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StarCraft: Brood War is the expansion pack for the military science fiction real-time strategy video game StarCraft.Released in December 1998 for Microsoft Windows and June 1999 for Mac OS, it was co-developed by Saffire and Blizzard Entertainment.
Conceived by Chris Metzen and James Phinney, the StarCraft series has been a commercial and critical success. The first game, StarCraft, is regarded as being highly influential in the real-time strategy genre. [6] Combined with its official expansion, Brood War, over 10 million copies of StarCraft have been sold globally. [7]
StarCraft: Remastered is a remastered edition of the 1998 real-time strategy video game StarCraft and its expansion Brood War, which was released on August 14, 2017. It retains the gameplay of the original StarCraft , but features ultra-high-definition graphics (ultra HD), re-recorded audio, and Blizzard's modern online feature suite.
The Brood War missions required the use of a Nintendo 64 memory Expansion Pak to run. [67] In addition, StarCraft 64 features a split screen cooperative mode, also requiring the expansion pak, allowing two players to control one force in-game. [68] StarCraft 64 lacked the online
StarCraft is a military science fiction media franchise created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney and owned by Blizzard Entertainment. [1] The series, set in the beginning of the 26th century, centers on a galactic struggle for dominance among four species—the adaptable and mobile Terrans, the ever-evolving insectoid Zerg, the powerful and enigmatic Protoss, and the godlike Xel'Naga creator ...
It supports most features for Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net "classic" games (Diablo, Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, StarCraft, StarCraft: Brood War, Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne).
Custom maps for StarCraft: Brood War such as Turret Defense (May 2000) [11] and Sunken Defense (November 2001) [12] were early examples of the genre that retained popularity for decades. Both were released early in the game's lifecycle and had various versions evolve in parallel over time due to the open-source nature of maps.
StarCraft: The Board Game: Brood War is a 2008 expansion to StarCraft: The Board Game. Like the base game, it was designed by Corey Konieczka and published by Fantasy Flight Games. Much of the expansion's new features is centred around the video game's own expansion, StarCraft: Brood War.