StarCraft: Brood War is the official expansion pack for StarCraft. Though pre-dated by StarCraft: Insurrection and StarCraft: Retribution, it is the only StarCraft expansion created by Blizzard Entertainment, and co-developed by Saffire Corporation. The game was released in 1998 and continues the story of the original StarCraft.

Brood War keeps the core gameplay of StarCraft intact, and adds a number of new units and abilities for all three factions. The expansion's story starts where StarCraft ended: The Overmind has been destroyed, but the Protoss's homeworld of Aiur has been devastated. The Terran Confederacy is gone, only to be replaced by the new Terran Dominion. Sarah Kerrigan, now free from the Overmind's control, has her own plans, and in addition to that, an entirely new threat looms on the horizon.

Brood War was critically well received, with reviewers praising it for being developed with the care of a full game rather than as an uninspired extra. The game is especially popular in South Korea, where professional players and teams participated in matches, earned sponsorships, and competed in televised matches.

In April of 2017, StarCraft and its Brood War expansion are free to download and play from Blizzard's website. A remastered edition of StarCraft and Brood War was released in August that year.

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