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- Platform: Windows 7 / XP / Vista, Mac OS X
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Edition: Collectors Edition
Product Description
Heart of the Swarm is the first expansion set to the epic sci-fi real-time strategy game, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. Heart of the Swarm continues the story from Wings of Liberty with an all-new campaign that focuses on Kerrigan, the former Queen of Blades.
In the Heart of the Swarm campaign, players will be able to evolve their swarms with unique, campaign-only units and abilities, and this evolution will happen in an organic manner befitting of the expansion's zerg theme. Kerrigan will also play a major role in each of the battles as a powerful hero. Over the course of the campaign, she will grow in strength and earn new abilities, and players will choose which powers to enhance and use from mission to mission.
New multiplayer units and maps will add new dimensions of strategic gameplay, and the expansion will include new features and upgrades to the Battle.net online platform to improve the custom-game experience.
Features:
- Continues the epic story of StarCraft II from where Wings of Liberty left off.
- Approximately 20 new campaign missions.
- New campaign gameplay mechanics, allowing players to evolve new abilities and units for their zerg army.
- Go into battle with Kerrigan as she tries to restore her strength and regain control of the Swarm.
- New multiplayer units and maps, expanding strategic choice and gameplay depth for each race.
- Expanded features and functionality for Battle.net to improve custom-game search, and new tools for map authors to create even more epic custom games.
- New pre-rendered and in-game cinematics bring the story of Heart of the Swarm to life.
Please Note: Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm is an expansion pack and requires Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty to be played.
Box Contains
- Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm PC/Mac Game
- Exclusive Behind The Scenes DVD & Blu-Ray Two-Disc Set
- Collector's Edition Soundtrack
- Heart of the Swam Art Book
- Zerg Rush Mouse Pad
- Starcraft II: Torrasque Ultralisk & Portraits (exclusive in-game content)
- World of Warcraft: Pet Baneling (exclusive in-game content)
- Diablo III: Blade Wings and Banner Sigil (exclusive in-game content)
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Edition:Collectors Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just finished the campaign and the storyline and campaign mechanics overall are very good. The different planets you go to serve the purpose of tying together their respective story arcs very well, and I prefer the closed story arcs per planet over the mish-mash of short planet visits Wings of Liberty offered. The use of Kerrigan as a recurring hero unit is a nice change to the armchair commanding in Wings of Liberty, as it also involves the story more into play. And I really like how you can change her skills between missions, so you don't have to be stuck with the same build the entire campaign. The evolution missions are nice intermezzos and a good way to trying the evolutions before you decide on which one to take.
Can't say much on the multiplayer yet, as I don't even bother with that before hunting most of the campaign achievements down, which will take a while given my being terrible at playing Zerg.
Now onto the CE goodies, which is where the fifth star went missing for me. Don't get me wrong, the extras are worth the money, but I liked what I got in my Wings of Liberty box better. The soundtrack and behind the scenes DVD/bluray are must haves for any diehard fan, the mouse pad has a nice design and has the expected quality and the hardcover art book is just fabulous and what sold me on the boxed CE edition over the digital version. But this box just lacks that special feeling I got from the James Raynor dog tag USB stick and the little comic book.
In short, the game is awesome and the goodies are good, but none of them stands out like the Jimmie Raynor Edition did. Here's to hoping Legacy of the Void will continue the story in an equally epic fashion and that we get a Zeratul Edition special goodie in that box!
Can't say much on the multiplayer yet, as I don't even bother with that before hunting most of the campaign achievements down, which will take a while given my being terrible at playing Zerg.
Now onto the CE goodies, which is where the fifth star went missing for me. Don't get me wrong, the extras are worth the money, but I liked what I got in my Wings of Liberty box better. The soundtrack and behind the scenes DVD/bluray are must haves for any diehard fan, the mouse pad has a nice design and has the expected quality and the hardcover art book is just fabulous and what sold me on the boxed CE edition over the digital version. But this box just lacks that special feeling I got from the James Raynor dog tag USB stick and the little comic book.
In short, the game is awesome and the goodies are good, but none of them stands out like the Jimmie Raynor Edition did. Here's to hoping Legacy of the Void will continue the story in an equally epic fashion and that we get a Zeratul Edition special goodie in that box!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Edition:Collectors Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Ordered it as a gift for my friend's birthday. Although it's only in April, but I gave it earlier (since the delivery was super fast). After looking through the art book and behind the scene content I must agree with my friend that this stuff is a must for true fans.
By Miguel Salas
Edition:Collectors Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Clearly not as good as WoL. The campaign is way to easy (got all achivements on my first run on Hard). The campaign is lacking in depth or charisma and the few new map mechanics introduced are repeated till they get boring. I really had to push myself to finish this one.
Multiplayer is more of the same (which is not a bad thing) with some new units, but for me they don't add enough new mechanics or strategies in general.
Multiplayer is more of the same (which is not a bad thing) with some new units, but for me they don't add enough new mechanics or strategies in general.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
I am the swarm.
If you are a fan of Starcraft, you should have this.
or if your boyfriend is a fan, send him a gift of this.
or if your boyfriend is a fan, send him a gift of this.
Published 6 days ago by winters
5.0 out of 5 stars
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely the BEST RTS ever in my opinion. The game play is smooth and the graphics are awesome. Also waited years for this :)
Published 7 days ago by mr barrie battams
5.0 out of 5 stars
great game!
Love this item there is nothing i didn't like about it would recommend 5 stars cos it is worth it
Published 9 days ago by S. T. Bunn
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nice Expansion
Too short but very good, new units are fun to play with, campaign can be replayed at higher difficulty to strengthen your skills
Published 17 days ago by Valentino Beltramelli
4.0 out of 5 stars
excellent story line
Pros
Gameplay very good
Graphics nice (not fantastic if you've seen 2013 releases)
sound/music (top)
Story line, This is where the game excells. Read more
Gameplay very good
Graphics nice (not fantastic if you've seen 2013 releases)
sound/music (top)
Story line, This is where the game excells. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Theodor Georgomanolis
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome!
Great game. Totally worth the value.
Various missions, with different game types and strategies.
I recommend this game. It's awesome!
Various missions, with different game types and strategies.
I recommend this game. It's awesome!
Published 19 days ago by Mini0n
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome
Very good game and the collector edition gives you good "goodies" and presented in a nice collection box
Thanks blizzard
Thanks blizzard
Published 20 days ago by JC Maleyran
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant expansion for a brilliant game
The new storyline is really good and I think the campaign has a much better structure than the Wings of Liberty campaign. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Joel Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars
nice
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Published 1 month ago by christian thunbo
5.0 out of 5 stars
Everything as expected
Good piece if you enjoy having a Collector's Editions, looks good on shelf with other Collector's Edition boxes from Blizzard or other companies.
Published 1 month ago by Anton
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