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Video Of StarCraft II's "Lost Viking" Arcade Game
One of the cool things about StarCraft II is the extremely flexible game engine, which can be modded to do practically anything beyond the game's regular real-time strategy gameplay. To help show this off, Blizzard included an arcade cabinet aboard Raynor's ship that lets you play a game with a familiar title...
"Lost Viking" puts you in control of a Viking starship in a very traditional arcade shooter. And despite being in the StarCraft II engine, it works like an arcade shooter should, complete with power-ups, screen-clearing bombs, and gigantic boss encounters.
Adam Biessener included video of the arcade game in his StarCraft II liveblog, which will continue tomorrow.
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