StarCraft: Brood War

A number of expansion packs lack the quality and focus of the original game, and one gets the feeling that it is just a cynical attempt of the developers to milk a few extra dollars out of fans of the original game. This is certainly not true for Starcraft: Broodwar, it is obvious that a lot of effort was made by Blizzard to produce a expansion that is on par with the original game. Starcraft: Broodwar felt more like a sequel than a mere expansion pack.

The storyline of the single campaign is as detailed and interesting as the original and a few useful units were added for each race. I only have two complaints, the first is that some of the missions are fiendishly difficult and there are a few times I had to resort to cheat codes to be able to finish the mission. My other complaint is the shortage of cut scenes, there are basically only one for each campaign. The developers took such a lot of effort with the storyline, why not follow it through with decent cinematics? Overall, if you enjoyed the original Starcraft, don't miss out on Starcraft: Broodwar, if you didn't, Starcraft: Broodwar is not going to change your mind because it is essentially more of the same.

Meaning that it introduced some unit and spells changes while the non-existant story of the original took a turn for the worst (!), with plot holes/contrivances giant as a Battlecruiser and an Ultralisk combined and poor attempts by the horny Warhammer 40K fanboy behind the writing pen (Chris Metzen) to make his Warhammer 40K fanfiction/tribute - what the entirety of the Starcraft IP amounts to, objectively speaking - sound like an uber-complicated space opera a là Arthur C. Clarke by meshing stuff taken from the Dark Phoenix Saga by Chris Claremont and John Byrne (the whole Queen of dumb blades shanenigans) and Starship Troopers by Paul Verhoeven (the entirety of the terran campaign) with a confused and overdone dose of betrayals and alliances that has no real reason to be. Attempts that the more time it passes the more they overstay their welcome, so much that I skipped the last three Zerg missions by using cheats like I did already in 2004 and I am not ashamed in saying so. Again, I sincerely don't understand how this is considered the masterpiece of storytelling that it isn't, so what's the deal with all the people lamenting about the SC II story being bad in comparison to the originals? These first two outings are enjoyable to some degree, but the story in here as well as the gameplay are still not Warcraft III level of refinement to begin with IMHO.

On a side note, can somebody please tell me what was the deal with the Remastered version to begin with? The graphic overhaul was interesting, but the original videos from 1998 still sporting the non-remastered version of the characters were as nonsensical in this as they were in the original game.

The whole game is amazing. You play as the 3 races again after the first Starcraft, this includes new units such as the Medic, Valkerie, Devouerer, Lurker, Corsair, Dark Archon and the Dark Templar, as well as new characters and upgrades. The game is awesome and i recomend it. The best thing ever about this game is the campaign editor and battle.net you can make any type of map and play it with friends over the internet for hours. This is the sweetest game ever.

Warcraft and Warcraft II, the predecessors of this game, changed the gaming world forever. Blizzard introduced a whole new genre of PC games.

With Starcraft, Blizzard proved that they could keep on applying their genius towards pushing forward real time strategy games in huge leaps of creativity and intricacy. The game is simply brilliant, from the many ways the races and their respective technologies interact, to the engrossing storyline of the game.

Perhaps most important was the introduction of BattleNet -- an online forum where Starcraft players from around the world have been dueling around the clock for years. If you haven't played this game yet, it's time to check it out.

(Don't forget the expansion pack, and watch for Warcraft III to be released Spring 2002.)

As title said.

The peak of human in game development in this game (not kidding), its 2023 i still play it. Enjoy it . Learn new things in it , Starcraft 1 have been realsed in 1998..and it still going.. 10 Star, even people who didnt play it can admire and agree that its the best thing ever dont in gaming.

If gamespot did 1 thing correct it was calling this game "The best game ever" the design of Brood War "contains all the care, detail, and ingenuity of a true sequel" that "completely revitalizes" the original game. The reviewer praises the "seemingly minor but terribly significant modifications" to the balance of the game, putting the results as "outstanding",