Starcraft offers a lengthy single-player campaign
featuring ten missions for its three diverse races,
totaling 30 single-player missions in all (there's
also an unsupported veteran campaign included as
part of the campaign editor). You don't have to go
through a set of training missions once you've
already mastered one side. The missions themselves
mainly stick to the "gather, build, and conquer"
philosophy, but there are a few innovative missions
thrown in, and Blizzard has added some narrative
elements to the missions themselves that help to
keep things interesting.
Starcraft offers an equally nice suite of options
on the multiplayer side: There's head-to-head and up
to eight-player battles over LAN or Internet (though
Internet play is only available over Blizzard's
Battle.net server, which includes a ranking list and
seems to be as lag-free as it gets nowadays). There
is a good variety of multiplayer game types, and you
can easily download new maps. Multiplayer has its
own set of negatives, the major one being the
predominance of rushing.
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 StarCraft:
Brood War continues the award winning saga of
galactic warfare as the Zerg, Protoss and Terrans
struggle for their continued survival. With the
shattered Zerg hive torn apart by fierce
in-fighting, the Protoss seek to reunite with their
Dark Templar brethren and begin the rebuilding of
their homeworld, Aiur. The battle for galactic
domination rages on with new units, new campaigns,
and more explosive strategic combat. |
