StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Opening Cinematic 

+zodiac909 This is pretty mediocre as far as CGI goes.

+Ferrohazard are you friggin kidding me?

+Gabriel Lainesse (GLayne) Well, he isn't wrong. For a Movie Company this is around average CGI. For a games company it is the best in the business.

+Orissan the Graphics in a CGI movie have nothing to do with how a Movie could turn out..Look at Toy Story 1 for example, the CG looks weird by todays standards, but no one cares cause it had a good story. But personally i enjoy the stories Blizzard tells more.

zodiac909 What you enjoy is your prerogative, but I don't think there are more than a thousand people in the world who could listen to this kind of dialogue for 2 hours.

+Depthcharger44 now if only archons were decent vs ultras :D

+Depthcharger44 Seul les vrais connaissent !

i actually thought they would show the colossus because i was always thinking they would

+Depthcharger44 I signed in just to upvote this. Haha.

+sufit113 The Archon got +4/+4 but it died at the end of the turn.

Me

En TARO TASSADAR!!!!!!!!!

Me

Honestly one of the best pieces of media made.

POWER OVERWHELMING!

Amen, brother 🙏

Heart of the Swarm was in my opinion, better

agreed

It's not even so much the visuals. The voice acting / writing is chilling.

totally agree @@

Yep

Absolutely. This one and the heart of the swarm one. Just the sound effects make these trailers leagues above the rest.

@@sirdook2761 Literally doing that right now haha about to watch HOTS. Sound design and pacing are fantastic.

True lol. And I dont even play Starcraft

This is my favourite cinematic, with the swarm up second, so yeah i watch it a *few* times.

woke my with this laugh. ty

love this comment.

Woke who??

Not enough minerals.

You need more Vespin Gas

Indeed. This vid never get old

The commentary is too dramatic but action is awesome

Cannot get enough of them.

Binging some again, so good!

Indeed.

For Aiur!

For Aiur.

10 years later still...

2:10 Archon destroyed Ultralisk's tuskblade with psionic handchop. Which is with Terran's technology, it is almost impossible to break. Thus handchop of Archon possess more forces and firepower compared to most Terran's arsenals.

me too, also the cutscenes of legacy of the void are 100% goosebumps

+DannyPlayzHD I still feel like fapping....

+DannyPlayzHD POWEROVERWHELMIG !!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111111111111111111111111oneoneone

+EtoVam ZnatNenado iiii

+SwenglishGamer And now again :)

+DannyPlayzHD This is like my daily quest

+James Sunderland You too!? It's crazy, right! :') 1:43, FOR AIUR. I mean, posterity.

+James Sunderland Dude I've been waiting for this like 15 years, the story it's almost complete, and I'm afraid of what could happen! Blizzard guys are producing real nice cinematics and even better main story!!!

+Josue Gonzalez Cabrera yep. I'm almost ready to start flaming about campaigns of the same game being released and sold separately, but I'll shut up in the name of this cinematic

+James Sunderland "Power....over....whelming"

So do I

Amen

+Luis Fernando Is just a matter of time... Well, for Warcraft at least.

+Luis Fernando yeh hollywood is slow to catch on - tons of sci-fi fans want stuff like this...

+Luis Fernando Hope that Christopher Nolan would direct it.

+Juan Diego Young Yet, blizzard will not make a starcraft/warcraft animated movie. They do not get it...

+mmikeli I hope not

Warp

👌👌👌

Super far away from Aiur and/or nearest Nexus.

@@hitlord well, there aren't really many nexuses around plus they're literally on Aiur so eh

That archon merge was fast though

Power OverwhelmiNNNGGG!

saaame

Yep, similar case here

2023, almost 2024, still check this epic little nugget out now and again :)

Every time, no matter how many times I've watched.

It was really good and when he holds the ultra I thought he was going to say "Obliterate" or something

@@Ninja4848 DECIMATE

Why did it get destroyed though? He activated the invulnerability cheat!

yes, it sent shivers thru my spine

In some sense the benelings as well.

SCBW times where yu used Zealots to pull Spider Mines into Siege tanks lul

And he had a shiny helmet

I agree

Zealots always have your back.

Neary there! This is all that keeps me sane now.

Definitely ME! this is truly masterpiece cause is many things around that, which give me amazing vibes!

yep, amazing cinematic

Popped into my mind this morning, decided to check it out along with Reclamation

Good old days

The fact that everything they did in the showcase was legit gameplay accurate makes me so happy.

