Two great StarCraft II accomplishments... and a third mod

[Rui]

(Note, there's a hot closing note at the end! Jump to it!)

Having its development been announced in May 17 of 2010, "The Final Metamorphosis" has been released! It is a 7 minutes and 30 seconds long cinematic set in the universe of StarCraft lore featuring popular characters like Tassadar, Kerrigan, and even the dark archon Ul'Rezaj!» Official website link
On his end, zenx1 has released "Goku Firebat". It is a highly entertaining map with seven unique heroes and a lot of charming spells that will remind you of "Warlock" of Warcraft III; set traps for your enemies and deflect spells targeted at you!
Below you find the entire "The Final Metamorphosis" (left) cinematic and the promotion video for "Goku Firebat" (right).

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What mod is this? #1

So I once listened to a soundtrack composed of three distinct compositions for an old Warcraft III mod... and I was wondering... is there anyone yet left to figure out which mod was this piece taken from? ^{(NOTE: Link deleted)} The one who figures it out first will get 10 points of reputation!


Two closing notes. First, M0rbid will be assisting shiiK and 67Chrome in the moderation of our Skins Section. Second, it appears there's a convention going on counting with the presence of professionals to show how to use the Unreal Development Kit (UDK, a game-designing framework). It includes live streaming! Check out the website and scroll down.

{EDIT, 4-Nov-2011}
Revival of the High Elves it is, congratulations Asomath Yup, it also went by the name Counterstrike at Quel'Thalas (I actually only discovered it was the same mod when I looked for the tracks). They were apparently made by a guy named Melda from www.musicbyjason.com, I think the thing was called sAmods? Well, anyway, it seems David Vaughan might be the real name of this Melda.*
* Wrong! Counterstrike at Quel'Thalas is an entirely different mod developed by Tufy which also followed the post invasion of Quel'Thalas in four campaigns for four different races or factions: the High Elven survivors, the Amani Trolls, the Shadow Alliance and the "Valley Elves".
Then there's Revival of the High Elves by Daelin, which meant to add a complete new race as a well as a High Elf campaign.

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[Vengeancekael]

Holy mother of god that cinematic is amazing.
Also gratz M0rbid.

 

[Bugz]

Congratz M0rbid, you deserve it.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Tom Kazansky, I remember that hero wraith from SC. Excellent video like someone on YT said: 'someone should hire these guys to bliz animation team' ... but Kerrigan's face was a little bit not good.

 

[Deolrin]

First of all, congratulations, M0rbid!

That cinematic was epic. I didn't recognize too much of it, having not played Starcraft I, but it was still very enjoyable and epic.

As for the music... Could that be from GTW?

 

[Rui]

Nop =P that's not it. You can attempt to keep guessing, but please don't exaggerate, spamming the names of all the Warcraft III mods is cheating.^^

 

[Deolrin]

Dang.

Uhh, Return of Alissia Dragoon? Maybe?
Can I only post one guess per post? I have one more mod in mind.

 

[izaiphovias]

Amazing cinematic.
But agreeing with Imtor... Karrigan's face was... Uhm... Damn it... She looks like a man @@

Also, congratulations, M0rbid, and good luck

 

[Crayons]

Lol, Kerrigan sexy butt. Those cinematic models need better framerates. And they should have used blizzard's models. Though it was nice, we seriously need more Cinematicmodders.

Got some points on Goku though. at 0:19. Lazer eyes crisscross? Haha. Wall-eyed goku



Rui's note: Got nothing. I was clueless about mods until 2005. How about a hint. What year was the mod from?

 

[PurgeandFire]

DAY OF THE FISH. jk idk

That sc2 cinematic in the first post is awesome.

 

[Gilles]

DAY OF THE FISH. jk idk

I was looking forward to that mod a lot. When I was 15. : (

I've got no idea Rui, my guess would have been Alissa Dragoon. Since it's taken though, I'll go with Natures Call Spiderqueen. It's the first thing that came to mind, although I don't remember custom music in it.

 

[Xian]

I already watched the cinematic 5 hours before this was posted...
oh and gratz m0rbid!

 

[ashbringer753]

HeroRPG?

 

[Adiktuz]

downloading the UDK... wahahaha... and watching the Final Meta...

 

[M0rbid]

Thank you all guys!

 

[Rui]

Nop, it's not Alisia Dragoon or any other of the mods mentioned =P

 

[Asomath]

CAQT? (Counterstrike At Quel'Thalas?) :O

~Asomath

 

[HFR]

Hmmm, Deandra's Tale or Shards of Resistance maybe?

 

[supertoinkz]

Wanderers of Sorceria?

 

[kewlthis]

Wohoo Gokuuu!

Been long since I posted here, hows the sc2 community nowadays? :/

 

[Rui]

You were right, Asomath, it is Counterstrike at Quel'Thalas, also known as Revival of the High Elves, it was a mod, directed by Daelin, meant to add another race (High Elves) and a complete new campaign as well. These three tracks were composed by David Vaughan, who is apparently nicknamed "Melda". I initially found them back in 2005 in this page.
As a note of curiosity, their forum (RotHE's) is still up. Scroll up to the first post to download the two other tracks!
Here's a little something I made in Audacity, it is a compilation of all the three tracks in one single track (zip folder):

 

[Asomath]

Yay! Thanks Rui

Melda composed for CaQT in 2003~2005. The music's pretty nice... Im not sure if those 2 mods did, as most do, perish.

~Asomath

 

[Rui]

Correction:

* Wrong! Counterstrike at Quel'Thalas is an entirely different mod developed by Tufy which also followed the post invasion of Quel'Thalas in four campaigns for four different races or factions: the High Elven survivors, the Amani Trolls, the Shadow Alliance and the "Valley Elves".
Then there's Revival of the High Elves by Daelin, which meant to add a complete new race as a well as a High Elf campaign.

P.S. — No one has downloaded the High elf tracks? Why?
Thank you for downloading my mixture though

 

[ashbringer753]

Now that's good news, i thought that the only available high elven soundtrack was that of GTW.

 

[deepstrasz]

Is the High Elf mod still viable ? If so direct me to a download page please.
The music is interesting, reminds me of Age of Empires.

 

[Rui]

Revival of the High Elves was never finished, so it is not. I am 99% sure that Counterstrike at Quel'Thalas never actually got finished either, it is the common problem with large mods.
I also had an Age of Empires feeling while listening too.^^

 

[Sunshine and Night]

I felt an Age of Empires feeling, somewhere between AOE3, both its expansions and AOM