Game review: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm the second installment in the trilogy with this installment focusing on the Zerg race. It is an expansion that requires StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty to play.

Like most of the StarCraft series, this game is a RTS(real-time strategy) game that involves gathering resources and building armies to fight enemies. To win, strategic thinking is required for things like anticipating moves and forming strategies.

This expansion features 27 new campaign missions and a 7 new units. The campaign mode focuses on Kerrigan who is the queen of the Zerg race. Kerrigan additionally acts as a playable hero unit in the campaign.  During the course of the campaign by doing the bonus objectives you can customize Kerrigan and your army. This makes the missions more interesting to play although the story seems to be poorly written

The multiplayer mode is also improved. With the new units and changes to some of the existing units gameplay feels different from the gameplay of Wings of Liberty. This means that players will have to learn new tactics and learn to anticipate the enemy’s moves again. Because of this there is a new feature that while during a replay of a battle you had, you can take control of the game at any point. This lets you try out if by making a different decision would change the outcome of the battle.

All in all I would say that StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is game worth buying as it has a fun multiplayer for those hardcore gamers.

Score: 7.5/10