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Low Price Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board
So, after 5 days playing and getting exercises with my Wii Fit Plus (from now on WFP), I think I am ready to write a review, I will try to make it short but useful as possible. (English is not my native language, you will notice immediately).
First, about me:
I do not go to the gym (have tried but don't get used to), nor do exercises, or run... but I do move around a lot because of my job, I work on the field, so I have to walk a lot, also I do eat consciously, from December 2008 to nowadays I have lost 15 lbs and was decided to not go back.
So I was looking at Wii Fit this summer, and knew about WFP and decided to wait. Meanwhile, I was on the blogs, the forums, online videos, about people experience about this game, and I wanted to get fit and have fun.
Then, I got WFP:
I explored the games, the routines, I was doing my daily body tests, I am true about this and I want to get fit. At the end of the second day with WFP, I felt the lack of exercises in my body, for example the Rhythm Kung Fu, some think this mini game is lame, but my biceps were hurting, probably because of the fast move of the arms forward. The Jack-knife made my abs to shake, I was amazed about how weak I was, when I try to hold a pose and start shaking after 10 seconds, I struggle to keep the poses because I know it is working out my body; I feel it, a start to a better life, so, if you are true about this game, pardon, "Investment", you will feel the work out.
Game play review:
The game fits my needs; I have a wide variety of choosing how and where I want to work out. Example I can choose a category of exercises to work my arms, abs, legs, etc. Also I can combine those to avoid interruption, and the best of all for me, I can select how long I want to work out, 10 minutes, 15, 30... and the game will arrange the exercises to fit that time, in any of Yoga, Yoga & Strength, or Strength only category, and as you do the poses, the game will put a checkmark on it and continue, so you will "carpe diem" that time as much as possible.
About the balance board:
I notice immediately something was not right about my weight according to WFP, so I compared my weight on the balance board to a professional scale (you know, like one of those the doctors have on their office), the scale is calibrated correctly, 1 litter of water is exactly 1 kg, since the weight I get from the pro scale is as I am, with my cloths on (unless I want to weight without cloths, then I will have to weight without cloths on the balance board, that would be the more accurate weight of your body), I chose a cero lb discount (the part where I am asked to select the weight of my cloths), and I did the numbers, and found out and offset of 3 pounds, exactly 3 pounds, my balance board is measuring 3 pounds lower than real weight, and I use the balance board on hard floor, so I do not need the leg extensions.
Other than that, it is very sensitive and does the job... oh! by the way, you will need a yoga mat if you work on hard floor, as some poses requires you to bend on your knees, and if your hands are sweating, or your feet, you will slide off, so get a yoga mat for extra grip and soften bones/floor contact.
So, that's it, my final review, invest on WFP, do not get it just for the games, they do work you out, but I think this game is targeted to do the fit exercises (Yoga and Strength), after your routine, play some mini games to "carpe diem" your daily use of WFP, as those counts too towards your kcal goal (or Cal, with capital C) and time spent.Get more detail about Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board.
Save Limited-Edition Wii Sports Resort Bundle with Two Wii MotionPlus
Wii Sports Resort is a great cold-weather activity for my kids, and you can't beat the value for this bundle with two Wii MotionPlus adapters. If you value each MotionPlus at $20, then you get the Sports Resort game for only $17! We use this game almost every night for our 2 girls, age 7 and 4-1/2, to get them up off the couch and moving around after dinner, rather than just watching TV.
My 4-1/2 year old loves Wakeboarding the most, because she was able to figure out how to do very high jumps pretty quickly. She also likes skydiving, flying around in a plane, and dog frisbee. My 7-year-old likes many of the sports, but her particular favorites are swordfighting, archery, and frisbee golf. I'd buy the game just for frisbee golf, actually. My 7-year-old is surprisingly competitive in frisbee golf against me and my father, because you don't have to hit a small target - you just have to throw the frisbee within a yard of the hole to get it in. Many of the games are loads of fun for my girls to compete against each other, against their friends, or against me and my wife.
