Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 26, 2006

StarCraft is a real-time strategy computer game by Blizzard Entertainment. Introduced in 1998, it was the best-selling computer game in that year and won the Origins Award for Best Strategy Computer Game of 1998. It is praised for being a benchmark of real-time strategy (RTS) games, due to its depth, intensity, and game balance. Blizzard estimated in 2005 that 9 million copies of StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War had been sold since its release, and it has achieved an international cult-like status in the computer gaming world, especially in its online multiplayer form. Set in a "space opera" environment, StarCraft is broadly similar to Blizzard's popular high fantasy RTS Warcraft II, but during the development process, there were great efforts to steer the game away from being simply "Warcraft in Space," and eventually the entire game engine was rewritten to achieve the desired result. (more...)

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