
they have a general theme... Zerathul = Medivh Xel'Naga = Titans The Fallen One = Sargeras The Swarm = The Legion hell i wouldn't even be suprised if blizzard would announce that the Xel'Naga and the Titans are the same, and that Starcraft/Warcraft are in the same reality but only diffrent galaxys ...
Until I saw this trailer, I never knew that Ultralisks or Battlecruisers were that big. Ultralisks can crush siege tanks and vikings with one foot? Battlecruisers are that much bigger than buildings?
+jessc1979 Yup. One thing that was actually really surprising to me... have you ever seen the original Starcraft cutscenes? There is one cutscene where a squad of marines have to go into a science vessel. One of those orb like vessels that look like they're about the size of a siege tank in gameplay. Turns out that it's actually a huge ship that they end up trying to destroy it by planting a bomb in the core.
Wait a second, towards the end that big thing crashing down was a BATTLECRUISER? Holy shit, that thing was huge!! Didn't think it was meant to be THAT big. Wow, maybe only for the cinematic?
The first Starship Troopers Movie was great (1997) .......Not to mention Starhip Troopers books inspired some things in Aliens and in the SciFi genre.....Starship Troopers and Warhammer 40k are the best SciFi Universes that inspired games and movies,,,,,
why aren't we funding a movie like this, this was the most epic thing I've seen in months
Spells from the holly tree will never be able to exude true creativity such as this....
Way better than the Warcraft movie
From this cinematic, we can conclude that Arcturus Mengsk is a bad Starcraft II player.
-Landing a Viking in front of a charging swarm, instead of on higher ground.
-Not siege-moding until the enemies are in sight.
No wonder he lost.
+Amuscaria Mushrooms it was only dream of zerg player, to win that :d
you forgot bunkers
His marines didn’t have combat shield already like wtf
someone really needs to make a movie out of this
Yep this is pretty much how it went down for me when i first played online.
Ryuk LOL me too!
Lol!
+Ryuk Alright gonne finish up this first unit and... wait...how'd you get those ultralisks so fast?
Best Cinematic in gaming history
I wasn't even expecting it. I remember waking up one morning after WoL and Starcraft had made a rare video upload, and this was it. Sitting there trying to eat cereal with my mouth open, like holy shit.
Why, Blizzard, when you have the ability to make such epic cinematic trailers, wont you make a movie using it? It so gorgeous!
I'm getting the feeling that Kerrigan never got over the whole abandoned to die on Tarsonis thing.
1:43
"NO WILHELM SCREAM FOR YOU!!"
Tell me again why we have Twilight in theaters and not a full-time version of THIS. When I'm coming to power we're only going to have such movies.
i will fight for your right to rule
Gaming revolution boys.
That ultralisk took that shell to the head like don't give a fuck lol
wow 1:13 GREATEST PLAN I EVER SEEN IN MY TERRAN LIFE
"a random Viking lands infront of a Ultralisk to look badass for 3 seconds"
Lets you appreciate the true size of an ultralisk
u mean the battlecruiser?
well, that too. Although they seem to be somewhat offscale when compared to the ingame models :P
1:55 *sees battlecruiser crash* *mouth drops*
This would be an amazing movie...
they should have recruited some fire bats
man, those vikings in the very beginning bursted rockets like valkyries...
1:13 what was your plan?
cameron thomas to look like a badass for 3 seconds
cameron thomas xd
To peel obviously
To go to Valhalla like a chad
korhal is capital world of terrans 3 vikings about 50 marines and like 5 siege tanks to defend it seriosly
elma imamovic capital world or not, 200 population cap!
yea but then how do zerg have like 1000000 population cap the hell
elma imamovic zerg op
yea 1 zerg queen an just hatch 100 zerglings in like 2 hours and humans need like 20 years to train 1 soldier
elma imamovic ye cuz of the horrible training for new trainees but in the actual game
That Wilhelm scream though
1:43 It's that scream they always use in films >.
Wilhelm Scream
1:10 What was that viking thinking? "Oh yeah I can take this huge fucking army on with my tiny ass ship!"
May have been possible before vikings were nerfed?
did the dude who get stepped on let out the fucking Wilhelm scream?
What I find funny/interesting is that he's crushed mid-scream, as if the cinematic developers were saying "NO!" and were trying to imply how people just want the overuse of that sample to stop.
I am trying to think of some epic game mix ups (most of what I thought of is mainly Warhammer 40K with Starcraft), for example: swap the Terrans and the Space Marines around so it'ill be Space Marines VS Zerg and Terrans VS Tyranids, Orks, Chaos etc.
hmm...Tyranids, Orks and Chaos against Zerg won't be a bad idea, I mean Tyranids are pretty similar to Zerg so it will be a close fight.
Orks, well...they're Orks. And Chaos I don't know about Chaos.
Anyone else got any other ideas?
probably the most badass female character of the last 20 years :p
You know funny thing. This is probably also the closest many people will ever get to seeing what a potential Warhammer 40k movie might look like as well.
Anyone heard the Marine scream at 1:43 ? EASTER EGG!
