IGN interview with Andrew Chambers for SCII

[sandwich_bird]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/102/1022715p1.html

Small interview on the process of how the story was/is/will be made. Only real news is "the ending of WOL will not be a giant cliff-hanger".

[Santrega]

Nevermind what I originally said..

Some interesting stuff from the writer

[Draco]

They used the "No cliff-hanger" argument back when they announced the trilogy.

I liked the read, though.

[Shadow Archon]

Wings of Liberty will feature 45 minutes of cinematics.

You do not even begin to know how happy I have just become. Thank you sandwich bird, I thank you.



Will this be for the other two campaigns as well? It looks like Blizzard is putting an entire movie's worth of videos into it. This will be awesome.

[Shadow Archon]

So, after WoL comes out, how long will it be til the other two come out.

[sandwich_bird]

You do not even begin to know how happy I have just become. Thank you sandwich bird, I thank you.



Will this be for the other two campaigns as well? It looks like Blizzard is putting an entire movie's worth of videos into it. This will be awesome.

This 45 minutes though is not CGI only but honestly their ingame cinematics are awesome too.

[Norfindel]

As we developed the story and it became very apparent that ten missions was just not going to be enough for even one race to tell their story in, and we'd have to rush rush rush to get through the whole thing, it became readily apparent that the right thing to do was separate campaigns, and that actually made it a lot easier to get a satisfying conclusion to each campaign, because you can focus far more on – well, what's a victory for Jim Raynor? You don't have to necessarily worry about what's a victory for the Terran. What's a win for him? And equally, as we move forward into the other races, it will be like what's a win for them?

To answer your question about whether it's all happening at the same time – it's intended to be sequential, so our expansion will pick up from the very end of the first game, Wings of Liberty, and suffice to say, at the end of Wings of Liberty it should be a very satisfying conclusion, but there's a lot of doors still open – 'but what about?', 'isn't that going to mean?!', 'did you think about?', and so on. [And then] in the Zerg campaign we've already got natural conflicts set up, so hopefully it will be a satisfactory conclusion, but also [opens up] a lot more opportunities to continue the story forward from there.

To resume: Every campaign has a "you win" ending, but now there are additional elements beyond the 3 races. In SC1, the destruction of the Overmind was the big ending. Now, it's surely going to be about the Xel'Naga cycle.
The amount of sub-plots and different factions in play are likely to develop a really rich story.

[Shadow Archon]

This 45 minutes though is not CGI only but honestly their ingame cinematics are awesome too.

The Hyperion obliterating Zerglings was indeed awesome.