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Got this on sale for 10-15 dollars not surem, but its a steal. Came with phamplets and alot of handouts nice wrappings. Great product for people who dont have starcraft or ones that lost their cd keys.
I had this game a few years ago and I played it all the time. I had lost it at some point and thought it would be fun the play again. It doesn't seem as fun now though. It still has a fun story line, but the fact that you can't change the resolution dulls the quality of game play down quite a bit.
This is a fantastic game, I have never played a RTS game before this and I was hooked instantly, gameplay is smooth with no choppiness whatsoever and it can be very challenging. Buy it, you will not be disappointed.
Also, I'm surprised Blizzard hasn't released a patch to smooth out the graphics a bit. But really, if you're going to actively sell a game at the game shops, you would think this would be fixed by Blizzard. This is part of what hurt me on level 8. Some levels may be too easy and some may be pretty darn hard. After hitting a forum, I found out it's impossible to win if you didn't max out your army from the previous levels.The Bad:- Video.
About the same as Fallout 1. In the end, the guide told me what units I should have before I attack, and some of them I had never used, let alone knew HOW to use. It's one thing if I found this at a used/discount store, but I didn't. I got a few levels in and couldn't beat the level. It's pefectly playable, but awefully small. And then I wish I had picked something different. I'm only on level 9 (out of 30) on the original, but it's fun.
I am surprised they haven't been improved by a patch.- No Easy/Medium/Hard setting. It's not horrible, but it's hard to imagine that it would be too hard to fix it up a little better with a patch. But some of this is because there's no instructions in the game (see The Bad). Level 8 took me about 4 hrs to finally beat. This game, you have to really be strategic. On some games my first instinct is to pick Medium, but then I will often get stuck or find it's too easy.
Really. Which brings up another point. However, there's comments from some users that after using the program, some people have been banned from Battle.Net since it saw they were using a 3rd party program with Starcraft. I actually prefer to NOT have an Easy/Medium/Hard setting. End rating: 4 stars.
Some Googling and it seems most everyone with a widescreen laptop experiences this. However, I had fun playing the whole time without getting discouraged.- The graphics aren't all that bad. This is a retro game - no way around it.However, I actually enjoy retro games. Though they're not bad, they're not great either. No instructions. I'm not interested in playing SC on Battle.net so that's not a huge deal for me. You just need to win.
They all refer to a freeware download that let's you run Starcraft in a window. I run this on my laptop and the screen turns black and the game starts in the upper left part of the window consuming only about 25% of my widescreen laptop. If they're hard simply refer to the guide. After reading the strategy guide for the level I finally figured out what I needed to do. This actually works VERY nice, and was surprised at how much I liked it compared to the smaller screen in the upper left. Starcraft kept coming up high on everyone's favorite list, so I thought I'd give it a try.The Good: - This really is a fun game. The only option is to change the desktop resolution to 800x600 before starting the game which is a major pain. you don't have to keep playing a level until you demolish the CPU.
Minus 1 star since I have to use 3rd party freeware to get it to run in a window or proportioned correctly on my laptop. No instructions. I actually just got done playing Another World and Fallout 1 & 2 on my laptop.Having been playing alot of Desktop Tower Defense games lately, I thought I would upgrade to a true RTS game. Many other games have patches that improve the graphics. Doom, Quake to name a couple.- No instructions.
No amount of tweaking to the shortcut seemed to help. However, I noticed that when I put my laptop in my docking station connected to an external monitor it goes full-screen. Of course full-screen on a 24" widescreen monitor is not good for this game either. I was expecting much worse. I wanted to beat it without having to read the strategy guide.
I tried out Middle Earth RTS and your people carry over. The rest of the screen is black. The strategy guide helps, and the first levels help give you a feel for the game, but really. I'm having fun, and that's what counts for a retro game.
When reviewing this product, I must put it into perspective for the time of my review. channels devoted to this game and it is still widely played there.Starcraft is a futuristic real-time strategy game (that means that you are looking down on units that are under your control). Zerg are a primitive dinosaur-like species that use beasts and fleshy creatures. When it was released, it was a huge hit and won PC game of the year. The three races are well balanced and very unique, giving the game excellent replay ability. Now that computers are much faster and graphics have improved, the game can seem a bit out dated to players who have never played it before. Starcraft came out in 1998, some 11 years ago now. There are three races: Protoss are super-advanced aliens that use incredible technologies and strange energies.
For us gamers who remember it from the glory days, we can play it again and still enjoy it, but if your looking for a new game to try, this might be the wrong one for you. Having said that, Korea still has T.V. Terran are the human race of the future using technology to aid our fighters in battle. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
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