And the delay on warping pylon, must be player waiting for the last batch of minerals

Wow Fun Fact

yet the archon transforms instantly lol nice try bud...oh wait... "operation cwal"

@@Altiar253 The archon merge duration in the video is about 9 seconds. That fits perfectly with ingame duration.

Not in the state they're in now. The Activision Swarm brought ruin to our world.

Many Blizzard trailers are chills inducing trailers :D

I just installed the game.. intro gave me such chills so i had to re-watch it.. lol

Too bad the game and story itself were average...

it's been 5 years.. huh

music is genious

underrated comment lol

The storyline in this game is one of the worst in history This cinematic was false advertising.

Lol

+Christian Alfaro :D hahahaha

+Christian Alfaro lmfao

+Christian Alfaro omg so true hahaha

+Christian Alfaro the Money taker is being DDOsed, it'll open in november,

+Christian Alfaro You need to throw with both arms.

+Kiril D. (Lum) To the TOP comment sir!

+Kiril D. (Lum) Best comment so far

+Kiril D. (Lum) True facts!

+Kiril D. (Lum) SHIVERS OVERWHELMING! :D

+Kiril D. (Lum) Top comment.

@alexw8758 given that sc1 came out in 1998 its pretty impressive that you've been playing it for 30 years!!!

@@laytonmiller5865 he said playing games for 30 years, not playing starcraft for 30 years.

me too lol

I remember that phrase being the "god mode" cheat. Was that the reason they added it or Archons used the same phrase in SC 1 ?

Archons used the phrase in SC1 too.

This is is the part that gets me from jaw dropped to mind blown. The entire video is just absurdelly great, but this line gave me shivers since SC1

🤣😎👽

Bob Almity lmao

I just noticed the banelings were going after the pylon!! I love that zealot even more now

Steven Sandoval He took 3 out before going down.Good trade right there.:)

+MadBrainBox he tanked 150/75 for 100 worth of his life

+MadBrainBox zerg mis-microed :) he didn't use the building target...

+MadBrainBox He didn't had to die the pylon could've take 1 of the banes without dying.

The last golden age of Blizzard

you made one mistake. Its not 1:35-1:59, its 0:00-3:18

lol, nice

+Le tuan linh Haha I wish 10k zealots would appear, but what they showed is a realistic proportion for the Protoss since they are few in numbers T.T

+LolyourDead100 They are definitely a smaller population than terrans and CERTAINLY a smaller population than the zerg, but they are not close to few in numbers at this point. Think about one of the teasers, where thousands of protoss waited on ONE mothership (I'm well aware that mothership is the leading one and is known as the Shield of Aiur, but still). And how many more motherships would they have brought to take Aiur back. 10? 20? Hundreds? Thousands? And also think about how massive the Golden Armada (the fleet that is invading Aiur to reclaim it) is. Not only does it consist of several years' worth of gathering protoss, but it also consists of the most powerful protoss in their race. Proof of this is in HoTS, where on Kaldir Kerrigan refuses to let the Protoss warn the Golden Armada of Kerrigan's attack, even after she conquered both Char and Zerus, and even reclaimed her title as the Queen of Blades. This shows that the Golden Armada could easily wipe out the Zerg, given that they wanted to. And, back to my original point, Think about how many Protoss are in ALL the other factions. The one shown here is only one faction. Overall, the Protoss are in the billions, most likely, with their numbers. 10,000 zealots is probably what they eventually warped onto the planet, if not more.

+limzykenneth FOORRR AAUIIERRRRRR!!!

+TEMPST XenoRage you mean... My life for aiur !... Not auier

Turtled the whole game until the end

Versus 200 hatcheries somewhere 😂

That ultralisk was burrowed to stop him from expanding

And floating 2k minerals and 1k gas lol.

@@kal2352 he was warping only zealots so he doesn't need gas

I laugh every time I read this. So true, so true.

or... "IT'S A TRAP!!!!!"

+Ceazar Arroyo a mothership can teleport pylons, I think

+Ceazar Arroyo probe may have wiped gg

+Ceazar Arroyo what happened to that probe anyway?

+Ceazar Arroyo lol

make a map with probzs building in seconds and you always win lol. and thanks to this, prepare yo sée this strategy every Lotv match

2024 💯💯

Entaro Tassadar!

