Sure linux will play the latest and greatest games out-2-date, yet loading up a decade old game like StarCraft has been a teeth pulling experance. Enough! Check out PlayOnLinux for an (almost) pain free installation AND patch set-up. "PlayOnLinux is a tool to help Linux users run Windows games on linux, via the use of wine. This tool is free and written in bash. [It has a graphical user interface.] It already supports more than 30 games; anyone can help development (by posting new script which allows games to run)."
