Starcratft??

It was a Stupid Warcraft clone.

Total Annhilation all the way

Where the hell is Medal of Honor Allied Assault Breakthrough?!

Nice list, I'd expect to see WoW (not that I like it, but it's impact is pretty hard to ignore), Elite and probably Myst on there, too.

3 shooters are 2 too many for a breakthrough list and Dune 2 should be there instead of StarCraft.

So... In what country is Total Anihilation second only to football? (Soccer to americans)

Are Total Anihilantion pros regarded as celebrities?

Can any cool micro even be done in Total Anihilation? How about something as simple as balance?

Ultimately. Which game is the face of all RTS games? !!!!

Dune 2 should definately be there instead of SC if they went by innovation. But since they had doom instead of wolfenstein, I guess they go more by popularity.

Why not have both and stop arguing?

^ Because it's only a list of 10 and there are already 3 games from the same genre?

Look, StarCraft is a good game, but really, its not the best RTS out there.  And while Korea obsesses over it, that's not exactly a good thing.  There have been better RTS games that have come out since, both in innovating the RTS genre and in just plain fun factor.  But beyond that, even when StarCraft was king, some people didn't think it was the end all of RTS.  Age of Empires II was much more interesting to me simply because it was a much bigger game in scope and didn't fall into basically one of three strategies to win.  Nor did the game become so focused on tournament play or intense micromanagement.

But the basic thing is, StarCraft is a 10 year old game and has been overtaken by other RTS games which have surpassed it.  Yes its the most popular and most played, but that doesn't mean it isn't without faults and showing its age.  And if one game gets too big, it can actually hurt a perticular genre when people won't play anything else.

We obviously value different things in RTS games, so to reach a conclusion about wich game is the best we would have to argue about what aspects of the genre are the most important, wich would be almost impossible. But the guys that made this list obviously put popularity before innovation (That's why they put doom at#1 instead of Wolfenstein3D) Starcraft is the 'Doom' of the RTS games, just like Doom is the 'Doom' of FPS.

Aside from that, there are much more than three strategies in SC. And how is it beginning to show it's age? The only thing that hasn't aged that well in SC is the editor in my opinion.