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StarCraft | List Price: $9.99
Discount Price: $19.99
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Platform: Macintosh, Windows
Brand: Blizzard Entertainment
Binding: CD-ROM
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Features: - 30 unique missions will challenge you across 3 different campaigns as you control the fate of the galaxy
- Control any of 3 different species, each with unique units, technologies, attributes, and abilities
- Included Campaign Editor allows players to edit units and create their own campaigns
- StarCraft boasts award-winning advanced control features, such as waypoints and training queues, to provide enhanced gameplay
- Multiplayer games for up to 8 players over IPX Networks and Battle.net, 4 players with Direct Cable Connection, and 2 players with modem Connection
Good gameplay [Posted on 2005-08-28]
The best game since sim city but age of empires and others are better...
Real Time Strategic Slugfest [Posted on 2005-10-27]
StarCraft does fall into the RTS genre; resource gathering, unit creation, base building, ect. But it isn't as demanding for a strategic genius as games like Age of Empires or Rise of Nations. Nonetheless, it's an explosive game that will keep you busy for a long time. In a way, StarCraft is a great change of pace for fans of more complex RTS games (like me). Playing Rise of Nations all the time can start to get overwhelming because of the constant mass and micro management needed. In StarCraft, you don't have to deal with a ton of diplomacy issues or anything like that. A typical game has things set up kind of like an RTS death match. All of the resources you need are sitting right next to your base. Collect them, build defenses, then build an army. You can choose from three different races. The Terran, a human army of colonists, Zerg, a race of bugs, mutants, and everything creepy and crawley, and the Protos, a super intelligent race with psionic powers. Each race (Terran, Zerg, Protos) have their one advantages and disadvantages. The Terran are well balanced and are best for beginners. They have good infantry and a variety of defenses. One good advantage is that important Terran Buildings (command centers, barracks, ect.) can lift off the ground and fly to a new area for a quick escape. The Zerg rely on the masses. Their units are not as powerful but they are also less expensive and some are created in groups. One of their disadvantages is that they cannot build (mutate) on normal ground; only on a thick slime that covers the ground near their buildings. The Protos have very powerful units, but they are more expensive and take longer to build. A huge advantage for the Protos is that they don't have to sit at a construction site and waste time building it up. All you have to do is get one of your little probes to warp the building in. The second the probe reaches the building site, they actavate a portal and the building basically starts to build itself, allowing the probe to tend to other matters. As a side effect, they can't repair damaged buildings. The sounds are nothing to make a whole extra section about (zap, boom, kerpow, "gimme somethin' to shoot.") but they're what you would expect from a game like this. The music also fits the mood perfectly. The graphics are about the same as Age of Empires II with a slightly more animated look making everything look and run smooth. It's hard to tell how good the AI is because of the simple tactics they use; launch waves of troops at your enemies and destroy them all. The AI also loves to rush. Expect to be attacked about five minutes into the game. Along those lines, the computer does very well. The environments are very interesting and original, covered with black dirt, craters, strange animals and purple trees. StarCraft also has a great (and free) online multiplayer with an endless number of people to play with.
StarCraft i didnt just get this game had it since i was 10 [Posted on 2005-11-06]
This is a great game truly a great game very good very very good lovet the races and story and characters like Jim Raynor awsome guy and love the expansion pack and want a starcraft 2 sometime(not ghost!)
Excellent Game, prompt shipping [Posted on 2006-07-26]
I've been a longtime fan of starcraft ever since it came out... which I'm sad to say is becoming a quite large body of time. The product was great, except that the cd-key I was provided with the software was muted on battle.net. I'd never even seen that before. I'm having to spend a great ammount of time correcting that, but otherwise, delicious!
Nice game, even with the old graphics [Posted on 2007-03-15]
"Starcraft" is a strategy game. It takes place in the year 2499, when humanity uses all Earth's resources. Humanity travels then to other planets to survive.
But life in other planets is hard. The resources are rare and difficult to be obtained. To complete the disgrace, two others alien races keep attacking the small and limited human colony: the Zerg and the Protoss.
Humans start to fight against them, creating a race for the conquest of the Universe.
A problem comes up after sometime living in other planets. Humans' democracy starts to get worse and worse. A group of rebels is created, and conflicts in the already bad human society start to grow.
And then, something totally unexpected comes up. A secret that would make humans get mad with the politicians and install the chaos in the society. The adventure starts then...
The game is an action and strategy game. You are like a commander: you have to take fast decisions, make tactics and strategies before the enemies destroy you. It makes the game a bit tense, but also very exciting.
It's not easy in the start; you lose a lot of times until you learn some things: how to be fast, tactics, what units you should train etc... You can play online with or against people. You'll never learn everything, because there will always be someone with new ideas, that can even beat the most experienced player. That's why the game is good; you'll always have to improve yourself. Besides, the best players get famous and even earn a reasonable amount of money.
I feel a bit tense while I'm playing it, but I feel much more excited than tense. I really enjoy the game; it brings me a lot of fun. And I get very happy when I win, of course!
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