Their two streams meet at the bottom of the map, extra forces sometimes spilling off to attack Kerrigan and her own brand of Zerg at the top of the area. One mid-campaign level is fringed by a constant battle between two rival Zerg factions. A number of missions feature the endless streams of dumb AI units that characterise that genre (originally born from Blizzard's games: the circle is complete). That's not the only action-RTS influence in Heart of Swarm's campaign. "Your newest organic toy is always ideal for the mission ahead - but victory is never assured." She can be given a set of healing and buffing auras and told to stand next to the bulk of your army, or you can build her - as I did - for pure damage output, speeding deep into enemy ranks, chucking blasts of kinetic energy, and darting back out with a city-sized spaceship in her wake. Kerrigan acts like an action-RTS hero on the battlefield, and players have the ability to outfit her for a range of functions. Her skills sit on a tech tree, and demand that players choose between two (later three) abilities at certain levels.
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The Leviathan skill can be replaced by a portable nuke, or by a set of drop pods Kerrigan can call in to spawn an entire army at a moment's notice. The beast hovers malevolently around the map, prodding things to death with sandworm-sized tentacles. Her final few abilities are ridiculously powerful: one allows her to call in her vast Leviathan ship. These increase in impressiveness as she levels up: an early ability enables her to lift a handful of enemies into the air, their little arms waving as Kerrigan's army nibbles at their legs a mid tier skill lets her conjure six acid-filled Banelings out of the ground, ready to hurl at nearby opponents. In embracing it, they justify Kerrigan's semi-mystic power, and subsequently her in-game powers. It feels like a resurrection of that era of nuance-less science fiction - a time when space marines could be space marines, horrible chitinous monsters could be horrible chitinous monsters, and the two could fight without origin stories or complex motivations - but Blizzard are happy to embrace StarCraft's origins, not attempt a reboot. When it tries to be po-faced, it's quite silly when it tries to be silly, it's very silly, a pulp sci-fi story dictated by the surprise success of characters and plot coined in the late 1990s. Her story is one of blind, stabby revenge, a tale of crossing the galaxy and interacting with its most powerful beings with the express intentions of offing one beardy dude for being really, really annoying. A breakout is followed by daddy Mengsk's intervention, and Kerrigan is propelled back toward her Zerg swarm, and re-de-re-Zergification. Semi-friendly to her captors - Valerian Mengsk, son of Terran despot Arcturus Mengsk, and other friends of her beau Jim Raynor - she's no longer in her guise as the Queen of Blades, de-Zergification having rendered her more human in appearance. Kerrigan begins proceedings trapped in a Terran lab. That story is silly in varying ways, with varying degrees of success. "When it tries to be po-faced, it's quite silly when it tries to be silly, it's very silly." It's no spoiler to mention she flits between these forms in Heart of the Swarm - the game plasters her Zergified face all over the loading screen - but no matter her appearance, she retains a set of enemy-shredding abilities that get more powerful as the story progresses on. After some advanced Zerg gribblification, she grew a natty pair of bony wings and had her entire body turn sparkly purple, taking on the moniker 'Queen of Blades'. She started life as a Terran ghost: a human super-sniper with brain-melting psionic powers.
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She's the game's cover star, and comes in two flavours in both HotS and the series fiction. At the heart of said swarm sits Kerrigan.
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