Well, the good news about the somewhat cartoony graphics is that they largely just seem to be because of the color palletes and shades rather than entirely because of the models themselves (although some of the terran designs seem pretty oddly shaped). With a few small tweaks to contrast and saturation/color, the game looks a bit more similar to the style in the original Starcraft, for example:

WoW, that picture modification is PRO and definatly proves your point. Either way though it's StarCraft 2 and for all it matters it could all in in wire-frame and I'd still be excited just because the first one was that damn good. Luckly for me however this artistic look to it plays in my favor, so I don't really have any complaints.

All he did was mess around in the Hue/Saturation dialogue...

Anyway, the graphics really don't bother me. What I really care about is the gameplay balance, especially with the Protoss getting so many new and powerful units. Why them, anyway? I never did like the Protoss...

Ummm... if you've been watching the videos on gametrailers.com the Terrans have recieved a lot of new stuff too.

Well, I was talking more on a "IF THIS HAPPENED" rather then what they Should/Would do.

Really? I've seen all of the trailers and watched all of the gameplay movies and the only thing I've seen for the Terrans are the jet pack guys.

There must be another that I haven't watched yet.

I'm affraid that I'm going to have to apologize for my abruptness. My friend told me that there were a lot of new stuff for the terrans on the gametrailers videos, I've just watched them myself and it's more Protoss stuff, lol ^^;

So I'm going to have to take back what I said earlier. However there's lots of time yet and they'll probably just focus on one race at a time in the unveiling of all their shinney new features.

I fucking KNEW it'd be a Starcraft sequel. A Starcraft MMO would've been fucking crazy, as WoW is still fresh and strong.

Can't wait to see how this'll look :3

My comment wasn't pointed at you, I was just saying that in my point of view a dramatic shift from its current graphics to a more gritty and real looking set would be improbable given Blizzard's recent works.

I culled that screenshot off the video link from sc2.com, it isn't from the wallpapers section nor the artwork section. However after taking the screenshot I did have to compress it. But if you do have a better looking version of that shot in the video I'd be glad to have it.

Simply because the other thread has been shut down I thought I'd put my post with a bunch of SC2 gameplay video links here for other people to enjoy.

Original Post
Here's some gameplay footage. It's decent quality to get the idea, but IGN's Hi Def videos are more what the game really looks like.

Normal Def
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/vids_1.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=66561

Hi-Def
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/85...d_1997289.html
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/85...d_1997279.html
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/85...d_1997239.html

VIDEO UPDATE:
Siege Tank Gameplay- http://www.gametrailers.com/player.p...19762&type=wmv
NEW! Terran Reaper Gameplay- http://www.gametrailers.com/player.p...19763&type=wmv
Zealot Gameplay- http://www.gametrailers.com/player.p...19761&type=wmv

Ohh, just saw some of those gameplay footage. Looking great! Haha, but the Colossi are very reminescent of the Tripods from "War of the Worlds". And man, the Motheship is sooo sweet, almost overpowered I'd say.

Can't wait till they start showing more of the Terran and Zerg gameplay mechs.

If the Protoss Mothership unit is their "ultimate" unit, I wonder what the same type of unit will be for the Zerg and the Terrans? Surely Blizzard won't let something that obviously overpowered go unmatched.

For the Terrans they'll probably just enhance the Battlecruiser I would imagine. However if they did get some larger ultimate unit in SC2, I can only imagine what it would be. I say a giant metal ball that crushes everything in sight, lol

The Terrans have their own "ultimate unit". It's called the nuke.

I mean, neither the Zerg or Protoss had anything like it in the original, right?

Yeah, but half the time your Ghost gets found out before the nuke hits anyway.

Heck I was lucky he was not found out before I even launched the nuke

(I think it was 5/8times the ghost died before I got the nuke off the ground

I wouldn't be too happy if each race has an "ultimate" unit, it reminds me too much of the mammoth thing in tiberian sun and the heroes in WC3. It's nice to know that they want the races to be as asymmetrical as possible yet very balanced.

Have they taken out older any units? Did they take out the dragoon for the immortal?

So if protoss get the Mothership and the Terrans retains their nukes, what do the zerg get as their "ultimate unit"? The collective mass of Zerglings that is the zerg rush?

Yes Dragoons are gone. According to the official website the sacred site dedicated to the creation of dragoons was overun by the Zerg. I guess that cybernetics core wasn't so important after all.

Thats very true. Although personally I like to just flood the map with Ghosts to keep them on their toes. Then in the middle of a huge attack when I'm pretty sure they're already occupied I let the missiles fly. I tend to land a few nukes that way. Also it seems in the vid the wait time for the nukes is much shorter, but the laser marker is this huge "lawl, ground zero for t3h nuke, find the ghost!!!"

Hmm...they better be more original with the other units. Mothership? Hmph.

I personally would like Protoss to be like that. I mean clearly they are the most advanced species, and it should be shown that they are more powerful lthen the others, but at the cost of resources. Like SC1 they were the strongest, but each unit usually cost double the amount of a terran or zerg unit, so it balanced out.

I just want them to kinda balance the zerg out. I mean when your opponent sent out 200 hydralisks or 400 zerglings, you basically lost.

I was always a terran man myself. Can't really think of anything to improve them. I wouldn't mind them having a base defense that attacks both land and air units. Bunkers are kinda meh.

400 Zerglings?

Anyway, I have always been partial to the Zerg and Terrans myself. I never did like the Protoss, either playing them, playing against them, and not especially losing to them.

En Taro Adun!

Yes, 400. Unless they changed it since I played, you got 2 zerglings for the price of 1, and since you can hold a max of 200 units that's 400. If you upgrade them fully, especially the attack speed those numbers will overwhelm anything.