What is Starcraft: Brood War?

StarCraft: Brood War is the expansion set of the RTS game StarCraft.

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Brood War, an expansion set for Blizzard’s hit real-time strategy game Starcraft, has finally arrived, and Mac gamers are sure to go berserk over its new army units and terrain types.

To play Brood War, you must already own Starcraft. As in the original, the objective is to build structures and command your army to victory, either in single-player mode or against up to seven other opponents on a LAN or over the Internet. Brood War adds two new unit types (more would have been appreciated) to the three different species — Terrans, Zerg, and Protoss — each with its own unique technologies, attributes, and abilities. There are entirely new campaigns for each race that pick up where the original Starcraft story left off, plus over 100 cool new multiplayer levels, providing hours of bloody — oh, so bloody — gameplay. Also, each week you can download new levels from Battle.net, Blizzard’s free site for multiplayer gaming The Scenario Editor allows you to create your own campaigns with objectives that players must achieve to be victorious, such as protecting a certain character unit and bringing him to a particular location.

Although the number of new units is limited, there are more than enough new campaigns, multiplayer levels, and battlefields to make Brood War truly a must-have for all hard-core Starcraft gamers.

Anderson, Peter. (November 1999). Starcraft: Brood War. MacAddict. (pg. 76).

Download Starcraft: Brood War for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.6 up to Mac OS 10.6

Compatibility notes

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

If you are running OSX and having trouble getting classic mode working these are the files you need to get it working. https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2467-mac-os-9-2-2-system-folders

 

If you use the OSX Installer included on this page it will allow you to install in OSX Natively. This will allow you to use the update files (also included) to update to v1.16.1 which among many bug fixes also allows you to copy the "Starcraft Archive" and "Brood War Archive" files from the discs into the "Starcraft Files" folder which will allow you to play the game without a disc mounted.

OSX_Installer NOTE: When using the OSX installer choosing to install Brood War actually installs both the Base Game and Brood War.

Update NOTE: You do not need both update folders. "StarCraft v1161 OSX" is used just for the BASE GAME. If you installed Brood War then you will only need "Brood War v1161 OSX"

Online Play NOTE: Unfortunately you can not connect to Battle.net using v1.16.1 Since Blizzard released "Starcraft Anthology" they have patched to v1.18 which can only be installed via the "Starcraft Anthology" Installer which I'm pretty sure will only work with intel based macs.

CD KEY NOTE: You can find one easily on google, and since you can't play online anyway you won't have to worry about someone else using it.

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver