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Welcome back to the original game and its award-winning expansion, StarCraft: Brood War. We’ve remastered our units, buildings, and environments, improved game audio, and broadened our supported resolutions. Sep 01, 2017 Below are all 10 missions found in the original Protoss campaign. Protoss 1: First Strike; Protoss 2: Into the Flames; Protoss 3: Higher Ground; Protoss 4: The Hunt for Tassadar; Protoss 5. The Art of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty; The Art of Blizzard Entertainment; The Art of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm; StarCraft and Warcraft Coloring Book; The Cinematic Art of StarCraft; Blizzard Cosplay: Tips, Tricks, and Hints; The BlizzCon Book: A Celebration of Our Community. StarCraft is a puzzle video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment.It was released on Mar 31, 1998 for PC.StarCraft 1 is a military science fiction RTS popular game. It was the first of StarCraft series. Set in a fictitious timeline during the Earth’s 25th century, the game revolves around three species fighting for dominance. What this means in StarCraft is that you want to build up big armies, and attack your opponent's smaller armies, and weakly defended buildings. A common strategy to this end is the drop. Where an overlord, dropship or shuttle is used to deliver your army to an approach angle to your enemies base which they have not strongly defended.
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The human kingdom of Azeroth had a pretty quiet life. People were happy, trade blossomed, so until hordes of large, green, muscular, smelly Orcs came, trying to gain territory for themselves. Campaign is divided into two, you can play for either Orcs, or Humans. Both campaigns are almost identical, with only minor differences (you will see). Game system is basically the same as it was in Dune 2. You have to collect the raw material (in this case wood and gold), produce units to defend the base, attack the opponent and eventually try to destroy him. Graphics is absolutely perfect and at that time it was absolutely stunning. Dark environments, muddy swamps, gorgeous green meadows, blue rivers and lakes beautifully counterstained final atmosphere. Classic Warcraft.
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Warcraft is a nostalgia in itself because it was the second Realtime - Strategy (the first was Dune2), and the FIRST real-strategy taking place in the Dark Ages, where honor and devotion were 'numero uno' for every true fighter.
What is all about Warcraft about?
The human kingdom of Azeroth lived a very peaceful life. The people were happy, the business flourished, until those who came from hordes of large, green, muscular, stinking orcs, trying to gain territory for themselves.
The campaign is divided into two, the Orcish and the human. Both campaigns are almost identical with small differences that you will encounter yourself while playing.
The game system is essentially the same as Dune2. You must collect resources (in this case wood and gold), produce units to defend the base, attack the opponent and finally try to eliminate it. Such a new diversification is the possibility of upgrading the weapons and armor of your warriors and buying new stronger spells for your magicians :) (until it rhymes). The so-called Rescue mission where you have to save some important NPCs from the cave with a limited number of fighters and then take it out safely. There is also an option to mark up to 4 fighters at once, so you don't have to click each one separately.
The graphics look quite bombed at the time because she's bombed. Dark dark colors of the environment, muddy swamps, beautiful green meadows, blue rivers and lakes beautifully complete the final atmosphere. The characters are also quite nicely drawn and their animations are quite successful. The music and effects were groundbreaking at the time, and I have to say that when I heard the 'We are under atack' speaker after buying my sound card! I almost flew out of my chair :).
Another plus for this game was clearly Multiplayer, which could only be played by Serial Cable, but for that time it was a pretty good leap forward, and of course the possibility of playing on randomly generated maps.
As for the individual races, it's a little worse. Apart from the graphic side, the two nations are, on the other hand, the same, and they differ only in magic, otherwise everything else is the same, only it looks different.
Verdict: An incredible, original, graphically fascinating game with amazing sound, but most of all playable.
Personal Rating: 9.5 / 10
Reviewed by Anonym – 1. april 2014
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Get the general ideaYou should play enough to know the build tree of your race as well as others. If you don't know how to build a particular unit and don't know the utility of a particular unit, you are going to get burned by it sooner or later.Starcraft 1 Download Games
In ideal games between evenly matched players given even mineral consumption, the game should come down to who makes the most efficient use of their resources. The winner should be the player that lost the least minerals in their units lost in battle.
In popular maps like Big Game Hunters or in maps where the number of players is less than the number of players that the map was designed for (such as a 2 player one on one in The Lost Temple) it comes down to who can build units the fastest.
In most games, however, the skill levels are not equal, and (sneaky) tactics of the moment will tend to dictate the actual outcome of a game. Learning the utility and strengths and weakness of each unit will be crucial.
FundamentalsLike most resource-build army-things mostly equal kind of games, you wont get very far by simply sending your armies into one on one battles with the enemy. All things equal such battles will end up being a draw. As with any ordinary military tactics, you usually want to over power your enemy by attacking stategic weaknesses with strength, and delaying the attacks from your opponents strength.
What this means in StarCraft is that you want to build up big armies, and attack your opponent's smaller armies, and weakly defended buildings. A common strategy to this end is the drop. Where an overlord, dropship or shuttle is used to deliver your army to an approach angle to your enemies base which they have not strongly defended. Similarly, though, if your enemy has more than one base, it is usually best to attack the weakest first.
Among beginners, a common problem is that they don't know how to build at top speed. So a skilled player can simply railroad a weaker player by building an small army at top speed and sending them to attack the opponent's base before they have build up an adequate army/defence of their own.
