Fans Want Xbox To Bring Back StarCraft, But Phil Spencer Wants MechAssault
Microsoft’s big bosses were recently asked about the big games that they would want to see return. Interestingly, Sarah Bond and Phil Spencer had completely different answers.
At Xbox’s Tokyo Game Show, Sarah Bond revealed that she had received a lot of questions from fans, and also from interviewers, about Activision’s somewhat dormant RTS, StarCraft. As Sarah says below, “It will be fun to see if we can do something with that in the future.”
(FYI) In an Interview at #XboxTGS Sarah Bond was asked about which IP is most requested to be revived but she answered that a lot of fans and a lot of people in interviews have asked her about StarCraft.
"It will be fun to see if we can do something with that in the future" pic.twitter.com/xHD2gVogso
StarCraft has really only seen two official releases. The first StarCraft came out on Windows in 1998, with an expansion called StarCraft Brood War releasing later in the same year. StarCraft received a notable console port in StarCraft 64 for the Nintendo 64 in 2000, and officially received a remaster, simply called StarCraft: Remastered in 2017.
StarCraft II was released in three installments: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty came out in 2010, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm came out in 2013, and StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void released in 2015. StarCraft II may not have had as huge an impact as the original, but still remains one of Blizzard’s biggest games.
StarCraft received immediate critical acclaim upon release, and is one of the franchises that made Blizzard. It also launched an esports scene in South Korea, that was the predecessor of esports today.
On the other hand, Phil Spencer had a deep cut that he wanted to bring up. As reported by Video Games Chronicle, Phil wants to
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