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Re: any rts better than starcraft?

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From: RogerM
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:57
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Chizel wrote:
> 
> "Spork" <no@no.com> wrote in message news:<Gk%jb.798995$YN5.796917@sccrnsc01>...
> 
> I'm with you on this one.   I tagged StarCraft as the best game ever
> for me.  I know there are plenty of other really good games out there
> and have actually played many of them.  Even like W3, though done
> well,  I just couldn't seem to get sucked into it like SC.  I own 2
> copies of W3 with the expansions and yet my kids always go back and
> play good ole StarCraft (Broodwar).  I've often tried to figure out
> what it is that we like so much about it.  The only thing I can come
> up with is that the game really is done very well.  The sounds, the
> voices, the music, the colors, the design... all of it.   One nice
> package.
> 

Absolutely. I've been gaming on various computer systems since 1979, and
I consider SC to be one of the two best computer games which I have
played. 

The other? Lemmings.

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