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In Korea, it always lagged far behind its predecessor in terms of popularity, and in Europe and North America, a lot of key community figures were unabashed in their nostalgia for the earlier game.

StarCraft 2 never quite succeeded in replacing Brood War.

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Pro players who 'retired' from StarCraft 2 have started coming out of retirement to compete in Brood War tournaments, returning to the game that made their reputations and built Korea's unmatched eSports infrastructure. In Korea, Brood War has been enjoying something of a resurgence. It's unclear what this will mean for the future of competitive StarCraft.

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It should be a nice upgrade from StarCraft's galleries of talking heads arguing with each other from inside tiny TV windows. StarCraft: Remastered will part ways with the original inВ campaign presentation, with comicВ book interludes between missions over (presumably) the same briefing dialogue. Blizzard's Robert Bridenbecker and Pete Stilwell explained to Team Liquid thatВ in almost every respect that Brood War fans care about, StarCraft: Remastered will be the same as Brood War, as it's the same client powering each version.ДЄrt and screenshots courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment It's not something that you could easily re-create in StarCraft 2 with a few changes to pathfinding behavior, especially if the goal was 1:1 fidelity between Brood War and a modern update.Д«lizzard seems to have agreed, and so StarCraft: Remastered was built on top of Brood War, with fresh 2D art for modern displays, but with all the limitations and quirks that were baked into Brood War from the start. Units rotate, and as they do, they change their shape and their spatial relationship with the squares that they are trying to fit into.ДЄnd StarCraft only worked that way because of the way Blizzard evolved StarCraft out of the Warcraft engine. The marine is tiny, while zerglings double in length as they run, their stride stretches them as their legs first expand outward and then contract back inward. So while a Dragoon is a square that expands and contracts as the legs move, the Vulture is a tight rectangle that doesn't change in size or shape. Each unit in Broodwar has a different size, a different shape, and a different orientation.

This is the where a large majority ofВ unit glitches come from in Broodwar, but it is also where the micro potential comes from as well.

The piece lays out how the cobbled-together StarCraft engine generated such classic gameplay because of its awkward compromises between a flat 2D engine and the forced isometric perspective it presents to the player.

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The best explanation of the difference between the two games-indeed, one of the best essays on a strategy series I've ever read-came from 'Thieving Magpie' over at the Team Liquid forums. The problem, however, is that StarCraft 2 was a 3D game with completely different movement mechanics and pathing, and it was never clear that anyone could faithfully re-create Brood War inside of that engine. StarCraft 2 preserved a lot of the original game's aesthetic, and would have seemed like a natural foundation for a rebuilt Brood War. While ' Brood War HD'В was one of those projects that's been rumored for ages, it was never clear what form it would or should take.

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