Also, even though many of the games are somewhat simplistic, we get lots of repeated play by seeing which of us has the high-score crown at any time. The game awards a high score crown for every sport, and at every difficulty level, so each of my girls can have multiple high scores simultaneously. Whenever any of them gets a new crown, they even make me take a picture of them standing next to the crown. You also get various awards (stamps) for accomplishing certain things, like becoming a pro or passing the 10th or 20th swordfighting level, which gives the girls something to shoot for after they master the basic game controls.
This game has continued to be played almost every day in our house since it was released in July, and the girls have not gotten bored of it yet. With the addition of the two MotionPlus adapters, I recommend that every Wii owner purchase this bundle!Get more detail about Limited-Edition Wii Sports Resort Bundle with Two Wii MotionPlus.
Discount PlayStation 3 Dualshock 3 Wireless Controller
I love the color red that SONY has put on this controller, however, it fells a lettel bit heaver than the controller that came with my SONY PLAYSTATION 3 80GB, which is good. So, I would recommend this controller to any one that is looking for a new controller for there system, or that they are purchasing this controller to have a second person to play head to head on most games.Get more detail about PlayStation 3 Dualshock 3 Wireless Controller.
Cheapest PlayStation 3 120 GB
Perfect time to own a PS3. This is so much more convenient that the previous version, basically no downsides at all other than lack of backwards compatibility. Get more detail about PlayStation 3 120 GB.
Cheap Wii MotionPlus
I purchased the motion sensor for my second remote along with the Wii Sports Resort Game. I love the game and I think the motion sensor does make the remote more sensitive. This is a great feature, but I realized the original remotes gave me a false sense of the ability to win :-) I totally recommend it.Get more detail about Wii MotionPlus.
Buying Wii Nunchuk Controller
When I first got a Wii people told me that I wouldn't need 2 nunchucks because they hardly ever used them but I quickly found that if you want to do boxing 2-player or play really fun games, like lego indiana jones, or lego batman, you need at least 2 nunchuks. They are def worth the buy!Get more detail about Wii Nunchuk Controller.
Buy Wii Remote Controller
As a original component for Wii, that is surely the best option, for Wii players.Get more detail about Wii Remote Controller.
Purchase Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Played this game nonstop for 12 hours straight. Very fun and the graphics are amazing. Must have!!!Get more detail about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
Order Wii Fit Plus
When the original Wii Fit was released, I found it to be enjoyable and good for light exercise, but I thought there were some obvious--and seemingly simple to add--features missing. Most notably, I wanted to be able to customize a workout without having to select exercises one at a time. My primary interest in Wii Fit Plus was therefore due to the customizable workouts.
As others have mentioned, there are 15 new games/exercises that are grouped under a new category called "Training Plus". I have found them to be pretty good overall; some are fun, some are good exercise, some are both (I especially like the Obstacle Course and Island Cycling). There are three new Yoga exercises and three new Strength exercises; honestly I haven't even looked at them since they were not a strong selling point for me.
There is a "locker room" available in which you can choose pre-programmed routines, which are generally three exercises of a 6-8 minute duration in all that are targeted towards a specific goal (Warm Up, Relaxation, Hips, Arms, etc.). These can be combined but not further customized.
You can create your own routine under "My Routine" within the locker room as well, and as that was my primary interest, I will elaborate. You can choose any combination of strength and yoga exercises; the total minutes will be calculated for you. Once you begin the routine, the Wii will automatically cycle you through your exercises one after another. This can reduce the total time spent dramatically; for example, suppose you want to follow the Push Up/Side Plank with the Jackknife. Before, you'd finish the first exercise, grab the remote and press A several times while getting your score, ranking, feedback, encouragement, etc., etc. Then you'd select the other exercise, get out of the floor and stand on the board for a few seconds, and then get back down in the floor. Now, you just wait in the floor while the second exercise loads. MUCH faster, and with enough exercises in a row you actually can feel like it's a real workout. I would estimate that doing 30 minutes of activity now takes 5-10 minutes less of actual elapsed time.
