From the box:

THREE UNIQUE ALIEN SPECIES:

Whether you command the nomadic Terran, mysterious Protoss, or the voracious Zerg you must devise totally unique stratergies to master the specialised units, abilities and techno;ogies of each.

MULTIPLE THEATERS OF BATTLE:

Engage in a deadly mix of space combat, planetary assult and covert base infiltration. Command Ghost Espionage agents, Wraith Stealth Fighters, Protoss High Templars and Zerg Defilers as you seek to conqure the galaxy.

REVOLUTIONARY SPECIAL EFFECTS:

Real time light sourcing, true line of sight and an advanced translucency engine combine for incredible visual effects unparalleled tactical realism.

INTENSE INTERNET COMPETITION:

Challenge players worldwide with FREE access to Blizzards Battle.net gaming service. Up to 8 players supported for head-to-head, allied or team play. Enhanced features include worldwide player rankings, tournaments and challenge ladder.

UNEQUALED CAMPAIGN EDITOR:

Construct individual missions or entire campaigns with unrivaled ease! Set victory conditions, customise speech & sound, and create unique heroes while building enormus single and multiplayer worlds complete with your own story lines.

THE STORY:

Terran: After the leap of technology from the 20th century, that was unparraled by the reckless bounds of advancements in the 21st century. The Earth was then overly populated by over 20 billion people, pollution was at an all time high and even the lowest 3rd world country had access to nuclear weapons to challenge the might of the Earth's superpowers. In the decay of civilsation a new government was founded to salvage humanity the UPL (United Powers Leauge) then cleaned the Earth of all criminals, hackers and cybernetically enhanced humans. Soon powerful types of space travel were devoloped and the humans colonoised the habitable planets of their solar system. Then an executive in UPL consolidating his own power in the UPL began a plan to colonise outer space to gain prestiege within the UPL nad gather 40,000 prisioners and put them on 4 gargantuan spaceships and sent them to their new world. A computer malfunction wiped the co-ordinated of the new homeworld and erased those of Earth as well and the 4 ships hurtled through space for 30 years. The ships near the end of thier power located the nearest hospitable planets and began their descent, the first landed on the planet to be named Tarsonis, another on the plant Umojin and the third on , while the 4th ship crahed during re-entry. It was 60 years untill the 3 worlds were united through space travel, then Tarsonis the most powerful planet colonised the rest of the sector then know as the Kruplo sector. Then most planets under Tarsonis control rejected their regin and turned for allies...this began a feirce term of infighting till the aleins arrived.

Zerg: An ancient race called the Xel Naga in their venture to create a creature pure of essance they create a larva type creature that soon was able to manipulate its environment by burrowing into a hosts body and controling them like a parasite. Soon these beings became mutated into ugly creatures with sharp spines and dense carapieces, the Xel Naga still believed they could control these beings by introducing a hive brain that all Zerg would obey called the "Overmind". The Overmind became more inteliigent as time passed and then learned of the Xel Naga and was able to caputre a space faring race consume them and eveolve into space faring creatures. The Zerg attacked the Xel Naga and soon overran them and consumed their masters as the Overmind then became more intelligent than it had ever dreamed. The Overmind then larned of a race called the Protoss a highly advance society with lethal psychic abilites, and the Overmind knew it had to gain the same ability to combat the Protoss. Then a race called humanity was located in the Kruplo sectorand was mere generations away from becoming a potent psychic force and began its journey to gain the psychic abaility of the Terran race. When it arrived in the Terran sector hive clusters and spores where thrown to the plaent Char to began bases, soon nearly all the Terrans on Char were slaughtered and out of the void of space Protoss warships began firing on the planet burning it of infestation. The Overmind pulled back its forces to obeserve how the other sides would react.

Protoss: One of the Xel Naga's first creations, it was the first to develop into a sentinent being based on tribal culture. These first signs of intelligence pleased the ancient race and believed they were their first creations, they called them the 'Protoss' or "first born". The Protoss worked as a large community and developed a great psychic link to each other and worked for the betterment of their society. Later when the Protoss became a foridable species the Xel Naga revealed themselves to the Protoss who accepted their teachers with great eagerness. Centuries later the Protoss became more idealistic and more concerned with personal glorification instead of community advancement and soon became more hostile towards each other. The Xel Naga believing they had pushed their creations too fast prepared to leave, the Protoss then attacked the Xel Naga-who defeated the clumsy Protoss attack. The Protoss then slipped into the bloddiest civil war in the universe called the 'aeron of strife' over who's fault it was for driving their teachers away. Centuries later still a young Protoss named Kahlia banded togeather the young Protoss of the world and brought and end to the wars and united the Protoss--the gather their psychic ability into a large power and advanced their already superior technology and followed the ways of the Kali to hold Protoss society togeather. The Portoss then spanned into the universe to protect the feldgeling races, soon the Protoss discovered the existance of the Zerg and their motives and moved to protect humanity and the universe from the scourge of the Zerg.

MY IDEA'S:

Starcraft is truely a step forward in the near exhaused stratergy/war genre because of lame clones packing the sheleves. Stracraft come back and renews the life within the genre because of several things like: 3 unique sides, brilliant graphics, great storyline, excellent multiplayer support.

Starcraft as a single player game is very involving with an intrieiguing plot and detailed breifings and even mission updates in the field! The AI in the game is very intelligent by being both defesenive and offensive and using tactics with excellent force co-ordination.

As a multiplayer agem Starcraft shines very well because of Blizzard's Battle.net and since there can be a maximum of 8 players in one game with the three sides to choose on and can even insert computer opponents if need be. There is always a person to play on B.net with dozens of games being established every minute.

Starcraft because of all these reasons is a worthy game for this league which I'm sure will be a popular one.