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In StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, you will unleash the devastating power of Sarah Kerrigan and advance the evolution of the Swarm to terrifying new heights.
Queen of Her Brood

Kerrigan will be a playable unit in most missions of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. When the former Queen of Blades takes the field, she has multiple roles to choose from. Each role is called a Battle Focus and comes with a a unique set of abilities. As the campaign progresses, new roles will unlock, and Kerrigan will acquire new abilities for existing roles. The Battle Focus you choose for Kerrigan in any given mission and the way you use her powers will have a major impact on how each mission plays out.

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Unnatural Selection

Harder, better, faster, stronger: the Swarm never stops evolving, and in Heart of the Swarm, you decide how the zerg develop. Between missions, you'll be able to mutate your different zerg species. If you unlock enough mutations for a species, you can evolve that species into one of two different strains. For example, one zergling strain might evolve the ability to hatch more zerglings from the same egg, while the other could produce zerglings that can make short leaps forward to close into melee distance more quickly.

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Feelhigh #627
Feelhigh
24/01/2013
awesome :D
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anelas #853
anelas
06/12/2012
does this gives any multiplayer features?
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Nanoha #505
Nanoha
05/12/2012
i will buy collection edition, my first Blizz collection edit "physically"! lol..great game! :P
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is this gonna be aviliable ob disk or jsut a download? cos where i am the broadband sucks plus id rather have a disk in case i have to reinstall my os
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Cassius #399
Cassius
01/12/2012
@Dkz: It's going to be available both digitally and physically.
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sidious #720
sidious
10/11/2012
cant wait
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SamuelVarg #744
SamuelVarg
10/11/2012
I think they will announce the Heart of the Swarm release date around the 19th, when the finals are over.

"It's logical." Mr. Spock

(Sorry. Wrong Universe)
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Ghostwing #341
Ghostwing
13/10/2012
Hope it will be interesting! I really love playing Campaign :)
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Creep #991
Creep
10/10/2012
I WANT IT!!!
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monster #785
monster
10/10/2012
starcraft 2 Heart Of The Swarm downlad
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Kira #1940
Kira
17/09/2012
when does the Heart Of The Swarm beta release?? can't wait
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AtomiC #367
AtomiC
23/09/2012
@Kira: Beta is already out...
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Relli #148
Relli
08/08/2012
I have watched each trailer a thousand times don't they make more
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Nanoha #505
Nanoha
05/12/2012
@Relli: me too lol... I think Blizz could make a movie for each game.. :P For all 3 games (Starcraft 2,World of Warcraft and Diablo!) hehe
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ObliviAn #845
ObliviAn
23/07/2012
starcraft 2, keeps getting better and better!! ^_^
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Nanoha #505
Nanoha
18/07/2012
When it realeased?? Its just freaking awsome! :P
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darius #644
darius
17/07/2012
supper
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NEXUS #168
NEXUS
16/07/2012
I think that kerrigan shouldn't be reviveable.
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Fall #183
Fall
03/07/2012
this looks freakin awesome to bad they are delaying it because of diablo 3 and MoP
also next time i see Jay Wilson working on a project i will not buy it dont care how good the game looks its clear that he has no idea what hes doing and what people want from a game ,it seams he just makes a game that he likes and doesn't care what the customers want
Blizzard please just get rid of him
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NEXUS #168
NEXUS
03/07/2012
I think that the raptor evolution should be replaced by another because the leaping forward ability is to similar in my opinion to the charge ability of the zealot.
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CrapySoft #319
CrapySoft
31/07/2012
@NEXUS: thats for the campain -.- not the multiplayer -.-
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Skrulla #473
Skrulla
25/06/2012
YABBADABBADO
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Flash #213
Flash
21/06/2012
Ti's not blizzard we should be bashing on... Its Actavision -_- afterall they are the ones that Forced blizzard to make that stupid Money Auction house so that they could get a cut from the deal's you make. its a Stupid DRM and everyone knows it. people want to play Singleplayer... some people do like the multiplayer but however that is pretty hard to say When The servers can barely handle the people trying to enter the Servers!
in South Korea people literally broke into blizzard HQ and Stole all files of Evidence they could find to See if blizzard or Actavision was breaking any of their Fair trade contracts. and it also seems That even more People are mad about this. I only hope they do Try to do something better then removing the Carrier... Afterall its the Symbol of the Protoss. it would be alot better to just buff them. give them some new good Features. the Protoss feature's and Gimmicky is BAD right now. Even Husky talked about it and gave protoss a 2/10 and that's bad! because they are only adding More ball of Death Feature's to it and Block Mineral Lines??? that's not even Op that's Just BROKEN!!!
that's broken beyond. they should not add so many Control Type features. this needs to be skill based... not like HEY I CONTROL YOUR ARMY AND NOW IT DIES LOL!!!
please Blizzard STOP THAT!!!
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Curve #934
Curve
17/06/2012
I Bought Starcraft to restore my faith in Blizz after Diablo, hopefully this expansion will not turn out like diablo
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Alexoid #805
Alexoid
14/06/2012
I JUST CANT WAIT!!!!!!
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Nemesis #554
Nemesis
08/06/2012
The Zerg are my favourite race in StarCraft. Can't wait to see into the Heart of the Swarm!
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valdevilbert #959
valdevilbert
04/06/2012
this vil be the best game ever (:
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Rogue #524
Rogue
27/05/2012
Any news? :)
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Indigo #981
Indigo
26/04/2012
I love the way that you can genetically mutate all of your little pets and they look different after that. Hopefully they'll give more mutations to zerg player in multiplayer.
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Kinimod #829
Kinimod
03/06/2012
@Indigo: Because that won't be unbalanced at all...
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Spark #219
Spark
05/06/2012
@Ghost: im sure multiplayer, will be as balanced as possible. This might only happen in story mode
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@Indigo: I don't think so. In SC2 you already have units and perks that only work on story mode, and this looks a lot like it is the very same thing.

Off the top of my head I can think of the "evil" ghosts (I cant remember the name for them) that you unlock in story mode and the aoe ground attack panther that you get with research samples. None of them are available for PvP.
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Pariah #797
Pariah
16/06/2012
@Cou: you mean Specters? They're not evil that's what they want you 2 believe (especialy that !@#$% Nova)
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AtomiC #367
AtomiC
25/04/2012
This looks awesome , GIMME!
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Snowcrow #370
Snowcrow
22/04/2012
Gimme gimme gimme!
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ffhawke #231
ffhawke
16/04/2012
Zerg is best, can't wait!!
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ffhawke #231
ffhawke
16/04/2012
Zerg is best, can't wait!!
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Barak #365
Barak
31/03/2012
when its going to be relist?
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Lickashorty #266
Lickashorty
22/03/2012
cant wait to play this, zerg rocks
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alnesf #470
alnesf
17/03/2012
I am hungry for this expansion, soooo hungry.