SC3 is not awful, but it's nowhere near decent. The strategic part of the game has no point to it. It doesn't matter how many planets and ships you have, there's no conquest on your part or from your enemies. The situation changes only triggered by scripted events in the adventure. This is a remarkably bad adventure game. The story is below par. Many characters will give the same answer to any of your alternative dialogue options, just to railroad you ahead. You can often have the same conversations over and over again when the situation has changed and the sentences no longer apply to the present. The writers just did not bother in any department. What about the relation of its story to SC2? The Orz, Ur-Quan and Kohr-Ah are now irrelevant. The Precursors... The Syreen are ugly!! The new bad guys (the Crux) are at the same time the (lame) comic relief. This game was just a terribly rushed and botched product in all writing, design, and coding. At least it can't be denied that this game killed the series. In the end it can be played with a straight face from beginning to end, that's why I'm giving it two stars instead of one; but it's just a bad game really.
