On the eve of the release of one of the most anticipated video games in history, it should come as no surprise that Blizzard's title has broken 800,000 pre-orders. While Activision Blizzard can no doubt already be envisioning the padding to their bottom line for the fiscal year, gamers can't seem to wait to get their Zerg, Protoss or Terran on when StarCraft 2 lands into their hands come midnight and it certainly shows.
Projected sales of the PC title are already spiralling towards a million units with sales the world over expected to reach at least double that. To put the whole thing into perspective, Red Read Redemption, the latest from Rockstar Games, has sold well into the millions. But, short of that StarCraft 2 really doesn't have any discernable competition until late next month in the form of Metroid Other M. However, that may do little to slow Blizzard's latest juggernaut.
While the original StarCraft was a superior example of storytelling and gameplay merged to create one of the greatest cohesive gaming experiences of the last decade and a half, StarCraft 2 seems poised to easily conquer it's record of over 11 million copies sold worldwide. 12 years after the release of the original, StarCraft 2 hits store shelves at midnight.
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