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No StarCraft II Reviews Before Launch

By james_fudge

According to a Eurogamer report, Blizzard has told journalists that it will not allow reviews of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty to be published before the game's launch next Tuesday (July 27). Eurogamer said that, from its conversations with people at Blizzard, that much of it has to do with Battle.net.

Blizzard has told Eurogamer that the new Battle.net and the online features that will be introduced with it are "so integral to the game that it would be both impractical and undesirable for press to review it before servers go live." While a good portion of multiplayer in Starcraft II has been revealed thanks to the public beta test for the game, Blizzard has done a good job of keeping the game's campaign mode secret, as well as the game's "challenge mode," which allegedly bridges the gap between single and multiplayer.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).