StarCraft Multiplayer Strategies & Secrets [Paperback]

Bryant Fong (Author), Bob Colayco (Author)

Book Description

Series: Gx Gamers Extreme | Publication Date: February 1998

Considered by many to be the most anticipated real-time strategy game of the year, Starcraft from Blizzard Entertainment pits three races against each other in a baffle for galactic dominance. Blizzard is known for creating great games with long replay value.

Starcraft is the latest and greatest from Blizzard Entertainment, the hit-making game company that was responsible for Warcraft II and Diablo -- each of which sold more than a million units. Starcraft features the game engine of Warcraft II with many enhancements.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

StarCraft Multiplayer: Unofficial Strategies & Secrets focuses specifically on StarCraft's multiplayer mode instead of trying to cover every aspect and feature of the game. Penned by Gamers Extreme, a group of well-known hard-core game players (such as Dennis "Thresh" Fong, who cowrote the Sybex guide to Quake II), the book begins with a great introduction to Battle.net, Blizzard Entertainment's free online gaming service and the (primary) Internet home of StarCraft. The guide then moves on to the actual nitty-gritty of gameplay, highlighting basic tactics and in-depth, race-specific strategies that will help you win no matter what race you play as--or against. --Michael Ryan

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782122671
• ISBN-13: 978-0782122671
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,785,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am better player because of it!, best SC book, July 30, 1998

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This review is from: StarCraft Multiplayer Strategies & Secrets (Paperback)

I found this book helpfull for the campaigns, but it was the general strategies for every type of gameplay that helped me the most It has definetly improved my skill level. I would recommend it to the hard core StarCraft player.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good alternative to the "official strategy guide.", August 23, 1998

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This review is from: StarCraft Multiplayer Strategies & Secrets (Paperback)

The unofficial strategy guide to Starcraft is in my opinion an average guide to playing multyplayer games online. I havn't read the official one by Prima, but I have heard that this one is better. It has chapters devoted to each race and it lists the stats of each character, which is very helpful. The only problem I had was that the multyplayer map pictures were hand drawn and not the real computer generated maps. But besides that it was a pretty decent strategy guide, and it's cheaper than the official one.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY GOOD GUIDE IF..., May 17, 2000

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Jeff "Torlock" (Rolla, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: StarCraft Multiplayer Strategies & Secrets (Paperback)

I've had this book for several months. I read it in about two days. If you are a really good Starcraft player and have very good strategies (you can take on 4 comps or more) then this book won't help you. This book will help you, however, if you aren't that good. If it challenges you to take on two computers, this book will help you. I was already good at Starcraft before I got this book. The main thing I learned was about Zerg spells and variable fleats. This book has two main disadvantages: it does not include brood war units and it uses up too much space on unimportant information like unit and map properties. If you are very good at Starcraft, the best strategies you can get are from yourself. Hard core strategies can't be put on paper easily. One thing that I thought was very useless was the unit properties of all the Terran, Protoss and Zerg units. IF YOU ARE VERY GOOD, YOU DON'T NEED THIS BOOK! ...