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Sarah Louise Kerrigan, the self-styled Queen of Blades, is a character in Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft franchise. She was created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney, and her original appearance was designed by Metzen.
The series has several games which carry the main story arc: StarCraft, its expansion pack StarCraft: Brood War, and the trilogy StarCraft II. In addition, the series incorporates media that include spin-off video games, [ 1 ] tabletop games , [ 2 ] novelizations , graphic novels , and other literature. [ 3 ]
After the mod was ported to StarCraft 2 and Dota 2, it was made into a paid standalone app using the Unity Engine for Android and iOS mobile devices in June 2016. [30] A second similar app was released on both platforms during mid-October, [31] [32] now available as free to download but with some content locked behind a paywall. [33]
Game engine recreation is a type of video game engine remastering process wherein a new game engine is written from scratch as a clone of the original with the full ability to read the original game's data files. The new engine reads the old engine's files and, in theory, loads and understands its assets in a way that is indistinguishable from ...
StarCraft was released internationally on March 31, 1998, and became the best-selling PC game for that year, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide. [85] In the United States, it was the best-selling computer game of 1998, with 746,365 units sold. [86]
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 .
An interview with Robert Clotworthy, the voice of Jim Raynor in all released StarCraft games to date, has revealed that for the most part the voicing for the characters was done over only a few days in sessions of up to four hours, [3] a fact mirrored in a similar interview with Sarah Kerrigan's actress, Glynnis Talken Campbell. [4]
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm sold approximately 1.1 million copies worldwide in its first two days on sale, [35] and was the top-selling PC game for the first quarter of 2013. [36] StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm received "generally favorable reviews" from critics according to review aggregator Metacritic. [26]