Well, Starcraft II is finally out. I lost my pre-order receipt but EB Games asked me my phone number last time so I finally didn't need the receipt.

It's installing right now but I warn people: it appears that if you buy the French version, you can only play on european servers, so Juju or any other quebecer who may lurk, if you want to play with most people here, get the English version. Keep in mind the american version won't let you play on the European server, though. This is the only disappointment I got from the game, so far, when I bought it. I wouldn't be surprised if patches came out eventually on warez sites or if you could install both versions at once, though.

Also game requires 12 GB hard drive space. If it would run on my older machine, it would take about 15% of the entire hard drive

Thanks to Blizzard doing their best at all their products, the game is top of the news at most game sites.  I was surprised, though, to find that at Gamespot, players gave it only a 9.1 rating

Oh yes! SC 2 has invaded the world (at last). No more delays

I wonder if this will be as popular as the first Starcraft? So far it looks like it will, providing it runs well on most computers made in the past 2 years, and I played the beta for a while, and they did a nice job. I wish it came out years before, but I guess the wait was finally worth it. A year or two ago I was worried it was heading towards the same direction as Starcraft Ghost.

Hopefully maybe in the future they'll let us do what we did with SC1 in later versions: select a server before connecting. Btw the campaing is pretty cool and as you earn credits, you can upgrade stuff with them. My only hope is that on Battle Net, people will not only play Fastest Possible Map Ever or Zero Clutter like on SC1. That map is fun a few times but after 3 games in a row, it gets kinda boring because there are much less strategies possible to surprise your enemy. (Usually, either your entire team rushes, either you mass a varied group of units (like hyrdas + zerglings) or you drop units near the enemy main building)

Although i've never been a fan of RTS myself, parts of the trailer actually gave me the chills

Lol nice

Btw, despite SC2 release, some of us may still play Starcraft Original, though. (Expansion set). Going back from SCII beta to SC Brood War when the first beta round closed was a bit rough, graphical-wise and due to my widescreen monitor stretched display, but you get used about it quickly and it's still amazing to play

I could be wrong, but I'm willing to bet that most of the disk space is a result of the campaign.  If so, they should have a "multiplayer only" install option if they don't already

I like Infestors =)