The ONLY game I have ever played so much as to burn out the C-D.
Absolutely every thing in this game is perfect, all the units are balanced perfectly. All the powerful ships are expensive and slow to build and the cheap units could still kill the powerfull ones.
The on-line is the best online I have ever played, sure the player base is a bunch of whiny 8 year old kids, but the multiplayer is still a blast. I never played competitively in the game, but I am sure that I could have at the height of my awesomeness. You can not only play some good ol' regular multi-player against people, but this also has some of the best user made mods made with the limitations of the software taken in mind.
The # 1 mod I played on Starcraft was easily the LOTR: Last Alliance Theta, if I remember corectly. Sure there were tons of cheap moves to the game, but if you were smart you would not fall susceptible to them. It was like a game of chess, it was all in who could move the fastest to get the killing blow. I had a blast in that game and probably played 10-20 hours of just that mod, and when it was popular and you got a bunch of pros at it, I have never played a better mod
I did'nt talk about the game play a lot because, well it's perfect, simple as that.
The sound is great for it's time, and some of the things that the soldiers say are down right hilarious, if you keep on clicking on them that is.
Graphics are also very good for it's time, 1600 units on a game map on one time? Crips that's a lot, even now.
Now the only question is, where is the Starcraft II?