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..and I don't hand out 5 stars lightly.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 171 / 179
Date: June 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If, by chance, you're reading this and you've never played Starcraft before, just go ahead and skip reading this and buy it. You won't be disappointed.

If you're thinking about buying it for someone else, go ahead and buy it: I've given three Battle Chests as gifts and it was a hit every time for both kids and adults, even to those who hadn't played this kind of game before.

The Battle Chest is definitely the way to go, as you'll save money over buying it and Brood War separately and get the strat guides for free (and, to be honest, I don't think the guides are worth having unless you're completely clueless about how to beat the game, and there is information in the strat guides that is blatantly wrong as well).

I've been playing RTS games since 1997, and in my opinion, this is the best one ever made. No one has made one that's as fun, has as gripping a storyline and artwork, or depth and replayability of gameplay. It's a work of genius. I've had it for two years and I still play it at least a couple of times a week. There's even one mission left that I haven't managed to conquer without cheating, so the challenge is definitely there.

What you have to understand about Starcraft is that it's not meant to be a cutting-edge feature-heavy supergame where you can customize the behavior of your units and give them complex orders. It's meant to be more of a strategy game like real-time chess, and in this it succeeds brilliantly. It shares the quality of chess in that there are a limited number of units with straightforward abilities, but there are an infinite number of things and strategies that you can do with them. To this day players are still inventing new strategies for these units and races.

The artificial intelligence and pathfinding of the game is the best I've ever seen. No RTS game has perfect AI or pathfinding (units getting lost or tangled up on each other or the terrain), but Starcraft's is by far better than any others out there. The computer will flatten you time and again unless you're playing competently.

Multiplayer is a complete blast, and more options are offered than any other RTS game. You can play team games where you and your allies are actually controlling the same units against the computer or others, in addition to a wide range of variations like Capture the Flag, etc.

Blizzard's Battle.net service is free and at any time of day there are literally thousands of people playing. Internet play is smooth. I've played friends both nationally and internationally with bad connections and low-end computers, and it runs solidly even with the additional traffic of voice chat like Roger Wilco over 56k!

Blizzard's continuing support for the game is also excellent. They release a new map for the game every Friday like clockwork, so there are over a hundred new, well-designed maps available for download and replay.

In summary, just a solid, solid, completely fun game. You can't possibly go wrong by picking up a copy.

The greatest RTS game of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 56 / 74
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Starcraft is/was definately a ground breaker. Even now (late 1999) it is still in the 10 ten games. This package contains the original and expansion pack. You also get the strategy guides in the box. I find this a really good value. And contrary to all criticism received, this isn't just warcraft in space, its completely unique. This is just a great deal, very good value!

I agree with Denny

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 42 / 42
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

StarCraft boasts award-winning advanced control features, such as waypoints and training queues, to provide enhanced gameplay. In addition to the intuitive interface, StarCraft has the superb graphics and outstanding sound and music that have come to be expected from Blizzard Entertainment.

StarCraft: Excellent Strategy Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: June 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is probably the best game made by Blizzard. I've played WarCraft and thought it was great-I was very mistaken. In comparison, it is nothing. Unlike most games, the three species in StarCraft have different strengths which must be learned as you play as all three. The storyline is just amazing; you really must know what happens next. The cinematics are great, and the battle chest allows you to just keep rollin (on to Brood War) after beating StarCraft. The gameplay is easy, and the troops are numerous enough to allow you options of victory. The multiplayer allows you to fight others while the scenario editor allows you to build your own maps. I was hooked to this game for months: the storyline will keep you hooked for about 2-3 months, and after that you can build your own maps and play via the net! It's a truly great space strategy game.

