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- Platform: Windows XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
- Media: DVD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Little is known about this environment, as its existence is routinely denied by the Coalition. Reports have leaked about it being a mesa above a devastated planet; others say there's some sort of artifactin the area. One thing's for sure: There's been a lot of air and land fighting over it.
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Little is known about this environment, as its existence is routinely denied by the Coalition. Reports have leaked about it being a mesa above a devastated planet; others say there's some sort of artifactin the area. One thing's for sure: There's been a lot of air and land fighting over it.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
After much hype and anticipation it's arrived.
First - you cannot use this gane without a broadband connection. My (rural) broadband is at best 1meg - so before I could start I had to wait for a 5 HOUR dowmload to intialise the game. Oh Joy!!!
Once registered & downloaded I was further dissapointed with the very poor game play - not a patch on the original.
The graphics are great - the game - carp!!
Even to play the stand alone game you have to first connect to the net - stupid. This system means that you have no resale value for the game - when fed up with it ( as I am now) you just have to bin it.
I shall look further in future to ensure any game I purchase does not have to be run via the net - or stay with X Box games. If this is the PC game producers answer to pirates then it (to my mind) will ring the death knell of PC based games.
First - you cannot use this gane without a broadband connection. My (rural) broadband is at best 1meg - so before I could start I had to wait for a 5 HOUR dowmload to intialise the game. Oh Joy!!!
Once registered & downloaded I was further dissapointed with the very poor game play - not a patch on the original.
The graphics are great - the game - carp!!
Even to play the stand alone game you have to first connect to the net - stupid. This system means that you have no resale value for the game - when fed up with it ( as I am now) you just have to bin it.
I shall look further in future to ensure any game I purchase does not have to be run via the net - or stay with X Box games. If this is the PC game producers answer to pirates then it (to my mind) will ring the death knell of PC based games.
48 of 52 people found the following review helpful
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If you still play the original Supreme Commander and/or Forged Alliance on GPG, then my advice to you is to keep playing. Forget that a sequel was ever in the works. Put your wallet away this time.
I've played Supreme Commander 2 for the past 2 days straight, and my verdict is this: It's an absolute and utter betrayal of everybody who stayed on GPG and played Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance up to now, in order to appeal to those who left GPG over the years because the game was too complex, too nuanced and too strategic for their modest abilities to cope with.
Even the largest maps are tiny, and massive armies can be conjured in just a few minutes. No longer can a few stealthed task forces strike like lightning at numerous key targets- some divided by oceans and mountain ranges- to weaken a dominant team's hold on a massive landscape and give your side a glimmer of hope(!). Instead, you build your tank stomp, they build their tank stomp, and the miniscule arena necessitates a head on attack every time. There are *no* strategies or tactics beyond this.
I'm not going to go on, this game is such a disappointment that I can't even summon a good rage. In summary, it's an unfortunate and troubling RTS effort. Gameplay is retro-RTS with none of Starcraft's precision or C&C's charm. Supreme Commander 2 is likely to trade well, all thanks to its predecessor, despite the many overwhelming and impassable shortcomings. Just save your money. Really, really, save your money...
I've played Supreme Commander 2 for the past 2 days straight, and my verdict is this: It's an absolute and utter betrayal of everybody who stayed on GPG and played Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance up to now, in order to appeal to those who left GPG over the years because the game was too complex, too nuanced and too strategic for their modest abilities to cope with.
Even the largest maps are tiny, and massive armies can be conjured in just a few minutes. No longer can a few stealthed task forces strike like lightning at numerous key targets- some divided by oceans and mountain ranges- to weaken a dominant team's hold on a massive landscape and give your side a glimmer of hope(!). Instead, you build your tank stomp, they build their tank stomp, and the miniscule arena necessitates a head on attack every time. There are *no* strategies or tactics beyond this.
I'm not going to go on, this game is such a disappointment that I can't even summon a good rage. In summary, it's an unfortunate and troubling RTS effort. Gameplay is retro-RTS with none of Starcraft's precision or C&C's charm. Supreme Commander 2 is likely to trade well, all thanks to its predecessor, despite the many overwhelming and impassable shortcomings. Just save your money. Really, really, save your money...
