StarCraft II Midnight Openings and shows in Europe July 26th

[Balcora]

Some of you may or may not know this.

But in a few cities around Europe on July 26. Parts of the production crew of Starcraft 2 will visit a few selected stores around Europe.
This is ofc to celebrate the launch of Starcraft II on July 27 "woho". They will have contests, give you a chance to ask the crew questions. And special events that variates form location to location. The actor and Kerrigan the queen of blades her self will make an appearance in London along with a marine in full armor.

The locations are:
*London
At Games starts here at 100 Oxford Street London, W1D 1LL at July 26th, 10.30pm with Special guest appearances from a terran Marine and Kerrigan the Queen of Blades

*Berlin
At Media Markt Berlin-Mitte, Grunerstraße 20 at July 26th, 22:30 whit Jim Raynor “n00b-figurine” live coloring contest

*Paris
At fnac.com FNAC - Champs Elysées, 74, av. des Champs-Elysées at July 26th, 18:00 With photo session with a terran Marine

*Stockholm
At Webhallen.com, Sveavägen 39, 111 34 Stockholm at July 26th, 19:00 With a special StarCraft II musical performance

*Moscow
At Media Markt, Moscow, 119334, Prospekt Vernadskogo 6, Trade Center “Capitoliy” at July 26th, 20:00 with StarCraft II costume contest

And ofc in USA and Singapore, but I'm not gonna put them in here.

If you have not gotten or pre ordered your copy yet. There will be plenty of em for sale at these stores. And a big supply of the Collectors edition.
All the places will have photo sessions, the opportunity to ask the producers questions. Music and laser shows. Countdown and much much more.
There will also be contests to win prizes from Nvidia and gear form Razer to name a few.
Also 1 lucky person at each of these locations will also win a trip to BlizzCon 2010 for 2 persons (includes flight, transportation, hotel accommodation & BlizzCon tickets) That alone is worth going down there.

So if you live close to any of these locations. Head down there and check it out. Unfortunately I don't, so I'm just gonna have to wait for the Collectors edition to find its way to my mail box. Then sit and wait for Blizzard to remove the install block so I can play the darn thing.

At this writing moment its 21 hours and 2 min left.

[Laex]

Guess noone is coming to Africa

I'm attending a midnight launch anyway. Need to feel young again

[Balcora]

Yeah there are a few around here to. But that's just stores keeping open to sell the game. Not much or anything close to what Blizzard have planed for the stores I mentioned earlier.
I already ordered and got my game today. So I'm not gonna bother.

5 hours and 13 min left until the block is removed

[Balcora]

Well at long last I can finally install the darn thing. So its gonna be a long night for me. See you in a few weeks

[Laex]

I'm not even going to get to play it for ages. It's at the back of my pile

[CustodianV131]

So anyone have some thing to say about it? Down with the flu atm and it may be the high fever, but I'm tempted to buy it.

Only for the singleplayer campaign though, not in that clickfest they call multiplayer. Is it worthit getting it for the singleplayer campaign?

[Balcora]

So anyone have some thing to say about it? Down with the flu atm and it may be the high fever, but I'm tempted to buy it.

Only for the singleplayer campaign though, not in that clickfest they call multiplayer. Is it worthit getting it for the singleplayer campaign?

Well that depends. SP is not like the old one. Only the terran campaign with 31 missions. Well its 29 since some of em depends on a few of the choices you do. Huge story and lots to do and explore at first in between missions. You can roam around your ship and talk to the crew. Play at the arcade machine at the bar that plays good old redneck music. The money you earn is used for upgrades for your army. And you get to mostly choose the order of the missions. Love the music. Great cinematics. And best of all. Tho not in MP. Many of the units form the old game returns in SP. Like the vulture and the goliath.

All in all atm I'm having more fun with the SP then the MP. Is well made and nicely put together. But some of the old boring mission types. Like
go and gather 8000 minerals.

Imo its worth it. But if you are cheap. The best option would be to go to blizzard and the the digital download. The game can be played in offline mode. But... you have to go online 1st and activate the game. So only a half arsed DRM on this one.

Oh.. and did anyone notice that the laser drill had a win98 bluescreen error on his monitors?

[CustodianV131]

Thanks!

I'll check Blizzard to see what the digital download will cost me. Shame they don't use Steam or Impulse and such.

EDIT: WOW!!! 60 euro for a digital download? Buying it retail is cheaper... Hasn't convinced me enough to plunk that down for it. Don't want to encourage that behavior.

[Balcora]

60? hmm must be the same stupid area thingy again then. Just like the life sup for lotro. I was not that much for me. But I got the boxed version. Collectors edition for about 75 euro/62£ The prize for the digital download for me was 50 euro/41£ if I wanted that option. Is only 1 euro or two less then what the cheapest retail boxed version costs here. Most stores around here take 62/52£ or even 75 euros for the normal boxed version. But the gamer stores take around 50. Only the stupid stores that also sells TV's and other electrical stuff go over 62 "62 is 399 NOK".
I pre-ordered my online from a game store. Most Collectors editions over here costs 112 Euros/93£. So I was lucky to find it that cheap.

If you have played the 1st SC then you kinda would know what to expect. If you have not. Then its kinda hard to explain. I love it. Have loved it since 1998 when I played the 1st one. And I still play the 1st one via LAN with the ppl that live upstairs. Its great fun.

I can recommend this game if you love RTS. Tho some of the units have the "rock, scissors, paper" system. Its nicely balanced. Not as horrible as C&C 4 was. One mammoth and a NOD buggy could shoot at each other for 5 hours before one of em died. Cus they where not the effective unit to counter that unit. Not like that here tho. Tho some of em got "good against these units" and "weak against these units". But they still take out other units effectively if you got enough of em.