[Saber Cherry]

I think WCIII is the worst game Blizzard ever released, though it has the best graphics. The way each side seems to have roughly 1 effective unit, no effective defenses, no tactics (that I could see) other than herding a single big blob of units, crazily low unit caps, and... this is a run-on, so I'll put a peroid here.
The way it rubs your face in its "Lowest Common Denominator" design with a 3-tier upkeep system (none, some, and lots, IIRC) reminds me of the stupid US "Terror Alert Level" with random colors in non-rainbow ordering. The resource/upkeep system has NOTHING connecting it to the way upkeep, even simplified abstracted RTS game upkeep, should work. Guess what - if you stop mining, you don't need to pay upkeep! Huh???

Here's a good question. If I pay as much for static defenses as my opponent pays for mobile offenses - and I'm talking melee offensive units, made for cutting flesh, not sieging - who should win when the offenses attack the defenses? In real life, imagine 100 soldiers charging across a minefield to attack 50 soldiers on higher ground in heavy machine gun nests protected by thick concrete walls... it's no contest. In WC3, it's also no contest, but in favor of the attacker, reducing the game to "Mass troops as fast as possible and charge."

My opinion is that Total Annihilation is the best RTS ever, followed by Warlords Battlecry II, Kohan, and finally Starcraft. But you can't see the vast gaps when they're listed like that, so let me show you graphically:

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Of course, everyone has their own opinion. I've met people who like Xenosaga more than Xenogears because the former has "better graphics" ...