How is that an easter egg? Easter eggs are supposed to be intentional inside jokes, hidden messages, bonuses or features in a work such as a computer programs, movies, books, or crosswords. You're pointing out the Wilhelm scream, wich gets used all the time.
You mean the Wilhelm scream? Cause that is an inside joke. Its in like hundreds of movies and trailers, it was a stock scream used way back when that people found so hilarious they use it all the time as sort of a nod/joke.
Alright, i think i understand..
This is the most epic game trailer I have ever seen.
I don't play blizz games anymore but I gotta say that they have been doing the best cinematics I've ever seen... I can't even imagine how much money they would make doing a full lenght, sure it'd be expensive and it'd take forever to make but I'm pretty sure they'd make a fortune.
1:36 you know your screwed when an ultralisk takes a siege tank blast to the face and keeps going
dude they need to come out with a full movie like this.
à #1:25 le pied du tank ressemble à la voiture du marine que l'on détruit dans la campagne zerg ^^
and from the sudden *NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED*
2:06 walking on mengsk's face, love it
Probably Starcraft 4 or 5 will have this cinematic's graphics.
Blizz needs to just stop making sub par games, and start making kick@$$ animated action films, because they would rock at it.
Or they could, you know, do both... Dumbass...
Yes because sucking at making games is a GOOD thing right? lawlz, and you call me the dumbass, what a joke.
Mhm. Because the world's largest MMO game ever, whose 3rd expansion sold almost 2,000 copies a minute (currently holds the world record for the fastest selling computer game ever), is such a failure, right?
First off, expansion's are not games, so that "world record" is full of sh!t. Secondly, I think the popularity of Twilight and the Michael Bay Transformers movies is proof enough that popularity does NOT equal quality.
I think it does. 7.5 Million players in the US are willing to pay $15 a month for a game they love and enjoy. That means Blizzard is making over a Billion dollars a year, just off the US players. That's not including Asia, which makes up 43% of the WoW playerbase. On another note, the expansions are not counted as DLCs, and are recognized as their own games. If you don't believe the record, take it up with Guinness. Also, the definition of "popular" literally means "liked, admired or enjoyed by many people", which makes your entire argument in your last post completely pointless, and it makes you look like even more of a dumbass.
1:55 - What do you mean "No parking your battle cruisers" here?
Game trailers are getting so good they may as well make films to release with the game too!
That ultralisk will have a hell of a headache when he wakes up tomorrow...
Games can make the most amazing cinematics, not just blizzard games, have you seen how amazing batman arkham origins cinematics are. I'm surprised they have not actually made a movie out of these types of animations, it would be so amazing
Final Fanstasy Movie 2001 is not related with the game but anyways...
***** yeah pretty much, even that one... but that's not the point.
It's really a wonder that there's still ruins left after a freaking battlecruiser (which must have tons of fusion reactors) falls on the city.
O my gawd, they should do a movie about this. No story, no conversations. Just action..
I'll watch the credits then.
You don't know fear until you've seen an ultralisk gallop.
is the Leviathan, is a hero zerg unit that can spam aerial units
is the VA of Kerrigan the same with Leah's from Diablo3?
when she talked, i remembered the cinematic in which she-diablo crushes the gates of the heavens.
That ultra gets hit in his fucking face and he's like "that fucking tickled u little shit c'mere" omg
My life has meaning again. That scream actually has a name. Thank you, my illuminator.
No splits on the marines. What a bronzie
....man some long waits are totally worth it.
Blizz cinematics second to none, Hell its about damn time
Omg ... Best Trailer T_T Please !! MAKE. A. MOVIE. OUT. OF. THIS.
Ok i got goosebumps when the tanks went siege mode...
You don't know fear till you see an army of zerg with 10 ultras, kerrigan riding a battlecruiser that is about to crash while a zergling is starting to bite your balls off.
1:13
Viking Pilot: TIME TO TRANSFORM AND ROLL OOOOUUU-OOOOOOOOO SHIT!!!
cinematics are always better then actual game play.
OMG why cant we have EPIC trailers such as this HOLLYWOOD!! been long i saw EPIC
Don't forget the Ultralisk who crushed a tank underfoot and afterwards shrugged of a siege tank blast to the head.
This is the most epic game trailer I've ever seen. And I've seen way too many game trailers and game movies.
That awkward moment when you thought all this was part of the game and it proved to be just the trailer of a vision...
May i ask how do you know this is a months work for this movie ? Do you work @ Blizzard ?
I think they key to knowing that could be price of making this kind of cinematic trailer.
1:36
Ultralisk: Oh hey guys what's going on in this battl- HEY WHAT THE HELL MAN.
1:35
Ultralisk: You think that hurt?
Marine: Damn
No but seriously, i definitly like the updated ultralisk, how it looks more like a rhino now. Because if i remember in SC1 they looked like weird mantis-with-tusks things. And i mean the player uses ultras as an end game piece, smashing defenses and bases to bits, so when I think of a living battering ram, I think of a rhino, and therefore, an ulta.
