Right now, the SC2 Terrans just seem too perfect, everything is cleaned and polished. It doesn’t generate the hardship or wasteland feel. It needs to capture the magic of the original Terran where they are fighting a hard war, but they don’t give a dam and continue pushing on with whatever equipment or scrap metal they have left. It would be great if the units are able to get the same effect too.

*how doese the terran faction look visually*
i think the terran marines lack detail and therefor look sort of cartoony

*how doese the protoss faction look visually*
brilliante

*additional feedback you would like to give*
all together i think the game is great tho i wouldnt mind the warp ray being turned back into the capital ship and the carrier turned into a primary defensive ship
i also think the firebats are fairly pointless as they are the unit that quote everybody loves but nobody uses.

* How does the Terran faction look visually?
The Terrans need to have a more gritty look (e.g. rust, random flaws in
models). The marines run in a… fake way. They don’t look real.

* How does the Protoss faction look visually?
It looks great, but the phoenix looks like stained glass you would find in
church.

* Additional Feedback you would like to give
I think it would be awesome if you would include a day/night mode. Night
battle scenes would resemble World War II. Tank/machine gun/bomb
explosions flash in the night sky. One more thing, I think the Terran death
sound effects suck. I want infantry units to explode in a gory way, hearing
their gargled screams as their intestines spurt out of their torso.

1) Are you satisfied with the general artistic direction of the units in the game, which are mostly comprised of 3D versions of the old designs?
I think the art is good, but for Starcraft I had expected to see something so
amazing that I would not know the difference between the game and
reality.

2) Do you feel that the new look, compared to StarCraft 1, is more, less, or equally “cartoony”?
I think that Starcraft needs to be as least cartoony as possible, while
balancing gameplay of course.

3) Which of the returning units from StarCraft 1 has received the best StarCraft 2 design? Which is the worst?
I think the Protoss Carrier is completely awesome. I love how it launches
the fighter by swinging back it’s fighter bay. In my opinion, THE THOR IS
THE WORST. It has WAY TOO MANY GUNS!!! I think it needs to look more
like an Imperial Walker from the Empire Strikes Back.

“I would like to see Blizzard add NEW components to the game, not just a make over of SC1.”
–battlearmd

Both of these express exactly of what I’m thinking. A lot of the comments above run along the lines of “X doesn’t have the same feel as Starcraft 1, please change it back.” Before playing starcraft 1, we had no preconception about what a Zerg or Protoss should look like. Now we have this notion, so we expect new units, etc. to fit into it. But maybe we just haven’t had a chance to get used to the new look. I think the comments about zerglings are a good example. When I first saw the new zergling, I thought it was pretty ugly. Who wants to attack with grasshoppers? But then I thought, maybe there’s an upgrade that let’s them hop cliffs, similar to reapers. That would be pretty cool, and then the wings would make sense. And then I thought, Swarm of Locusts is a classic plague, and 100 flying zerglings swarming your base would probably be pretty terrifying. Now I like the new zergling, and I haven’t even played with it yet!

Change is good. This isn’t your old starcraft.

3) Which of the returning units from StarCraft 1 has received the best StarCraft 2 design? Which is the worst?

The best – The zergling. I like the wings! More bug-like in my opinion. Just what I’d expect from the self-perfecting evolving zerg.