StarCraft: Brood War
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StarCraft: Brood War is an expansion pack released in 1998 for StarCraft — an award winning real-time strategy computer game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
General information
The expansion pack introduced new campaigns and two additional units for each race, new tech advancements, new map tilesets, and new music. The campaigns continue the story from where the original StarCraft left off: the Overmind had been destroyed with the sacrifice of Tassadar, the Protoss homeworld of Aiur had been left desolate and rampaged by the Zerg, and Kerrigan was now left alone in her new Zerg form. Full details are in the Brood War introduction.The first of the new campaigns involves the Protoss, (or rather, the Dark Templars), and mostly takes place on their homeworld of Shakuras. The second campaign features the newly arrived armies of the United Earth Directorate (UED) commanded by Admiral DuGalle, and the last campaign (Zerg) has Kerrigan as the protagonist.
The game's introductory cutscene takes a number of creative cues from the Do Lung Bridge scene in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. Both scenes display unsupported and demoralized troops outnumbered by a superior foe in nighttime trench warfare. One soldier's cry of "Who's in charge here?" echoes a line from the film. Other elements, such as the Christmas lights strung up along the trenches, the roving searchlights, and the music will be familiar to viewers who have seen Apocalypse Now.
Storyline
Episode IV
This is the Protoss campaign of the game.
Full details are in StarCraft Episode IV.
Following Tassadar's sacrifice, the Zerg on the Protoss homeworld are in disarray, but still overwhelmingly numerous. Protoss refugees retreat to Shakuras, the homeworld of the Dark Templar, despite protests from Aldaris, the leader of the Conclave. They are, however, followed there by the Zerg. The Protoss and Dark Templar reluctantly join forces with Sarah Kerrigan's Zerg forces, after she explains she's now free of the Overmind's control, but that a new Overmind is growing on Char. Kerrigan asks for their help to kill it before it reaches maturity. However, the Protoss ask for a favor in return. Two ancient crystals, fused with the powers of the dark and high templar, must be recovered to defeat the Zerg on Shakuras. The two crystals are discovered and the Overmind is crippled to slow its development. During the battles, a massive Terran fleet from the distant United Earth Directorate intervenes, and Aldaris, troubled by their alliance with Queen of Blades and the Dark Templar's trust in her, gathers supporters and declares war on Zeratul's forces and the Dark Templar. As he is about to reveal why he staged the rebellion Kerrigan assaniates him and she is banished from Shakuras. The two crystals, infused with the power of the two templars, are then joined in a Xel'Naga temple on Shakuras. The two energies fuse and destroy all Zerg on the planet, thus saving the Protoss.
Episode V
This is the Terran campaign of the game.
Full details are in StarCraft Episode V.
The player joins the United Earth Directorate (UED) Expeditionary Fleet, assigned to subdue the Terran worlds in this sector, but their high-handed actions quickly make enemies of all the various Zerg and Protoss factions as well. Their first enemy to fall is Mengsk's Dominion, and later they also gain telepathic control of the local Zerg. Kerrigan convinces Raynor to rescue Mengsk. Though divided by a Zerg-infested human spy, Samir Duran, the UED succeeds in capturing and enslaving the new Overmind and control of Zerg swarms.
Episode VI
This is the Zerg campaign of the game.Full details are in StarCraft Episode VI.
With the massive UED fleet controlling increasing numbers of Zerg, Kerrigan is severely threatened. Painting herself as a victim, and the combined Zerg-UED as the greater enemy (as well as the judicious use of threats and hostages), Kerrigan gains the reluctant assistance of the scattered Terran, Protoss and Dark Templar forces. As the UED is beaten back, however, she turns on each of her "allies" one by one. The Overmind is killed by the Dark Templar, and Kerrigan gains complete control of the Zerg. Eventually, Kerrigan defeats the Protoss, UED, and Dominion fleets in a single epic battle, and by the end reigns as the dominant power in the Koprulu Sector. In this campaign, Duran is an ally of Kerrigan, though it is revealed in the secret mission, "Dark Origins", that he is a much greater power than at first thought, and his true origins are unknown. It is also discovered that he has made many thousands of Zerg-Protoss Hybrids.
New units
Terran- Valkyrie – An air-to-air unit that fires a barrage of 8 H.A.L.O rockets, causing large splash damage to enemy air units.
- Medic – An infantry support unit, with the ability to rapidly heal all biological ground units(Including SCV's) but it has to have enough energy to rapidly heal units, can remove foreign spells with restoration, and blind enemy units which is caused from a Medic casting an optical flare.
- Devourer – An air-to-air unit evolved from mutalisks with a very low rate of fire that can inflict a status ailment known as acid spores. With each consecutive acid spore, the target unit's armor is reduced allowing other units to do more damage. The acid spores also reveal nearby cloaked units.
- Lurker – A ground-to-ground unit evolved from the hydralisk that can only attack while burrowed and has a line-splash attack.
- Dark Templar – Similar to the Dark Templar Hero, but runs faster and two can fuse into the Dark Archon.
- Dark Archon – A spellcaster with the ability to stun several biological units at once (maelstrom), cripple or kill other spellcasters (feedback), and mind-control enemy units.
- Corsair – An air-to-air unit that inflicts fast splash damage and has the ability to disable all attacks from units inside a selected area.
Difficulty
The developers of the game stated they have designed the levels considering players have defeated the original StarCraft without cheats. One Gamespot editor comments, 'much must be complimented on the brillance of the game but even veteran players will assume the levels to be near impossible to beat'. The missions are no longer straight-forward and a greater deal of strategy must be placed in every tactic one uses. Enemy waves are now even smarter and use tactics more often and quite effectively. Despite the difficulty, it generously extends gameplay and prepares players for online play.External links
| StarCraft | |
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| StarCraft Universe
| Gameplay of StarCraft • StarCraft storyline • StarCraft units and structures • Psionic technology (StarCraft)>Psionic technology |
| Factions and Organizations
| Dark Templar • Judicator Caste • Kel-Morian Combine • Khalai Caste • Protoss • Protoss Conclave • StarCraft Pirate Militias>Pirate Militias • Raynor's Raiders • Sons of Korhal • Templar Caste • Terran • Terran Confederacy • Umojan Protectorate • United Earth Directorate • Xel'Naga • Zerg • Zerg Brood |
| Locations
| Aiur • Antiga Prime • Braxis • Char (StarCraft)>Char • Chau Sara • Korhal • Mar Sara • Moria • Shakuras • Talematros • Tarsonis • Umoja • Zerus |
| Characters
| Aldaris • Artanis • Admiral DuGalle>Gerard DuGalle • Edmund Duke • Samir Duran • Fenix • Sarah Kerrigan • Arcturus Mengsk • • Raszagal • Jim Raynor • Alexei Stukov • Tassadar • Zeratul • Zerg Overmind • Minor Characters |
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