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HTTP:: Starcraft II Map Editor Can Create FPS RPG Videogames
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The bad news is that Starcraft II is not coming out in 2009 and millions of real time strategy fans will find they have to look to an unknown date in 2010 for the sequel to the most loved RTS in the world. The good news is that the people at Blizzard are showing off features related to the game that will certainly serve to enhance the hype surrounding it.We recently reported that players who create new maps for Starcraft II using the integrated editor would be able to charge for them if they believed that they had created something special that the official and free maps from the community did not offer.Now, Blizzard is saying that the editor is powerful enough to allow interested gamers to put together role-playing sequences and first person shooters with it, using the same tools that are employed by the game designers when creating the single player and the multiplayer maps that will be shipped with Starcraft II.At BlizzCon, the developers showed off three such custom map!
s, saying that they were created by some of the people working on the game in their spare time. One was a third person action-oriented RPG, another one played like a classic top down shooter based in space and another featured a new type of Zerg, specifically modified using tools that will be made public....
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