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Summary: StarCraft, The Ultimate Game of all Time
Review: If you like the Age of Emires one, two, three, or Empire Earth you will love this game. I would give the graphics a 4.9 our of 5, the sound 5 out of 5, and this game is the most fun game around. Just so you know there is a lot of blood and cursing so becareful.
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Summary: Greatest game I have ever played... (or will ever play!!!)
Review: This game is awsome. It's an RTS (Real Time Strategy), meaning that you gather resources, build a base, and raise an ever more powerfull army to destroy your opponent. It's a fast-paced, action-filled, stategic and fun game. The premise is that a group of humans have been stranded in some far corner of the galaxy already inhabited by the mighty Protoss, with the Zerg, classic science fiction hive-bugs, about to attack both. The story is superb, told in three chronological chapters depicting the war from the view of each race. It's full of twists and turns, and the missions scale up in difficulty very nicely.The best part about Starcraft are the three races. Blizzard has achieved a perfect balnce between them but managed to also keep them utterly different. The Terrans are humans, with tanks, heavy machine guns, nukes and lumbering battlecruisers. The Zerg are a rampaging scourge of giant insects who can be produced quikly and in vast numbers to overwhelm opponents. The Protoss (my personal favorites) are mysterious psychics who use ultra-high tecnology as well as their awsome psionic abilities. Every unit is unique with strengths and weaknesses. For instance, take the first soldier available for each race. The Terran Marine can attack from a distance and stronger than the Zerg's counterpart, the Zergling, but the Zergling is faster and can be produced much faster than the Marine. The Protoss' Zealot is strong, fast, and packs a massive melee punch, but costs twice as much as a Marine and four times that of a Zealot. Every unit has a role throghout the game. Marines constitute a large part of my forces in a game from start to finish. Each race requires individual stratagies that take years (if ever!) to master. This is what makes Starcraft such a tremendous game, and while it will outlast 99% of other games. The sound is excellent, and the dialogue varies between intreging (sp) and hilarious. The graphics, when they first were released, were the best I had ever seen. I've played this game for yearm and only now are they starting to look outdated, but they're four years old. Besides, if you have time to look at an RTS' graphics, then you're not playing the game! They function and arn't a distraction, which is all that matters in a stratagy game, IMHO. The coup de gras is the entire interface, which has been plolished to perfection. The curser looks like something space-age, and the moving portraits of units and wire-frame images displaying area damage and hitpoints are just flat-out cool. So is the options menu, with an animated space battle for the single player icon... To select a campaighn you click on a moving avatar of the species in question, which displayes vital statistics of that said species... Little things like this are awsome. I could go on forever. Multiplayer rules, and has been going strong for years now with no sighns of stopping. Unfortunatly, most of the people are playing maps with limitless resourses and where single-unit attacks actually work, but that's not the game's fault. If you can find a game where people arn't doing either of these, it's a blast. The campaighn editor is also very good, once you learn to use the triggers, which can take time. The cinematics are superb, some seeming as if they belong in a movie like Aliens and not a computer game. If you buy Starcraft, get it's expansion set, Brood War, aswell. It adds alot. This game's woth it's weight in gold-plated latinum.
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Summary: the bomb
Review: This my most favorite computer game I have. The ghraphics are good the game play is nice and the levels are chalenging. The part I like the most about this game is bing able to play aginst other people. If you have... bucks i'd say go out and buy this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Great Game, Great Story
Review: What I enjoyed the most was the story line. The game play is good but can get long and get boring at times. The very cool aspect of this game is that it teaches you the ropes with each race as it moves the storyline along. Going through the single player campaign will allow you to get familar with each race for when you want to play multiplayer with friends, which can bring hours of fun. But beware that if you have a short attention span, this is not for you, as games can sometimes last for hours.
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Summary: boring
Review: I hate this game and don't see what evreyone sees in it I find when I'm playing this game theres only 1 way I can entertain myself making my units kill eachother and that doesn't do much. Yes I just got the demo but it was DEFINETLY enough to tell I hated it. I'm not going to be ignorant and tell you not to get it because I know alot of people do like it I'm not saying its a bad game but it is definetly NOT my kind of game I prefer C&C
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Summary: A great game
Review: A game packed with fun skill and stratagy gerented the best!
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Summary: Please read this
Review: Something that I have noticed a lot in the other reviews posted here is that they compare Starcraft's graphics/gameplay/features to RTS games that are being or have been released in 2000 and 2001. People! This game was released in 1997! Of course it can't have the same graphics as some more recent RTS games. That said, I am not saying that Starcraft is worse than any new RTS game just because it is older, I am saying that the people who give the game negative reviews are basing their problems with the game on things that are age-related. Graphics aside, the gameplay in starcraft is extremely fun, I have been playing for the five years that it has been out, and it is still fun. One RTS game that I got recently is Empire Earth, and although it is interesting and offers a lot of features, the gameplay is clunky. And despite all the units in it, the game is huge and takes ages to complete, after a while, I am just fed up and resort to building a wonder in order to win. But starcraft doesnt't have that, it is always fun, especially when you play multiplayer with your friends. The graphics were amazing when the game was released in 1997, and they still are not bad. As for those of you who claim that there is no strategy involved in Starcraft... although it is possible to rush your enemies and use sheer strength of numbers to win, I have found that most massed up armies can easily be taken down by a well coordinated defense. For example, I was playing against one of my korean friends who ten times better at Starcraft then I'll ever be, and he decided to rush and kill my allies with a huge group of zerg hydralisks (for those of you who don't know what a hydralysk is, just ask someone who has played the game before). As is customary in RTS games, I noticed that my allies' bases had been reduced to rubble, so I made a defensive line consiting of four photon cannons, and four reavers (photon cannons are a Protoss defensive building, and Reavers are large machines that look like metal slugs that shoot out insanely large explsives). The Hydralysks were torn to pieces by the much smaller force. The point to that long winded account mass rushes can be countered by strategy. One review mentioned that fighters are useless and that if you used them to attack a base they would be sitting ducks... uhm... people, that's why they're called fighters... this reviewer had also stated just before that Starcraft does not involve any strategy, I think that the fact that you can't kill a base with just fighters is proof that at least some strategy is needed. I'm sorry for going on and on like this, but when people compare Starcraft to gave like Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, then they have serious mental problems. This is a fun, strategic and very well balanced game. I would recomment anyone who is interested in real time strategy games to purchase this. Take a hint from the fact that it is four years old and it is still selling as if it were new.
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Summary: awsome
Review: It is the best. You have to command an army and then defeat the bad guys. It has the game of the year a trophy to so as you can see it is an awsome game.
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Summary: SWEET AND SHORT...REVIEW!
Review: ill make this sweet and short. (out of 10) graphics: 9.4
sound: 8.9
gameplay: 11
replay value: 9.8
overall: 9.9
blizzard did a nice job, go get this, brood war, and diablo, they all rock hard
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Summary: A discrace to strategy games!
Review: I just can't figure out where these people get it! Everywhere I go I hear, and I quote, "This is the best game, nothing beats it!". Well, sorry guys, but for me, nearly, no not even that, everything, beats it. All this game is is a cartoony and futurisic Age of Empires II. The graphis are horrible, the plot is stupid (at least Age II had some historical accuracy), and is a complete waste of computer space, money, and time. I, personally would never even consider buying this game, but if you really like it, be brave, go ahead, but I wouldn't recommend it; save your computer the grief, and use your money on a more practical game. If I could have given it no stars, I might have considered it, but my one star goes to the game's cinematics and "movies", which I, to much embarassment, admit are pretty darn good.
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