The remaster was released on macOS and Windows on August 14, 2017.
It was also announced that later that week, Blizzard would make the original games-the StarCraft Anthology-free to download and would include an update with some of the remaster's features, including the ability to run on modern computers. Blizzard's president publicly announced the remaster in late March 2017 at a StarCraft event in Seoul, South Korea.
Professional StarCraft players from South Korea, including Flash, Bisu, and Jaedong, gave the company feedback during several playtests. The game's original artist returned to assist with development. Development īlizzard Entertainment developed the remaster over a year. Additionally, players can switch between the original and new graphics and view new zoomed perspectives for players to appreciate the remaster's new level of detail. Players can pair their online accounts from the original game with Blizzard's modern online accounts to continue their win/loss statistics into the remaster. Its online features are updated to support Blizzard's modern suite, including improved multiplayer matchmaking, social integration with other Blizzard games, and saved settings on Blizzard's cloud computers such that player campaign progress, replays, custom maps, and keybindings are synced wherever the player opens the game. Its remastered graphics support up to 4K ultra-high-definition resolution, and its original soundtrack and sound effects are re-recorded. StarCraft: Remastered retains the gameplay of the original, but updates its graphics and sound. See also: Gameplay of StarCraft and Gameplay of StarCraft: Brood War It received favorable reviews upon release, with many critics praising its success in updating the visuals while leaving the gameplay unchanged. The remaster features redone visuals and sound assets while still using the same engine as the original, which allows for cross-play compatibility across both versions.
Prior to release, the original StarCraft and its expansion were both made free to download and play. StarCraft: Remastered was the first project released by the "Classic Games division", a team at Blizzard focused on updating and remastering some of their older titles, with an initially announced focus on StarCraft, Diablo II, and Warcraft III. The remaster was developed over the period of a year and included playtesting from professional StarCraft players. It retains the gameplay of the original StarCraft, but features ultra-high-definition graphics (ultra HD), re-recorded audio, and Blizzard's modern online feature suite.
The real-time strategy and science fiction game of reference. In fact, we'll return to it and to one of its expansions, the highly acclaimed StarCraft: Brood War, as well as the old StarCraft Anthology. We're talking about StarCraft: Remastered that updates and overhauls the original game (which can now be downloaded for free).
The first game of this series appeared in 1998, soon becoming a great hit, and now almost 20 years later, there's a new remastered version. The latter has led to a profitable series of strategy games, including StarCraft. During its first years, it developed successful titles of the likes of The Lost Vikings, and especially Warcraft. The video game development studio, Blizzard Entertainment, was founded back in 1991, although it wasn't known by that name until 1994.