StarCraft enhanced on its predecessor Warcraft II, which highlighted two really equivalent playable factions, by introducing asymmetry in between the units and technologies accessible to its a few races (Protoss, Terran, and Zerg). This asymmetry was just like that pioneered while in the lesser-identified 1996 SSI release War Wind. The unit styles accessible to Just about every race outline its racial identity. The Protoss can area powerful and highly-priced warriors and equipment, even though the Zerg rely on sheer numbers and velocity to overwhelm 헬스 their opponents.

The protoss OST was intended to be "deep, effective, and cerebral."[28] It was more orchestral when compared to the terrans, and Stafford centered on instrumentation that might maintain them feeling exceptionally unique from Warcraft, using inspiration from Jerry Goldsmith's score to your Film Alien. Wary of parallel enhancement, he purposefully prevented the film Starship Troopers.