THIS GAME ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely the best RTS game around. Unlike all other RTS', this game provides you with 3 different races-and i mean DIFFERENT. Most RTS' provide many races, but all the units are basically the same-ie) in Warcraft 2, the orcs had grunts and the humans and footmen-they are the same in concerns with stats. However, Starcraft provides 3 different races that specialize in different things. You can also play on a multiplayer network called battle.net, with up to 8 people at one game. There are countless strategies that can be employed because all the races are so diversed-this game is definitely the best in the market. I hope you enjoy it

StarCraft: Battle Chest is a great game for a great value!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 20
Date: May 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

StarCraft: Battle Chest is the best value out there. It costs $35.00, and it includes StarCraft, StarCraft: Brood War, The strategy guide to StarCraft, and the strategy guise to StarCraft: Brood War, too. StarCraft costs $30.00 alone, and Brood War is about the same price. Alone, the strategy guides (which are EXTREMELY helpful) each cost $20.00. That adds up to a value of $100.00. You save $65 if you buy StarCraft: Battle Chest rather than buy it all separately. Now on to the game. Starcraft is truly awesome game. I play it any chance I get. StarCraft has a GREAT plot, and the video clips it plays are out of this world. There are 3 species in the game. they are the Terrans, the Zerg, and the Protoss. Each is vastly different from all of the others; with its own strengths and weaknesses. The game play, sound, and graphics are all out of this world. I could go on and on about StarCraft, but I won't, because you probably don't want to read it all. In conclusion, Starcraft: Battle Chest is a truly great game for and awesome value, and you should definitly buy it. I promise you'll love it.

One of the best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: December 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Starcraft and its expansions are two unbelieveably awesome games. Now that Starcraft's been out for a while, the price is low for such a great game.

The single player game is fun, with a great storyline. Just the storyline is enough for someone to get into this games. However, the countless strategies and manuevers involved make it even better.

The AI is one of the best I've seen. They aren't stupid - they know how to play like a normal person!

You can also make your own maps. I admit that it takes some time to get used to, but there are countless options that can make nearly any type of map you want to.

Battle.net is a free multiplayer service offered for Starcraft. You meet so many people, have so many different experiences, learn so much from experienced players, it's amazing. Not to mention that it's extremely addiciting.

Blizzard continues to support the game, coming out with a new map every weeks.

Get this game. It's well worth the money.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: May 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Starcraft has caught me into the craze ever since its debut in 98...This game is simply amazing. It is the type of RTS that is "hard and fast," you build, build, build, fight, fight, fight, and either win or lose, sometimes having the chance to revive if you lost the first battle. It is different from other great RTS like AOE2 because the latter is more fun when you build a great army w/ diverse units and attack tactically, while Starcraft is more like building a giant swarm and either going straight thru or catching the opponent by surprise...(what I mean is: while AOE2 resembles real combat more, Starcraft is idealistic but fun).

Starcraft's campaigns makes it standout...the Kerrigan story was spectacular, especially if you buy this battle chest and go thru the whole story from the original to Broodwar. Blizzard hired some decent fiction writers for the plot...

Battle.net and multiplayer rules in Starcraft. In case you don't know, battle.net gives you free access to the Blizzard server (if you use the Internet, of course) to meet and play multiplayer w/ hundreds and even thousands of other people off the net (of course, it's only 8 people per game max). There is (was?) also a great ranking system and tournaments, but I don't know if they still do that anymore, having my Internet connection gone extremely slow for the last 6 months...

All in all, this battlechest is a mustbuy, and the guides help a lot in case you're stuck, but try to beat the game yourself (I did it) first...

A Game That Will Be Talked About For Years To Come

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: May 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I purchased this game, I did not expect much. The demo didn't hold much for me, and I didn't find the presence of blood in the game comforting. When I got thet game though, those fears went away. Loaded with hours of replay value and a huge variety of ways to play, this game is certainly well worth the... price tag.

As far as single player is concerned, it has six episodes consisting of a minimum of 10 levels, about twenty total levels for each of the three races: Terran, Protoss, and Zerg. Each possesses unique abilities and disabilities, a uniqueness that is demonstrated in the missions Blizzard designed for the game. Objectives range from destroying power plants to ravaging Warp Portals to killing the collective mind of the Zerg. Certain levels have multiple outcomes, meaning that you might want to go back in order to beat it all. Besides that, unlike other games, Starcraft makes it very simple to replay old missions, and the AI makes it interesting every time.

As far as multi-player goes, it's incredible! Ranging from a 1 Human vs. 7 Computers to any number of combinations via the Internet and Battle.net or modem, a multi-player game is never the same twice. Starcraft comes with a number of multi-player maps already programmed and ready to go for yourself and computers, or friends and computers.

