Quote Originally Posted by jyms View Post
I torrented the first starcraft since I have never played. Having a good time so far. I really don't want to get involved in the second without some knowledge of the game. And it gives me something to do till the second one comes out.

Forgive my newbness, bu why was this game so much more popular than C&C, Age of Empires or Warcraft? (basically anything in the genre') I have only played a couple of hours so maybe I am not seeing the depths in the game yet.

nothing much distinguishes the single player from say C&C, they both are fun and have a humorous undertone. But the difference is the multiplayer. Blizzard took great pains to create three races that are fairly unique, yet well balanced. C&C on the other hand had very littler difference in the races, and the differences that there were, were not necessarily balanced.

Then after creating this fairly balanced set of races, Blizzard continued to support the multiplayer through patches. When new strategies emerged that exploited an unforeseen imbalance, Blizzard worked to correct this imbalance, then correct any imbalances that resulted from the first correction. This may not sound that impressive, but it is a TON of work to balance unique races and it is the reason that games are either unbalanced or each side is simply a copy of the others.