Let me start off first with saying that any game that lets me kills lots of robots with a sweeping laser blast has got to be great. Of coarse I am talking about Supreme Commander which my idle hands just got their fingers on the demo. This game brings alot of new things onto the table of rts, which I haven't seen in a long time. One of my favorite new innovations they brought with them is the ability to scroll in and out of the map to a satellite view or about 50 meters above ground level. The other main favorite of the new ideas is the shield emitters maybe not all that new but still wicked to use. It is good to see that in our world there are still new ideas out there in the world. One of my pet peeves in rts games is that so many out there are if I have a massive army and you just got a small ultimate troops, you are still screwed, supreme commander decides to change that by alot.
I was playing my first battle, barely knowing what I was doing just building things that really for all I know could be the restroom. When I started to get a handle on thing I build two artillery weapons and some shields around them for support, well the A.I. didn't like this so much so it moved it army at me, from what I thought was a massive number of building were units and they seemed to just keep coming. I thought "I am so fucked" so they reach a small army of guys which if the army had a name would be guys I thought looked cool. They take them out fast but we do a bit of damage but he had at least 90% of his army left. I had built a bomber because well it was an option, with this bomber, I see if it can do any kind of damage to an army. Well I found out it was a tactical bomber in which if you see this thing coming at you, you go shit yourself because when the bombs drop groups of guys go bye bye in seconds. The bomber is flying around hitting his forces and taking out chunks but there is still about half his army to deal with and I have nothing left except a couple of artillery pieces. What I didn't know was that this thing had splash damage and one of them fired fast over and over again. With the help of some low level turrets his about a 100 robot army is wiped of the army and the next shot my artillery takes hits their commander and I win the game in nuclear show off of destruction. I'm still not sure how I won that game but that what tells me it is great.
Its a game where you an your opponent might be having a cold war but when you or your enemy make it hot you can send in everything you got, and it could seem that his army is destroying yours but his side could be just as easily hurt and you won't really know. You also might have it when one of you are almost dead but on a small island you have a clock shield to make yourself invisible to their radar and a small shield building a experimental unit that can drop all kinds of hell on your enemy. Let me say one thing that this games experimental units kick ass, one looks like a spider but one that can sweep and kill hoards of guys, another looks like a tick but one that could wipe a city off of the face of the earth. The last, well when you see it you go what am I building but once built it opens it's what I call death things and well fire large artillery rounds at an enemy but at about 3 seconds intervals which is just fun to see.
Buy this game anyway you can, go into you couch, mug people, maybe even trade few games for it, you will find it so worth it and if not then use the left over money to get into a psych ward. oh and it supports duel screen so you can have one screen you normal rts but the other in satellite mode or deep in a combat area.
I was playing my first battle, barely knowing what I was doing just building things that really for all I know could be the restroom. When I started to get a handle on thing I build two artillery weapons and some shields around them for support, well the A.I. didn't like this so much so it moved it army at me, from what I thought was a massive number of building were units and they seemed to just keep coming. I thought "I am so fucked" so they reach a small army of guys which if the army had a name would be guys I thought looked cool. They take them out fast but we do a bit of damage but he had at least 90% of his army left. I had built a bomber because well it was an option, with this bomber, I see if it can do any kind of damage to an army. Well I found out it was a tactical bomber in which if you see this thing coming at you, you go shit yourself because when the bombs drop groups of guys go bye bye in seconds. The bomber is flying around hitting his forces and taking out chunks but there is still about half his army to deal with and I have nothing left except a couple of artillery pieces. What I didn't know was that this thing had splash damage and one of them fired fast over and over again. With the help of some low level turrets his about a 100 robot army is wiped of the army and the next shot my artillery takes hits their commander and I win the game in nuclear show off of destruction. I'm still not sure how I won that game but that what tells me it is great.
Its a game where you an your opponent might be having a cold war but when you or your enemy make it hot you can send in everything you got, and it could seem that his army is destroying yours but his side could be just as easily hurt and you won't really know. You also might have it when one of you are almost dead but on a small island you have a clock shield to make yourself invisible to their radar and a small shield building a experimental unit that can drop all kinds of hell on your enemy. Let me say one thing that this games experimental units kick ass, one looks like a spider but one that can sweep and kill hoards of guys, another looks like a tick but one that could wipe a city off of the face of the earth. The last, well when you see it you go what am I building but once built it opens it's what I call death things and well fire large artillery rounds at an enemy but at about 3 seconds intervals which is just fun to see.
Buy this game anyway you can, go into you couch, mug people, maybe even trade few games for it, you will find it so worth it and if not then use the left over money to get into a psych ward. oh and it supports duel screen so you can have one screen you normal rts but the other in satellite mode or deep in a combat area.
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