When comparing Splatoon vs Starcraft, the Slant community recommends Starcraft for most people. In the question“What are the best competitive multiplayer games with the least toxic communities?” Starcraft is ranked 4th while Splatoon is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Starcraft is:
There are three selectable races in the game, Terrans, Protoss and the Zerg. The Terrans being human, while the other two are alien races. What makes the game stand out is that each race feels exceptionally different from one another, each with their own personalities. This makes for a different experience depending on what race has been chosen to play with.
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Pros
Pro Fun and innovative
The game modes are not your standard kill everyone to win game modes. you can kill other players, but completing the the game modes task is much more important. This makes for a different experience from the normal FPS as the objectives are quite different.
Pro Games to play while you wait for connection to multiplayer
While your waiting for enough people to join a multiplayer game you can play 1 of 4 mini games to keep you entertained.
Pro Living world
With lore, funny characters, and its own language, the world feels living thanks to the depth of design.
Pro Easy learning curve
The game eases the player into the action, with early levels being easy to grasp. Slowly the game throws more mechanics at you, making for a nice learning curve that never feels overwhelming.
Pro Tons of personality that keeps the story and gameplay interesting and entertaining
There are three selectable races in the game, Terrans, Protoss and the Zerg. The Terrans being human, while the other two are alien races. What makes the game stand out is that each race feels exceptionally different from one another, each with their own personalities. This makes for a different experience depending on what race has been chosen to play with.
Pro Built-in offline LAN support
Being an older game, Starcraft suports offline LAN due to not as many people having internet back when it was released. This is something that many games (including Starcraft 2) regrettably do not feature anymore.
Pro Well balanced race selection keeps the gameplay fair
The game is fairly well balanced, so nobody gets an advantage by choosing a certain race. While each race will have their own unique abilities, the balancing of these abilities allows the game to play even handed, with no real advantage to any race.
Pro This game can be downloaded for free
Blizzard is now offering the original Starcraft (titled Starcraft Anthology) as a free download.
Pro Highly specialized units that are easy to learn but hard to master
This helps keep the game challenging and interesting even at a high level of proficiency.
Cons
Con Not easy to communicate
Being that this is a Nintendo game (geared towards children), there is no available voice chat in the game, which makes communication and forming strategy all but impossible through the game.
Con Old and outdated
With the original release dating back to 1998, the game is quite old now and its graphics are not on par with current game offerings.
Con Lacks widescreen support
Starcraft is only available in a 4:3 resolution. However, a hack to make it work in widescreen can be found here.