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Must Buy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: June 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

One Of The Best Games Of Its Genre. The Battle Chest Contains Starcraft And Starcraft Brood War And The Prima Guides For Both Games. Beatifly Designed Charcters And Background.Where You Construct Buildings To Build An Army And Get Valuble Technolgy And Gather Resources Vital To Building. The Story Unfolds Inside The Game And The Levels.There Are Three Classes To Play As. Terran: The Humans, From Military To Stealth Ships (And I Mean Stealth). The Zerg: Easy To Get A Standered Defense But You Have To Sacrifice A Resource collector To Build (Spawn) A Building. The Protoss: Aliens Also But Very High Tech. There Disadvantage Is They Have To Build A Crystal Before They Can Build Buildings. Because The Story Is Told During Levels Players Usually Play Through The Campaings In Order As Not To Miss Vital Information. If Your Good And Actually Beat The Game And Get Bored With It You Can Make Your Own Levels. The Level Editor Is A Simple Click And Its There Type. One Of The Features Is The Abilty To load Wav. Files And Play Them At A Certian Place Or Time. If Your Bored With That And You Want To Play live Opponets You Can Go To Blizzards Battle.net. There You Can Play Online With Other Opponents From Capture The Flag To A 8 player Free For All. thanks For Reading This Long Review

Classic game, well worth the $

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: October 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Great game no matter what anyone says. A little dated but solid story and game to match.

StarCraft Compendium

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I prefer this game a very good game for you stratagy gamers out there. It has tons of stratagies for each race. You can choose three races. You can choose the versatile Terrans which I prefer because it's easy to remember the names and buildings are easy, or you can choose the powerful, psionic Protoss, or the horde, overwhelming numbering Zerg. This game is a stratagy game that is a very good game.

Best RTS on the PC ever made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The title says it all. If you like real time strategy games and havn't tried this one out, buy it as soon as you can. This is a fast paced game that is simply addicting. It's truely amazing how balanced the 3 races are in this game, from Zerg to Terren to Protoss. This game is an instant classic, as are just about all games from Blizzard. If you have never played an RTS either, this is a great game to get you introduced to the industry. It also has a built in free internet play support on Battle.net, which is sometimes slow but will always hook you up with a multiplayer game when you want to for free. From the best computer game company as well, Blizzard Entertainment, so you know you're getting a quality product. Highly reccomended, A+!

Provides Hours and Hours of Gameplay!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game about a year ago, and I still play it all the time. It has provided thousands and thousands of hours of fun thanks to Blizzard's Battle.net, where users can create their own scenarios, which make the possibilities endless. You get Starcraft, Starcraft Expansion, and strategy guides for both! This is a great deal and I would recommend it to any strategy game fan.

"Owaken my child"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My god. These games has it all: Stratigy, violence, hereos, good graphics, conquers, and a plot. The first time I played it I couldn't put my controller down. From 8:00 AM. to 9:00 PM. Then my parents sent me to bed, but that didn't stop me from ruling the universe as three different races, (Terran , Zerg and the Protoss) Then I just played on all till the morning, 7:00 AM. That's 23 hours staight, with a couple bathroom brecks. I rarely play over 45 minutes! All in all, these games together deserve about 15 stars, and I rarely give 5 stars. All I can say is this: GET IT!!

STARCRAFT >>> BEST GAME SO FAR !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Starcraft honestly has to be the best game ever played so far ! With multiple levels of pure action and strategy it gets a 5 star rating for sure!! .. The best included feature of the game is the multiplayer support through Battle.net , Just load up the game > click multiplayer > B.NET and your in and ready to play in just seconds!! (which by the way is included for FREE when you purchase the game) , WHAT A DEAL! And here is somthing else that makes it sound just that much better , Purchase "BROOD WAR" and add many more deadly characters and levels to your single / multiplayer game (Brood War is awesome)! YOU CANT BEAT THE PRICE TRUST ME

Still The Best!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've been a gamer for a long time, and I've played my share of strategy games. I still keep comming back to Starcraft for more. Three perfectly balanced and yet very different races battle it out. There's not too much micromanagement to kill you, but enough for you to feel a part of the race you're playing. I love to play the extra scenerios that they created for one time battles. You can modify them or even create your own from scratch. I just wish they had a random map maker. It would be easier then. You can, however, go online to Blizzard and download tons of scenerios that other gamers made. While the graphics aren't state of the art anymore they still are pretty nice. This game allows for both a strategic approach or the full rush type of battle. You have both land and air units and you harvest two types of materials (vespene gas & minerals) to build your structures and units. The campaigns are nice but after beating them twice I now just prefer to mix it up with the single scenerios. This is a must have of any strategy gamer who hasen't yet tried it. Have fun!!!

Starcraft: The Strategy Game to Rule Them All

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In my time, I've played a number of games, a big number, and some have been good, while some have been bad. And here's one of the good ones, the REALLY good ones. The best strategy game ever made, in fact, I'm convinced there will never be one better, not even Warcraft III.

