5punk

Supreme Commander (12+)

Most of you won't have noticed but I have recently bought Supreme commander, and have had time to have a bit of a play test. There are 3 different box sets available from each major online retailer (Play, Game and Amazon). Each box comes with a few bits and pieces centred around one of the factions, such as a poster, a postcard type thing and also a DVD with various videos, pictures etc.

The factions

As I mentioned earlier there are 3 factions. There is the UEF (United Earth Federation), Cybran Nation and the Aeon Illuminate. All three have similar tech trees and the only real difference is in the way that the units look. The UEF is basically an Earth government looking to reunite the universe as much of the human population is spread out over vast galaxies. The Cybran Nation is essentially made of cyborg-type people who were shunned by the old governments of earth and escaped to form their own. Also there is the mysterious Aeon Illuminate who are a human cult which glorified an ancient extinct alien race and looked to impress their ways on the rest of the universe.

Gameplay

From what I have played of this it feels much like total annihilation. Battles are swift and most units have just one purpose (anti-ground, anti-air and anti-sea). Resources are based around a similar system to total anihilation too with only Mass (collected from certain locations on the map) and energy (created via power plants).

Graphics

The graphics are pretty swish, from the missiles to the giant factory behemoth you can build. It does however draw quite a few resources and I found on high settings it was mushing even my ATI1900XTX. Plenty of options to turn down for you penny pinchers (dollar pinchers in deject's case)

Ok, finally to the conclusion... I'd say if you were a fan of total anihilation or of any modern RTS game you will enjoy this. Reasonably priced at £24.99 (for a brand new game) I can see plenty of 5punkers enjoying this game whether its for beating up the AI or fellow gamers.

just had a play on this. just managed to build an huge base, with losts of defences and stuff. but seeing as i was in the sandbox mode, i had no enemy, and got bored. so i got the fleet of 5 tactical missile submarines that i'd built, and spammed my own base with all 20 nukes.


z0MG! Shiney! and no one was spared, not even the childrens

I find myself wanting to play this, but I know I'll get thrashed by the computer about three levels in and never play it again.

I'm halfway through sweeping it, not a big fan of RTS in general but I have the desire to make my graphics card cry with the dual screen mode

Actually, I can get dual screen working on my aging machine quite acceptably.

Totally changes the game. I really didnt like it untill I got dual monitors going.

I'm actually very impresed with this, I don't usually enjoy RTS games but this one really drew me in despite the complexity.

The dual screen option makes such a difference, it makes it much easier to control all your units and know whats going on all over the map. Although one option I'd like is to be able to click on the overview map on the 2nd monitor and have the main screen go to that location (unless I've just not figured out how do that!)

Ran fine on my PC, well except for when I reached the unit cap and charged them all into the enemy base at once, it went a bit... wonky.

Definitely give it a go with dual screen if you have the option, otherwise I'd probably get frustrated with having too many units to manage

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