Which brings me to Starcraft's origins, its was a MOD at birth, made form a Warcraft Modding kit by a non Blizzard employee, they promptly acquired the IP, re-branded it, gave it some polish and rolled out Starcraft 1. That bloke whatever he sold that IP for must be gutted at the multi billion dollar industry that surrounds the SC2 e-gaming circuit now, maybe he agreed royalties, I never knew the exact details, but it just goes to show not every game studio comes up with the best ideas in-house. So why has this game made my list, well its partly due to its painstaking detailed mechanics, the global competitive craze both in South Korea and beyond, the Aliens vs Marine timeless paradigm and of course Guns, Tanks, Spaceships, killer robots, force fields, Alien Queens, did I mention guns? 

  I never seem to grow board of the games mechanics both on a micro management level and with long game resource spending experiences. Tech trees are well structured and all three races have a brilliant paper scissors rock balance. Mastering one race can take anything up to a year and then transferring those skills to another race is a great way to see the vast differences in contrast on play style that they offer. In short I think its my favourite RTS to date and watching hours of matches on Youtube always seems to excite and give me new ideas to try, culturally the game is a phenomenon in South Korea as we all know and its strange that part of the world took to it so well, maybe they imagine North Koreans being the Zerg etc. Lets talk about the Zerg for a bit, a blatant rip-off of the Alien franchise, right down to the queens and extended skull shape. But they can be forgiven because its done so well, not by half measures, any Xenomorph fan would drool at the mouth for an equivalent from Fox, but I very much doubt that will happen. Maybe a MOD with colonial marine skins on the Terran and some sounds effects thrown in would be nice (you may be aware of Aliens versus Predator: Extinction, I feel for you if you are). I have had my heart broken countless times with Alien games and swinging off topic to show this is a recent article, Alien Isolation has made up for alot of it. 

 Back to the Zerg and yes we have let it slide that Blizzard stole the concept so moving on to playing as the little monsters, its great, a real riot. Amassing a vicious army of tiny Zerglings and raining down on a poor Terran base warms the cockles no end. Its great to be evil and the tech trees allow for big brutish creatures that can go toe to toe with the biggest machines and robots the other races have to offer. The hive like infection of the map is also very cool, slowly you take over vast sections of the battle field with the secretion like substance that acts like a pair of eyes and ears for the player.