Best Strategy Game of All Time
Why is it the greatest of all time? Well aside from the gigantic sales record, which to this day is still climbing. Aside from the multi-million dollar sports industry it has created in Korea. Aside from everyone (including myself) raving for pages and pages about this game. (Pages that no one will ever read.) Aside from all those things...
Simple put, balance. It has balance like you would not believe. All three sides are almost perfectly balanced. Each plays in distinctly different and fun ways. Obviously the map editor and years of mod community has further advanced this. But no on there stragey game has balanced their sides so well, and truly mastered the feeling of being a battlefield commander.
Some say the limitations in units to control or unit maximum is a drawback. But I think it adds reality to the game. A commander has communication limitations on any battlefield, and only a certain number of units can exist in one place before they start running each other over or shooting at one another.
Starcraft set the bar for all computer strategy games. And it is a bar that no game has ever stepped up to since.
And as for Starcraft 2.... hell.... it IS about time!!!