Fourth race possible in StarCraft II expansion

chautemoc | August 29, 2008 | News | PC Mac

Co-founder of Blizzard Frank Pearce says a fourth race could be introduced when the time comes for a StarCraft II expansion.

The fun part is imagining what the race would be. Cyborgs of some sort? Sky people? Cyborg sky people? Aw, who knows.

“We don’t have the resources or time to add a fourth race to the launch of StarCraft II, but I’m sure in the event that we decide to do an expansion set it’s a feature that’ll come up for discussion,” the company boss told VG247.

StarCraft II will feature the three races from the first game - the Terrans, the Zerg and the Protoss - but a fourth had been considered early on in development.

“We talked about the possibility of a fourth race early on, but we felt like we had a finite amount of great ideas and wanted to make sure we focused all the cool, best ideas on the existing three races rather than diluting those ideas across four races,” Pearce added.

StarCraft II currently has no release date, but is looking likely for 2009.

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AznLiquid | August 30, 2008

4 races can be pretty tricky to balance, especially if the fourth is introduced in an expansion. DoW is proof that continously adding races in expansions can really mess up the online play. Even Warcraft III (also 4 races) isn't as tightly balanced as Starcraft.

Also, many fans are expecting the Xel'Naga to appear in the single player campaign, much like the Naga did in WC3.