Starcraft has now became something that I would rather have as a movie than play the game.
Battle cruiser falling from the sky made a huge damage to the city
Didnt thought the Terran Dominion wont expect a huge Seige to there capital planet
I am the flood-I mean swarm . . .
with these headphones, epicness overload
this is fuc. amazing !!!! they should create movie...
that viking sacrificed himself to make a final, to help save others. although he didn't hold up.... it's his actions that speaks volumes. i believe blizz was just expressing that.
The Wilhelm Scream! It's everywhere!
Rendering such visuals in real-time is currently impossible even if you had the best possible hardware. Also the trailer actually features a remixed version of the song "Berserker" by Audiomachine (the original version of the song was used in the first trailer for HOS).
1:43 I think you know the reference
is there a reason kerrigans face looks different here compared to wing of liberty?
her face wasnt purple befor and her eyes looks like fire befor.
is she different because u can slowly become more zerg-like again in this game?
is this video a vision of the future? or just a dream?
Actually, they do. They have their own internal CGI team.
could anyone tell me what is that on the sky at 00:45 ?
How did the Terrans not notice a massive leviathan in space, and when spores drop down it's very hard to believe there wasn't some sort of defense system in place to shoot them down. Siege tanks massed in the plaza but only 2-3 vikings in the air :P.
It was a dream by Kerrigan so...
A stupid dream.
and they calculated most of her drop pods didn't hit the ground, just one she was in with a few workers and they were able to build a hive on planet
Gabriel Barile If there's no logic and reason to base it on it's just garbage, or anime.
Gabriel Barile A don't see how it's a dystopic future, but either way, it's a war sci fi, if it was fairies shooting ray guns no one would care.
That viking, will be remembered.
I love the tank at 1:04. What the driver was saying the entire time: "HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT!!!!! THAT UGLY MOTHERFACKER IS HUGE! HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!"
honestly, even though a full movie in this render quality will probably take aaages to make and cost bazillions of dollars, THEY HAVE TO DO IT.
Sir there's a giant Zerg death ball coming right for us! Orders sir?
Send in two Vikings. That should do the trick.
That viking pilot who went autobot in the face off a bazilliondier zerglings has more balls than a mcdonalds play place
they should make a full 90 min movie like this !!
1:43 Pvt Wilhelm learnt the hard way the only17% of terrans survive their first day of combat in the Terran army.
No. Other developers hire DIGIC and BLUR to do their trailers, but Blizzard is one of the two developers that have their own internal CG studio. (albeit not big enough for a full-fledged movie production)
This trailer is much better than the LotV one.
So true..and that crashing battlecruiser....AWE-SOME
How come there's no 1080p version? Only 720p?
this looks so freaking cool! they should make a movie with how this trailer looks :D
at 1:37 there is a baneling rolling :D
Half the marines on the ground probably said "shit" when they saw an Ultralisk take one to the face and kept coming.
is it just me or this could be an epic movie that could send transformers to stone edge?top class war video.
this should be a movie
i think its the ultralisk, it's his real size like the battle cruiser
not this one particularly but a friend of mine who was working as modeller told me that it took a long time for blizz to do wings of liberty cgi. You know, tychus getting geared as marine? Frankly if u know anything about cgi proccess you'd understand its quite believable.
Oh I am sorry to hear that.
they have a general theme...
Zerathul = Medivh
Xel'Naga = Titans
The Fallen One = Sargeras
The Swarm = The Legion
hell i wouldn't even be suprised if blizzard would announce that the Xel'Naga and the Titans are the same, and that Starcraft/Warcraft are in the same reality but only diffrent galaxys ...
Until I saw this trailer, I never knew that Ultralisks or Battlecruisers were that big.
Ultralisks can crush siege tanks and vikings with one foot?
Battlecruisers are that much bigger than buildings?
+jessc1979
Yup. One thing that was actually really surprising to me... have you ever seen the original Starcraft cutscenes? There is one cutscene where a squad of marines have to go into a science vessel. One of those orb like vessels that look like they're about the size of a siege tank in gameplay. Turns out that it's actually a huge ship that they end up trying to destroy it by planting a bomb in the core.
+CReaper210 Yeah, when you see how big a Science Vessel or a Battlecruiser is, you wonder how a team of 10-15 marines could bring it down.
Wait a second, towards the end that big thing crashing down was a BATTLECRUISER? Holy shit, that thing was huge!! Didn't think it was meant to be THAT big. Wow, maybe only for the cinematic?
Well, seeing as how strong the ultralist is in LOTV, it isn't that surprising now QQ
Pretty sure it was a gorgon battle cruiser not the standard edition, gorgon ones are fat asf.
So is this series going to end on the Protoss campaign like the original or what?
i wish this is a movie triller
How did the nydus worm get there? Orbital nydus worm drop?
did you ever play WOL?
The first Starship Troopers Movie was great (1997) .......Not to mention Starhip Troopers books inspired some things in Aliens and in the SciFi genre.....Starship Troopers and Warhammer 40k are the best SciFi Universes that inspired games and movies,,,,,