Real-Time Strategy Classic 'StarCraft' Becomes a Free Download for Mac

Just in time to settle the N/S Korean crisis in a peacefull way!

this is the so called Starcraft remastered?

Reading the post may help answer that.

I will be getting Remastered when it comes out, but mainly just for the campaigns. I tried playing a bit of SC1 again recently when they were doing the public test of 1.18, and the ancient UI was a lot more clunky than I remember from my childhood. I'm sure I'll do some multiplayer with my friends who I play Starcraft 2 with now, once Remastered is out, but frankly I'm spoiled by having rally points and multiple building selection in Starcraft 2 and even Warcraft 3. For those who watch the occasional Brood War pro game out of South Korea, Remastered will be a real boon.

I'm hoping this might generate some new interest in Starcraft 2. The campaign stories aren't as good (I would argue) but the multiplayer is a lot of fun and still going strong with the latest expansion that came out a year and a half ago. The 1v1 ladder is the most competitive it's probably ever been, but it'd be nice to have new blood in the lower leagues.

If all you want is the original SC campaigns, you should play StarCraft Mass Recall. It's a fan done project - they remade all the StarCraft and BroodWar campaigns in the StarCraft 2 engine, including levels that were cut, only available on the N64, or only available by download.

They did a phenomenal job - completely blew me away. ~60 people worked on it for almost 10 years (the project started in the WarCraft 3 engine - they shifted it over to StarCraft 2 when that was released). I wrote the Mac installer for it... although I haven't maintained it at all. They have some more involved steps you can manually follow for the Mac, or I can link to the installer I wrote if you want.

Just in time to settle the N/S Korean crisis in a peacefull way!

Unfortunately North Korea has insufficient Vespen Gas to research a technology which will allow them to actually run Starcraft.

Nostalgic gamers can find the free download of the original StarCraft here ('https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20674424').

I'm liking this trend of rebooting old classics. Epic Games, please please please reboot the original Unreal Tournament!

Brings back some epic LAN-party memories. :)