+VelstryoxDP En Taro Adun

+VelstryoxDP Entaro Adun!

+Gasssolo do you seek knowledge time travel?

Bronze league zeleots amirite

+Donny Savage me too

+Donny Savage Me Three!

+Donny Savage 4

Aren't we all?

+SliderFury1 ya but unfortunately this game wont do so well in the sales department if its competing with fallout

Here with you brother. They did the protoss right. Perfect cinematic.

2022*

2023 bruthas

@@vinniethegooch7830 glad to see we're not alone

Almost 2024

Yeah the stroy, the setting... Starcraft would be a Perfekt movie!

The fact is, Warcraft is a freakin popular videogame, is not shure StarCraft gonna make a lot of money.

+John Bennet yeah, that's a point, but is dificultd make a movie, and the hollywood people don't take random choices, they want money

Starcraft is a popular game too, not as much as Warcraft but still a popular game. Also, it's easier to understand starcraft. WC have a lot and i mean A LOT of civilizations. Also, there have been a lot of movies like SC that have been successful. Have you ever seen Starship Troopers? it's like SC but without protoss.

Yeah, I mean, it's not like StarCraft is pretty much a sport in South Korea or that they hold major StarCraft tournaments in places all over the world.

+JohninMinecraft his life for Aiur!

+JohninMinecraft don't be. he got teleported out. the reason why protoss vanish in a blue smoke is because they get warped out when armor or flesh takes too much damage.

+JohninMinecraft Forreal tho. But took it like a goddamn champ tho. /Salute

+SherBoCop I thought it was their souls departing after they die in combat

+EvErLoyaLEagLE Nope, they return as Immortals. Used to be Dragoons in the original SC.

specifically that part where the sound is gone after their death.

Yeah Dude......... Archon over there being "You think you are I'm locked in here with you ? YOU ARE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME !!"

"Power overwhelming!"

whats this skill name?? who use??

+Trevor Jones khalai aren't the nerazim

+darksidelead But Artanis united the Nerazim and the Khalai. He wants/wanted all Protoss to be united.

and the tensions grew again after brood war. Hence the whole idea about different protoss factions uniting in this game...

+Ben Miller Guys I was making a dumb in-game joke. Just kidding. But I appreciate the love of the lore, keep starcraft alive brothers. Always wish the gameplay was closer to the lore...its' so much bigger.

If you see closer, when they warp in there are dark templars lol

Haha! Also that Zealot at 1:06 looking at the Probe going "Anyday now, man! We ain't got all day...."

***** You know, sometimes, leaving things open to our imagination is OK. We don't know what happened to the Probe either. That's OK!! You're thinking about it, and brainstorming, and excited; Blizzard has accomplished their goal :)

Oh he's obviously the only cowardly protoss, hes definitely hiding behind the rubble behind the 2 templars at 1:43.

+Luke Ribbons Probably, I mean what is the drone going to attack with? Attack of his Tickle Cannon.

If I were any of those zealots heck yeah I would protect the lil probe. When the dude can spawn pylons that can teleport an entire army he is kinda important.

They merged with Activision, their never coming back. They lost sight of why we supported them in the first place.

Hahaha

really? i dont like fake taxi... more the classic thinghs ;D

Yeah dude

Muhammed Nam

Go watch World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth trailer. This is good but i don't know which is best.

1 flying unit and they are screwed

+Weeaboo Loli Master i know right

Not really. There're still High Templar there.

Sorry I'm Late unless they have energy the high templars can't attack them,unless they go POWER OVERWHELMING

Storms. Storms everywhere

good micro! also, don't forget the moral support of the probe!

They are akhundelar. Also it's not just some PvZ, it's the retaking of Aiur :3

Bdor24 must.....nerf....protoss

The High Templars used all the available energy in storms before merging into an archon... but yeah.

Bdor24 they got 3/3

They weren't on point with their baneling micro. Three banelings stopped by a single zealot.

+Rei Ogami they tried dude.

Aren't the Zerg on Aiur feral now? With the overmind dead, Kerrigan never claimed them and far as we know there wasn't a brood mother controlling them so aren't they just mindless beasts?

+Nitto 559 yep, they're feral.

