ACTIVISION Starcraft II: Heart Of The Swarm - Expansion Pack

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Kick your cosmic conquests into hyperdrive with Blizzards Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm Expansion Pack, the first expansion set to the epic sci-fi real-time strategy game, Star Craft II: Wings of Liberty. The story so far Heart of the Swarm continues the story of Wings of Liberty with an all-new campaign that centres on Sarah Kerrigan, the former Queen of Blades. Jim Raynor has yoked the power of an ancient Xel Naga artefact to prevent the zerg Swarm overrunning the Koprulu sector, restoring Sarah Kerrigan to her human form in the process. Without their Queen, the Swarm has dissipated into several scattered broods throughout the Koprulu sector, neutralised... for now. Once the galaxys most feared figure, you, as Kerrigan, now languish in a cell beneath a high-security research laboratory on the planet Char. You must plan your escape into the depths of space before the brutal forces of the Terran Dominion close in, repossessing your living empire at the Heart of the Swarm. Action, strategy & more There are Approx. 20 new campaign missions waiting for you in Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm, featuring thrilling new gameplay mechanics, new multiplayer units & maps, & even more features & functionality. Youll be able to evolve swarms with unique, campaign-only units & abilities, doing so in an organic way that fits this expansions zerg theme. As a major facet of each battle, Kerrigan appears as a powerful hero, building strength & earning new abilities which you can choose to enhance & use across missions. Feel the power of new weapons of war, deploying crushing new units across an ever-changing battleground, obliterating foes with the Hellbat, taking control of the skies with the Tempest, annihilating entrenched enemies with the Swarm Host, & so much more. You can evolve your brood for optimum devastation, unlocking latent psionic powers & swarming across planets in your moon-sized zerg Leviathan. Unnatural selections Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm will blow you away with how much harder, better, faster & stronger the Swarm is. In constant evolution you decide how the zerg develop: mutate your different zerg species between missions, &, if you unlock sufficient mutations for a species, you can evolve that species into one of two different strains. One zergling strain might become able to hatch more zerglings from the same egg, while the other could produce zerglings that can make short leaps forward to close into melee distance more quickly. The way in which you uncover & choose to use abilities & other facets of the gameplay have a significant effect on the outcome of each battle, providing excitingly varied, layered action with every session. Multiplayer magic The real excitement of this Starcraft 2 Expansion Pack is in the new multiplayer units & maps, which expand the strategic choice & depth of gameplay depth for each race. Experience the next evolution of Star Craft IIs global community on Battle.net. Join co-operative games with friends, player near-limitless sessions in the Arcade, & amass your forces across ranked & unranked brackets for every level of play. There are expanded features & functionality for Battle.net to improve custom-game search, plus awesome new tools for map authors to create even more epic custom games. New pre-rendered & in-game cinematics bring the story of Heart of the Swarm to life, & the in-game visuals, motion & effects are supremely detailed & stunning to look at. Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm Expansion Pack from Blizzard Software is the next jaw-dropping instalment in the Starcraft saga, expanding your play options beyond your wildest gaming dreams & delivering some of the best RTS action available.____________________________________ Please note: Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm is an expansion pack & requires Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty to be played.