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StarCraft

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Favroite Game!
Review: This game is so cool! if your reading this, you should buy Starcraft! You can be Terran, Zerg, or Protess, and on multi-player, theres whole different maps including RPG's. And once you buy this Space/War game, you should get Starcraft Brood War, it has more and better units. This is all i got to say except it my lag some

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Game Yet!!!
Review: I bought StarCraft about three years ago and it's still my favorite multiplayer strategy game! This is the best strategy game I think that is available now. You can chose from 3 different unique races and this game has an amazing storyline. For double the ammount of fun you can play on Battle.Net (free multiplayer service). Battle.net is what keeps this game going because you can play any game you like including paintball to deathmatches. This game is so amazing it even comes with a campaign editor so you can create your own games and play it with other people! I just wanted to say that I gave this game 5 stars because of it's amazing graphics, unique strategy, free multiplayer service, and a campaign editor. StarCraft is still my favortie game even after 3 years! I say buy this game!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Entertaining
Review: Starcraft does a lot with the conventional rts genre.

You play three races. You play each of them in turn. Although you can play the three campaigns in any order, the game makes the most sense thusly: Terran/Zerg/Protoss.

There's a story linking the three together. The story varies in quality -- the Terran narrative being the best, the Zerg being pulpy nonsense, the Protoss recovering somewhat and ending up somewhere between the two.

Gameplay is very fine. I very much like the Blizzard interface --control was mostly a breeze (though a bit problematic with some of the Protoss units). Each race plays differently, with different strengths and weaknesses.

Problems? I'm docking this one star for the uneven writing, three bad missions (Terran nine, which is simply poorly designed; Protoss seven and eight, which are prefunctory, tedious variations on the "tank rush"), and the general unevenness in difficulty. Zerg are by far the easiest race to play, and as such it's odd to be doing them second, instead of first.

But all in all this will keep you amused for quite a while. The best missions are well designed and challenging, and the game can be quite addictive. Will be curious to see what Warcraft 3 looks like.

doug

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Greatest Game ever played
Review: Hi, i'm Chris, i'm a huge fan of Starcraft. It's the greatest game i've ever played. Nothing can top it, axept the second one. It has cinamatics with amazing graphics, battle net and a campaighn editor. You can also play on network. Truly the greatest game ever made.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Game
Review: I like this game because this is a game wereyou always have to be thinking.If you don't put it on pause to get a drink the other teams will take advantage.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: StarCraft: Game Supreme
Review: StarCraft is a real-time strategy game. It's got all the usual stuff such as resource gathering (Vespene Gas and Minerals), unit building and management, defense of a race, and a campaign editor. But it's developers at Blizzard added a little something called personality and it has revolutionized the strategy market. The races and units are all unique and the AI is top-notch; plus, the campaign editor is the best ever, allowing you to make an entire new StarCraft game if you like. Get this game, it's even on N64! This is the height of gameliciousness!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Where did Blizzard get this from?
Review: Blizzard have always been a respectable computer game company, with good titles such as Diablo 1 and 2, Warcraft, and others, but Starcraft somehow manages to put all other computer games in the background as surely the greatest and most enjoyable Strategy game of all time.

It is very hard to explain what makes Starcraft such a good game, it just is. I think the easiest feature to notice is the incredibly balance in the game. All the sides are perfectly balanced, yet extremely different. While newbies may feel that one of the races is unfairly strong, or that another is far to weak, when used right, all can be equally devastating.

In Starcraft there are three sides, Terran (futuristic Humans who have been separated from Earth), Zerg (genetically stimulated super creatures) and Protoss (technologically advanced Psychics). Blizzard have done an outstanding job in creating a host of incredible units, with a mass of technologies and special abilities. Starcraft actually uses a very similar control style to Age of Empires 1 and 2, but despite them both being good games, it puts them both, and any of the Command and Conquer series to shame.

The construction sequence and technological research tree is perfect, with many interesting twists in game play if certain abilities are used together. The units are all entirely different, and even the way units are produced works in a different way for the Zerg Army. TO top it all off, Starcraft has the most extensive background story line and historical detail I’ve ever seen in a Strategy Game. The Manual comes with over ten pages of background info, and the three ten mission campaigns take hours to complete and continue along a compelling story arc. Finally, the game comes with an incredibly powerful campaign editor, even better than those of the two Age of Empires games, and any one of the missions in the actual campaigns can be made in the editor using triggers and events. You can even make your own fully animated briefings.

Starcraft is an absolute must for any Strategy Game fan, even if your thinking about purchasing some of the newer strategy games, such as Earth 2150, Red Alert 2 or Emperor Battle for Dune, get Starcraft first. As it’s an old game, you can get it from amazon...(I’m not being paid to do this) and the expansion pack (which I also strongly recommend)...

Enjoy

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great game!
Review: Truly remarkable, Blizzard's done a wonderful job. This game has alot of what players want but it still lacks small details. Strategy IS involved, but it would help if there were water units, players can climb in hills and put sieged tanks, and hide under trees, use stealth as a part of advantage, (2 races). Three races is much better well done when it has its' differences much unlike Warcraft 2. The storyline's great to follow! but it would've been cool if the units could leave a sense of where they were so players could have more depth, (footprints left behind for 2 minutes or something) or they could change the weather like make it rain, just simple details like that, but it was a great game and I definitely reccomend it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: StarCraft
Review: This is a very good strategy game. If you just LOVE StarCraft64 or the books then you WANT THIS!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best of the Best
Review: I am of course not alone when I say that Starcraft is one of the best in the world of computer games, certainly the best one that I have ever played.

Since the day it came out Starcraft was an instant success and still appeals to many, many gamers around the world. It's trememdous sucess is not without reason. It has a refreshingly original plot and marvelously absorbing strategy and gameplay.

I can say that the best feature of this game is it's ingenius use of species. Too many other RTS games I have played have had either one race or side much more powerful than the other, or races so similar the only difference is graphics. Starcraft is neither of these. It in fact has races that have proven time and time again online and in the campaigns to be both perfectly balanced while in many ways totally differant.

Taste is a big matter in Starcraft. Each species has their own pros and their own cons, and no one race has shown to dominate. Do you prefer the nomadic terrans with their explosive nukes and seige tanks? Would you rather play as the viscious Zerg with their unique building method and hordes of flying mutalisks and zerglings? Or perhaps you would prefer the mysterious protoss with their inimitable high templar and powerful vexing carriers full of armed fighters?

Discovering how to use each race in Starcraft is a challenge many people have enjoyed over the years. It's entire feeling seems as though it is timeless, and though I beat the campaigns long ago, I am still discovering new ways to use wraiths and ghosts, or reavers and shuttles, which seems to imply that there is no end to the possibilies that can be found. Highly reccomended to anyone who has grown tired of analogous styles of computer games.

NOTE: The game comes with a large single player campaign of 30 missions, a "practice" custom single player selection, an unbeatable multiplayer interface, and a complex map editing system with no end to the possibilities.


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