Donny, the UNN news anchor, goes nuts and is hospitalized on the mental health center and the girl takes his anchor position.

The singleplayer gameplay itself is a rich combination of tried-and-true and modern RTS mechanisms (remember, it's StarCraft at the core). This means build queues, resource gathering, creating groups of units combined with modern RTS dynamism and think-on-your-feet scenarios that keep things fresh as you progress. And progress you will, regardless (nearly) of your skill level. The new "casual" skill level dials things down a lot in terms of difficulty, with three levels above that for people with some experience playing RTS games.

The presentation of singleplayer is superb, with detailed in-game cinematics that look gorgeous on pretty average hardware and still look good if your machine is a total junker. In the game itself, an incredible amount of detail makes up each and every map, from the flocks of birds that flee on your approach, to the little lava beasts that take refuge in your base when the lava rises. Every time you look you see something new, some little element of polish seems to laugh in the face of every other RTS map ever made. Exaggerated and "unreal" as the world may be, you believe that it exists as a living, breathing, tactile location.