One of the main factors responsible for StarCraft's positive reception is the attention paid to the three unique playable races, for each of which Blizzard developed completely different characteristics, graphics, backstories, and styles of gameplay, while keeping them balanced in performance against each other. The original StarCraft has sold over 10 million copies internationally since its release in 1998, and remains one of the most popular games in the world. In addition to these three, various non-playable races have also been part of the lore of the StarCraft series the most notable of these is the Xel'Naga, an ancient god-like race which features prominently in the fictional histories of the Protoss and Zerg. Each of these races is the focus of a series of missions in the single-player campaign of each StarCraft real-time strategy game. The playable species of StarCraft include the Terrans, humans exiled from Earth who excel at adapting to any situation the Zerg, a race of insectoid aliens obsessed with assimilating other races in pursuit of genetic perfection and the Protoss, a technologically advanced humanoid species with psionic abilities that attempts to preserve their civilization and strict philosophical way of living from the Zerg.

( April 2017)īlizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game series StarCraft revolves around interstellar affairs in a distant sector of the galaxy, with three species and multiple factions all vying for supremacy in the sector. Further details may exist on the talk page. Please expand the article to include this information. This article is missing information about the Hybrid.

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