StarCraft (video game)
StarCraft is a 1998 military science fiction real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. Set in a fictitious future timeline during the 25th century AD in a distant part of the Milky Way galaxy known as the Koprulu Sector, the game revolves around three intelligent species fighting for dominance. All units are unique to their respective races, and while rough comparisons can be drawn between certain types of units in the technology tree, every unit performs differently and requires different tactics for a player to succeed. StarCraft features artificial intelligence that scales in difficulty, although the player cannot change the difficulty level in the single-player campaigns.
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StarCraft is a 1998 military science fiction real-time strategy game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. The game spawned the StarCraft franchise, and became the first game of the video game series. Set in a fictitious future timeline during the 25th century AD in a distant part of the Milky Way galaxy known as the Koprulu Sector, the game revolves around three intelligent species fighting for dominance. All units are unique to their respective races, and while rough comparisons can be drawn between certain types of units in the technology tree, every unit performs differently and requires different tactics for a player to succeed. StarCraft features artificial intelligence that scales in difficulty, although the player cannot change the difficulty level in the single-player campaigns. With more than 11 million copies sold worldwide by February 2009, StarCraft became one of the best-selling games for the personal computer. A sequel, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, was released in July 2010, which generated two expansion packs and a campaign pack between 2013 and 2016. A remastered edition of the original and its expansion pack was released in August 2017. The original game, along with the expansion, was released for free in April 2017, and the expansion pack StarCraft: Brood War, and two officially authorized add-ons, Insurrection and Retribution, were released the same day. The remastered version of the game was released on August 17, 2017, with all three expansion packs available for download for free as well as a free version of StarCraft: The Card Game, which includes the original game and the two expansion Packs.
The full version of Brood War will be released on September 14, 2017. It will be the first time the game has been released on the PC, with the exception of the Mac OS X version, which was released earlier this year. It is the first StarCraft game to feature a fully-fledged multiplayer mode, allowing players to compete in tournaments and earn sponsorships. It has been praised for pioneering the use of unique factions in RTS gameplay, and for having a compelling story. The use of three distinct races in StarCraft is widely credited with revolutionizing the real- time strategy genre. Although each race is unique in its composition, no race has an innate advantage over the other. Each species is balanced out so that while they have different strengths, powers, and abilities, their overall strength is the same. In the level editor provided with the game, a designer has access to four levels of AI difficulties: easy, medium, hard andinsane. The AI’s tactical and tactical setting and technologies are differing in the units and technologies allowed and allow an extent of strategic planning to be allowed. Players need to regulate the supplies for their forces to ensure their forces survive. In addition to using a worker to harvest mineral nodes scattered around the battlefield, players need to extract vespene gas from the top of a geyser and extract it from it by constructing a gas extraction building on top of it.
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