StarCraft is arguably the best real-time strategy game ever. The single player mode of the game is extremely boring, however StarCraft is awesome online! Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net supports both StarCraft and Brood War, Battle.net has friends lists, channels, ladders, stat tracking, customizable profiles, live tech support, automatic updates that you can cancel half way through and continue where you left off the next time you run the game, map-downloading, built in e-mail, works with mods, and so much more. Well StarCraft isn't all that great unless you have Brood War, which comes with new units and is required to play most maps. Other than Battle.net, StarCraft stands out in the crowd of other RTS games for having the most players and for having "multiplayer Use Map Settings" (or just UMS for short). Use Map Settings completely changed real-time strategy, it lets you make movie maps, defense maps, bounds, RPG maps, Role Play maps, Evolves maps, etc. StarCraft also has several other modes besides Use Map Settings, including Melee, One vs. One, Free For All, Top vs. Bottom, World Cyber Games, Ladder, Team Capture the Flag, Capture the Flag, Slaughter, Greed, Team Melee, etc. StarCraft is also known for it's support as an official game of the [URL=http://igtour.aceboard.com]Internetional Gaming Tour[/URL]. So the SS Free's official rating for StarCraft is 10 out of 10.
Imagine a sci-fi, futuristic world where world domination is considered a thing of the past, and the fight for universal supremacy is the latest trend. Starcraft provides you with that same imagination on a colossal scal... Read Full Review
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