Hype successfully lived up to.

Lack of LAN play and must be online to play, as well as only one side in the campaign, is making the number of critical reviews about the same as the number of positive reviews on Amazon.

Well, I'll post my review after finishing about 1/3 of the campaign. I'm playing on Hard difficulty, and it is actually hard, even for a starcraft veteran like myself. I wonder what the "Brutal" difficulty level will be like.
There are a few things that bug me, although they're mostly irrelevant. For one thing, every mission seems to be built around the idea of creating some nasty surprise for you right near the end. It can get annoying if you haven't saved and have to jump back 10 minutes because you didn't expect a marauder raiding party dropshipping into your base right near the end, when everything else was going fine.
Also, I get that the TV announcer gimmick is supposed to provide comic relief, but I think they borked this one a bit. It's very over-the-top, and makes the game world a bit less believable.
Finally, I've been dropped from battle.net once, however it's not a big issue since you're not dropped from the game in single player. The game wouldn't reconnect while I was playing though, so I had to go out to the menu to log back in. Hopefully this was just a launch day hiccup.
Achievement are in, and there are three pr. campaign mission as far as I can see. There's always one for completing all objectives, and then there are two more special achievements that ask you to do the mission in a different, and most of the time, much harder way. For example, there's one mission which is basically a carbon copy of the dropship mission from the original SC. 75% of the map is taken up by Zerg and you have to hole up and defend until evacuated. Well, one of the achievement goes "fuck that, go out there and kill off those zerg please". On hard difficulty, naturally. For the people that like this kind of stuff it adds a great deal of replay value since it's rare that you can get all three achievements for a mission in just one play, but there's enough content here even for those who don't. I've spent 10 hours so far completing about 1/3 of the campaign.
The graphics and sound are excellent, naturally, and the voiceover is especially solid. There are no flatly delivered lines here.

Brazil SC2's midnight launch, one of them: (LOL at Blizzard's Steve Huot going crazy with the crowd, wooow wow wow.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbuzJNIVV4Q
Countdown to sale, and the first guy in line to buy SC2, getting exclusive swag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9IfWRRJ9eo
That's it, a warm welcome to Brazil, Blizzard! :)
Yeah, I know. Press apparently didn't liked this Blizzard attitude, but whatever, I care for the best reviews. Wins the deepest review, who plays the full game and using all Bnet features.
I'm waiting for your review by the way, post here when ready. ;) hehe
224 customer reviews on Amazon, already: http://www.amazon.com/Starcraft-II-Wings-Liberty-Pc/product-reviews/B000ZKA0J6/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

See those 92 one star reviews? I'm sure the were deserved because the game sucks so much. :rolleyes: Internet trolling must be quite popular these days, it would seem.
On another note... Thank you, Blizzard! Thank you for making one of the best games ever made!
And... Anyone have a spare guest pass?

We've been trying for it but I think due to a change in contacts on our end it's complicated matters, so unfortunately we probably won't have a review. :(

Holding off buying this until either the price drops dramatically, or a version with all episodes/expasions or whatever they're being referred as. Only thing that's really interesting me is the modding tools
Until then, i've got DoW:FOK and Supreme Commander.

So what is this thing I read on the Internet... Starcraft 2: WoL has an unfinished campaign? What fucking idiot started that. :@
EDIT: People are fucking idiots / trolls, plain and simple. And I am an idiot for getting kind of angry because people shit talk my currently favorite game. No more.
Best RTS game eva! Fuck you! :fanboy_rant:
:p

Well, i'm not saying the campaign provided is unfinished, but rather what is being offered is an incomplete single player product, which is really all i care about since i almost never touch online in RTSs.
I don't really want to shell out �44.99 (RRP here, though place are selling it for �34.99) for a game which i'll have to buy two episodes/expansions to get the campaigns for the other races. And �34.99 is a hell of a lot for a PC game.
Also i'm not even going to touch on Battle.net 2.0

It wasn't directed specifically to you, but to those that rate the game bad simply because they can.
Don't about the single player, it lasts longer than the single player mode of nearly 98% of the games released the last 4-5 years. ;)

16 hours is NOT a long game even now, AC:B is being called short by many people and its predicted at 15-20 hours

It's only 16 hours if you're playing it on an easy or normal difficulty. I also haven't heard anyone call a game that was an actual (not predicted) 16 hours short unless it's an RPG.

Excuse me, when did you become the emperor of what can be considered a complete single player product? The single player portion is complete. If that's what is bugging you, I can confirm that you get to play as protoss in the WoL campaign having finished about half of it. Don't know about Zerg yet, as they seem to be lined up to become the great enemy for the final missions, but we'll see.
There are 29 single player missions, some of which can be played in two distinctly different ways. The original SC had 28 missions i believe? There's more than enough to do, and the content doesn't really feel like it's lacking. In fact, I appreciate the reduced pace at which units are fleshed out to you in this game. Additionally there are upgrade options and tech trees, and a certain freedom as to which mission to pursue next. Some are even skippable. Unless you're a sissy and playing on easy (or normal, as it seems to be a lot easier than hard), expect at least 1 hour pr. mission, and that's if you have a clue about starcraft to begin with. If you want to breeze through the game on easy fine, but don't come complaining about a short campaign later when you basically just turned on cheats.
$34.99 isn't more than you'd be paying for MW2 when it was new. In fact, it's less. Look forward to the $49.99 Black Ops to come. Too pricy for a PC game? What's given you that impression?
You guys just got the completely wrong impression of what SC2 is all about. Meh, your loss.

For pretty much every mission so far, except for a few specialty ones like the train one, I just mass medics + a combination of marines, firebats, and marauders. If you have enough medics, units rarely die. You might want to take a few vikings as well to take out the brood lords, as they do a lot of damage to your ground forces. Your medics can generally heal through them, but it's helpful to get them out of the way first and they attack from afar. If you have the mercenaries unlocked, I like calling down the hero marines, firebats, and marauders, as they can take more punishment (and are produced instantly).