StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty debuted with a lot of hype and fanfare, all of which it fully deserves. Critics who shoot it down claiming that it’s merely a rehash of the same game just with shinier graphics couldn’t be more wrong. StarCraft II retains the intriguing storyline, balanced races, and gameplay fans enjoyed from its predecessor. However, it’s also packed with an arsenal of new features in both the single player and multiplayer modes.

How epic is the Starcraft 2 single-player story? How about so epic that Blizzard will be releasing it as a trilogy.

At BlizzCon 2008 (October 10, 2008), Rob Pardo, the executive vice-president of game design for Blizzard, announced that indeed Starcraft 2 will be released as a trilogy rather than one giant game for Mac and PC in 2009. That means that eager Starcraft fans (me) will have to purchase the main game and the two “expansion packs” in order to find out what happens in the highly anticipated sequel.

The first of the trilogy will be the the Terran campaign subtitled Wings of Liberty. The second will be…