However, there are still some obvious flaws with the new implementation. First, you can only select strength and yoga exercises; no balance games, no aerobics, none of the 15 new Training Plus modules. Second, you can only have one exercise routine per Mii. If you want an upper body workout and a lower body workout separately, you're out of luck. Finally, you are defaulted to the minimum number of reps, and you can't change that. If you select Jackknife, you're doing 10. Ditto for lunges. Push Ups? You'll do 6. I can't imagine that it would have taken much effort to allow that extra level of customization.
I like the Wii Fit Plus overall, and I think it was worthwhile. But, the fifth star would've been so easy to earn from me, and it came up short. Get more detail about Wii Fit Plus.
Where To Buy Halo 3: ODST
This is a good expansion pak but like many reviews it's not worth the price it is. it should have been a downloadable content game like gta4. the new visr mode is cool but if master chief's suit was more advanced than the odst's why didn't he have it. instead he's got an ancient flashlight i thought they were five hundred years in the future. but it's also good to have light.
The new fire fight is cool i guess bungie added that to make up for the price.
One thing i found very annoying was the fact that i purchased the map packs on xbox live and this odst game includes them.
The campaign is worth playing.Get more detail about Halo 3: ODST.
Shop For Wii
Let me start this off by saying I've always been a fan of Nintendo. I grew up playing the original NES, loved the SNES, had over 20 games for N64...and then Nintendo started to be a let down with the Gamecube. Yes the gamecube had some quality titles, but were the handful enough to justify owning the system? Not for me. When the Wii came out I was VERY skeptical and had a feeling I'd end of passing it up. Well after some more consideration I thought it might be something fun for me and my wife to play (before I sound too old here, note I'm in my 20's). After weeks of searching hard to track down the Wii I finally managed to buy one.
The system started out fun, I enjoyed playing Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros, etc. Basically the system had those typical quality first part Nintendo titles. Flash forward and Mario Kart was released and was definitely interesting to play, though personally I preferred the control precision offered with an analog stick and not the wheel. After about 6 months more of the system sitting around collecting dust I kept searching and searching for quality Wii games...they were no where to be found. Yes the system has some great titles, but once again just a small handful like the gamecube did. It seems 96% of what's released on the system are poorly thrown together mini games that score 4.0-6.0 ratings and just flat out suck. I can't tell you how many times I stopped to look at the Wii games in Electronics only to be disappointed time after time with what's available. Overall Nintendo is *STILL* lacking quality third party titles.
Graphics completely aside, all this time while the Wii was sitting I was getting tons of use out of the PS3 with many great titles. To me the Wii isn't quite the bargain everyone makes it out to be. Just because the initial system purchase seems small does *NOT* mean the overall cost of ownership is. I spent just as much money on the Wii as I did my PS3 once you factor in grabbing a couple controllers / other shells needed for games. That is the whole point of the system right...to play with other people and have fun? Nintendo makes a KILLING on remotes for this thing. Sure..$199 for the system with the price drop, plus $40 for another WiiMote + 20 dollars for another Nunchuck...oh but wait now there's "Wii motion plus" ok another 20 dollars for each controller you own. These costs add up very fast.
Nintendo also seems to enjoy crippling their own services. So they offer all those games via the Wii Shopping channel, the games that you can only put on a 512mb internal storage or 2gb SD card...are you kidding? In the day in age where you can get 8gb flash drives for $29, 4gb microsd cards the size of your pinky for $13...I think Nintendo could of offered a better means of giving us storage for the games. Personally to me, the Wii is NOT worth the $250 it was launched for and still isn't worth the $199 it's now selling for. When you look at what the console is capable of doing in comparison to it's competition it's nowhere even close and I don't mean just graphically. Both the 360 and the PS3 offer tremendously more features. Yes the Wii has the motion sensing controller but it seems very few developers make good use of it and even the games that do make interesting use of it..you still lose precision more often than not over a standard (and much more comfortable to hold for long gaming sessions) controller.