37 of 40 people found the following review helpful
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Supreme Commander and its expansion, Forged Alliance are, in my opinion, the bench mark for what any RTS should aspire to. They were clear, concise and complicated and with so many different combinations of tactical and strategic play, were hugely repayable. The game's one flaw was the slow down due to the HUGE map size and unit counts, but this could be remedied by getting a better computer and in time, you would, as the game has been out for years and is still widely played...
Supreme commander 2 solved this slow down problem but as far as I can tell, solved it purely so that the game could be played on the Xbox 360. I'm not going to rant about how multi-platform game development (i.e. games for PC and consoles) has and continues to ruin PC games by limiting the scope of the game due to the available resources on console, but this is the route of all the problems with Supreme Commander 2.
The game has been simplified to such an extent that it's no longer interesting to play. Some of the main problems are: the largest maps are tiny, the single player story is awful, the units are poorly designed, the research/tech tree is superfluous and an irritation, the 'experimental units' are small, weak and may as well be considered normal units, the beautiful subtleties and game play potential of the original have been completely lost. Maybe you have to play the game forgetting the original ever existed, but I am unable to do that because I know what this game could have been.
Save your self the £30, buy Supreme Commander Forged Alliance and see how RTS is supposed to be.
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (PC DVD)
Supreme commander 2 solved this slow down problem but as far as I can tell, solved it purely so that the game could be played on the Xbox 360. I'm not going to rant about how multi-platform game development (i.e. games for PC and consoles) has and continues to ruin PC games by limiting the scope of the game due to the available resources on console, but this is the route of all the problems with Supreme Commander 2.
The game has been simplified to such an extent that it's no longer interesting to play. Some of the main problems are: the largest maps are tiny, the single player story is awful, the units are poorly designed, the research/tech tree is superfluous and an irritation, the 'experimental units' are small, weak and may as well be considered normal units, the beautiful subtleties and game play potential of the original have been completely lost. Maybe you have to play the game forgetting the original ever existed, but I am unable to do that because I know what this game could have been.
Save your self the £30, buy Supreme Commander Forged Alliance and see how RTS is supposed to be.
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (PC DVD)
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great
Great game well worth buying and is a good price. Can play this for hours and not get bored if its your sort of game. Buy and try.
Published 1 month ago by prmdc098
Better than the first!
I don't understand all the bad reviews. This game is better than the first in my opinion.
You definitely get your money's worth playing all factions as usual, UEF, Aeon,... Read more
You definitely get your money's worth playing all factions as usual, UEF, Aeon,... Read more
Published 5 months ago by A.Chez
very good, negative amazon rating is quite harsh.
This game is excellent. I love it. Its a different game from the original, shorter, faster paced and a little more exciting. The research points are great. Read more
Published 5 months ago by John
Lots of fun
Excellent game, spent many an hour trying to find an RTS that is as good as command and conquer. I have all C + C and completed all so wanted to find a new RTS. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mazda6
Its mostly rubbish, mostly.
I really liked the demo of this, and I was looking for my next RTS fix.
I brought this game, and wished I hadn't. Read more
I brought this game, and wished I hadn't. Read more
Published 8 months ago by The GLow
Disapointing sequel
I've bought Supreme Commander 2 because I loved the first 2 versions of the game. I didn't expect much, but what I got was not a sequel worthy of the Supreme Commander name, the... Read more
Published 12 months ago by ManuelFonseca
Skirmish
If you play RTS for the skirmish rather than the single player then get this game. The single player is poor indeed but you do not need to play it. Read more
Published 14 months ago by M. R. Jones
Excellent RTS, great value and replayability
I am a total annihilation fan, a supreme commander 1 fan.. i love building up an invincible base and progressing from there. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. R. Vernon
What was once a great game - now ruined by the Xbox360!
The original games of the first series were superb...literally endless gameplay & amazing graphics provided by a good high-end PC graphics card. Read more
Published 16 months ago by J. Cotton
Unplayable
Another game which is not playable after installing from DVD thanks to Steam. It takes over 50 minutes to perform an "update" after installing from the DVD. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Matt
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