I’m sure I’m not the only one when I say that one of my childhood dreams is finally coming true: StarCraft 2. The original came out in 1998 and still has a cult-like following – especially in Korea.

I can’t even begin to image how many hours I spent on the original StarCraft. It was an addiction: I’d go to school everyday, and then race home to play StarCraft on my old IBM with a Pentium 166Mhz processor, nvidia Riva TNT2 graphics card, and blazing fast (lol) 56k dialup internet. And did I mention a 14 inch CRT beast of a monitor? Man, no wonder my eyes started degrading. I really don’t remember that far back – but I think it would be fair to say this cycle went on for at least a year if not more. How do you continue playing a game for a year? I don’t know, but there was something about StarCraft, and Battle.Net (their multiplayer platform) that caused a storm in the world of computer gaming. All those Game Of The Year awards it scored, and making GameSpot’s list of The Greatest Games Of All Time are a small testament to it’s greatness. Or maybe I just had a crapload of free time in my early high school days. Meh, probably a combination of both.

Either way, the new StarCraft 2 trailer above is so, totally, badass! It’s like a movie-trailer… except it’s for a Real-Time Strategy game! Impressive, immersive, and has done something I thought couldn’t be done: made me even MORE stoked for the StarCraft 2 launch on July 27th, 2010! 

Oh, and I’m buying the game for Blizzard, the company I wanted to work for when I was growing up. And thanks to that jerkoff Bobby Kotick – the company I will never want to work for in the future.