This is the first game in the StarCraft series. For other games in the series see the StarCraft category.
| StarCraft | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Blizzard Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Blizzard Entertainment, Sierra Entertainment |
| Year released | 1998 |
| System(s) | Windows, macOS |
| Expansion pack(s) | Insurrection Retribution Brood War |
| Followed by | StarCraft II |
| Series | StarCraft |
| Genre(s) | RTS |
|---|---|
| Players | 1-8 (1 per PC) |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) |       |
- For the Nintendo 64 game, see StarCraft 64.
StarCraft is a real-time strategy game developed by Blizzard Entertainment for the PC in 1998 and for the Macintosh in 1999. Blizzard released an expansion later in 1998, StarCraft: Brood War, commonly acknowledged to have correct many game balance issues and leading the way to its eventual recognition as standard to which all other RTS games are compared to. Set in the future, on planets far from Earth, it features three races: the human Terrans, the psionic Protoss and the bestial Zerg.
Story[edit]
The story focuses on the activities of the three species in a part of the Milky Way known as the Koprulu Sector. Millennia before any of the events of the games, a species known as the Xel'Naga genetically engineer the Protoss and later the Zerg in attempts to create pure beings. These experiments backfire and the Xel'Naga are largely destroyed by the Zerg. Decades before the beginning of StarCraft in 2499, the hardline international government of Earth, the United Earth Directorate (UED), commissions a colonization program as part of a solution to overpopulation. However, the computers automating the colony ships malfunction, propelling the Terran colonists far off course to the edge of Protoss space. Out of contact with Earth, they form various factions to maintain their interests. Intrigued by the behavior and mentality of the Terrans, the Protoss remain hidden to examine the humans, while protecting them from other threats without their knowledge. However, the Zerg target the Terrans for assimilation to harness their psionic potential, forcing the Protoss to destroy tainted Terran colonies to contain the Zerg infestation.
StarCraft begins just days after the first of these attacks, where the predominant Terran government, the Confederacy of Man, falls into a state of panic as it comes under attack by both the Zerg and the Protoss, in addition to increasing rebel activity led by Arcturus Mengsk against its rule.
Table of Contents
- Starcraft Campaign Editor
- Enslavers (custom campaign)
- Enslavers II (custom campaign)
- Cheats
- References
- Terran mission 1: Wasteland
- Terran mission 2: Backwater Station
- Terran mission 3: Desperate Alliance
- Terran mission 4: The Jacobs Installation
- Terran mission 5: Revolution
- Terran mission 6: Norad II
- Terran mission 7: The Trump Card
- Terran mission 8: The Big Push
- Terran mission 9: New Gettysberg
- Terran mission 10: The Hammer Falls
- Zerg mission 1: Among the Ruins
- Zerg mission 2: Egression
- Zerg mission 3: The New Dominion
- Zerg mission 4: Agent of the Swarm
- Zerg mission 5: The Amerigo
- Zerg mission 6: The Dark Templar
- Zerg mission 7: The Culling
- Zerg mission 8: Eye for an Eye
- Zerg mission 9: The Invasion of Aiur
- Zerg mission 10: Full Circle
- Protoss mission 1: First Strike
- Protoss mission 2: Into the Flames
- Protoss mission 3: Higher Ground
- Protoss mission 4: The Hunt for Tassadar
- Protoss mission 5: Choosing Sides
- Protoss mission 6: Into the Darkness
- Protoss mission 7: Homeland
- Protoss mission 8: The Trial of Tassadar
- Protoss mission 9: Shadow Hunters
- Protoss mission 10: Eye of the Storm
- Terran 1: Lost Souls
- Terran 2: The Rebel Installation
- Terran 3: Jack's Back
- Terran 4: Atkinson Airfield
- Terran 5: The Confederate Militia
- Terran 6: Call of Duty
- Terran 7: Hammer Strike Force Command
- Terran 8: New Dresdin
- Terran 9: The Council Steadfast
- Terran 10: Rebellion
- Terran 11: Attack and Destroy
- Protoss 1: The Satellite Platform Part 1
- Protoss 2: The Satellite Platform Part 2
- Protoss 3: Infestation at New Dresdin
- Protoss 4: In Search of Demioch
- Protoss 5: Restructuring
- Protoss 6: The Slaughter of the Harvesters
- Protoss 7: Defense
- Protoss 8: Carpenter's Destruction
- Protoss 9: Syndrea's Assault
- Terran Mission 1: First Strike
- Terran Mission 2: The Dylarian Shipyards
- Terran Mission 3: Ruins of Tarsonis
- Terran Mission 4: Assault on Korhal
- Terran Mission 5A: Emperor's Fall (Ground Zero)
- Terran Mission 5B: Emperor's Fall (Birds of War)
- Terran Mission 6: Emperor's Flight
- Terran Mission 7: Patriot's Blood
- Terran Mission 8: To Chain the Beast
- Zerg Mission 1: Vile Disruption
- Zerg Mission 2: Reign of Fire
- Zerg Mission 3: The Kel-Morian Combine
- Zerg Mission 4: The Liberation of Korhal
- Zerg Mission 5: True Colors
- Zerg Mission 6: Fury of the Swarm
- Zerg Mission 7: Drawing of the Web
- Zerg Mission 8: To Slay the Beast
- Zerg Mission 9: The Reckoning
- Secret mission: Dark Origin
- Zerg Mission 10: Omega