StarCraft Brood War is that the enlargement pack for the subject fiction period strategy computer game StarCraft. free in December 1998 for Microsoft Windows and Gregorian calendar month 1999 for mackintosh OS, it had been co-developed by Saffire and Blizzard diversion. The enlargement pack introduces new campaigns, map tilesets, music, further units for every race, and upgrade advancements. The campaigns continue the story from wherever the initial StarCraft concluded, with the sequel, StarCraft II Wings of Liberty continued from the conclusion of the Brood War. The enlargement was free initially within us on December eighteen, 1998.

Brood War was critically well supported, with analysts compliment it for being produced with the care of a full game alternately of as an unimpressed further. As of could thirty-one, 2007, StarCraft and Brood War have sold out nearly 10 million copies combined. The sport is very common in South Korea, wherever skilled players and groups have participated in matches, earned sponsorships, and competed in televised matches. As of April nineteen, 2017, StarCraft and its Brood War enlargement, aka the collection, are liberal to transfer and play from Blizzard's website. A remastered edition of StarCraft and its enlargement was free on August fourteen, 2017.

Starcraft focuses on 3 distinct heavenly body species the psionic Protoss, the flexible Terrans, and also the insectoid Zerg. the sport revolves around players aggregating resources to construct a base, upgrade their militaries, and ultimately conquer opponents. Brood War's gameplay remains essentially unchanged from that of StarCraft, though it created little alterations to unit prices and a few talents, and add some new units. These changes create dashing tactics an issue that gained some criticism within the original StarCraft less sensible. The single-player campaign has AN enhanced difficulty missions are not any longer entirely linear, and a larger target strategy is required to finish missions. Additionally, the game's computer science has been increased so that AI-controlled players are additional intelligent and have a tendency to use techniques additional effectively.



Brood War introduces seven new units. every race is given access to a novel ground unit: the Zerg will produce a defensive unit that will attack from the concealment of its burrow, whereas the Terrans will train combat medics. The Protoss are ready to turn out dark knight units, a robust cloaked disturbance unit solely given to the player in special missions of StarCraft. Protoss players will merge 2 of those units to form a special spellcaster unit. Every race is additionally given access to an avid air-to-air attack unit. 

The story of Brood War is conferred through its booklet, the briefings to every mission, and conversations inside the missions themselves, in conjunction with the utilization of medium cut scenes at the tip of every campaign. The sport itself is split into 3 new episodes, one centering on every race. In the primary episode, Aldaris, Zeratul, and the freshly promoted Artanis work to evacuate the living Protoss from their blasted homeworld within a warp portal to the dark knight homeworld, Shakuras, wherever they meet the matriarch of the dark knight, Raszagal. Though the Zerg are ready to follow the Protoss to Shakuras, Raszagal informs the survivors of a Xel'Naga temple on the surface of the world with the ability to scour the Zerg from the surface if activated. With Zeratul and Artanis reluctantly partnering with wife Kerrigan, the UN agency informs them of a brand new Overmind growing on Char, the player joins them in an operation to recover 2 key crystals (Khalis and Uraj) necessary to control the temple. Upon their come, it's disclosed that Aldaris has begun a revolt against the dark knight over their alliance with Kerrigan. The revolt is crushed, and Aldaris is killed by Kerrigan, UN agency reveals that her motives are to make sure the destruction of the Zerg cerebrates on Shakuras thus she will gain management of the Zerg herself before outward the world. Despite knowing that activating the temple can accomplish Kerrigan's objectives, Zeratul and Artanis proceed with very little alternative, wiping the Zerg off Shakuras' surface.

Cinematic cut-scenes are used at key plot points throughout the single-player campaigns. In the secondary episode, the player guides the United Earth Directorate's primary attacks against the Terran Dominion. Upon meeting Samir Duran, the fleet's vice-admiral Alexei Stukov conscripts Duran as a special adviser. The UED presently discovers a "psi disrupter" a device capable of disrupting Zerg communications on the previous Confederate capital Tarsonis. Though Duran convinces admiral Gerard DuGalle to own the opponent of the  Zerg device damaged, Stukov's forces help Duran at the last time. The UED issue to the Dominion throne world Korhal IV wherever the player defeats giant Mengsk's armies, though Mengsk is saved once a Protoss fleet commanded by Jim Raynor arrives. The UED tracks Raynor and Mengsk to the Protoss homeworld of Aiur, however the 2 escape the large UED assault once Duran inexplicably moves his forces out of position and allows the Zerg to interfere with the procedure. Having understood that the UED invasion had caused Mengsk, Raynor, and also the Protoss to unite against a typical foe, Stukov realizes that Duran's actions additionally the Zerg attack were an excessive amount of to be a coincidence the Zerg were also allied with the Terran Dominion and also the Protoss, and Duran had been operating to undermine the UED. whereas Stukov takes a contingent of troops and reconstructs the psi disrupter on Braxis, DuGalle is unaware of his intentions and becomes convinced that he's a traitor. The player helps Duran seek out Stukov within the psi disrupter, however before he dies, Stukov reveals to DuGalle that Duran is that the real enemy. Duran flees once the player foils he decides to sabotage the psi disrupter. exploitation the psi disrupter's capabilities, DuGalle and also the UED are ready to assault the Zerg world Char and lead of the new Overmind growing there.

The final section of Brood War sees the player serving to wife Kerrigan defeat the UED. With the Overmind falling beneath the United Earth Directorate's command, all operations amongst native factions within the sector are broken, as well as Kerrigan's forces. to start the campaign against the board of directors forces, Kerrigan and Samir Duran kinda reluctant alliance with Jim Raynor, Protoss pretor Fenix, and giant Mengsk to destroy the psi disrupter. once destroying the psi disrupter, the player leads Kerrigan's forces during an all-out assault on Korhal, quickly breaking the UED's hold over the world. within the aftermath, Kerrigan betrays her allies, destroying an outsized variety of Dominion forces and killing each Fenix furthermore as Edmund Duke, Mengsk's helper. Angry at Kerrigan's betrayal, Raynor guarantees that he can kill her in the future and so retreats. Kerrigan travels with Duran to Shakuras and abducts Raszagal, the UN agency she uses to blackmail Zeratul into killing the Overmind on Char, so delivery all Zerg forces beneath Kerrigan's management. Zeratul tries to rescue Raszagal, however, the player prevents their escape, and Zeratul eventually kills Raszagal once it becomes clear she has been irreversibly brainwashed by Kerrigan. At that moment it becomes clear that Aldaris's revolt within the initial episode was an endeavor to prevent the brainwashed Raszagal from revealing her individuals from now on. Upon exploiting Char in search of Artanis, Zeratul stumbles upon a biological science facility go by Duran while not Kerrigan's information wherever a Protoss/Zerg hybrid is being developed. At an equivalent time, Kerrigan is attacked on Char by the Dominion, the UED, and an unforgiving fleet commanded by Artanis. Notwithstanding being outnumbered, Kerrigan defeats all 3 lines and destroys the living UED fleet, utilize her as the dominant power in the sector. Before the UED fleet is worn out, Admiral DuGalle sends a final message back to his family before committing suicide along with his small arm.