Starcraft

17th September 2013; Starcraft

In one of the earlier posts, I mentioned that I do play a little game called Starcraft. So here I am today, talking about it in a nutshell, and why I enjoy play this little game.

Blizzard, a video game company founded on February 8th 1991, is the producers of the many beloved franchises in the video game industry. One of which happens to be Starcraft. The first edition of Starcraft was released on March 31st 1998 and became a huge hit worldwide due to it competitive multiplayer structure and its is still as popular even now fifteen years later. But throughout the fifteen years, it has gone through much improvement on how it looks and plays and most importantly balancing gameplay so as to make the competitive component of the game a fair experience during the competitions.

The main gist of the game were split up into three major different aspects, the resource management, base construction and the exchange of battles with the army you’ve built up with your enemies. There were three different takes on the gameplay because of the different races that forms the world of Starcraft. The three main races are the humans, the bug aliens and lastly the futuristic robot like aliens. Namely the “Terran”, “Zerg” and the “Protoss” respectively.

Whenever I have any extra time to spare. I would head online, and have a game or two, just relax myself and escape from reality for that period of time. It acts as a form of rest from all the stress that we go through everyday, be it the stress from school, family or friends. Starcraft is also a game, where there is a vast growing community focused on the competitive side of things. Where they have teams like in football and they battle it out for supremacy. At times when I don’t get the luxury of time to play, I would watch a few games online just like people would watch tv dramas.

I find all these small little distraction in life to perhaps take a break from the stressful lives that we lead and get back up feeling slightly more refreshed and ready for a new challenge after. If you’re feeling stressed, why not give it a try? Maybe we could play a few games together?

Earned this today: Its one of my many ways of stress relieve, what’s yours?