StarCraft (series)

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StarCraft
Starcraft box covers.png
Genre(s) RTS
Year of Release 1998
Platform(s) Mac, Windows
Developer(s) Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher(s) Blizzard Entertainment
Official Website http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/sc/


StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time-strategy (RTS) game released by Blizzard Entertainment in 1998. The game was the first to feature three uniquely different playable races, the interplay of which posed a very complex balancing act with such great depth and variation in strategy that made it one of the best-selling games for the PC, with more than 11 million copies sold as of 2009. The main story is set around 2500 AD in a distant part of the Milky Way Galaxy, when the Terrans, who are descendants of the exiled prisoners from Earth, come in conflict with the insect-like Zerg and the highly evolved Protoss. The storyline is unveiled chronologically in single-player campaigns for each of the three races[1]

The game's retail shelf life was greatly extended

  1. "StarCraft." Blizzard Entertainment. Web. 28 Feb. 2011. <http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/sc/>.