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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Expansion Pack

Brand: Blizzard Entertainment

Platform : Windows Vista, Mac, Windows XP, Windows 7 |

Rated: Teen

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B002I0KP4G

Release date

March 12, 2013

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804 ratings

4.5 out of 5 stars

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#60,200 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#1,865 in PC-compatible Games

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7.5 x 5.25 x 1.5 inches; 6.4 Ounces

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English

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Teen

Item model number

72855

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6.4 ounces

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Blizzard Entertainment

Date First Available

July 15, 2009

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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is the first expansion to the 2010 release of the heralded Real-Time strategy game, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.* Heart of the Swarm features a new campaign continuing the epic story of Sarah Kerrigan, Queen of Blades, as she gathers the remnants of the Zerg Swarm and plots her revenge against the treacherous dictator of the Koprulu sector, Arcturus Mengsk. It also introduces several new multiplayer units and features that enhance the acclaimed StarCraft II online experience.

Continue the Story Where Wings of Liberty Left Off

Heart of the Swarm picks up the story of StarCraft II where the 2010 release, Wings of Liberty, left off, focusing on Kerrigan's quest to reunite the Swarm and exact revenge on Arcturus Mengsk. Over the course of 20 campaign missions, players will follow Kerrigan as she sweeps across the galaxy, incorporating a variety of distinctive zerg species into her brood. Kerrigan will grow in strength from mission to mission, and players will be able to customize her with powerful new abilities, as well as evolve various zerg strains into fearsome new subspecies to suit their play style.

New Weapons, Units and Multiplayer Features

New weapons of war also debut in Heart of the Swarm's multiplayer, including new units such as Terran Hellbats, Zerg Swarm Hosts, and Protoss Tempests, while certain existing units from Wings of Liberty will be updated with new capabilities. New features will enhance the game experience, including group and clan systems; unranked matchmaking; Global Play, enabling players to battle others in different regions around the world; additional stat tracking; user interface improvements; an enhanced physics system, for more visceral looking battles; multiplayer replays, to watch replays with friends; a leveling system that gives Heart of the Swarm players a new way to earn customization options for their online profiles; and much more.

An all-new, Zerg-based campaign, that focuses on Kerrigan.
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System Requirements

PC Mac OS Windows XP SP3 / Vista SP1 / Windows 7 / Windows 8 Mac OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or newer CPU 2.2 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor Intel Processor RAM 1 GB system RAM / 1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7 & 8 2 GB RAM Disc Drive DVD-ROM drive DVD-ROM drive Hard Drive 12 GB available HD space 12 GB available HD space Video Card 128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT or ATI Radeon X1600 or better Input Keyboard, mouse Keyboard, mouse Connectivity Broadband connection - Battle.net account required Broadband connection - Battle.net account required

Key Game Features

An all-new, Zerg-based campaign, that focuses on Kerrigan, the erstwhile 'Queen of Blades'
Access to approximately 20 new missions
The release of new StarCraft II units and new maps
Improvements to Battle.net, including StarCraft Marketplace, timed to coincide with the release of Heart of the Swarm
New multiplayer options, including group and clan systems, unranked matchmaking, global play enabling players to battle others in different regions around the world, multiplayer replays, additional stat tracking, and others
A leveling system that gives Heart of the Swarm players a new way to earn customization options for their online profiles
PC and Mac system compatibility ensures that everyone can play

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20 new missions.
View larger A new Swarm leveling system.
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* StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty required for play, and sold separately.

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B. Cravens

Sucks You Right In

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2013

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Expansion PackVerified Purchase

Like many reviewers, I have been playing SC since the original. I played SC2 multiplayer for a good 6-8 months after its release (and the campaign of course) before feeling like I just couldn't get over my obstacle of getting out of Gold League. I stopped and didn't really get back into it. When HOTS came out, I shrugged it off now that I'm married, working full-time, and dedicate what gaming time I have now to stuff on my 360. Some of my best friends got back into SC2 and told me to pick up the expansion so we could all play. They said the new units were fun, lots of new maps, etc. I had some Amazon credit to get this for $10 and I figured why not. It's not like I have to be super competitive again. So towards the end of March I picked this up.

Fast forward to now, four months later with 30+ hours into MP (still getting over my Gold hump) and just now scratching into the HOTS campaign. I am addicted all over again, and I love it. If you are an SC fan for the lore, this $40 investment (now $30 on Amazon for the time being) is a no-brainer. If you are still playing WoL multiplayer, you're missing out on the new units and an ever-growing e-sports scene. There's not too much to really persuade you on if you enjoyed WoL since there's a high chance you'd fit right in with HOTS.

Some of the biggest changes including the new units have to do with Battle.net. Adding Spawning back in (meaning if someone does the free trial of SC2, which has limited options, or just WoL and they party with a friend who has HOTS, while in the party they will have access to everything HOTS MP as well. It's awesome!), improving the League algorithm for both Ranked and Unranked, and adding in more portraits and awards, like unit skins, make it all greater experience. Also I've heard in the rumor mill that Tourney modes and Clan support are a matter of time away.

Of course a major component in the expansion is the campaign. If you hadn't guessed by the cover it is focused on Zerg. Like WoL and SC1 the story is no Titanic, but if you enjoy the lore you won't feel like you're wasting your time. I'm still going through the campaign, so I'll display how long it took me to complete once I do so.

