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StarCraft Battle Chest | 
| From: Blizzard Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $18.99
You Save: $1.00 (5%)
New (8) Used (13) from $15.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  266 reviews
Sales Rank: 621
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7.3 x 1.2
MPN: 100722
Model: 4297
UPC: 020626717311
EAN: 0020626717311
ASIN: B00001IVRD
Release Date: October 24, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | This includes the hit StarCraft, the incredible StarCraft - Brood War, and two official strategy guides, for hours & hours of space-based action and combat | | • | Play through 56 mission in 6 unique campaigns, to decide the fate of the galaxy | | • | Over 175 player maps over a wide variety of battlefields | | • | Play multiplayer battles over battle.net | | • | Battle for control of the galaxy with the StarCraft Battle Chest! |
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Amazon.com Review
The full versions of StarCraft and the acclaimed expansion pack Brood War, as well as complete strategy guides for each, make StarCraft: Battle Chest a treasure chest for real-time strategy fans. Instead of two similarly powered enemies facing off, the three distinct races in StarCraft have unique capabilities and strategies. Everyone still competes in the RTS genre's typical race for resources, but that's the only shared trait. Terrans can move their bulky mechanized bases as necessary, while the reptilian Zerg grow their colonies and warriors from mutating larvae. Meanwhile, the noble Protoss warp in equipment from their home world using psionic powers. Not only does game maker Blizzard juggle the races' playability and match it with superb art and sound effects, it also weaves together an engrossing three-act plot. Early on, as a Terran magistrate, you spend a breathtaking 30 minutes defending against a Zerg onslaught. As the story unfolds around you, you'll experience the Zerg's hive mentality and decipher the mysterious Protoss by the game's dramatic conclusion. Missions vary in scope and are effectively framed with dialogue, chapter screens, and in-mission exposition. Multiplayer games are also very well represented by Blizzard's own free Battle.net service. If you'd rather play over a local area network, StarCraft will generously "spawn" up to seven copies so your friends can join in. In keeping with StarCraft's groundbreaking design, Brood War presents you with three sides of a galactic conflict. Scheming humans, insidious Zerg, and proud Protoss collide again, with stunning new cinematics setting the stage. Old friends and foes and ominous new arrivals give the story a breakneck pace, while a handful of additions to each race's arsenal makes for tense battles. Brood War also features stellar new environments and ambient art, as well as more than 100 additional multiplayer maps. Some missions require a bit of finesse, breaking the resource-gathering routine while making good use of the new units. Humans now have Valkyrie missile frigates as well as medics who automatically try to heal your grunts. New for the Zerg air force is the acid-spewing Devourer; the new Lurker unit provides heavy-duty (under)ground support. Along with the Corsair fighter, the Protoss reenter the fray with Dark Templar, which can merge to form the devastating Dark Archon. Unfortunately, units old and new still suffer from weak artificial intelligence in path finding. Real-time strategy games don't get any more epic or any more satisfying. --Jack Gardiner
Amazon.com Product Description
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 Description
The StarCraft Battle Chest is an incredible package of the great StarCraft games, on one DVD!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 StarCraft Revisited October 4, 2008
I remember when Starcraft first came out originally. I was thrilled to play each scenario and finally, after many hours of play, I conquered the final level of each race. I replayed the game so much I ruined the original disk and couldn't reinstall after a computer crash. It's been a few years and true, the animation is a little old school but I found to my delight after purchasing the Starcraft Battle Chest that as soon as I started to play it, the enjoyment began once more. I'd have to say that even if it's your first time playing Starcraft, you'll enjoy figuring out the strategy to win each level,as I did. Two alien race levels give a different perspective than playing the human scenarios, for many more hours of playStarCraft Battle Chest.
Awesome September 29, 2008
Definitely worth the money I had spent!!!! One of many great games that I have purchased!!
StarCraft is a CLASSIC! September 2, 2008
Personally, I think StarCraft is one of the best RTS games of its type, ever made! At the very least, it is definitely the best one I've ever played (though people say WarCraft is even better!). I haven't even made it through the entire game yet, but the missions not only get harder as you move on, they also get more interesting.
The way the game is structured, there are three campaigns in the initial part of the game: Terran, Zerg, and Protoss, and you play them in that order. Because of the three different distinct species, the game stays very interesting because the way you build your armies changes drastically between species. Each of the campaigns also has an interesting story line to go with it as well as extremely well rendered eye popping space cinematics. Ultimately all the story lines tie together into one big epic tale of multi species galactic warfare.
I haven't even tried the more advanced features of the game, like online play, and customized campaigns, but I'm already hooked. This game is well worth the money, and if you are new to it, the Battle Chest is perfect because it comes with a strategy guide, both the original game and the expansion set, play guides, and a World of Warcraft demo, all at one low price. The only thing you have to worry about when playing this game is the fact that it's a time blackhole. I can easily drop four or five hours into this game at a single sitting, and the time just flies by! So be careful, it's a wonderful game, and it's also extremely addicting!
Nick
Best computer game of all time August 31, 2008
In my opinion, Starcraft is and was the best computer game ever made. I played it religiously 8 years ago, and even now I pop it in to play every once in a while. There's so many thing you can do, online and off. The custom games on [...] give this game years, if not decades of replay value.
The price is cheap, the computer requirements are low- Buy this game!
 Worst Game There EVER Was or Will Be. August 18, 2008
1 out of 31 found this review helpful
Do not even think about getting this game, if you are, than first of all look at the date i wrote this, now look at most of the dates of the good ratings, 90% of them are VERY old, the game play is horrible, i am not sure what blizzard was thinking when they made this, no heroes?!?! no main characters to level or anything good? just plain old boring repetition throughout the whole game, if amazon would let me i would make my rating negative, i think i would of had more fun burning the money it cost me.
Game play: how low will it let me?
replay value: good luck getting through the first time without dieing boredom....
graphics: is that a unit or the ground?
overall value: absolutely none
In conclusion, go buy pong, trust me, you'll have a much better time, heck u would have a better time burning your money than buying this piece a crud game.
BUY THIS INSTEAD
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