It's a voyeuristic experience, and one that feels like it could give you a seizure at times. Viewers can watch the game with a user-controlled, free-roaming camera, or they can choose to view exactly what any one the other players is seeing. Custom match players can mix and match any combination of viewers and spectators up to 12. StarCraft II supports up to 12 players in custom games or eight players in ranked matches with four additional slots designated for spectators. The match was shown to us through the game's new spectator mode. StarCraft II supports up to 12 players in custom games or 8 players in ranked matches with four additional slots designated for spectators.
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You'd think it would be strange sitting in a plush movie theater and cheering on players that weren't in the room (they were manning their armies from separate locations), but it was actually exciting and opened us up to the possibility of theaters selling tickets to watch massive gaming events in the future. Game balance designers - and SC2 Battle Report players - David Kim and Matt Cooper squared off against each other on several maps, with Kim trouncing Cooper each time. %Gallery-66757%Before our play date began, Blizzard's Rob Simpson, from the tournament / e-sports team, StarCraft II lead designer Dustin Browder and PR maestro Bob Calyco treated us to a live Battle Report featuring three, player-vs-player multiplayer matches in a cozy screening room. After you've pounded your brain with several hundred hours (for some of you, it's probably thousands of hours) of StarCraft, and you fire up StarCraft II, it's like being jolted by 1.21 jigawatts of mouse-clicking rapture - which, thankfully, also numbed the pain of our ongoing losing streak. The good news is that StarCraft II looks simply amazing, and it plays even better. Although, in our defense, we were playing against some hardcore fansites, and the setup of Blizzard's recent hands-on event was not unlike being dropped into a televised StarCraft tournament match in Korea with an announcer saying, "Okay, and. The bad news? We still managed to get owned. During the interim, we've logged countless hours with the original StarCraft and its Brood War expansion (having picked up new, digital copies for a mere $15) in order to prepare for this opportunity. It's been nearly two years since we were first embarrassed in a StarCraft II multiplayer preview, but we recently got our long-awaited shot at redemption.
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