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Another vote for Starcraft, either 1 or 2 actually.
An older one to look out for, The Close Combat series, realtime strat, ww2/realistic setting, tight focus on tactics, no real base building/resource harvesting/research. 4 or 5 games in the series, all reasonably worth playing. First of the series was released by Microsoft of all people, but GREAT set of games. Heavily influenced by Advanced Squad Leader from Avalon Hill (for those that are real geeks and also used to play table top wargames).
Lets not forget another of Sid Meier's classics, Alpha Centauri (Civ in space!)
There is also a great series of nearly realtime strategy (it takes a bit of getting used to but the realism rocks!) from an indie publisher called Combat Mission which has a few titles in the series now, fantastic series, check battlefront (dot) com. This game series is very realistic. First series or second series are both great buys, albeit fairly expensive.
As always, any of these games are only really worth playing against a human.
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