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Intuitive but Somewhat Problematic
Supreme Commander breathes new life into the RTS genre. In a field of games that has often been overly reptitive, this game brings new elements to the table. Combining massive maps and gigantic units, Supreme Commander impresses players with its size and scale. <
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>Unfortunately, the game also has its serious shortcomings. The most obvious one is the rediculous performance requirements. To experience this game at its fullest, in a 3v3 or 4v4 match in multiplayer, one must have a very up to date machine. The game fails to run well on most reasonable computers without cranking down the settings to the point where graphically it isnt appealing. Another problem is the environments. They are to be honest quite bland. The pristine looking water is nice, but the landscapes often only feature a few trees and one tileset color. Another issue is that this game doesn't truely have 3-unique sides. Although the units visually are all different, they all fill the exact same role and are very similiar, except for the highest technology experimental units. This makes the game quite balanced out of the box, but it is an easy way out for the developers. The way that every side has a "tech three strategic bomber", or a "tech two cruiser" means that the unit variation only runs skin deep. This means the possible strategies in this game will be very limited compared to other popular RTS games like Warcraft III. Another thing is that while the strategic view is impressive, it really will hurt the game's enjoyment at the competitive level. Advanced players will find themselves using 10 parts base management to 1 part unit control. The game will become one in the omninous "world scale zoom" a group of squares going at another group, while players quickly build more groups of units.The units themselves lack control options and the abilities are very limited. This makes it a macro based game, and in the end it lacks excitement and true player interaction. Gas Powered Games truly succeeded in bringing something new to the table, but has failed to take hints from other successful games that have come out since Supreme Commander's predecessor: Total Anihilation. The result is that Supreme Commander doesn't reach its potential.

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This is such a great RTS!
Supreme Commander has its roots in the old (but great) Total Annihilation game. If you liked TA, you will like Supreme Commander even more. Probably the thing I like the most about this game is the intuitive interface for commanding your forces. Using the mouse-wheel it allows you seamlessly zoom in/out of the battlefield. But, the cool addition is that wherever your cursor is located; the scroll automatically zooms to the coordinate. I wish Google Earth would implement that feature too! I've only played the demo, but the tech trees are intuitive and seem to be fairly well balanced. Like others have said Supreme Commander uses the same type of ranking system that was used in the highly successful HALO2 online play. This system is based on the ELO statistical system, which was originally created for chess rankings, but works quite well with online games! I truly enjoy auto-matching with equivalently skilled players much better than "join a server and hope your good enough" online play. <
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>The only downside I can see to this game is if you do not have a fairly high-performance system, you may have difficulty running this game. So, I would recommend running the demo before you buy the game to make sure your system can handle it at the level of detail you would like to play it. <
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>Have fun!

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Demo is available
Go check out the demo on the Supreme Commander website. Can't wait for my full copy to get here in the mail.