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If there had to be one title to act as the envoy for the video games industry in 2010 it would have to be Starcraft 2.

You’d be hard pressed to find any other game appeals to everyone from the 30 minutes a day casual player all the way up to the professional Korean player making seven figures with an entourage of bodyguards and female groupies.

Yes, you read correctly. Seven figures. Groupies. Entering live tournaments on rock stages on a speedboat.

There’s three audiences that I think should run out and give this game a shot:

1. Tower defense game junkies (whether it’s on your phone, iPad, computer, or console)
2. People who already enjoy real time strategy games (How can you like RTS games and not at least give Starcraft 2 a shot? That’s like saying I like action movies, but I refuse to watch Inception.)
3. Professional Starcraft players. (though I think those don’t really need to read this review)

Starcraft 2 is an interesting game because it’s one that’s physically impossible to play on any current console. It doesn’t mean that the game is that complex, it just means that it’s a genre that’s best controlled with a mouse and keyboard due to the nature of the tasks needed to be done. The game will run on almost any modern computer, Mac or PC alike, so chances are if you own a computer made within the last few years, you can play it.

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