Blessed new fashion do HD remasters of ancient classics from the world of video games. Blizzard announced at night, more or less by surprise, the remaster of the title that changed the RTS and created e-sports: StarCraft: Brood War.
Recently a few hours ago, a wave of happiness, excitement and hype whistling through social networks (twitter in particular). The reaction has been unanimous: a cry of screams and table aporreos, as if your team had scored one goal in a Barca-Madrid. Regardless of whether commenting organizations e-sports, progamers, youtubers, journalists and players. The reaction was always the same: “OMG YESSS“.
This Blizzard clasicazo was born in 1998, and completely changed the landscape of the RTS of the era and its future evolution. With a gameplay marked by the hectic, the existence of three races of different characteristics (a challenge for balance) and a story and universe detailed and absorbing, StarCraft: Brood War became at sport national official of South Corea.
It was precisely there, in that country and with this video game, where he was born the concept of e-sports 15 years ago. While in the rest of the world we lived outside this phenomenon in South Korea already held tournaments with a mass audience and a brutal staging, worthy of any current event of these competitions. So if thought that League of Legends was responsible for the bubble e-sports, gaming, twitch, were very wrong.
Returning to the ad, Blizzard announced officially that it will launch StarCraft: Remastered in the summer of this year. The game will be sold at a price yet to be determined. However, Blizzard will make that the original is available free of charge for everyone (Yes, even sold for a considerable price). That you would want to play a game of 19 years ago? Maybe because the company has informed us that what we do in the original has to remaster version (for example, saved progress in the campaign).
To lack of know how much aims to Blizzard charge for the game, the truth is that it presents an excellent opportunity to (re) discover and enjoy the RTS par excellence: HD graphics with resolutions up to 4 k, cinematic HD, new audio, features online (through Battle.net and with two alternatives: Classic matchmaking of the time or a League system) , etc. They will be introduced to a new patch: version 1.18.
And for those who fear for changes in the gameplay from the original version (typically the progamers South Koreans), know that nothing to worry there is. Has it been preserved in such a way that even the replays of the classic version will work on the remastered version.
Summer, summer. More deparas us?
