http://www.vectorstorm.org/2010/08/02/more-on-starcraft-ii/

But yeah, I think I somehow got to the Norrad, and through rest of the Terran campaign, and then never finished. SO! One-sixth of the original SC experience done.

As for that quote you posted – I know of no better reasons than those to pick a race to play.

When was it okay to just update graphics and rerelease a game??
(I know there are minor details that have changed, but it is basically the same frikking game).

/sad gamer

All in all, she’s getting a bit put off by the constant need to wait in missions (I think one took her an hour and a half), so she resorted to just cheating to build stuff and wipe everything out, but she’s getting the story, which is the important part.

She’s excited to jump into SC2 and see where it goes, so that’s good

Take, for example, Warcraft 2. Both sides have basic melee unit, it’s named Footman for humans and Grunt for orcs. Grunt model is green-skinned orc with a big axe, Footman model is plate-clad human with sword and shield. HP, movement speed, attack speed, armor and damage of both units are the same. In other words, the only difference between them is name and model.
This was true for every unit, with exception of spellcasters who had different spells. However, sometimes even spells were the same but had different names and graphic (I’m speaking about Blizzard/Death and Decay).
As consequence, the gameplay for the both sides was the same. Your peons harversted gold and lumber in the same way that your peasants did. If you’ve found a strategy which worked for humans you could just mirror it by orcs and it would work.
This balance model left one question: why have two sides? Playing human vs orc was the same as playing human vs human. Or orc vs orc.

Enter Starcraft. Three races which are radically different.
For example, you have a basic worker unit which harvests crystals, gas and builds. Is SCV, Drone and Probe the same unit with different name? No. SCV builds as peasant/peon from WC2 would built (spending its time on building site), Drone becomes the building, and Probe just starts the phasing of building and is able to do something else after. This is very visible distinction, and it brings about some important consequences. One is that Zerg buildings cost not a nominal price but nominal price + cost of the Drone. Other is that Probes spend zero time on building and bring more resourses over the course of the game (which helps with the high unit cost of Protoss). Also it requires just one Probe to build a whole Protoss base at once whereas Terrans would need many SCVs to do this, and Zerg would need to sacrifice as many drones as the number of buildings required.
The buildings themselves are very different too. Not only Terran can build whereever they want, they can fly their buildings exactly where they need them. Zerg are extremely limited as they can build only on creep (with the exception of hatchery). Protoss are also limited by their pylons.
Terran buildings can be repaired, Zerg cannot but slowly regenerate themselves, Protoss buildings have regenerating shields but can be turned off by destroying pylons that are powering them.
Terrans and Protoss can produce any numer of units at a time (limited by number of unit-producing buildings), Zerg have limited larvae which replenish over time and morph into units. On the other hand, Zerg do not need to spend resources on many different unit-producing buildings, they just build a few hatcheries.

In summary, three Starcraft races not just look different, you play them very very different. In the same time, the races are balanced, and it means that for each strategy that’s available for any race, all three races have an effective counters. The trick to game is to know your opponents strategy in advance (doing recoignessance on their base and guessing their strategy by buildings erected) and build successful counter IN TIME. If you are late to counter, you lose.

Oh and you need your missile cannons. Build them next to bunkers and push your marines into the zerg bases. Continue to pump them out and eventually you’ll push the zerg away and you can move around to Norad II. Remember you can repair Norad so keep the scvs bunkered.

Whatever you do, don’t force march across the map because if you do, the bigger zerg force will kill your forces and then kill Norad.

Just wait until you get to New Gettysburg!

Blizzard has some of the best storylines in the business and that alone is worth buying a game for. I don’t have SC2 yet. the price tag is a bit scary. but when I will buy it, I doubt I’ll be playing multiplayer much, but I sure will play through campaigns a few times

I loved zerg the most as playable race, and the story that progresses through their missions is really amazing.

Must look for my old Starcraft CDs now.