Three gameplay videos, taken at the BlizzCon event, have surfaced on YouTube. While the harsh restrictions issued by Blizzard forbade filming at the event, a few brave individuals did manage to sneak some footage out.

The video, courtesy of ThisIsGame.com, shows Moon, a WarCraft III Pro gamer, play two games against the computer. Apparently, this is part of the single player campaign, or perhaps a mock up created specifically for BlizzCon.

First Video:

Moon plays as Protoss. These are the early stages of the game - he builds up his base and techs up while producing a few Zealots and setting up Phase Cannons. In the mean time, he sets up a few expansions to provide an increased rate of resources collection. Not much else happens in this video, except for a few small skirmishes between Zealots and Marines. However, this is the first video to actually show the StarCraft Protoss gameplay from the player’s point of view - building up a base, managing resources and workers, etc. It is very evident that the feel of the game is almost identical to StarCraft 1.

Second Video - Two Parts:

Moon plays as Terran. This video is more interesting, and features actual fights with large Terran forces, consisting of many of the units we’ve heard about only recently. Like the Protoss video, the Terran gameplay is also almost identical to that of StarCraft 1. The responses units give and the sounds for buildings and units are the same as their counterparts from the previous game. We hope that these are only placeholders, added to the game at this point of early development to provide a better experience for BlizzCon visitors.

In the second part, Moon uses his large force to walk over the Protoss base, calling down nukes in the process. After destroying the entire Protoss base, save for one Pylon, he calls down 3 nukes on his forces and completes the mission.

8 Comments to “Three Gameplay Videos Leaked From BlizzCon”

1. Change — August 10, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
   

   Nice, good job moon! But I hope they will make 4 changes in the final cut…
   1. All the ships fly in formation
   2. Redo the voices of the reaper and viking
   3. Make the explosions sound more real
   4. Make a night map, where battle lights up the sky like in WWII

2. d — August 10, 2007 @ 3:44 pm
   

   Holy fuck this guy is annoying to watch, he spams to much and is way to excessive at what hes doing (right clicking 6ish times to move the zealots to 1 spot? spamming probe as if his minerals will magically come in faster) anyways besides him being annoying great job getting the videos they where still awsome because it is starcraft
   Btw its still really early gameplay so expect anything to change, iam sure most of the sounds arnt final.

3. Saturnight — August 11, 2007 @ 1:51 am
   

   this annoying guy has earned more money clicking than u will ever earn in ur life ^^

4. d — August 11, 2007 @ 6:28 am
   

   Because you clearly base this apon facts, this wasnt about “omg who makes more money” this is about the starcraft 2 videos.

5. Saturnight — August 11, 2007 @ 3:37 pm
   

   it was just a a note. anyway all the competitive players of rts games do spam like that so i dont understand thy u so pissed about that

6. d — August 12, 2007 @ 1:25 am
   

   A worthless note because money means nothing… Anyways i wasnt “pissed” i was commenting on the video, and that spamming and trying to look all pro makes for a very crappy video. Plus think about it.. you dont need to be pro to defeat a computer he was just to excessive and made the video very annoying to view, also like i said the video was still great because it is starcraft. They kept the starcraft feeling and this game is going to rock so much when it comes out

7. Saturnight — August 12, 2007 @ 3:01 am
   

   Well i dont think that he needed to “look like a pro” cuz he alrdy is. Thats just the way he plays.. and for me its not that annoying. The point of the note was “that annoying way of playing that u hate so much has made him rich”. Anyway sorry 4 my 1st comment i shouldnt have said it in that way. And about the starcraft 2 gameplay i agree its very nice

8. A — August 13, 2007 @ 7:05 am
   

   I’m not pro but I click multiply times in RTS games, dunno why though.. Maybe to get my self worked-up