StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010)
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a 2010 real time strategy (rts) video game made by Blizzard Entertainment.
Four years after the last war, Jim Raynor is a wanted man running a ragtag insurgency out of a battlecruiser, drinking between jobs against the autocratic Terran Dominion. Blizzard's campaign focuses on the human Terrans this time, letting you pick missions, spend salvage on mercenaries and upgrades, and wander the ship's bar between battles. The three-way clash of Terran, Zerg, and Protoss still defines the fast, precise real-time strategy underneath. Whether you are here for the story or the ruthless competitive ladder, it asks for quick hands and a steady head.
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What is StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty about?
Four years after the last war, Jim Raynor is a wanted man running a ragtag insurgency out of a battlecruiser, drinking between jobs against the autocratic Terran Dominion. Blizzard's campaign focuses on the human Terrans this time, letting you pick missions, spend salvage on mercenaries and upgrades, and wander the ship's bar between battles. The three-way clash of Terran, Zerg, and Protoss still defines the fast, precise real-time strategy underneath. Whether you are here for the story or the ruthless competitive ladder, it asks for quick hands and a steady head.
When was StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty released?
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was released on 27 July 2010.
Who made StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty?
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was made by Blizzard Entertainment.
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For more of Raynor and the grimy frontier the games only sketch, StarCraft II: Heaven's Devils (StarCraft: Blizzard Legends) follows a young Raynor before the Dominion, while StarCraft: Liberty's Crusade retells the first war through a reporter embedded with the marines. Both deepen the lore the campaign rushes past between missions.
StarCraft novels to read after the campaign
Wings of Liberty leaves Jim Raynor's insurgency, the Dominion and the Zerg mid-fight. These StarCraft novels fill the gaps around the campaign, from Raynor's early days to the Dark Templar's hidden war, so the marines, ghosts and Protoss you command on screen get whole backstories on the page.
More Blizzard strategy and card battles
StarCraft II runs on fast, three-faction real-time battles and a story told between missions. These Blizzard games share that DNA: the Warcraft strategy campaigns it grew out of, the original StarCraft that started the rivalry, and the card game built from the same universe. Same studio, same appetite for micro and lore.
Build-and-conquer strategy games to sink hours into
If the part of Wings of Liberty you loved was massing an army and out-thinking the map, these build-and-conquer games scratch it. From ancient empires to whole civilizations across the ages, they trade StarCraft's real-time speed for the same pull of expanding, teching up and crushing a rival's base.