When comparing Starcraft vs Unreal Tournament 1999, the Slant community recommends Starcraft for most people. In the question“What are the best LAN party PC games?” Starcraft is ranked 9th while Unreal Tournament 1999 is ranked 76th. The most important reason people chose Starcraft is:
There are three selectable races in the game, Terrans, Protoss and the Zerg. The Terrans being human, while the other two are alien races. What makes the game stand out is that each race feels exceptionally different from one another, each with their own personalities. This makes for a different experience depending on what race has been chosen to play with.
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Pros
Pro Tons of personality that keeps the story and gameplay interesting and entertaining
There are three selectable races in the game, Terrans, Protoss and the Zerg. The Terrans being human, while the other two are alien races. What makes the game stand out is that each race feels exceptionally different from one another, each with their own personalities. This makes for a different experience depending on what race has been chosen to play with.
Pro Built-in offline LAN support
Being an older game, Starcraft suports offline LAN due to not as many people having internet back when it was released. This is something that many games (including Starcraft 2) regrettably do not feature anymore.
Pro Well balanced race selection keeps the gameplay fair
The game is fairly well balanced, so nobody gets an advantage by choosing a certain race. While each race will have their own unique abilities, the balancing of these abilities allows the game to play even handed, with no real advantage to any race.
Pro This game can be downloaded for free
Blizzard is now offering the original Starcraft (titled Starcraft Anthology) as a free download.
Pro Highly specialized units that are easy to learn but hard to master
This helps keep the game challenging and interesting even at a high level of proficiency.
Pro Pure fast action
Unreal is known as a "twitch shooter". The reason for this is because of how fast the gameplay is, requiring the player to have quick responses to what is going on in the game due to how speedy the whole thing is.
Pro Low system requirements
As it's an older game, any modern computer will be able to play it very well. For best results, it's suggested that a 1.4GHz processor is used and 512MB of RAM is available in the system. These are extremely low requirements for even a 6 year old laptop.
Pro Simple graphics and smooth gameplay
The graphics are very simplistic. If for you the only thing that matters is how fluid the game is(so you want 60+ FPS), this is the game to play.
Cons
Con Old and outdated
With the original release dating back to 1998, the game is quite old now and its graphics are not on par with current game offerings.
Con Lacks widescreen support
Starcraft is only available in a 4:3 resolution. However, a hack to make it work in widescreen can be found here.
Con Graphics look dated
When it was released in 1999, the graphics were top notch, but now they appear rather dated.