It also really annoys me that other than the games running at a max of 480p resolution, Nintendo offers no means of improving what old titles look like. Both the 360 and PS3 offer smoothing effects and also use anti aliasing to clean up the older titles and make them a lot clearer / more vivid. It amazes me that even the most poorly written emulators on the PC (sorry not illegal when I own the old systems / games) offer screen smoothing, anti aliasing, etc to make the games look SO much better, yet Nintendo doesn't do this!
I realize hardware isn't everything, but it is nice to feel immersed in a game with gorgeous graphics and detailed sound. Yes the Wii is selling good, it seems quite popular among families, that's great. For myself, I sold it and recently bought the Holiday Bundle Xbox 360 elite. It's already got more playtime than my Wii had in a year of owning it...sorry Nintendo but this was my last let down system from you! Get more detail about Wii.
Spore Galactic Adventures
Spore Galactic Adventures
Binding : DVD-ROM
ProductGroup : Video Games
Manufacturer : Electronic Arts
Brand : Electronic Arts
Label : Electronic Arts
Publisher : Electronic Arts
Model : 014633153545
Platform : Mac OS X
Studio : Electronic Arts
ReleaseDate : 2009-06-23
Lowest New Price: USD $23.11
- Terraform planets and for the first time place buildings, creatures, vehicles.
- Play Maxis-created missions all over the galaxy, featuring puzzle, combative, racing, and social gameplay styles.
- Level up your space captain and ans be rewarded by earning more than 30 powerful new accessories including Energy Blade, Acrobat Dance, Hover, Stunning Charm, Jump Jet.
- Create your own missions with the all-new Adventure Creator and then share then online.
- Play and rank an endless supply of adventures when you join the vibrant SPORE community.
Beam Down to New Adventures. In Spore, you evolved your creature from tidepool blob to galactic traveler. For the first time ever, get out of your starship, bring your closest allies with you, and explore all-new adventure-packed worlds. Complete quests, collect the rewards, then create and share your own missions.
Amazon.com Product Description
SPORE Galactic Adventures is the first SPORE level expansion pack*. Through it PC gamers will experience deeper space stage gameplay than ever before. For the first time, players' spacefaring creatures will be able to explore new planets and earn rewards for completing challenging missions. This add-on allows players to beam down to planets, play mission-based adventures and even create their own customized adventures for the first time.
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Don't bother... (2009-07-01)
First, no good content and won't be for a while. Wait till price drop.
Second, requires DVD in drive to start, contrary to what the original Spore DRM hooplah was supposed to be a feature with... now you have the DRM from Spore AND have to load the DVD anyways.
New Icon to use for the expansion, that looks retarded, (stupid thing to ding, but I don't want two launchers for one game anyways.) Spore icon doesn't load GA content.
Final thoughts,
A for effort, D for execution. Not integrating it with Spore directly and requiring the DVD in the drive breaks the Spore experience into two groups... those with DRM but no DVD switching to play, and those with DRM and thier DVD required to be on hand to play. If I could return it I would. I tend to shelve games that ask me for the DVD every time I want to play them and requiring the DVD in the drive defeats the casual "turn it on and play for a bit dynamic that I liked." I suppose I could have bought it from a digital download source, but oh well. You can't, like all Spore products, it seems, register it on the EA Download manager, so if you buy the disc you better not loose it or your keys because you have NO way of replacing them if you do. Why require install of the EA download Manager if you can't even use it with Spore? (probably for EA to advertise more games on your computer.) Anyways, Spore's a great game... go buy that and creepy and cute, and if you don;t mind having to have two separate icons for Spore and having the DVD in to play it, then I guess you can get this. Otherwise... don't bother.
Another Love By My Kids... (2009-06-30)
My girls love Spore so I got them the Creepy and Cute and this expansion pack when it came out and they love all of them. Didn't want to waste the money on this game, as I feel it's a rip off for a PC game. But they earned it and it's on their PC not mine. So they give it 5 stars and say it's totally awesome!
Spore is an adventure (2009-06-29)
Game is good, but you have to insert the disk to play it the game every time. That's basically my issue. Other than that, it's almost like the original Spore, except that the Space stage is enhanced to do "beam down" missions, new space gear, and making and playing adventures is a challenge and I like a good challenge.
