-About no strategy: If you play online you live or die on strategy, sure, if you only join noob games there is little strategy, but play with some better players and you will see you have many things to learn.
-Bad graphics: It came out in 1998! And it is pretty good for 2d graphics, they have never bothered me in the least.
-Boring story: This is one of the most expancive, most detailed storylines in a game ever (and I'm a big RPG fan so I can know) With many emotional moments that will bring tears to your eyes at times, sometimes of happynes, sometimes of grief (OMG the last cinamitic made such a large lump in my throat)

Now for the good sides:

-Very diverse races, I had specialised in one race, and when I tried another one I had no clue how to build and was brutally slaughtered in a noob game (while with the other race I could almost play in expert games)
-Best singleplayer story ever, it is so detailed, so emotional, to understand everything you also must read the 6 page history PER RACE in the instruction book, it tells how they came into being, their history, and how they ended up where the game starts, it adds such depth to everything, you understand everything so much better then.
-GREAT custom maps, such as the battle of Helms Deep, my personel favorite (LOVE to be flamethrower Gimli ;-))
-Good tactics needed, whether you like it on small or large scale, if you want huge massive battles go for a round of Fastest, where in no time you can have huge armies battling eachother, in which you need to develope tactics for that kind of battles. Or, if you like small scale, very tactical play where the player with the best tactics wins, go for a round of Lost Temple, or Hunters, so for everyone, the kind of map that fits your playing style!
-HUGE online community, there are tens of thousands of people playing thousands of games almost all the time, with clans you can join and clan wars organised. There are always games you can join, of all sorts of game types, even in the early hours of the morning ;-)
-Best game for the very low price, don't know what it goes for now adays but I'm sure it's pretty cheap, so do yourself a favour and buy this game ;-)

As a closing note, don't waist any more time and get this game! ;-)

"THE BEST RTS GAME EVER", This is the best RTS game ever created, I have played it since I bought it 98. Well not all the time but I alweys come back to it when all the ather games get boring I never get tierd of SC. Ofcourse it's the Multiplayer game that makes it so good the real campagin is good but you whont play it to many times I think but The Multiplayer is exelent.

THIS IS A GAME YOU MUST HAVE!!!

"Amazing", I have been playing this game ever since it came out,its fun to play at battle.net and its also free, you can also use your dial up internet connection. this is the best rts series that have ever been made. i remember in highschool my friends and i would play battle realms(its also a good game) but after a while we got bored and went back to starcraft. This game is the classic and a must buy. I have bought it 3 times because i lost the other 2. Its also cheap.(also buy brood war)

"BEST PC GAME EVER CREATED", This game has loads of gameplay plus you can play online. You can choose to play as one of the 3 races: Terran (humans), Zerg (Biological Creatures), or the Protoss (Advanced Aliens). When you play online you can be by yourself or with other people playing online. There is also the single player experience where you choose to play with one of the races and complete 10 missions for each race.THIS GAME ROCKS. If your thinking about a different game forget it and by this. When i get to my house around 3:00 i usually play it for 3-5 hours without getting up. BUY IT

- Experienced Gamer

"The best in real time strategy", While Blizzard Entertainment does not produce many titles, the games that they do produce are among the best in PC gaming.

Starcraft is the third series of Blizzard Entertainment games to be created, the others being Warcraft and Diablo. The game is a real time strategy game, where the player controls a number of military units in a series of battles to meet some objective, such as destroying the enemy or reaching a certain set of waypoints. Starcraft itself is set in a set of futuristic human colonies based on several extrasolar planets. The humans find themselves not only in a civil war but also in the middle of a war between the Zerg, a predatory, hive-like race that can assimilate other alien creatures, and the Protoss, a philosophical race with psychic powers ready to defend themselves and others.

Blizzard Entertainment has done a good job in creating some very good gameplay. A range of military units are available to the user, who can choose from among several strategies in completing his or her mission. While I have not tried the multiplayer option, I have played through the single player storyline, which allows the user to try playing each race and which varies the mission goals so that the user is always presented with frest challenges. The point and click interface is very intuitive and very easy to use, so any frustration in playing this game will be focused on the difficulty of the levels but not the difficulty in using the interface.

Beyond the gameplay, though, Blizzard has worked hard to make Starcraft exceptionally good at drawing players into the game. The storyline is well written and includes multiple plot twists that make players want to continue on through the next mission to find out what happens next in the storyline. The animated movies played between the missions are very well done. The artwork and music also create an excellent, chilling environment during gameplay. During the Terran (human) missions in particular, I found myself edgy about having hidden Zergs suddenly attack me.

In summary, Starcraft is the paradigm of what a real time strategy game should be. For those even vaguely interested in PC gaming who do not mind violence, I strongly recommend this game. I particuarly recommend it for those who have never played a real time strategy game but who want to try one and for those who particularly like real time strategy.