A breakthrough in the RTS genre and one of my favorite games of all time.
User Rating: 10 | Starcraft PC
Starcraft is an RTS for the PC. Don't get me wrong. I don't just hand out perfect scores. But this is truly deserves it. It was kind of a breakthrough for the genre. Before it was either two races like Warcraft, or a bunch of races that were all the same, like Age of Empires. Starcraft has three, completely different races to choose from. There was Terran, the humans. Marines in power armor, walking mechs, and huge battlecruisers in the sky, Then, you had Zerg. Straight out of Starship Troopers, these guys are bugs. Little ones who use their claws, big ones who spit venom and so on. Finally, there was Protoss. An alien race more advanced than the former two. All of their units have a shield you have to get through before you can actually deal damage to the unit itself. The strategies varied a huge amount between the three races, making for some pretty intense battles. The gameplay was fantastic. It could be a fast paced game, or a game where you turtle up behind walls of bunkers or defense cannons. Units have certain roles to fulfill, so you need a balanced force to come out victorious. There are three campaigns, one for each race. Perhaps the best part of the game was the multiplayer. This is where you could "uber pwn noobs" from around the world. There was also a setting where you could play the games that people made on the mission designer. This made for an epic multiplayer experience. The graphics were perfect for the time. When the marines died, their body would explode with blood and fall into 4 little pieces. Or the Protoss zealot turning into a blue flame. The sound was equally awesome. Everybody unit said something memorable. So memorable me and my brother today still think of all the cool ones and say them. Basically, this is one of my all time favorite games, so I'm really psyched for Starcraft 2. But until them, you can't go wrong with the game that started it all and that would be Starcraft. 
