StarCraft 1998

Is it still worth playing?

Blizzard Entertainment's 1998 real time strategy game for Windows, set in the 25th century in the Koprulu Sector, where exiled humans, an insectoid swarm and a psionic species fight. It has three races, Terran, Zerg and Protoss, and two resources, minerals and vespene gas, with each race handling supply differently. The campaign has 30 missions, ten per race, across three episodes, and Battle.net supports up to eight players. After a poor reception at E3 1996, the project was overhauled around three distinct species. It is widely credited with raising the bar for real time strategy and was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame in 2021. Each race plays differently and none has an innate advantage, which is why it still plays well today.