It seems every year comes and goes with a rumor of some sort surfacing about StarCraft 2. I grew up on StarCraft, it was the 1st game I became literally addicted to. It was the game that turned me from a kid who plays games into a gamer. And now it seems more likely than ever that StarCraft 2 will finally be announced , but this news has got me to really contemplate what a sequel for StarCraft would be like.

I'm one of those people who believe StarCraft is pretty much as perfect as any game has ever gotten, I mean, why else would it still have a larger online community then most RTSs released that are ¼ as old? What could Blizzard possibly do in a new StarCraft game to make it better? This is a game with a tremendous pedigree, and the sequel would (and pretty much already does) have impossibly high expectations.

2 years ago, hell, any time before October of last year I was ready for SC2 to come out, at least get announced, and completely blow my mind away, and get me back on the RTS wagon. After 2003 I pretty much moved on to other genres (thanks in part to Counter-Strike). I was on a 4 year dry-streak of RTS, until a game last year called Company of Heroes came along and completely saved my RTS fandom, and completely changed the way I saw RTSs. The gameplay is much more organic then SC (or pretty much any other RTS), with essentially no stats in the game, just realistic things happening that works for the game instead of just inhibiting it. Company of Heroes is a technical marvel that really shows how far RTSs have come since StaCraft in terms of graphics and gameplay.

For a sequel to StarCraft to come out, it would have to have all sorts of elements from all recent RTS releases. Fully 3D graphics, believable scale, destructible environments, and much more are expected in any new RTS. But if StarCraft 2 was to incorporate those things, would it really be StarCraft? RTSs today are so much different from 1998, how could SC2 possibly maintain the StarCraft vibe without drastically leaving the original's formula, and changing the very essence of the game? Do we really want a sequel to StarCraft? Perhaps StarCraft would be best left as it is.

I have faith in Blizzard though, and I know they know what they're doing. So whatever game it is they're going to be announcing on May 19th, I'm sure it's something to look forward to.