StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is an expansion pack to the military
science fiction real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of
Liberty, and the second part of the StarCraft II trilogy developed by
Blizzard Entertainment, with the final part being Legacy of the Void.
The game was released on March 12, 2013.The expansion includes
additional units and multiplayer changes from Wings of Liberty, as
well as a continuing campaign focusing on the Zerg race and following
Sarah Kerrigan in her effort to regain control of the swarm and exact
her revenge on the Terran Dominion's emperor, Arcturus Mengsk.During
BlizzCon 2017, Blizzard announced that StarCraft II would be
re-branded as a free-to-play game, hence opening the multiplayer mode
to everybody and bringing some changes to previously paid features of
the game. The Wings of Liberty campaign was made completely free while
the campaigns for Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void still
required payment. However, those who had already bought Wings of
Liberty before the free-to-play announcement were gifted the Heart of
the Swarm campaign free of charge. This new free-to-play model and
changes to the availability of the campaigns was in line with
Blizzard's vision to support the game differently going forward.
Micro-transactions such as Skins, Co-op Commanders, Voice Packs, and
the War Chests proved to be successful enough to sustain StarCraft II
as a story-driven and eSport title.Heart of the Swarm features a
single-player campaign with 20 missions (plus seven evolution missions
which allow the player to upgrade units), and continues the story from
Wings of Liberty. The player plays from the perspective of Sarah
Kerrigan, recently returned to her human form by Jim Raynor. Similar
to Wings of Liberty, the briefing room allows interactive exploration,
this time on the Leviathan, an enormous Zerg breed which functions as
a bioship. Kerrigan and her allies are located in the nerve center.
She has a personal chamber for altering her abilities, and there is an
evolution pit where she can upgrade her units and perform evolution
missions with the evolution master Abathur.
science fiction real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of
Liberty, and the second part of the StarCraft II trilogy developed by
Blizzard Entertainment, with the final part being Legacy of the Void.
The game was released on March 12, 2013.The expansion includes
additional units and multiplayer changes from Wings of Liberty, as
well as a continuing campaign focusing on the Zerg race and following
Sarah Kerrigan in her effort to regain control of the swarm and exact
her revenge on the Terran Dominion's emperor, Arcturus Mengsk.During
BlizzCon 2017, Blizzard announced that StarCraft II would be
re-branded as a free-to-play game, hence opening the multiplayer mode
to everybody and bringing some changes to previously paid features of
the game. The Wings of Liberty campaign was made completely free while
the campaigns for Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void still
required payment. However, those who had already bought Wings of
Liberty before the free-to-play announcement were gifted the Heart of
the Swarm campaign free of charge. This new free-to-play model and
changes to the availability of the campaigns was in line with
Blizzard's vision to support the game differently going forward.
Micro-transactions such as Skins, Co-op Commanders, Voice Packs, and
the War Chests proved to be successful enough to sustain StarCraft II
as a story-driven and eSport title.Heart of the Swarm features a
single-player campaign with 20 missions (plus seven evolution missions
which allow the player to upgrade units), and continues the story from
Wings of Liberty. The player plays from the perspective of Sarah
Kerrigan, recently returned to her human form by Jim Raynor. Similar
to Wings of Liberty, the briefing room allows interactive exploration,
this time on the Leviathan, an enormous Zerg breed which functions as
a bioship. Kerrigan and her allies are located in the nerve center.
She has a personal chamber for altering her abilities, and there is an
evolution pit where she can upgrade her units and perform evolution
missions with the evolution master Abathur.
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