With the right strategy, a Zerg player could defeat a Terran, a Protoss could defeat a Zerg, Terran could defeat Terran. In spite of the extreme variance between factions, the game was so perfectly balanced that no faction had a significant advantage over another. Playing the three races almost felt like playing entirely different games. While previous games typically used factions largely mirroring one another, with perhaps small differences high up on the tech tree, StarCraft's Terrans, Zerg, and Protoss were fundamentally different from one another, even down to core gameplay mechanics. Although the RTS genre had been well established with games such as Dune II, Command & Conquer, Total Annihilation, and Blizzard's own Warcraft and Warcraft II, StarCraft was seen as nothing short of revolutionary. The original StarCraft was released on Apto extreme anticipation. So you can imagine the excitement when, after a seven day teaser campaign at, StarCraft 2 was revealed in front of a crowd of (literally) tens of thousands of South Korean StarCraft devotees. And this is a game released nearly ten years ago. One such player, SlayerS_'BoxeR', real name Lim Yo-Hwan, also known as the ' Terran Emperor', reportedly makes the equivalent of $390,000 a year. High profile matches are shown on television and the top players are akin to our sports stars. StarCraft is something of a cultural phenomenon there. Now, before reading on, you have to understand a little something about South Korea. The announcement was made at Blizzard's World Wide Invitational gaming tournament in Seoul, South Korea. On Saturday, May 19, 2007, Blizzard Entertainment announced the much anticipated sequel to their incalculably popular 1998 real time strategy game, StarCraft (much to the chagrin of Diablo fans worldwide).

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