I couldn't really review this, really, read someone else's, I'm just another voice saying that it's good, nothing I say will change how people feel about this game. Buy it, no questions, even if you don't like games, go read all the other 5 star reviews, yes, all 213/213 of them, now go, get it.

Simply one of the best games ever made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

"Starcraft: Brood War" is possibly the best game of all time. I'm definitely not the only person that can support that theory.

"Brood War" is an expansion pack to the original "Starcraft," meaning you need both installed on your computer to play it. It came out in 1998 for the PC, but it's still as fun as it was upon release. It's a real-time strategy game (RTS), which means you manage your units, resources and buildings while strengthening your army, locating new stockpiles of resources and crushing your opponents, all seen from a "bird's eye" view. There are many RTS games out there, but the "Starcraft" games struck a perfect balance between complexity and simplicity.

The story is one of the most compelling in all of gaming. It is set several hundred years in the future, with humans living all over the galaxy. In a nutshell, some chance meetings occur and a war between humans (or Terran), the Zerg and the Protoss aliens erupts. From the beginning of "Starcraft" to the end of "Brood War,' there are six full campaigns to play. Collectively, they combine as an epic space opera along the lines of the "Startship Troopers" movie from the late 90's. You get to see the war through the eyes of the three different species, which keeps the narrative from ever becoming boring. There are also different factions within the races, so awesome twists and surprises are commonplace.

The campaign is lots of fun, even if the challenge eventually becomes insanely difficult. Fear not, as there are many cheats to help you through the journey. The story mode is extremely satisfying from beginning to end and it should be experienced by every gamer, especially if you have even the slightest interest in sci-fi.

As good as the story is, all gamers know it wouldn't be worth it if the gameplay isn't fun. Fortunately, "Starcraft" and "Brood War" both excel. "Brood War" has an edge because of more balance, new units and new environments, which is why it is the best game ever and the original game is not.

Managing your army is very intuitive after playing for a little while. The tutorial should give you some good advice, so you'll be having skirmishes with the enemy in no time. It plays similarly to other RTS games, but it's hard to explain to anyone who hasn't played "Starcraft" or "Command and Conquer" or the "Warcraft" series. It takes lots of thinking and awareness of the situation, along with efficient use of the keyboard and mouse. Your best bet is to go to Blizzard's site and check out the Starcraft page.

The gameplay experience can vary greatly depending on which species you choose. Each of the three races play completely differently, with special ways of constructing buildings and acquiring warriors. They have their strengths and weaknesses, and new strategies are being developed even today. The gameplay moves along at a brisk pace, so scouting the terrain and thinking up a game plan is extremely important early on. After all, "Starcraft" is all about knowing your terrain and enemy and adapting to it in order to conjure an efficient combat strategy. Though in campaign mode, you are somewhat restricted since you have to complete objectives that can only be finished in a few ways.

The free-for-all online portion is what keeps people playing after all these years. You can play with up to seven other computer controlled armies, and no two games ever play out the same. Some can focus on small battles, others on mass destruction with nuclear bombs and siege units, "starving" your opponent of resources through quick expansion and solid defense, hit-and-run raids with stealth units or giant all-out wars with hundreds of units that can literally go on for hours. Of course, this can all happen within one game, too. The depth and variety makes this "Starcraft" incredibly addicting.

The feature that makes "Starcraft" so replayable is the very user-friendly Map Editor. With it, anyone can build a map from scratch. You can put in mountains, rivers, trees, mineral deposits, creatures and lots of other details, including your very own story elements. Throughout the years, countless downloadable maps have been posted online by Blizzard and gamers alike. Some of the most popular ones are role-playing games (RPG's).

In many of them, you select a class of character (such as warrior, spellcaster, shaman, etc.) and go around completing objectives or killing things for experience while. As you level up, you get stronger and acquire new abilities while uncovering the homemade story. There are hundreds of RPG's available online, so you can probably play forever by yourself or with others. Surprisingly, many of them can be as fun as the main campaigns. If you don't like them, make your own.

If you worry that playing online will be a dreadful experience because of technological hiccups, you are stressing out over nothing, since online play is smooth and plays like your competing offline. This can't be said for many of today's online games, which slowdown and lag because of the crazy 3D graphics that require expensive hardware. This makes "Starcraft" and "Brood War" enjoyable for the Average Joe. The graphics aren't jaw dropping, but they get the job done. Slowdown is rare and everything is easy to spot. It's also got an appealing artistic style and isn't too cartoony or too realistic and gritty.

On the audio front, you get some great music. The battle themes help suck you into the game. The species all have different music. The Zerg even have one unlockable techno song. None of it seems to ever get repetitive, even if you play for over nine years. The sound effects and voice acting are both equally terrific, as well.

The gameplay, story, nice graphics, and wonderful sound combine to make these games great experiences. Can Starcraft 2 top this? Well, let's just say Blizzard has a monumental task ahead of them...

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