The Creature stage meets the Space stage. (2009-06-29)
That sums it up for you.
Ill get it out of the way and say YES this does, no surprise, have DRM but i bought this to support maxis, not EA.
If your not happy with working to get your game to work then stop reading and remove this from your cart. First it updates to v1.04, which i couldn't start because of a run time error. That was fixed when i found a fix on the forums though. Then it wanted my DVD or it would not start, I have no idea why though. I put it in ther,e fiddled with some stuff and finally by the grace of God it started.
On to the game itself. The mission creating is fairly powerful, and yes you can make some really neat stuff. Then again all of spores user created content has great editors. Getting a basic mission working is easy. However making it actually good takes time. Settings unit paths, placing trees and objects is all done one at a time.
Should you wish to play some maxis created levels, most require you to use one of their characters and nothing else. Now it does suck but they want the match to be fair and challenging.
If you want to play a Community created level (which so far they suck, but a good one will take time) dont get used to the luxury of dragging them from the website to your folder (if you do that). You MUST go through GA to do this.
One last thing i must mention is this uses a different file to start with. If you start from your basic spore.exe and dont see anything, there is another icon you should use.
Overall Good expansion with DRM and terrible problems.
Looks Great! Actually working, problem. (2009-06-29)
I saw that a new SPORE expansion, Spore Galactic Adventures was coming out in january. I was so excited, I checked the news on this game a lot and then they postponed it two more months. I was disappointed but I was still excited. Then, they postponed it again! Another month! I couldn't believe it! But I actually still checked the news a lot. Then it finally came out and I got it three days after the release date! I was so excited and happy it finally came! Then I put it in my Mac and I figured out how to install it and it installed. Then I opened Galactic Adventures and it came up with a error message and I clicked yes to debug it. I tried again, the same thing. I tried clicking no, the same thing. I kept contacting EA support and I probably spent four hours in all trying to get it to work. But it never did! I was so disappointed I thought to myself, "This game, it looks great and fun, then it doesn't work!" I couldn't believe it! All that waiting and news checking and this is what I get! Come on.
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World of Warcraft Battle Chest
World of Warcraft Battle Chest
Binding : DVD-ROM
ProductGroup : Video Games
Manufacturer : Blizzard Entertainment
Brand : Blizzard Entertainment
Label : Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher : Blizzard Entertainment
Model : 020626726191
Platform : Windows
Studio : Blizzard Entertainment
ReleaseDate : 2007-10-02
Lowest Used Price: USD $5.99
Lowest New Price: USD $35.99
- Includes both the World of Warcraft base sku and the Burning Crusade expansion pack
- Official Battle Chest strategy guides: one for Burning Crusade and one for World of Warcraft
- Game manuals
- WOW guest pass (14-day trial)
- Blizzard catalog included
Experience the World of Warcraft! World of Warcraft is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. Being "Massively Multiplayer," World of Warcraft allows thousands of players to interact within the same world. Whether adventuring together or fighting against each other in epic battles, players will form friendships, forge alliances, and compete with enemies for power and glory. And now, World of Warcraft and its Expansion Pack "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" are combined in one package with additional items!
Love it (2009-06-09)
It's a great game, it has amazing detail and scenery, tons of different things to do, very customizable characters, i play this game every day and it never gets hold. its a great game if you have the money, as it is somewhat spendy, but well worth it in my opinion if you like rpg's you will fall in love with World of Warcraft. The Burning Crusade expansion adds tons of extras to the game as well. Definitely a great buy
Good fun but I've been playing other games too... (2009-06-09)
The only problem with the very fun 'WoW' is the magnificent addiction called ES IV:Oblivion, there could be only one I guess and I'm kinda stuck on Oblivion. Oh and there's my school work too but both games are entertaining; however, I was not prepared for the engaging nature of ES IV.
