User Reviews

1. Review Date: 2009-09-29

   Classic RTS game that everyone should have played. If you ahve never heard of this game then please crawl out of your cave and give it a try.
   
   User: SJV
   Rating:
   Summary: StarCraft Battle Chest
   Helpful Votes: 0
   Total Votes: 0
   

2. Review Date: 2009-09-25

   This is one of those games that are never out of time! you always find someone to match on SC!!!
   
   User: Leonardo Reyes Perez
   Rating:
   Summary: Best Game ever!
   Helpful Votes: 0
   Total Votes: 0
   

3. Review Date: 2009-09-19

   Since it came out have been playing and between online or lan connected it is great. Adding levels or build your own, it's a great game.
   
   User: Douglas H. Engberson
   Rating:
   Summary: This game never gets old!
   Helpful Votes: 0
   Total Votes: 0
   

4. Review Date: 2009-09-14

   This is a great game and a great seller. Really, this game is a classic and STILL holds true to being fun and challenging while allowing for free online playing.
   
   User: Daniel T. Short
   Rating:
   Summary: Starcraft
   Helpful Votes: 0
   Total Votes: 0
   

5. Review Date: 2009-09-05

   I remember playing this game years ago when I was 10 years old and having the hardest time in the world beating the first 5 single player missions. I finally gave up and started using cheats like "power overwhelming" to blaze through the missions. The last few protoss missions in the original I proclaimed "impossible" without cheats because none of my ten year old friends at the time could beat it as well. However I still found the game addicting and played for hours with my friends via connected modems.
   
   Now 11 years later, starcraft 2 is coming out so I decided it was time to build a whole new i7 computer to replace my 5 year old Pentium 4 rig. I also picked this game up to try and beat it again without cheats but also to refresh my memory of the story. Amazingly however I somehow have become good enough that I managed to complete the whole game. Honestly it felt like a real accomplishment and I was very happy about it despite knowing in the back of my head the ridiculousness of my happiness.
   
   The gameplay of course has aged quite a bit, it isn't as tactical as recent RTS games like Empire Total War. But I cannot deny how much fun the simple mechanics are. I found myself playing for hours on end, skipping entire meals like dinner on weekdays or lunch on Sundays. It is also a game that I found myself constantly thinking about even at work which to me is the mark of a classic. There are few things in video games as satisfying using psionic storm on group of mutalisks or the sound of a siege tank blasting incoming zerglings.
   
   The way the story is told is "cute" with transmissions from the main characters and a few cg scenes. It is cute because back in the day the starcraft narrative and delivery of that narrative was nothing short of groundbreaking, of course now it seems crude and simplistic. For me however nostalgia overcomes those problems.
   
   In the end starcraft battlechest at 19 dollars is a great value with over 60 hours of gameplay for singleplayer alone. I only played through the single player because I was scared of getting absolutely and completely owned on battle.net which was my experience when I was 10 (my opponent would laugh uncontrollably at the sight of my meager base and units)
   
   If you played and liked starcraft before then this package is essential for your collection and will refresh your understanding of the incredible story in time for sc2. If you like rts games already then you should try this game out it is incredibly fun and can actually be very deep strategically if you chose it to be. People who's first video game experiences were fps games on their xbox 360 might not enjoy it, still it never hurts to try new things.
   
   my life for auir!
   
   User: kelvinator
   Rating:
   Summary: Solid gameplay after all these years
   Helpful Votes: 1
   Total Votes: 1
   

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Editorial Reviews

This package includes both Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood Wars plus Prima Publishing's Official Strategy Guides, which offer you strategies, statistics, and details about new worlds to give you the upper hand in gaining control over the galaxy's resources.

Product Details

1. This includes the hit StarCraft, the incredible StarCraft - Brood War, and two official strategy guides, for hours & hours of space-based action and combat
2. Play through 56 mission in 6 unique campaigns, to decide the fate of the galaxy
3. Over 175 player maps over a wide variety of battlefields
4. Play multiplayer battles over battle.net
5. Battle for control of the galaxy with the StarCraft Battle Chest!