the formula for making people go "WOW!"
1st up..let's start with Gameplay.
there are 3 species in the game, the Terrans (your normal fighting human soldiers), the Zerg (watch aliens? they are something like them) and the Protoss (watched predator? something like them too) thus when zerg vs protoss..it feels like Aliens VS Predator.
the campaign is breathtaking, and this review is dated at 2008 and the game is created in 1998, well this game will look outdated compared to recent RTS releases such as COMMAND & CONQUER 3, SUPREME COMMANDER, COMPANY OF HEROES (i've played em all) and the likes but this game is surely one of the greatest RTS of all time. they could really make a movie out of this. well i don't want to spoil the game. but the difficulty is very very hard. i even had to use the cheats to win the game, because the building and training of units are a little slow and the upgrades are even slower and they consume ALOT of resources which are the minerals and the vespene gas.
2nd..Storyline
it's magnificent, the storyline in Starcraft even beats the newly released games and i bet the writers of this game really had a hard time trying to write and not stray from the timeline, and instead of the usual what-if the humans win, what-if the aliens win, what-if the high tech aliens win and the ending is generative showing what-if's one species won. the story revolves on the continuation of 1 species to the next.
Graphics..
when i am used to graphics these days. i feel a lil awkward when playing this game since i didn't really like the graphics, leave graphics to people who have played it 10 years ago as i clearly can't judge it, only that i m happy since my 2 years old pc can play it without any glitches.
and the results
i'd say 8.0, this game is so good it's hard to explain. play it yourself and know why this game is one of the greatest RTS in the world even scoring 9.1..haha!