Blizzard have been celebrating the 20th anniversary of Starcraft all month lengthy with a series of giveaways and perks for his or her endlessly cross-promoted steady of video games. Today, they’re lastly gifting away one thing of actual worth for Starcraft II gamers: One of their premium-priced playable characters for the RTS big’s still-growing cooperative mode.
You bear in mind Fenix, proper? Protoss hero, appeared pleasant if a bit death-prone. Now you may get him in his ultimate, reworking future-bot kind, free by way of Battle.web.
Twenty years, eh? It goes to point out that Starcraft’s mix of twitchy technique and overblown melodrama is a potent and enduring mixture. Over the years, few video games within the style have come near difficult Blizzard’s crown (though I collect Age of Empires 2 HD is a serious and still-growing success), and the sport nonetheless attracts main crowds, each in informal play and to its high-profile event occasions.
While his current Heroes of The Storm debut has put him in his much less impressive-looking Dragoon physique, Fenix’s co-op iteration is extra alongside the strains of an Autobot. Or maybe a Robotech/Macross Valkyrie. He’s bought three totally different kinds – a centaur-like semi-humanoid melee warrior kind, a spider-tankish artillery physique, and for finer battlefield management he can flip right into a squad-supporting spacecraft.
Each of Fenix’s three kinds has their very own separate defend and well being bars, so cautious timing in your switches will let him keep lively within the area loads longer than you’d anticipate. He may also recruit a gaggle of as much as six named hero items that’ll routinely possess close by empty our bodies of the identical sort if killed, making him and his squad a micro-managers dream. Personally, it’s all only a bit too fiddly for me; and I’d a lot moderately simply order an enormous blob of Terran infantry to pop stims and cost. Did I point out that I’m completely garbage at Starcraft?
The unique Starcraft II marketing campaign, Wings of Liberty is now free to play, together with partial entry to on-line and co-op modes. In order to say your free Fenix co-op commander, simply click on the reward button within the top-right nook of the Battle.web launcher UI and Bob’s your quadrupedal alien robo-ghost uncle.
Fenix can be accessible free till April third earlier than going again to his regular £4/$5 worth.
