Hearing the Zerg in action alone is well worth the price of admission. While the music is a bit bland at times, the sound effects are astonishing. Top notch (and oddly humorous) CG movies have also been included, which help advance the different stories along. The high-resolution visuals and animated units really add to the playing experience.

You can now produce multiple units at one time, which saves time and hassle and allows the player to focus on more important things, rather than building troops or ships. Another helpful change is building facilities (e.g. This really helps for managing a large army. You can also assign a group of units to keys on your keyboard. The player can now select a larger number of troops and have them group together. The game itself controls exactly like WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness, with a few modifications. They have a lot of different spawning abilities and can burrow underground to set up way-points for other creep colonies. The same thing goes for the Zerg, who are nasty little critters that like to spawn and morph into things. The Protoss are highly advanced and in order to use them properly, you must learn their technology skills as well as strategy. They are both highly alien, meaning that you must learn how their minds work and not think like a human. On the contrary, the Zergs and Protoss take some more time to get used to. We know how the human mind works and their unit and structure development is typically ordinary. Each race is dynamically different in what it can produce and has unique ups and downs.įor example, the Terrans are the easiest to use. Included are the Terrans, a well-rounded race (and the only human one), the organic alien Zergs, and the highly intellectual psionic Protoss. Instead of two races, StarCraft raises the bar with three. While this is true in a few aspects, it reveals itself to be something much more. Upon first glance, StarCraft seems almost exactly like WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness. In almost every way, it outshines all previous titles from the company known for the award-winning WarCraft and Diablo. Blizzard Entertainment's highly anticipated game StarCraft has finally hit the shelves.

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