I didn’t feel as though the ending was very rushed at all, throughout the story of the game Raynor was upset and concerned with Kerrigan, it was a constant reminder for him and a motivational piece. The entire story was based around Raynor and Tychus fighting against Mengsk while collecting pieces of the Xelnaga artifacts, we just didn’t know what the Xelnaga Artifact did. The revelation of it “saving” Kerrigan was a bit abrupt, I admit, they didn’t seem to really know what exactly it would do just that it was extremely powerful. Sure it was kinda predictable with Kerrigan being saved, but that obviously doesn’t mean that Kerrigan’s role in the story is a done deal. It may be nothing but if you take a look at Kerrigan’s hair at the end it still looks like that of the Queen of Blades’ hair, in color as well as how it looks shape-wise.
I believe that Blizzard definitely knows what they’re doing, they wouldn’t have released the game if people were going to think that the story sucked or that the ending was rushed. While it may be semi-cliffhanger is definitely ties up a lot of the story while leaving plenty of room for the expansions.
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The campaign will center on the infested Kerrigan’s quest for power through mutations. The more power she has, the more Zerg she can control. The single-player is planned to play a bit differently than Wings of Liberty but we’re not quite sure how yet. Lead designer Dustin Browder proposed that the player might use the Zerg armies to protect Kerrigan on the battlefield while she gains more power.”
Source: Kotaku
There is obviously a lot of guessing that people have been doing and not much is known about “Heart of the Swarm” but I’m sure there will be plenty of story and done right from Blizzard, they haven’t lacked in the story department on their games in a while. You knew you weren’t going to get to play as Kerrigan during the terran portion of the game, why are you upset about the ending of this portion? Lol