Awe yea thats right! Last night I got an email from the wonderful game creating juggernaut, Blizzard with the best gaming news of 2010. I had been selected to beta test StarCraft 2. So the first thing I did was login to my battle.net account and started downloading the game, wait no, that wasn’t first… Oh yea! I instantly picked up my phone and text two of my good gaming buddies and started gloating! Man, I know its not nice to flaunt things others don’t have, but come on, beta testing for thee one RTS that has been on all gamers minds for the last 5 years is worthy of a little (or a lot) or flaunting.  So after that I started the painstakingly long download that was set to last 12 hours and then headed to bed dreaming about the Terran, Protoss, and Zerg.

After church today and helping my wife get more of the baby clothes washed and more toys, diapers, and accessories put away, I played my first ever game of Starcraft 2. I did random as it has been such a long time since I have played and wasn’t good at the game in the first place(I was a Warcraft 2 and 3 player). Unfortunately I think I got stuck with one of the hardest classes to play, which was Protoss. Good thing for me is the other guy had never played the game before so when I bombarded his base with with a nice air assault the game was over. 1-0 with StarCraft 2 so of course my ego got a little big for my britches.

The second game I was not so lucky, I was Terran and my opponent was Zerg. I decided to try a well balanced build of ground and air assault with a few artillery units for fun. However, he decided to mass zergling rush and wiped that smug grin right off my face, needless to say the wind in my sails were gone. I will keep giving more StarCraft 2 updates; along with some screenshots and maybe even some video of me playing, since being a beta tester is about trying out all aspects of the game and to get everyone else excited for the game, I thought I would help do my part.

If you are also beta testing StarCraft 2 and are new to the game, then I would suggest watching some of the game replays located at StarCraft 2 Strategy Masters. They have put Hi-Def game replays, along with some commentary of what they are doing and why they are doing it. Another good place to look for guides is at StarCraft 2 Armory, they have guides and a lot of news on Starcraft 2.