Kerrigan begins proceedings trapped in a Terran lab. That story is silly in varying ways, with varying degrees of success. "When it tries to be po-faced, it's quite silly when it tries to be silly, it's very silly." It's no spoiler to mention she flits between these forms in Heart of the Swarm - the game plasters her Zergified face all over the loading screen - but no matter her appearance, she retains a set of enemy-shredding abilities that get more powerful as the story progresses on. After some advanced Zerg gribblification, she grew a natty pair of bony wings and had her entire body turn sparkly purple, taking on the moniker 'Queen of Blades'. She started life as a Terran ghost: a human super-sniper with brain-melting psionic powers. She's the game's cover star, and comes in two flavours in both HotS and the series fiction. Not simply because it does an appreciable job of teaching new players the basic mechanics for one of the game's three races - the Zerg, the swarmy stars of this StarCraft show - but also because it's incredibly well put together in its own right.Īt the heart of said swarm sits Kerrigan. No matter your experience with Heart of the Swarm's predecessor, Wings of Liberty - first of Blizzard's planned three StarCraft 2s - it's the campaign you should start with. "Watching your host chew Terrans into scrap metal and ripped flesh is consistently enjoyable." Dig through that, learn the game's many long and greasy ropes, and you'll find the back half: a competitive strategy game so finely balanced and so tactically varied that people are able to play it as their job. The front half: a 20-odd mission campaign with a steadily evolving spread of controllable units spurred on by an earnest, overwrought story of revenge. The most important of these is cribbed from football: it's a game of two halves. StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm was designed to be a competitive sport, so it's only fair that it nicks some of sport's idioms.
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