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A Great Expansion to the original

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Original "Starcraft" was a fantastic game. One of the top three best RTS games I have played. It had great maps and scenerios and great units and species. For those of you who are not familiar with the game, the original had too do with three species: The Terran(Humans) who have lived upon several planets in a solar system after there space ships crashed many years before stranding thousands of people. The Prottos, a powerfull race form a planet "Auir" armed with powerfull physical weapons and devastating Phsycic weapons. And Finally the Zerg. A vicious race controlled by a center mastermind know as the "Overmind", who travel across the universe incorpirating every worthy race into there species or destroying them.
Now in the Expansion "Brood War", the overmind is dead and Kerrigan(an infested terran) has become ruler over most of the Zerg.
Brood War has plenty of new stuff. Three new Campaings. Three new Terrain types(Ice world, Desert, Twilight world) and seven new units. The New untis are the following.
Zerg:Lurker. The Hydralisk from the original can now evolve even further to become a "Lurker". These frightfull creatures burrow under the ground and attack by sending out long spiked tentacle out of the ground at any nearby enemy. These are often best used in pairs or threes(or more). Though the Sunken colony(Buildinf from original) does basicly the same thing, the Lurker is hidden from units who are not ditectors and can run away if the going gets rough. Only problem is that it has no above ground defense.
Devourer. In the original the air unit "Mutalisk" could evolve further into a "Guardian". These flying hulks could fire balls of acid and chemicals at untis on the ground and could do great damage in numbers. The only problem was that they could not attack air units. Not the Mutalisk can also evolve into the Devourer. They fire clumps of acid spores at enemy air units. These spores would upon inpact burst off some excess acid which would land on adjecant opponents. They would stick too there targets and eventouly eat through the hull of the ships. Ofcourse these airborne Juggernauts can't attack ground units.
Terran:Medic. In the original queens(and in this one) could infect enemy units with a parasite. These parasites would allow that player(the zerg player) to see what the infected unit would see as if it was his own own unit. Once the parasite was detected there was no way to remove it except by killing the infected unit. Also attacks on terran unit would never heal. Now with the medic, parasites, acid spores, stasic fields and other harmfull item can be removed from untis with Restoration and Units can be healed. Medic can also blind detectors(units who can see ivisible/burrowed units) so as they can not see hidden units. I reccomend that medics be sent out along with almost every group of soldiers. They can be a big help.
Valkarye. These ships fire missle(alot of missles) at enemy air units. One can be dangerous but a group of them can be devastating to enemy fleets.
Protoss:Dark Templar:The Dark templar are indeed powerfull units. They move swiftly and attack vicously and with extreme speed and on top of that they are permenately cloaked. Though they don't have the spells that Templar have they are very powerfull units, however they can, like the templar, join together to become a Dark Archon.
Dark Archon.These Swirling red look-alikes to the Archons do not have an acual attack but they do have powerfull spells like Mind-Link which converts enemy unit to your side(try converting a SCV so you can make terran units and building.), or Mealstrom which traps units in a temporary field or they can turn an enemys own energy agains them to destroy enemies instantly.
Corsair:These new air units are fast is a valuble adition to the fleet. Aswhell as being able to attack it can create a cloud which protects air units from attack from below. This can be very valuble in air raids.
Whell there you have it, Star Craft expansion Brood War. If you have the original than you should buy this. If your new to starcraft than buy both(or but the battle chest). You were be dissapointed. Did you find this review help full. If so please vote

THIS GAME IS GREAT!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Brood War is a great game. There is nothing more I can say. You have 7 new units you could not build in the original Starcraft including the Dark Archon, Dark Templar, Corsair, Medic, Valkyrie, Lurker, and Devourer. 26 all-new missions come with this game including the ability to explore new worlds like Korhal and Shakuras. There is even a new platform for campigns: Twilight. Starcraft was good, Brood War is better there is nothing else to say, it is a great buy and you'll be playing it for a long time. If you like Starcraft, you will love Brood War. This is an excellent game. Buy it.

Killer Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Starcraft: Brood War is twice as better than the origonal! Zerg Lurkers can tear up anything, while Devoureres devistate the air! The new dark Archon, that comes from the Dark Templar is sweet, and I love taking over the oppenents units. The Corsiar is fast and terrifying. The medic become prime targets, because they stop their units from dying, and the units keep killing mine. The graphics are sweet. The sound is awsome. The unit pathfinding isn't that good, like most games, but it's better than what it was. All in all, bargian at any price, and it deserves 10 stars. Buy it!

You like StarCraft, You'll Love this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

They did an absolutely fantastic job when creating this expansion pack. Not only did they continue with the story (more movies as well!) but the new units are fun and useful!

Good job to Blizzard.

THE BEST GAME EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: April 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I dont care what people say. Starcraft and Broodwar are by far the best games ever created! Blizzard is by far the best creator of games ever, period. I am telling you BUY THIS GAME. I don't care who you are, BUY IT!

Starcraft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Starcraft is the BEST GAME EVER CREATED! It is REALLY fun and it is a great game if you are looking for a strategey game.Me being only 10 i love this game, between the great movie pics and the super duper gameplay i give it 5 VERY BRIGHT STARS! (please note; BUY IT IT IS SO FUN)

NOw thats A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Now, when I got this game, i thought it would be exzatly like the first starcraft, which i thought nothing could beat. Boy was i wrong BW is totally different. I also thought 2 new units was no difference. Heck! It adds a tootlly differnt pace to the game. And battle net, it is way better, a little harder, but that practise will get you so ready for the bigger games. These two games (SC & BW) are the best. BW's campaghn are cool too.

No need to say... BEST GAME EVER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks!!! BEST STRATEGY GAME EVER!!! you should must have to try this game. The price is cheap though BUT don't under estimate this game.This game sure is cool perfect great fun.You must try this game if you are an strategy games fan. You can have internet connection to play Battle.net. Well you can play Starcraft with single player and campaign BUT if you have connection to internet you gotta try battle.net first after you buy this game. Anyways I strongly recommand to buy this game because.... THIS GAME ROCKS!!!

The Greatest Game of All Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Starcraft: Brood War is hands-down the greatest Real-Time-Strategy game of ALL TIME. It's considered a SPORT in korea, getting live broadcasts on tv stations daily. I have played this game for 5 years, and I'm still as interested in it now as I was 5 years ago. For a game that has been out since 1998, there are still more people playing this game than most new titles today. In my opinion, Starcraft: Brood War ranks as #1 game of all time.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Few games have come close to this one!

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