VideoGamer.com: Some people say that StarCraft 2 is too similar to the first game. What do you say to those people?

Frank Pearce: Well the first thing I would wonder is whether any of them actually had a chance to play the build. We definitely were deliberate about honouring the legacy of StarCraft. It's a concious decision on our part to make sure the experience reminds the player of the original experience, so I guess in some ways that's good, that that's what they're saying, because that's partially what we've tried to achieve.

VideoGamer.com: Regarding the campaign, what kind of ideas have you got that you're looking to implement?

FP: The biggest thing for us is immersing the player in the story, as far as single-player goes. We got a pretty rich universe that we want to leverage as far as that goes. The other thing would be the branching campaign, so that the players have some choices in terms of the route they take to experience the story. And also the technologies that they choose to leverage throughout the campaign. You might be able to choose between taking siege tanks into a mission or taking Vikings into a mission.

VideoGamer.com: Which leads me nicely on to the next question which is when will they get the chance to play the game? Do you have even a rough ballpark for when the game's gong to be released?

FP: Not really. We still have a lot of work to do. Anyone that's had the opportunity to play it at any of the shows we've shown it at might think wow, this feels pretty good, this feels pretty complete, so why don't they just release it? But we still have a lot of work to do on the Battle.net side and we still have a lot of work to do on the single-player campaign side. And until that stuff is done, the total package isn't there.