pagan and... (2009-06-02)
Not only is this "game" PAGAN (!!!) like all fantasies, but it is also SATANIC (BAPHOMET Belt Buckle Satan), and teaches children to disrespect and disregard JESUS and his MIRACLES. According to my stepdaughter, the game lets players use a MAGICK SPELL (!!) that lets them WALK ON WATER just like the LORD!!! This is the ultimate in blasphemy. How is a CHILD supposed to understand the PROFOUNDNESS of the LORD's MIRACLES if HE can just log onto the interwebs and do those same MIRACLES himself?!?! The game maker's anti-family LIBERAL bias is proved also, by the fact that now they have made my 16 years old stepdaughter rebelious and forced her to DISRESPECT me after I took this "game" away from her for it being ungodly. Children are not supposed to think for themselves. WHAT ABOUT JESUS?!?!? This is inducitive of all of LIBERAL culture, trying to make Children independent thinkers. AMERICA dosent need "critical" thinkers, because all they do is criticise GOD. I'll bet obama lets his children play this trash. The game makers blatent SATANISM is evident in the name of their company. Blizzard Entertainment? The Norsemen belived that HELL was cold. Need I say any more?
Great Value & an Excellent Game! (2009-05-25)
This game is great. However, this particular item will only allow you to level up to 70. You will need to get the new expansion: Wrath of The Lich King in order to get all the way to level 80 and to be able to unlock the Death Knight Class. Also, the game can be very complicated. Learning and reading guides for it will help allot and you will enjoy the game more with your success. [â¦]
Addictive (2009-05-24)
Totally addictive game. Great gift for someone you know who has A LOT of free time on their hands. Because having this game means you won't be seen socially for awhile.
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Warcraft III Battle Chest
Warcraft III Battle Chest
Binding : CD-ROM
ProductGroup : Video Games
Manufacturer : Blizzard Entertainment
Brand : Blizzard Entertainment
Label : Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher : Blizzard Entertainment
Model : 020626720892
Platform : Macintosh
Studio : Blizzard Entertainment
ReleaseDate : 2003-09-19
Lowest Used Price: USD $20.00
Lowest New Price: USD $30.00
- In the original Warcraft III, the Orcs have formed a deadly army called the Burning Legion. They threaten all of Azeroth -- use this new danger to form a power base for your nation
- Side with the Orcs, Humans, Undead or Night Elves and fight for dominance in a fully-interactive 3D world
- Create legenedary heroes that will complete quests and acquire items that advance your army
- In Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne, a new threat called the Lich King has come to Azeroth. Take up arms and rush to battle yet one more time!
- Expansion features all-new units, player-built shops & buildings, and powerful new magic abilities
With the Warcraft III Battle Chest, you'll experience the aventure of a lifetime, as you defend the world of Azeroth from the demonic dark forces that threaten it! This game bundle features Warcraft III, the Frozen Throne expansion, and strategy guides for both. Also includes two official strategy guides from Brady Games to aid you in your quest
One of the best ever (2009-06-17)
One of the best real-time strategy games ever! The free Defense of the Ancients (search the web for DotA-Allstars) mod also enables many additional hours of online fun.
Great Great Great (2009-05-16)
This game is by far one of the best PC games I have ever played.
Warcraft 3 (2009-05-16)
It was a great game when I originally got it about over 5 years ago, and its still a very awesome game. The story mode and online play are great!
Classic (2009-05-14)
Even though this game is a few years old, I still found it incredibly enjoyable. The replay values is also amazing, especially if you have friends that play on battle.net. One of the best creations for WC3's longevity is DOTA. Once you start playing that, you are hooked. Great game!
A Big Disappointment (2009-05-07)
A couple things to note:
1) There's no support for widescreen play... All the characters are squished on my laptop and even cartoonier than intended.
2) There are harsh and constant limits on unit production... So my fond memories of attacking the enemy with massive armadas are but memories.
3) Because of that, the gameplay really depends on leveling and managing one or two hero characters. Micro-managing single characters is not why I came to this game.
Conclusion: I got this game hoping to resurrect the fun of WC I&II and Starcraft that I played in college... No such luck. I would be better off with Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it.
