History VIdeoGame / StarcraftII

* HollywoodVoodoo: Hilariously subverted if the player [[spoiler: chooses to side with Nova over Tosh. When running away, Tosh]] threatens Raynor with a voodoo doll of himself, and then stabs it. Nothing happens, because [[spoiler: Tosh]] has attuned the doll to the wrong person: [[spoiler: Tychus.]] HilarityEnsues.

* ShootTheTelevision: Jim Raynor does this in the opening cutscenes, when Emperor Mengsk refers to him as "a clear and present threat" to the Dominion during a news conference interview.

* AudioErotica:
** In addition to the voices noted in the Character Sheet, a lot of the Terran Units' voices stay in your head for a ''long'' time afterward.
--> ''You know what what I'm talking about, baby! I got a WHOLE lotta love for those voices!''

* MiniGame: In the Cantina you can play Lost Viking, an arcade shooter style BulletHell game where you control the titular Lost Viking trying to make his way back to Vikingville, but watch out for the evil Terra-Tron, [[ExcusePlot HE DOES NOT LIKE YOU]].

Like ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' and ''Brood War'' previously had, Starcraft II has [[TournamentPlay a prominent competitive scene]], complete with professional teams, paid players, tournaments and sponsors. Blizzard caught on to the importance of the progaming scene and built [=SC2=] from the ground up around CompetitiveBalance while providing extensive first-party global tournament infrastructure. They also regularly solicit feedback from top players regarding the {{Metagame}} and act on certain suggestions, resulting in a constantly changing {{Metagame}} [[YMMV/StarcraftII for better or for worse]].

Like ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' and ''Brood War'' previously had, Starcraft II has [[TournamentPlay a prominent competitive scene]], complete with professional teams, paid players, tournaments and sponsors. Blizzard caught on to the importance of the progaming scene and built SC2 from the ground up around CompetitiveBalance while providing extensive first-party global tournament infrastructure. They also regularly solicit feedback from top players regarding the {{Metagame}} and act on certain suggestions, resulting in a constantly changing {{Metagame}} [[YMMV/StarcraftII for better or for worse]].

Like ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' and ''Brood War'' previously had, Starcraft II has [[TournamentPlay a prominent competitive scene]], complete with professional teams, paid players, tournaments and sponsors.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Mengsk in the border worlds. He seems to have a higher approval in the core worlds.
** After Raynor exposes Mengsk's crimes, this spreads to the core worlds as well

* AbortedArc:
** Early footage of the single-player campaign hinted at a subplot of the ''Hyperion'' crew considering a mutiny due to being underpaid and overworked. There is a similar subplot in the final product, but the motivation for the crew is not working conditions, it's [[spoiler:Jim's decision to work with the Dominion to defeat/rescue Kerrigan]]. The same footage showed you could return to Mar Sara for a mission later in the game. This was also scrapped.
** Kachinsky was originally planned to be another main character with his own set of missions to provide.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Mengsk in the border worlds. He seems to have a higher approval in the core worlds.
** After Raynor exposes Mengsk's crimes, this spreads to the core worlds as well

** The Medic talks like one, acting rather too cheerful for war. (By contrast, the Medivac pilot sounds like a cross between a callous female Chuck Yeager and a [[DrJerk Dr. Jerk]])

*** The Tal'Darim also seem to be fans of using stalkers despite their fanatic hatred for dark templar apparently, they also use void rays which are dark templar warships.

** Battlecruisers are also considered this in competitive play. Like the Mothership, they are big, slow, expensive, and at the end of the Terran tech tree. What really puts the nail in the coffin though is that all 3 armies have hard counters against battlecruisers that are signficantly cheaper and more versatile.
*** Though, almost every TvT game longer than 40 minutes at the highest level ends in Battlecruiser/Viking/Raven vs Battlecruiser/Viking/Raven where they throw away all their SCV's and tanks just to get more Battlecruisers, Vikings, and Ravens to clash in one final awesome battle which will decide the game where no one wants to attack first until one of the Players finally gets bored out of his skull and attempts to risk it.

* ObviousRulePatch: The Zeratul missions don't give you access to sentries because all them would benefit from having Force Field to block choke points into your base. The final mission [[spoiler:which is a vision of the future]] in particular would be plum easy if you were allowed sentries.
** You say that as if multiplayer isn't plum easy if you're allowed sentries.

* WeaksauceWeakness: The High Templar's feedback ability vs Maar. A single shot of feedback is enough to drain Maar's energy to prevent him from using his special abilities. And the Immortals not only counter his slow but powerful normal attack with their Hardened Shields, they also deal bonus damage to him.
** Maar doesn't count as armoured, he's biological - massive. Immortals are actually almost useless in that mission even though you get them there, best thing to do is quickly acquire the archive and go zealot / high templar / archon, stalkers are only useful in PvP insofar your enemy actually tries to micro with them, zealots beat stalkers even harder than immortals if they just stand there like the AI does even on brutal.

* ItsPersonal: Kerrigan was the Confederate Ghost who killed Mengsk's father, mother, and ''[[DeadLittleSister little sister]]''. This leads to Mengsk [[FateWorseThanDeath betraying]] [[LoveInterest her]]. Oh, and he [[GenghisGambit killed a couple billion people]] and [[AwfulTruth lied about the foundation of his empire]]. Mengsk's betrayal of Kerrigan pushes Raynor into rebelling against him, (although he may not know about the whole Kerrigan as a Confederacy Ghost thing) and is the reason he mentions most often in both ''StarCraft'' and ''StarCraftII''. [[NeutralGood Horner]] even calls him out on it.

** The upcoming official DOTA mod will feature characters from WarCraft and {{Diablo}}, like Thrall and the Witchdoctor.