So an essential skill is the ability to build quickly. This is achieved by making sure you have the fastest possible resource collecting stream as well as building in units and buildings simultaneously with each other. Here are a few rules of thumb that should be follow roughly in order:
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There are certainly exceptions to the above rules. Different maps will dictate that you modify your strategies accordingly.
In addition to these basic rules, the beginner needs to be aware of how to perform many actions at once. Queueing up commands with the shift key is essential. For protoss and terran, your peons (scv/probe) should return back to gathering minerals or gas after commanded to create a building automatically by virtue of queued commands. Setting rally points are essential for organizing your troops later in the game, but at the beginning of the game (when you are spending time waiting for peons to build), they are effective for sending your peons to the mineral patches at the very instant they are created. These saved fractions of a second do accumulate and thus it is worth it to redefine your rally point to a new mineral patch after each peon is created at the beginning of the game.
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The beginner must also become accustomed to the keyboard short cuts. Navigating the menus with your mouse while you are in the middle of a battle or other micromanagement is an unacceptable waste of time. Learn the short to building peons (terran: ss, zerg: sd, protoss: p) as well as making your common buildings (protoss probe: bp - pylon, bc - canon; zerg drone: bc - build creep, bh - build hatchery; terran scv: bb - build barracks, bu - build bunker) and common units. Look at the highlighted character in the menus to see what each key does. Press a to send a selected army to attack (to attack a sequence of points just hold down shift and queue the attack pattern up!) Also remember that audio queued events can be zoomed in on immediately by pressing the space bar.
A common mistake for protoss and terran players is to load up the unit queues in each of the buildings as much as possible at the beginning of the game. At the beginning of the game, when you have relatively little money, and little to micro-manage, you should instead queue up two units at each building and increase the queue as each unit is built. This is essentially 'cash management'. Doing this will leave you with more minerals on hand to build more buildings while not slowing down your unit build rate. Ordinarily the goal is to put those minerals towards making more buildings that will in turn let you make more units at once (it is better building 2 units in each of 5 unit generating buildings than 5 units in 2 unit generating buildings). Once this micro-management starts becoming overwhelming, use the full building queues (5) to maintain maximum build rate.
In Big Game Hunters (or a two player match on a four player map) as a rule of thumb, protoss should build towards having about 4 nexus', zerg should expand to 9 hatcheries, and terran should build towards about 3(?) command centers. The protoss are a special case, since its possible for them to be building multiple races at once (Dark archon can mind control friendly or enemy peons for other races and start building thier race as well.) A protoss player should, of course, also be trying to build 9 hatcheries and 3(?) command centers as well (if your brain doesn't explode from handling that much stuff at once.)
Then you should be building towards a situation where you can pump out units and constantly sustain a near 200 unit-slot limit while you are doing battle with your enemy. With the protoss, you should build about 8 gateways, or a similar number of telportation ports, and make sure the build buffers are always full. (These are late game suggestions that don't apply to the beginning of the game.)
Building units quicklyBuilding units quickly is different for zerg than for the other races. For zerg, you need to build lots of hatcheries. You know you are being inefficient if any hatchery has three larva that are not mutating to units. The reason is that the speed of building units will be limited by the number of available larva, and once your hatchery has three larva it will stop building more larva. Taken to the logical conclusion, what this means is you should be building units evenly over all your hatcheries, rather than building units out of your hatcheries one at a time. This applies mostly to the beginning of the game when you are trying to build drones to collect more minerals to build more hatcheries. Once you are really building later and in the middle of the game, you should either be at your 200 unit limit, or should not have 3 idle larva anywhere.
For protoss and terran, the army builders (barracks/gateway and spaceport/teleportation port) have a build queue. It is temping to simply fill these queues, and let the build process take care of itself, however this is not a good idea at the beginning of the game. Instead you should build lots of ground army builders (gateway/barracks) and build evenly in each. In this way, more of your mineral resources are dedicated to units that are about to be built, rather than on units that you wont see for a long time down the road. In this way you are pushing for simultaneous building rather than sequential building. You units will pop out faster relative to the minerals put into building them. Later on, your mineral production and the number of army builders should make this amount micro-management prohibitive. At this point you should switch to simply filling the queues of your numerous army builders.
Standard armiesYou should learn the standard armies for each race, just to give you a baseline for the minimum you should expect from an opponent. If you are a beginner, you should start just by building these armies, to get a feel for them.
Despite claims or theories to the contrary there are no unbeatable armies. There are no unfair units. Every attack has a counter attack that can beat it. You need to build up experience to learn how to beat any given individual attack. If you find a certain kind of attack difficult to deal with, adopt that attack yourself and see how others deal with it.
However creating a successful defense or counter attack to any impending attack requires reconnaisance to know what your enemy is up to. Also remember that an experienced opponent will also be trying to observe what you are up to.
The RushA lot of players are perturbed by some of the highly skilled players who will build an army as quickly as possible and send them straight at them. Just as they are starting to build up their tech, they are met with 4 zealots, or 6 zerglings versus no appreciable defence whatsoever.
These players typically complain or request a 'no rush' time period at the beginning. But there is no enforcability in battlenet, and more to the point, its part of the game. The right response to a rush is: have a defence.
There are suitable defences for all variations of the superfast rushes (a handful of offensive units built at the very start of the game and sent to attack).
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