Moreover, Blizzard Entertainment managed to catch lightning in a bottle twice when they released StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty. RELATED: 10 Ways Grand Strategy Games Change Your View Of World Leaders The original game, StarCraft, won a multitude of awards upon release, including Strategy Game Of The Year by GameSpot and Real-Time Strategy Game Of The Year by PC Gamer. Another popular type of RTS game is futuristic science-fiction, a category that has been dominated by Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft series. This success has been helped in no small part by the diverse range of settings that the games take place the genre has seen WW2 shooters, mythical battles, and Ancient Egyptian warfare. The real-time strategy genre has been a cornerstone of PC gaming for multiple decades.
