"The Best Strategy game ever"

I've played almost every Strategy Game ever name it Warcraft, Alpha Centuri, C&C and this game beats them all.
With it's massive storyline Spanning 9 Campaings 57 Missions and three races.

Storyline (9.4/10)
This Story line goes really in-depth. At first I dident know anything about the Storyline but when I read the instruction booklet it gives you a full history of all three species. At the begining you play as Terrans which are humans n the Future living on far off colonies. Trying to defend your self from two Alien races wadging war in your colony. After you complete the terran campain you move on to Zerg which are bug like creaturies that are kind of like the Borg from Star Trek. They assilmate or destroy all species they come in contact with. Your on a mission to take over another alien Specie called the Protoss or ''First born''. Then you take over as Protoss who are Physic creaturies defending your homeworld of Auir. And bring in a Traitor. That Concldes the First game but blizzard made a expansion set. This puts you as Terran Zerg and protoss. This second game starts days after the end of the orginal. This storyline is filled with twist and turns at every move.

Graphics (9.7/10)
The Graphics are very good for an Strategy. Unlike C&C's stick figure looks in normal men. StarCraft has men that have some substance too them you can actually see what they look like. You also have neutral creatres that are just there for decoration they walk around but have no use.(execpt when you make your own maps) They have varing terrain and ''Doodads'' Which are just there for decoration as well.

Music/Sound (8.3/10)
The music is good but it gets boring after a while listing to the same music over and over. It has three different tunes one for each species. But the music is not the real good thing about StarCraft the sounds are. There are 40 units all tougether. And each unit has 7 or 8 different comments some like ''Reporting in sir'' or ''En Taro adun'' Protoss for good hunting to ''You get off on annoying people don't you'' from a main charecter named Sarah Kerrigan to ''Who let these lab monkey out?'' from the Terran Science Vessel. So all in all with medioker music but great mission comments Sound is good.

Control (9.3/10)
Control is pretty easy to deal with its mostley just point and click. You can select guys to go in a group but you can do that on most strategy games. You got hot keys to do certin functions. Like Build or mutate into a certian building. It's farily simple.

Gameplay (9.2/10)
The gameplay is is excellent. The single player has all different types of missions. You have you basic build and destroy missions. But you also have missions like search and destroy in which you have a small limited group where you have to inflitrate bases and cut through hords of enemy units and find a certin beacon or item to complete the mission. And some missions which you have to destroy a certin unit to win the mission. But you also have the multiplayer which is an internet connection. And also there is a web site called Battle.net where you fight. And people make all sorts of maps from StarCraft RPG's Special ablites boards.

Replay Value: High
The mission alone you get tired of after a few times you play them. But with Battle.net and other multiplayers systems. You will never get tired of it when fighting other people on a strategy game you have the feeling that you are a real military commander and if you lose then you lose your Honor as well as the match. And Battle.net keeps track of you wins and your losses so when ever some one wants to see your stats they can which is why you want to win at all costs. The Multiplayer is 1 to 8 players. And you can also ally with your freinds and if its three players or an odd number of players you can backstab other people. It is really fun.

Challenge: High
The game its self is very difficult it seems easy at first tthe Terran campain is the easiest on the game after that its time to get down and dirty the Protoss in my opinion is the most difficult. But that is only my opinion.

Overall: 10
This gameis the best what else can I say?

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 10/06/00, Updated 10/06/00