In the second campaign, the player becomes one of the 'Cerebrates', commanders of individual zerg swarms, directly under the overminded mind. This is the beginning of a great conflict between the three races of StarCraft. In the first part, the player assumes the role of Commander of the Terran Confederate Army, but soon turns to a quasi-partisan organization called Sons of Korhal, commanded by Arcturus Mengsk. The plot of the individual campaigns is closely linked, so that playing them in the correct sequence shows a coherent and continuous scenario, though discovered and presented with film portrayals from the perspective of individual races. In single player mode there are three campaigns, one for each race. There are a lot of story and action sequences in the storyline, interwoven with animated cutscenes.
The game was released for PC and Macintosh. StarCraft, a strategy game (RTS) released in 1998 by Blizzard Entertainment.