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Having tested the mod briefly, I would argue that this is an entirely new way to experience the game, if only because of how easy it is to follow BurtonвЂ™s bold, primary-colour designs as battles get hectic and Zerglings rush en masse.

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In those, youвЂ™ll see BurtonвЂ™s full treatment look its silliest as the gameвЂ™s original, dramatic music and voice acting play out over childish art. Otherwise, youвЂ™ll find a ridiculous amount of redrawn cartoon material-even in the between-mission briefings. The effect can be rather jarring at first, but as the animated world slowly takes over, the intended self-humour from the developers becomes apparent.ДЄ few original assets remain, like FMV sequences and some interstellar art at the beginning of each campaign. Cutesier than anything Blizzard has released in the past, StarCraft: CartoonedвЂ™s release boldly highlights this difference at once, contrasting the old early-3D animations of Terran soldiers with the new brightly-coloured CarBot images. (ThatвЂ™s in essence, how the original Remastered release works, anyway.) And unlike CarBotвЂ™s 2016 StarCraft 2 mod, which only redrew assets within that sequelвЂ™s limited arcade mode, the new mod smothers the full StarCraft: Remastered experience in BurtonвЂ™s redrawn characters.ДЄlthough not the darkest of BlizzardвЂ™s game franchises (that award goes to Diablo), StarCraft always had an air of seriousness around it when compared to its sister series WarCraft. StarCraft: Remastered paved the way for this mod to become a reality, since the updated engine supports a complete sprite swap without disrupting the core gameplay. Silly as it looks, this mod otherwise delivers pure StarCraft action. It instead transforms every single graphical element in the game, from menus to units to between-mission briefings, with voices and text remaining the same, to look like the CarBot Animations animated series вЂњStarCrafts,вЂќ now in its seventh season on YouTube.ДЄs you can see in all my pictures, all of BurtonвЂ™s existing designs have been translated into the working game in their silly, bulbous, flat-shaded glory. Cartooned DLC does not add any new gameplay or mechanical content to the StarCraft: Remastered package.

The YouTube channel, operated by Canadian artist and animator Jonathan Burton, was tapped to create BlizzardвЂ™s first full cosmetic overhaul mod for a retail game.

StarCraft: Cartooned is drawn in the CarBot Animation style. This add-on redraws every single piece of art in this classic RTS game to look like a childrenвЂ™s cartoon, without otherwise changing core game play. It is an official add-on for StarCraft: Remastered available for 15.45AUD. The above screen shot is not a joke, StarCraft: Cartooned is live on BlizzardвЂ™s online store.

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