Starcraft the start of Esports? David Lee-24/04/2014

Starcraft the start of E-sport?

What is star craft?

Star craft is a military science ficiton real time stratergy video game which was developed and publisehd by Blizzard Entertainment and was relased for Microsoft windows on March 31 1998. This real time stratergy game was a huge hit all around the world. It can be thought of as game that started a new era of gaming, this was the game that was responsible for creating the E sports industry. Starcraft can be thought of as mini war inside the compture.

 

 

 

 

 

Basically in the game there are 3 races



TERRAN

ZERG

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Each race is very unique in nature, the fighting units created by each races and the buidling built by each races are really unique comparatively.
Another point to look really close to is that these unique characteritic of the game also leads unique tatics, and along with tactics, the control of the
mouse and keyboard creates determines professional to amature and this causes differnce of play style between the players.

Starcraft the start of Esports

There are different perspectives opinion is choosing the game which started E-sports but i think the start is Starcraft.

1. It is chosen as the best realt time stratergy game of all time by IGN(Imagine games network)
2. Ranked as 37 as Edges best 100 games of all time
3. Popularity resulted in starcraft in guiness world record 4 times, largest income in professional gaming, Largest audience for professional gaming 120,000 audience in south korea busan Finally best selling stratergy game
4. Best selling stratergy games

NOT JUST THIS STARCRAFT HAS OVERALL ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGEST COMPUTER AND VIDOE GAME COMPETITION IN TERSM OF PRIZE MOENY OVER
$4,000,000 PRIZE MOENY AWARDED IN TOTAL


Game play of NADA top terran professional

In Next blog post i will talk more deeply about the competition and top players involved