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StarCraft Battle Chest
StarCraft Battle Chest
Binding : CD-ROM
ProductGroup : Video Games
Manufacturer : Blizzard Entertainment
Brand : Blizzard Entertainment
Label : Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher : Blizzard Entertainment
Model : 4297
Platform : Windows
Studio : Blizzard Entertainment
ReleaseDate : 1999-10-24
Lowest Used Price: USD $13.50
Lowest New Price: USD $17.99
- This includes the hit StarCraft, the incredible StarCraft - Brood War, and two official strategy guides, for hours & hours of space-based action and combat
- Play through 56 mission in 6 unique campaigns, to decide the fate of the galaxy
- Over 175 player maps over a wide variety of battlefields
- Play multiplayer battles over battle.net
- Battle for control of the galaxy with the StarCraft Battle Chest!
The StarCraft Battle Chest is an incredible package of the great StarCraft games, on one DVD!
Amazon.com Review
The full versions of StarCraft and the acclaimed expansion pack Brood War, as well as complete strategy guides for each, make StarCraft: Battle Chest a treasure chest for real-time strategy fans.
Instead of two similarly powered enemies facing off, the three distinct races in StarCraft have unique capabilities and strategies. Everyone still competes in the RTS genre's typical race for resources, but that's the only shared trait. Terrans can move their bulky mechanized bases as necessary, while the reptilian Zerg grow their colonies and warriors from mutating larvae. Meanwhile, the noble Protoss warp in equipment from their home world using psionic powers.
Not only does game maker Blizzard juggle the races' playability and match it with superb art and sound effects, it also weaves together an engrossing three-act plot. Early on, as a Terran magistrate, you spend a breathtaking 30 minutes defending against a Zerg onslaught. As the story unfolds around you, you'll experience the Zerg's hive mentality and decipher the mysterious Protoss by the game's dramatic conclusion.
Missions vary in scope and are effectively framed with dialogue, chapter screens, and in-mission exposition. Multiplayer games are also very well represented by Blizzard's own free Battle.net service. If you'd rather play over a local area network, StarCraft will generously "spawn" up to seven copies so your friends can join in.
In keeping with StarCraft's groundbreaking design, Brood War presents you with three sides of a galactic conflict. Scheming humans, insidious Zerg, and proud Protoss collide again, with stunning new cinematics setting the stage. Old friends and foes and ominous new arrivals give the story a breakneck pace, while a handful of additions to each race's arsenal makes for tense battles. Brood War also features stellar new environments and ambient art, as well as more than 100 additional multiplayer maps.
Some missions require a bit of finesse, breaking the resource-gathering routine while making good use of the new units. Humans now have Valkyrie missile frigates as well as medics who automatically try to heal your grunts. New for the Zerg air force is the acid-spewing Devourer; the new Lurker unit provides heavy-duty (under)ground support. Along with the Corsair fighter, the Protoss reenter the fray with Dark Templar, which can merge to form the devastating Dark Archon. Unfortunately, units old and new still suffer from weak artificial intelligence in path finding.
Real-time strategy games don't get any more epic or any more satisfying. --Jack Gardiner
Amazon.com Product Description
This package includes both Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood Wars plus Prima Publishing's Official Strategy Guides, which offer you strategies, statistics, and details about new worlds to give you the upper hand in gaining control over the galaxy's resources.
Old favorite (2009-06-07)
I had this game a few years ago and I played it all the time. I had lost it at some point and thought it would be fun the play again. It doesn't seem as fun now though. It still has a fun story line, but the fact that you can't change the resolution dulls the quality of game play down quite a bit.
Great Game! (2009-06-05)
This is a fantastic game, I have never played a RTS game before this and I was hooked instantly, gameplay is smooth with no choppiness whatsoever and it can be very challenging. Buy it, you will not be disappointed!
A fun RETRO game (2009-05-17)
This is a retro game - no way around it.
However, I actually enjoy retro games. I actually just got done playing Another World and Fallout 1 & 2 on my laptop.
Having been playing alot of Desktop Tower Defense games lately, I thought I would upgrade to a true RTS game. Starcraft kept coming up high on everyone's favorite list, so I thought I'd give it a try.