+Seigi „No“ Tenshi spoiler allert, Amon was reborn on Aiur, so they arent feral

+lichmaster kirlin also so that is how sc looks irl

bots?

+lichmaster kirlin haters be like SC Brood war is still the best so no matter what we see....just pressing "dislike" zz (even they didn't play SC:Brood war)

+lichmaster kirlin Zerg players

+lichmaster kirlin zergs hate everything, u know cause protoss to busy being epic pressing LIKE and terrans to busy whining cause well thats what terrans do isnt it ? xD

+Gerald Weiner Because they love Warcraft more T.T

+LolyourDead100 I hafe think they are working on the starcraft mmo :D

+frost fire Oh dear gods, no. Please.

+LolyourDead100 U_U

+frost fire No they're not.

ME TOO.

Love this. Especially it is an old cheatcode from sc1

Do the 2 high templars Join the khala when they transform to an archon?

Me too

always thought it said power over glory lol

Yes.

+MartinRichardi No. Normal people have seen this many more times.

+MartinRichardi You're only human so don't worry.

+MartinRichardi Is it normal for me to watch this 5 times everyday? :S

No. Absolutely not. Why haven't you seen it 100 times yet? Shame on you. For the sake of humanity, hit the replay button now!

+Dariush MJ couldn't have said it any better, Blizzard never disappoint in the cinematic department

I really want a version of this without the motion blur so I can screenshot a wallpaper.

+Michael W. why i cant find this floor77 on google?

Michael W. Yeah I knew of a third party partner, such exclusivity is rewarded by top notch pieces of art

+Dariush MJ I thought the same!

+solo manolin I get the joke, but no. It's the first step in retaking Aiur.

+solo manolin i thought the same thing the needed about 10 pylons for that lot lol!!!

I'm sure a mothership is considered a floating city. If so, you can build all the pylons you need in there. Then again, they ARE setting up a base, and most likely a colony after that. HYPE!!!

+solo manolin lmao~~

+KeViNZP But I was wondering why didnt they use a warp prism to summon reinforcements while they warp in a pylon XXDXDXDXDXDXD

+BULLET GAMING They better stop making online games and start a new corporate career with movies.

+Özgür Bulut Karaosmanoğlu yep! XD

+Teawithgrief Quoted for truth, sadly.

+BULLET GAMING maaan and they say warcraft movie is gonna be even better but i dont think it can get better than this

+mahatma ghandi saw a preview at last years blizzcon, it does

+Zeratul i dont think collosus is a good counter against ultras. they are heavy armored units. not saying they are bad, just dont have really an advantage.of course if both are on the same level, if the colossus is above or below(unreachable, or at least hard to reach) then yes its not really a problem. for ultras you really want air units, if possible void rays or tempests.. now those things eat ultras for breakfast.

+Zeratul i dont think you can kite ultras well with colossus, they have some delay before firing... not saying its impossible, just that it need to be really carefull, besides, ultras are faster than colossus, both in aspd, and walking speed, and thats not even taking into acount creep. again, not saying its impossible to do, just that there are better units to do it.

+Marcos Danilo new archons! 10 shields 350 HP

+Mairo San Never played Starcraft 2 and it's been years since I played Starcraft but do Archons start with below normal health if one of the Templars was injured before merging?

+Marcos Danilo Super Ultralisk xD

+Vainth well it was either that or eaten by that ultralisk there

+darksidelead ultras don't eat units they just give them big hugs!

+Vainth FuuuuuuSION HA!!!

Through telepathy... Templar 1: Bro, I love you man. Templar 2: I know. Templar 1: No. You don't understand Bro, I love you man! Templar 2: Let's just get this done....

+kxmode LMAO

Oh, that would be me.

+Evan O'Neill and counting man. I have watched at least 20 times today alone. I just keep hitting repeat and noticing the little things like the cool animations or physics or the epic music or Artanis' epic speech. The trailer is epic as f**k.

+Evan O'Neill I think I watched it a thousand times the day the trailer came out...

+That_Canadian_Guy3875 still watching it: 9999999 and counting

+Evan O'Neill It's after November 10th. I have the game. I'm still watching

Akhundelar

+Aaron Strauss i know!

+Aaron Strauss i have tears in my eye. so touching their struggle

+CptBlacks That doesn't make us sissy, right ?? Dat music was epic too :/"

+CptBlacks EVERY SINGLE TIME I SWEAR!

