Starcraft: Brood War

Released in 1998, 'Brood War' is development team Blizzard's official expansion pack to the hugely successful sci-fi real-time strategy game Starcraft, featuring new story-driven campaigns consisting of around 30 new scenarios as well as new units, fmv sequences and artwork. As before the game allows you to play as any of it's 3 races in either single or multiplayer modes, as either the grotesque, hive-mind Zerg race, the human Terrans or the Protoss, a hugely technologically advanced race of ethereal warrior-beings. The expansion grants each race one new ground unit and one new air unit. New additions to the Zerg race com in in the form of ...  Read the complete review

Brood War is the add-on pack for a little-known RTS game by the name of StarCraft. Well, maybe a bit known - it’s probably one of the biggest-selling RTS games of all time and has remained my favourite game of its type in the three-odd years since its release. Though I touched on this in my StarCraft opinion, Brood War, in my opinion, is an essential add-on for an essential game. The sheer amount of new stuff that comes with this add-on is amazing. Many companies simply repackage their games with a new set of missions and sell them as a sequel of sorts. With Brood War, you get three huge new single-player campaigns, seven finely balanced new units and a ...  Read the complete review

Everyone who enjoyes online RTS games and keeps up with the news will definately know about StarCraft, one of the top online games of all time. This is the first and only mission disk for the game, but is it a must, or simply a quest for extra money to fill various koffers? Read on... I am doubtless that most of you know about the game, but for those who don't, here is a breif summary. The plot of the game, starting from the original Starcraft, concernes three waring species. The human race, called the Terrans, a xenomorph style aliens race known as the Zerg, and a powerfull religious orientated race called the Protoss. The three races begin separated, ...  Read the complete review

Ugh, this is such an addicting strategy game. I have been playing Real Time Strategy games (RTS) for years, and the Starcraft series is my favorite one out there. First of all, you should not be playing this until you have played Starcraft. Brood war is the expansion pak to Starcraft. There are two main reasons you should play these in order. One, is the fact that the single player story line continues into the expansion. The story line won't make sense in here if you didn't beat the first one. Second reason is, you need to know what you are doing in Brood War. Starcraft has an excellent tutorial to help you learn more about the game. Now as for ...  Read the complete review