StarCraft: Insurrection is great, actually
Despite its godawful map design and hilarious low budget voice acting, I think the actual plot of StarCraft: Insurrection is surprisingly good and in some ways superior to the original game. Bear with me… A key problem with the original game campaigns is their inconsistency. Characters will flip 180 between scenes in order to force the plot towards a particular direction, even though it makes no sense to behave this way. The world around them bends over backwards to enable them even if realistically they should not get away with any of this. For example, as I have complained about in other posts, Tassadar claims to be helping the terrans but in actuality incinerates inhabited planets rather than working towards a real solution. He constantly abandons his duty to do weird random acts to force the plot forward. He abandons the terrans to their fate in order to visit Char. He allies with Raynor despite having no reason to. He surrenders to the Conclave to halt the bloodshed, then congrat...