The Good:
- This really is a fun game. I'm only on level 9 (out of 30) on the original, but it's fun. Level 8 took me about 4 hrs to finally beat. But some of this is because there's no instructions in the game (see The Bad). After reading the strategy guide for the level I finally figured out what I needed to do. However, I had fun playing the whole time without getting discouraged.
- The graphics aren't all that bad. I was expecting much worse. Though they're not bad, they're not great either. About the same as Fallout 1. I am surprised they haven't been improved by a patch.
- No Easy/Medium/Hard setting. I actually prefer to NOT have an Easy/Medium/Hard setting. On some games my first instinct is to pick Medium, but then I will often get stuck or find it's too easy. And then I wish I had picked something different. This game, you have to really be strategic. Some levels may be too easy and some may be pretty darn hard. If they're hard simply refer to the guide. Which brings up another point. you don't have to keep playing a level until you demolish the CPU. You just need to win. I tried out Middle Earth RTS and your people carry over. I got a few levels in and couldn't beat the level. After hitting a forum, I found out it's impossible to win if you didn't max out your army from the previous levels.
The Bad:
- Video. I run this on my laptop and the screen turns black and the game starts in the upper left part of the window consuming only about 25% of my widescreen laptop. The rest of the screen is black. It's pefectly playable, but awefully small. However, I noticed that when I put my laptop in my docking station connected to an external monitor it goes full-screen. Of course full-screen on a 24" widescreen monitor is not good for this game either. No amount of tweaking to the shortcut seemed to help. The only option is to change the desktop resolution to 800x600 before starting the game which is a major pain. Some Googling and it seems most everyone with a widescreen laptop experiences this. They all refer to a freeware download that let's you run Starcraft in a window. This actually works VERY nice, and was surprised at how much I liked it compared to the smaller screen in the upper left. However, there's comments from some users that after using the program, some people have been banned from Battle.Net since it saw they were using a 3rd party program with Starcraft. I'm not interested in playing SC on Battle.net so that's not a huge deal for me. But really, if you're going to actively sell a game at the game shops, you would think this would be fixed by Blizzard. It's one thing if I found this at a used/discount store, but I didn't. Also, I'm surprised Blizzard hasn't released a patch to smooth out the graphics a bit. It's not horrible, but it's hard to imagine that it would be too hard to fix it up a little better with a patch. Many other games have patches that improve the graphics. Doom, Quake to name a couple.
- No instructions. Really. No instructions. The strategy guide helps, and the first levels help give you a feel for the game, but really? No instructions? This is part of what hurt me on level 8. I wanted to beat it without having to read the strategy guide. In the end, the guide told me what units I should have before I attack, and some of them I had never used, let alone knew HOW to use.
End rating: 4 stars. I'm having fun, and that's what counts for a retro game. Minus 1 star since I have to use 3rd party freeware to get it to run in a window or proportioned correctly on my laptop.
The best game of its time, now a classic (2009-04-10)
When reviewing this product, I must put it into perspective for the time of my review. Starcraft came out in 1998, some 11 years ago now. When it was released, it was a huge hit and won PC game of the year. Now that computers are much faster and graphics have improved, the game can seem a bit out dated to players who have never played it before. For us gamers who remember it from the glory days, we can play it again and still enjoy it, but if your looking for a new game to try, this might be the wrong one for you. Having said that, Korea still has T.V. channels devoted to this game and it is still widely played there.
Starcraft is a futuristic real-time strategy game (that means that you are looking down on units that are under your control). There are three races: Protoss are super-advanced aliens that use incredible technologies and strange energies. Zerg are a primitive dinosaur-like species that use beasts and fleshy creatures. Terran are the human race of the future using technology to aid our fighters in battle. The three races are well balanced and very unique, giving the game excellent replay ability. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
sheer pleasure (2009-04-05)
this is the fourth time i have bought this product...
between my grandson and three other computers...
i have been playing this game since it came out..
i am waiting for the new starcraft 2 to come out..
and it looks like it's going to be better... but this one i have enjoyed for many year along with other players online for along time...
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