A remastered edition of StarCraft and its expansion was released on August 14, 2017. The game is especially popular in South Korea, where professional players and teams have participated in matches, earned sponsorships, and competed in televised matches.Īs of April 19, 2017, StarCraft and its Brood War expansion, aka the Anthology, are free to download and play from Blizzard's website. As of May 31, 2007, StarCraft and Brood War have sold almost ten million copies combined. The expansion was released first in the United States on December 18, 1998.īrood War was critically well received, with reviewers praising it for being developed with the care of a full game rather than as an uninspired extra. The campaigns continue the story from where the original StarCraft ended, with the sequel, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, continuing from the conclusion of Brood War. The expansion pack introduces new campaigns, map tilesets, music, extra units for each race, and upgrade advancements. Released in December 1998 for Microsoft Windows and June 1999 for Mac OS, it was co-developed by Saffire Corporation and Blizzard Entertainment. We think Blizzard did this to ensure multiplayer compatibility, between normal and remastered editions of the games.StarCraft: Brood War is the expansion pack for the military science fiction real-time strategy video game StarCraft. It will not be free, but available for purchase from within the game, sort of like a DLC. The remastered edition of StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War will be released this summer.
Head to the official page on Blizzard's website, and click on the version you want.How to get the free version of StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War: And Mac users can get the game too.Īside from widescreen and windowed mode support, there is a new observer mode, among many changes which you can find at the download section linked below. That's because the PTR version was buggy, and the company seems to have fixed the issues with patch 1.18, and has released StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War for free. We reported the news about the classic RTS game going free about a month ago, but it was only available in the Public Test Real (PTR) version, until now. StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War are now free, Blizzard announced in a post on its website.
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