Blizzard Entertainment are revisiting their 1998 megahit RTS StarCraft, and its expansion StarCraft: Brood War, releasing a new high-definition version dubbed StarCraft: Remastered. The announcement was made by Blizzard president Mike Morhaime in Seoul, South Korea this afternoon at the I <3 StarCraft fan event. Hit the jump to see it in all its glory.
The remastered edition of the game will pack in the entire campaign from the original game and the Brood War expansion, and updated multiplayer that supports 4K UHD resolution. The game will also feature remastered versions of its classic background music and rerecorded dialogue. Inter-mission briefings will also be getting a bit of a facelift.
In-game, players will now be able to zoom in and out from what Blizzard calls “a Battlecruiser’s view of the battlefield, or zoom in to see the veins on a Mutalisk’s wings.”
The multiplayer will be recieving all the modern conveniences — matchmaking, campaign cloud saves, the ability to rebind your hot keys, support for 13 different languages. Older features for custom maps and replays will be returning.
StarCraft: Remastered will land on Mac and Windows PC later this year, but while you wait why not replay the original? The second part to this story is that, as a part of this announcement, Blizzard are making the original, unaltered StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War (called StarCraft Anthology on the Blizzard website) free to download and play later this week with the launch of Version 1.18. The new patch will add key rebinds, an Observer mode, new anti-cheating services and numerous bug fixes.
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