Starcraft

It was one of the mid-era of my traditional strategy game playing. Began with Dune and ended with... Warcraft III: Frozen Throne it seems... Starcraft is truly a classic game with many ground breaking points to mention.

The story, it was the first one where the story in the game was very rich and captivating, not to mention the story continue as you play through three races in the game (which will be mentioning later on). As play you play along you will began to be interested and care about your character and wishes to knew what will become of them later on.

The graphic, it was the first of many that utilize the 2D style graphic which has been use in Diablo, but became a lot more crisp and polish on Starcraft. The audio is great as well, especially the vioce actors who portraits the main characters.

The strongest point of Starcraft, apart from the story, is the fact that there were three completely different races to play with, each with their own playing style. From the space gypsy moveable building of Terran, the rapid spawn insect-like alien Zerg, and the hi-tech & psychic power mix of Protoss. Each race features totally different units, often with no equivalents on the other side, differing construction and repair principles, and even different (though equally effective) interface art.

We will also see what will became the concept of Hero Unit in Warcraft III later on, from the use of main playable characters in Starcraft to narrate the story.

Many people finish the single player campaign and then began to honed their skills online. This is the time when we start using 56K modem in Bangkok so I am not really in to that :P

All in all, This is one of what came later known as 'Blizzard game', the moniker that implied that the game release will be delayed many times but what you will get in the end is a highly polished game with high quality gameplay. Even todays, Blizzard still releasing patch for Starcraft and many still playing Starcraft on battle.net and the game is unusally popular in South Korea as well.