Stay tuned for updates as time goes, but seriously if you enjoyed WoL I'm not sure why you haven't bought HOTS yet, and if you are a newcomer who enjoys RTS's at least give WoL a shot.

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William Redcliff

Beware BattleNET Account Requirements

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 30, 2013

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Expansion PackVerified Purchase

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After creating a support ticket I was able to "find" my original account and link the new HoTS to it. However I am only upgrading my rating from one to three stars (I'd give it 3.5 if I could) because:

It was very difficult to figure out how to create a support ticket if you don't already have an account. Since I couldn't remember enough about my account to even change my password I couldn't use the standard support ticket workflow. After googling around and clicking on various things at Battlenet, I more-or-less accidentally found the correct screen that let me open a support ticket using only an email address. I was impressed that Blizzard replied so quickly (about 12 hours). Unfortunately their email was not directly helpful; it was a canned response containing a link to the same screen that required my email address, first name, and last name to reset my password. Fortunately there was information included in the email (the salutation, actually) that allowed me to deduce the proper values for these fields. Once this was done I reset my password and was again pleasantly surprised that the download/install only took about 1-2 hours. However I was once again disappointed to learn that the game now has NO offline mode. You have to be connected to the internet and each "mission" seems to downloaded from the Blizzard site just before it plays. Loading a mission takes a couple of minutes instead of the few seconds it took in WoL. Possibly this is a tradeoff for the short initial download/install, but I find it somewhat annoying

IMPORTANT CAVEAT: I am only rating the experience of account creation, installation, and DRM management here. I have not actually played the game yet. I gave the game 3-stars for fun because I had to give it something. I would have preferred to rate it "unknown". Incidentally I would rate all of StarCraft I and StarCraft II WoL a solid five-stars for fun (bearing in mind that all I care about in single-player campaign).
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ORIGINAL REVIEW:

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I would like to add my voice to the chorus of people complaining about DRM issues in this game. I played Starcraft I (all expansion packs) and waited 10 years for Starcraft II WoL. Played it through and waited another 18 months for HotS. But guess what? By that time I had forgotten the unique combination of email address / password / name that I used to register WoL with Battlenet. So when I wanted to register HOtS I created a new account. But no, the original WoL disc was registered to a different (now forgotten) account and so I could not register HoTS. Could I use the key from the original WoL disc to recover the original account email address so that THEN I can finally register the HOts key. No.

ALL I WANT TO DO IS PLAY THE SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN. I don't give a fig about Battlenet or playing on line against other players. I have essentially bought a useless cardboard box.

DON"T BUY THIS PRODUCT!!
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A bargain at the sale price the price would elevated my rating to five stars.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2014

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Expansion PackVerified Purchase

Why not five stars? Well it deserves it when it sells for under 20 bucks, but the game could have been better from the single player stand point, too many missions wasted on just showing you unit variances. The game did not include enough, build up the base missions which is the main point in most resource based RTS games. Another 10 real missions would have done wonders for this game. Plus, like the first SC2 game they could have invented something, where you could play other races in the game as well, as some sort of infested mission. The game does play well and has added many expansion units to the original SC2 game in the online multiplayer match up game. Playing more missions with the zerg would have helped as it takes a lot of practice to learn how to expand the unit count quickly. In the past you did it on SC1 with cheap multiple bases, but now you must use the queens to create more larva at the base this can be tricky to master. Strangely, unlike the original games, certain units and power ups are unavailable in the online multiplayer games in the standard melee modes. I would prefer they used the balance tweaking by making speed and damage ratings between units different or creating a few new units for unbalanced races. I don't like they not allowing me to use units or special building enhancements which is in play here. It's all about strategy so I like all resources in play like in the original games. Recommended, but not as good for single player missions as the first SC2 game.

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Woo Jin Kim

Fantastic

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 17, 2013

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Expansion PackVerified Purchase

I'll keep this review short, but:
WoL had a much better campaign in general, the evolution missions got repetitive after a while and they didn't have the same sense of satisfaction that WoL upgrades and mercs had. The earning of credits and spending them was much more fun than the non-existent RPG aspects of HotS. Also, Kerrigan should have been able to level up through kills as well, not just through mission objectives. I felt like that went against what an RPG was. Another thing was that the campaign was way too easy and while it offered a lot of variety, it still did not compare to WoL.

The best thing I like about HoS is that the battles seem to have improved over WoL. The battles start earlier, and the game is more fast-paced and exciting. However, I still feel that BW was the best game out of all of them. Perhaps it is nostalgic bias on my part.

The only thing I wish they would do is fix the broken Arcade and custom games. BW's and WCIII's multiplayer had a much more homegrown feel to it, and as soon as you logged on there would be the chat and people ready to talk to you. SCII multiplayer seems too isolated from everyone else.

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Steve

Great game.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 14, 2015

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Expansion PackVerified Purchase

When I first bought the game I was in the 1-star "I can't believe it requires an Internet connection!" camp. But once I fixed my connection problems in the house, I was in the 5-star camp. Great game.

Wish it was longer!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 27, 2013

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Expansion PackVerified Purchase

The game was great. The story progressed nicely, the cut scenes were well done and there were no issues with game play. Cannot wait for the next one. I wished it was longer just because it was so good. Not because it was too short.

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J R

Cool game

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 15, 2019

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Expansion PackVerified Purchase

Great game. Several hours played

Nick

amazing game

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 9, 2013

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Expansion PackVerified Purchase

I have loved starcraft forever and if anyone truly has followed the story line they need to get this game to complete :)

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