STARCRAFT

          By Nathan O'Neill

             Starcraft and Starcraft 2 were originally the most popular E sport in south Korea before league of legends. Starcraft is an RTS(real time strategy) that has you play one of 3 races. You can play as the Terran's, a race of U.S southerners who ventured to the koprulu sector(The part of the galaxy that the series takes place in.) and are now ruled by their horrible emperor Arcturus Mengsk. this race use power suit wearing marines as their primary unit and a large amount of tanks and other mechs. The second race and my personal favorite is the Protoss, a  race of blue(and sometimes grey) skinned aliens who are much taller and more psionically powerful race who are very devout following of their religion and the worship of "The Kala". This race mostly use robots and Protoss warriors called zealots as their primary unit. These are only one part of their race though, as there are others known as the Nerazim who are outcasts among the Protoss for not wanting to follow the Kala. The last race are known as the Zerg and they are horrifying. The Zerg are a collection of alien races that have all been assimilated into the have mind and only have one goal  "Find, Consume, and Evolve". The Zerg are headed by a central overmind in the first starcraft and in the second *SPOILER ALERT* they are lead by Sarah kerrigan a former Terran who was assimilated into the zerg for her psionic pottential to command the zerg. The zerg have a large number and assortment of units, but the primary unit is the zergling.

                 Personally I love Starcraft 2 as an E-Sport and as a casual game, but it can be hard for some players to get into Starcraft 2 since there is such a high learning curb and the choice between 3 different races to play as even though you can switch and playing a race never binds you to that race. Visually the game is gorgeous and the story is incredible, but it is an incredibly stressful and difficult game. There are also a number of very cheap tactics such as cannon rushes and proxy bases/ barracks but if you are careful and deny any attempts than you will get many more victories and have a very fun time.

More information about  starcraft 2 can be found here: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/game/guide/whats-sc2



I'm sorry there isn't a zerg photo, but  Blogger likes to glitch out every time I try to put up a picture and gets worse the more I put.