Tom breaks down the pros and cons of a faithful effort from Blizzard. If you’ve been curious about how StarCraft started (or just nostalgic for the original) now is the time to try it out. The good news is gameplay in this remaster is untouched, meaning at the press of the F5 button you can swap back seamlessly to the original game's 640x480 presentation. They’re sharper and more visually distinct, yes, but still recognizable as StarCraft and at home in the missions of the original game.
But the Protoss Reaper or the Terran Firebat have a good deal more detail without looking wildly different from the original models. The Ultralisk still looks like an Ultralisk. Looking at the various Terran, Zerg, and Protoss units you can immediately recognize them, even in their high-resolution versions. And I think we can say they’ve succeeded. One of the reasons to redesign the game’s look was to make it playable with more options - like varied resolution that let players actually see the original units - without making it a completely different game.
Notes A StarCraft II 'Classic' skin modeled after the StarCraft ultralisk is available for purchasing a BlizzCon 2019 physical or virtual ticket, and will be. Carrying over its kaiser blades was difficult, as it was difficult to gauge how sharp they were meant to be based on the original sprite.
They aren’t full fledged cinematics like we’d expect from a brand new game, but that’s because the whole point of this remaster was simply to improve the visual and audio aspects of the game while leaving the original gameplay intact. There are also a host of features bring Remastered into the modern era, like cloud saving and graphics resolution that goes up to 4k quality The ultralisk, along with every other unit, was visually upgraded in StarCraft: Remastered. The remastered game has upgrades to graphics, sound mixing and quality, and new Illustrated Interludes that turn some of the old text crawls from original flavor StarCraft into something more like a moving comic.
And the more involved answer is pretty much still that. If you’re wondering why should I get this the quick answer is because it’s StarCraft. If you’ve been waiting, wait no more: StarCraft Remastered is officially live and you can play it right now (as long as you have $14.99 to spare).