Davidsworld3 you need online for the achievements, and obviously multiplayer, but you can still play single player (campaign or against the computer) without a net connection after the first time. Going by this board, the campaign difficulty is a bit lower than WOL, but still reasonably tough for people who aren't RTS experts. Heroes are much better used in this campaign, with Kerrigan being an extension of the Warcraft 3 hero model - she gains experience throughout the campaign (bonus objectives give Kerrigan levels), and those levels impact abilities. Those abilities range from activatable damage dealers, like Kinetic Blast (essentially a Yamato Cannon with a cool down rather than an energy cost) to passive things like the automated refineries. Units still get upgrades as well, and a permanent evolution. Sometimes, the permanet evolution is a permanent modification (such as zerglings being either morphed instantly 3 to an egg, or getting better damage and cliffjumping powers), and othertimes it allows an evolution (Hydralisks can become either lurkers from Brood War, or Impalers which target single enemies for massive damage). The mission types seem generally similar to WOL, in that most of the missions have some kind of timer because you're trying to do something before the enemy does it, or kill certain units before the enemy reaches their goal, etc. The story progresses at a similar pace, but there's no branching missions this time - you will end up doing everything, though the order varies. This means dialogue varies since you may or may not have certain characters at a certain time. Blizzard seem to have accomodated for every possible scenario, including doing several versions of the FMVs based on characters' appearances or presence in certain scenes. If you liked WOL's campaign, there's every reason to think you'd like this one. But if not...it's unlikely to change your mind.
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