This is a great game to play real time strategy and has an amazing video definition

This is a really superb strategy game. However, it does contain relatively graphic violence, with humans and aliens engaging in warfare. If you have the graphics on maximum, there are considerable amounts of blood and gore that stain the field of battle for some time, i.e, when a certain unit dies, blood spills and you can visibly notice bit of gore twitching in the blood. Units are also burnt with fire and acid and can be seen writhing on the ground in agony before slumping over dead. A particular main character can be seen smoking and consuming alcohol on regular occasions. Also an instance in a cutscene where a drunken barfight breaks out, no one gets badly injured tho. The game also contains 3 instance where b**ch is used, and 2 where s*it is used. The upsides are how entertaining the game is to play, and to learn and master. The multiplayer is fun and competitive for those who really want to put their skills to the challenge. Overall a great RTS with a steep learning curve and enough challenge to keep you entertained for many, many hours.

Requires thought, strategy, and practice to master online. Players work their way through the ranks whilst besting online peers in the community. A great Starcraft player is best described as someone with the mind of a chess master and an ungodly amount of dexterity. Absolutely the best game you can buy, for it teaches how to manage time wisely as well.

This game is AWESOME!!! playing as three different races (terrans, protoss, zerg) u can play online or offline on a TON of different maps. i havent played the first but i know the second is awesome. there is some brids eye view violence. you can go to options and turn the effects on high or low. having them on low effect will make a small amount blood not fall on the ground. but if you set the effects to high, limbs will fly, and blood with splat and bodies and blood will litter the ground. it isnt too gruesome though. my younger brother (whose 9) plays this game too. the zerg are a little bit scary. the language: some swearing in cutscenes is frequent. s--t is said VERY infrequently. but said a lot are b---h, d-mn, h-ll, and a--. The sexual content: an elf woman dances in a bikini in the cantina. but it is just a holigram. its not that bad. also alcohol is consumed frequently and cigars stick out of one dudes mouth. this game is overall the BEST game ive ever played. even though i say all that bad stuff the main character is a really good role model. i say tweens up.

This game is a great way to stimulate the minds of people of all ages. There is a fair amount of violence, but it isn't like playing Call of Duty or even the original Mortal Kombat games: You don't shoot someone's head off or tear them limb from limb. With regards to the blood and gore, there is practically no blood unless you run the game on a high graphics setting, which requires a very high-end computer and is still near-impossible. Another object of note is that the game can be extremely frustrating for those children with minds conditioned by Call of Duty-esque games. It requires strategy, planning, and high levels of concentration. All in all, a great game.

My son loves this game. While there is a little violence, it is cartoonish and is usually seen from far away in a "bird's eye view". It requires strategy, logic, patience and maturity--not like many other video games that cater to those with short attention spans.

This being my favorite game of all time, I had to review it. I'll first say this: if you play the single-player portion of the game, I strongly suggest you play the original StarCraft and its expansion pack, StarCraft: Brood War, or look up the events that took place in them. Moving on, the game can get very violent, with a lot of (not-too-realistic) blood, shootings, and frightening imagery. When you shoot humans (Terrans) and the aliens (Zerg), there is some blood, but it's not realistic, and it's not excessive. I'm not sure if there is blood when you attack the third race featured in the game (the Protoss), but if it's anything like the first game, they either vanish in a puff of blue smoke or spew blue-colored ooze. The Zerg will look incredibly frightening to younger kids, especially Kerrigan (also known as The Queen of Blades). There is also a fair amount of cursing in the game, but it's nothing you wouldn't hear in an episode of The Simpsons, or even a PG movie. The characters drink and smoke, but in my opinion, this is the thing to worry the least about. There is one suggestive thing in this game, and it's that one of the main characters has a tattoo of a woman lifting her skirt up on his armor (but nothing explicit is shown). Surprisingly, through a field of violence and cursing, the game is educational. Players have to carefully devise stratedgies for each level, and it takes quite a bit of concentration, thinking, and creativity. The main character, Jim Raynor, can be a good role model, as he never gives up on his goals, dreams, and is always willing to help those in need. Also, the game's controls are VERY easy to master, as their are several tutorials and videos to learn from. I strongly recommend this game; it'll keep you playing for a long time, because there are a lot of missions, features, and a multi-player online mode that always holds something new and fun for players.

I was skeptical about this game, namely from the Battle.Net revamp which left out many key features from the first game, but it turns out that I love it! A note bingomanatee about the Korean thing: There is no cross-server play (as of now) so if you bought the game in the US, you'll only play people in the US. There is also a nice matchmaking system that puts you against people of your own skill (roughly, of course).

The zerg are a pretty scary bunch, reminiscent of "Alien" monsters; a bit freaky even with the top-down perspective. One possible concern, which parents should be aware of, is that the entire country of South Korea plays this game with feral intensity, including sponsoring compounds where kids (they start as kids anyway) play day and night - so intensely that their hands move like hummingbirds, too fast to be caught on camera. This means that the competition can be VERY intense! This can be quite demoralizing for kids who just wander into the multiplayer environment. Making sure that your kids play with other kids to ramp up will be better for their self esteem. I'd not be especially concerned about the sexuality - the female of concern (Kerrigan) is kind of a cross between X-men's "Mistique" and a gargoyle.