Because this is the one of the best video game trailers ever created

+DerkY Prob Champ

Probe MVP.

+DerkY pfft all about pylo

+Justin Chao It should have warped in cannons. Then the cheese can begin.

+DerkY Looks Yeah! but it looks more like a century

You're right. Because I didn't see any Roaches.

+Jmagnum8989 Well yeah, the Zerg which conquered Aiur didn't have Roaches in their Broods in that era. Roaches were assimilated during the Queen of Blade's rise to power & return. The banelings are evolved from zerlings, so it's reasonable to assume they came about naturally over time, despite not being apart of the Overmind's invasion forces. So fortunately, that's not a (big) retcon.

+The Reasonable Extremist In WOL you see roaches in Aiur, when you play as Zeratul

+Sergi White well if they keped to lore the zerg wood be to ez

+Jmagnum8989 Yeah, they all died painlessly

+StrikeNoir105E Let the Zerg send everything they've got ! Auir will belong to the Protoss again !

i want to

Actually I was thinking he was going to say. "the merging is complete"

+StrikeNoir105E agree!... rise of the Protoss

All the Protoss fans did BECAUSE PROTOSS ARE THE MASTER RACE!!!

+Bekir Can Celep Ulrezaj 7 that are as one

***** We hear you.

+Bekir Can Celep #Protoss is life

+Bekir Can Celep doesnt khala sound a bit like Allah?

+Bekir Can Celep FOR AIUR!!

good timing too, if it was me I'd be too late and those warriors would be dead.

Artanis with max mastery has no need for supply. (As shown in Co-op)

Me: There, THERE'S YOUR PYLON! Now stop nagging me... Guy: Not enough minerals- Me: AGDGFS YOU PIECE OF CRAP!!!1

- You require more vespene gas - F*****

the face of a hero... of the storm XDDDD

+Andrew Stephen Panlaqui cheater!!!

+Noble Wolf "Now, we are as one.."

+Noble Wolf I got chills when I heard him say that

+Noble Wolf 1+1=1

+Noble Wolf u became invincible

Damocles Vitallion how Ironic that if you type that in game starcraft 1 you will be invincible.

*Loading EMP rounds*

Yeah man, no jokin, manly tears.

same here

I still have not figured out why that one scene in this cinematic prompts such an emotional response from me as well. It's such a powerful (no pun intended) scene. The only description that conveys the situation is the description of the formation of the Archon pulled straight off the wiki... "In times of great need, two High Templar or Dark Templar can merge into a single entity that radiates overwhelming psionic power and rage. The decision to lay down the lives of valuable Templar is never made lightly. Perhaps their energy was spent. Maybe the warriors themselves chose this final act of sacrifice over succumbing to their injuries. Regardless of its origins, the Archon's presence on the battlefield fills the minds of all beings - psionic or otherwise - with primal fear and awe."

+tony yaj Warcraft one is coming first lol

+Fel Master Soon :D! One can wish

+Not Visible Honestly I wouldnt want them to do one, 90% of videogame movies tend to suck, and one such as this, that would rely so heavily on CGI, would costs millions and turn out badly either way

+tony yaj Me neither. It is just the stories writen by Blizzard are not very good. Those work for games, but movies need something more.

2kaioken Well the warcraft movie looks good and seem to have a lot of positive response, which would mean they would make good profit, which also means a higher chance of them making another movie. Not only that, but the warcraft movie already had over 100 million dollar budget.

Rhykker I don’t know man it’s a tie between this and the HotS cinematic. For me at least

@@maskedmerker1 well both were better than the wings of liberty cinematic. not that it was bad is just that HoTS and LotV were much larger in scale

@@dogcatchen Yeah it's hard to say which is the best but I think that we all can agree that SC 2 has the best cinematics!

Hey Rhykker. Man the last line "Today, we retake our homeworld, and with it, our legacy!" still gives me chills today.

@@dogcatchen i know right? Differences maybe be that hots had an air of greating foreboding, like an imminent, inevitable doom especially since it was all a very vivid dream... lotv opening was full of hype and heartpounding support for the protoss, like a symphony playing inside my mind lol...

Artanis's speech always gives me goosebumps, like the last protoss mission in Wings of Liberty

same :^)

Chill!!!

probably the best cinematic i have ever seen

this is a masterpiece, and most likely the best cinematic they've produced so far.