This is Starcraft... The mother of all strategy games, even today.
It is a casual strategy game we see today, gather resources, build anmj army, destroy your enemy. But the thing that makes this RTS so special is it's balance between all three races. Even though all three races are very different Blizzard has managed to balance them, so no race is overpowered. I can't give an example of an unbalanced strategy game because this is the really only strategy game I play. Anyway there are two kinds of resources, Minerals and Vespene Gas. If playing a real game, not story mode game, you get 4 workers in the beginning of the game. Scvs for Terrans, Probes for Protoss and Drones for Zerg. They gather your resources and build your structures. Every race needs supplies for their units and builds a certain unit or building to get supplies They put the supplies in the nearest resource building, for Terran its a Command Center, for Protoss it's a Nexus and for Zerg its a Hatchery. And every race has their own defensive building. All this info is just the general stuff of every race, next i will explain each race individually
Terran: The adapting and mobile humans are the Terrans. The unique thing about the Terrans is they can build their structures Anywhere. Also if they are being attacked and must retreat the Terrans can lift some of their important structures and move to another place. The thing that makes Terrans powerful is their Vehicles,Ships, and Ability to repair almost anything. They may only have 3 Vehicles, but all three are individually powerful in their own way. The Vulture is known for its speed and ability to plant mines that explode when enemies come near. The Siege Tank is known for its Siege mode where it turns into a powerful artillery weapon. The Goliath is a walking controlled robot that can attack both air and ground.
Protoss: The Protoss are the more advanced species that have very expensive buildings and units, but very powerful. The protoss can build anywhere as well and when they build they just warp it so you don't have to wait for the probe to finish, but only when their main power source is near the building they want to build. It is called a Pylon, A Pylon is also their supplies. A building must be built next to a Pylon for it to work except a nexus. If you have built pylons you can see a blue light that will tell you where you can build in that area of blue. The reason the protoss are powerful is their units do a mass amount of damage, and have shields. Everything that is a protoss unit or building has a shield. But they are not overpowered, because of how expensive they are and can't produce as fast as the last race i will discuss.
Zerg: The Zerg are pretty much the bad guys, the swarm, the alien infestation. Despite the fact that they are the alien infestation and stuff, they are a very cool looking and unique race. First off as i said in the beginning every race has their supplier for supplies. Well remember when i said "or certain unit" well zerg is the only race that requires you to build a mobile unit that supplies your units. It is called the Overlord, it is a very slow moving unit that can also act as a dropship or shuttle, which are the two units from terran and protoss that drop off ground units to any place. But with upgrades it moves faster. Anyways unlike the terran and protoss, the zerg use drones as the building itself. And also unlike them they can't build anywhere, they must build on creep. Creep is a sort of purple looking ground that is alive where zerg buildings can be built. They aren't called the Swarm for nothing, the zerg are known for outnumbering their opponent. A hatchery gives three larvae where you can build any zerg unit depending on if u have the certain structure to build it. A unit called the zergling gives you 2 zergling for 1 larvae. Do the math 3 larvae per hatchery equals 6 lings if you use all three larvae. The supplies go up to 200 and 2 lings are only 1 supply other units are more, but this is why the Zerg are known for outnumbering. Personally Zerg are my favorite race, just how amazing they can over run your opponent.
Well those are all three races described in little detail, but it shows how different each race is and how amazing it is that Blizzard was capable of making it balanced. I'm telling you this game is so popular that it is a e-sport in South Korea. No kidding, people play for big bucks and are on national T.V. PLAYING THIS GAME.
Buy this game now, and if you are in need for strategies go to Youtube and look up Korean Starcraft pro's. You can try to copy their ways. But no one has mastered this game, and there are always ways of getting better which makes it very addicting.
Overall Best Strategy Game Ever.10/10