But if none of those map suit you fancy, there's always the Map Editor. This is my personal favorite option. You can literally create a map, doing everything that the programmers could do, except for the cinematic sequences. The triggers in the Map Editor allow you to make guns pop out of the floor, open doors, bring in reinforcements, kill units that go to a certain area, or start a team(s) with buildings or units. The options are limitless, the only thing stopping you in making the scenarios is the number of hours in the day.

The only downside I found in the game, as I already mentioned, is the presence of a minor amount of blood when Zerg units are killed. But the amount is so nominal, and the playability is so incredible, that THIS GAME IS A MUST-HAVE!

A great Stratagy Game Especially if you are into sci-fi

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: January 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Following the footsteps of Warcraft, Blizzard went on to a space era and created Starcraft. However withen a year the story line grew boring and the Expansion pack: Brood War made its debut. The original Starcraft begins in a time where Earth is "cleansed and the outcasts (*computer hackers, people of other religious faiths, criminals etc*) have been sent on an experiment to test high-speed space travel. The Experiment goes wrong and the outcasts crash on the worlds of Tarsonis, Umoja, and Moria. After years of settlement the Humans (*Terrans*) create the Confederacy and their technology eventually allows them to control other worlds. It is when another species-created by the Xel'Naga-Zerg arrives in the Terran space to take over the humans that the story of the game begins. The Zerg secretly populate the worls and another race: Protoss-also created by the mysterious Xel'Naga decimates the world inhabited by the Zergs, and human colonists alike. This action, which was the only way to save humanity alarmed the confederacy and the Terrans go to war with the Protoss, and later on the Zerg. Starcraft follows most stratagy-game platforms. The scenarios are both challenging, and at the same time lesson-learning. The computer in the first levels "teaches" the player how to use such tactics as the Terran Vulture Cavalry, or the Marine invasion. Another thing that makes this game a good buy is the play as either Terran, Zerg, or Protoss... and even better: all three are different! Thats right, all three are different, different strengths (*Terran is good at both air/ground, Protoss at Air and Zerg at ground*), and weaknesses. The units all are greatly detailed and the photo of the unit's pilot/unit is animated and humorous (*after a few clicks on them to annoy them lol*). Some examples of units include:

Terran: SCV's Marine, Firebat, Vulture hover cycle, Arclite Siege Tanks, Goliath Walkers, CF/A-17 Wraith Fighters, Explorer Science Vessels, and Behemoth Battlecruisers
Protoss: Probe, Zealot, Dragoon, Reaver, Templars (*Dark and high*), Scouts, Arbiters, and Carriers
Zerg: Drone, Zerglings, Hydralisks, Mutalisks, UIltralisks, Infested Terrans, Overlords, and other creatures.

Brood war is better in a sense. I suggest Brood War as a buy NOT RIGHT AWAY, but later on when you get used to Starcraft. Brood war follows the events of the original game, only 10 years in the future when another agency; the UED from Earth (*United Earth Directorate*) attempts to overpower the new government in the Terran Sector with new weapons of war. These new weapons are the Medic (*very handy*), and the Valkyarie (*needed*). However like I stated earlier, do not play this part of the game right away since Brood war has no tutorial to game play, or no guide on stratagies. It is basically made for those who have played and mastered the original. In addition to the Terran Medic and Valyrie, the other new units are:

Protoss Corsair, Dark Archon. Zerg Lurker, Devourer.

So if you ever wondered, what else is there out there besides us, or just want to kick alien butt, this is the game to get. Playable on different worlds including: Badlands, Jungle, Ice, Desert, Twilight, and Ashworlds (*fire*). Tired of playing by yourself? Dont worry, Battle.net is free and challenging and is also included, you could play games with up to 8 people from around the world this way. All you need is an internet connection. And with over 100 maps and small missions, playing by-yourself isn't that boring. But if it gets to that point, no worries still. Campaign Editor allows you to create your own map, and program the computer player's movements simply with Trigger language that even the average-day computer iliterate could understand. Getting this game will make you wonder when it is all done, when is Starcraft II comming out. More information on the plot, the story-line and/or characters? Play this game and find out.

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