Good game, but not excellent.
This game is good. If you're a RTS fan like myself than this game has pretty much to offer. The game is set in the future. Your enemies are aliens fro another part of the space. As in most other RTS games, Starcraft puts you in charge of your base and your goal is to build structures, collect resources, defend your base and attack and gain ground on your enemy. The game's first missions are very easy and basic, but things get a bit more complicated further on, although I still felt the game was a bit more on the easy side.
The graphics aint bad when you consider that they're 10 year old. Sound is OK too, although I felt that the music could have been better since in certain occasions I thought that the music wasn't fitting in the situation. But I think this is something which stands largely to one's tastes.
So, to conclude... Starcraft is a good game which has to offer fans of the genre a lot, but in my opinion it pales when confronted with games such as Command & Conquer. There's a lot of hype surrounding this game even today but I think most people like this game so much because they remember it fondly as their first RTS they played. Still if you're an RTS fan it's worth a shot. I'll look forward to see what Starcraft 2 will offer.