StarCraft: Remastered
2017
- real time strategy (rts)
- strategy
- science fiction
- single player
- multiplayer
The story
StarCraft: Remastered is a reverently crafted modernization of Blizzard Entertainment’s original sci-fi real-time strategy game. StarCraft: Remastered will offer a full graphical overhaul of the original StarCraft and the StarCraft: Brood War expansion, bringing a modern look and feel to the timeless classic with widescreen UHD support for up to 4K resolution. StarCraft: Remastered will include all of StarCraft’s and Brood War’s campaign missions with enhanced storytelling via new comic-book style interludes. While this rejuvenated version of StarCraft is locked and loaded for the modern era, the gameplay and balance have been precisely preserved, for an experience that will feel identical to veteran players. 4K Ultra HD Graphics and Upgraded Audio: StarCraft: Remastered will include high-resolution unit models, buildings, doodads, and tilesets, as well as high-fidelity music and sound effects to bring the original game into the modern era, while retaining the classic StarCraft style. Same Timeless Gameplay: The gameplay balance and idiosyncrasies have been painstakingly preserved from the original game. Mutalisk stacking, magic-boxing, unit pathfinding, control-group limitations, and more will all remain intact, allowing veteran players to enjoy playing and watching high-level competitive matches as before. Includes Original and Expansion Campaigns: Return to the planetary battlefields of the war-torn Koprulu Sector and command the forces of the terran, zerg, and protoss across more than 50 story-driven single-player missions. Fall in Love Again: Relive the epic saga of some of gaming’s most memorable and beloved heroes and villains, including Marshal Jim Raynor, Lieutenant Sarah Kerrigan, and Praetor Fenix. Enhanced Storytelling: Original cinematics will be improved to 1080p resolution, while mission interludes and introductions will feature new comic-book style illustrations. Blizzard’s Gaming Network Brings a Bevy of Features: In addition to accurate matc
What it’s like
Crisp, high-resolution remake of a late-90s sci-fi strategy classic: the original pixel-art look is kept in spirit while unit models, buildings and tilesets are redrawn at 4K, so sprawling alien hives, scorched badlands and steel-grey terran bases read with clean detail. Music and effects are upgraded but still have that bright, slightly tinny arcade warmth. Cinematics are sharpened to 1080p, and the storytelling interludes arrive as inked comic-book panels, a tidy halfway point between old and new. Pacing is brisk and tactical, built around build orders, sudden skirmishes and long quiet stretches of scouting across dusty planets under flat orange skies. The mood is tense but companionable, a stern, nostalgic space opera about hard-won control and fallen heroes. Violence is constant but stylised and bloodless: units burst into sparks and green goo, with no gore and no sexual content. It suits a focused evening at the desk, a comfort replay, or a sit-back session of watching competitive play. It is for strategy players who want an exact, unchanged game with a friendlier surface, and for fans of classic sci-fi who enjoy an armchair campaign through a war-weary universe.
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