Supreme Commander (Supreme Commander (PC))

Member Name: sharpe106

Product:	Supreme Commander (PC)
Date:	09/03/09 (44 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good game

Disadvantages: none

Supreme Commander is a real-time strategy for the PC and was released in 2007. You can play the game both single player and multiplayer. The game is rated 10+.

Game Play

The game is set in the future in the 37th century and you can play as one of three nations, the Aeon Illuminate, the Cybran Nation, or the United Earth Federation. The war between the nations has already been fighting for over 1000 years and it is your mission to bring the war to the end. The war is fought on different colonies.

The main part of the game is the single player where you play as each one of the different nations, each story is different and giving a different ending from there point of view. You start of each level with giant bipedal machine called the Armoured Command Unit (ACU), which can be used to build you base, build and design new technology, if you lose this unit you usually lose the level. The resource collection has been kept basic so you do not need to worry about getting several different resources all you need to collect is energy and mass.

Each side has over 80 different units to choose from and plenty of structures to build. There is land, naval and air units available to build. The background music to the game is pretty good.

Controls/Graphics

The graphics and the level of detail are very good although with lots of units it can sometimes slow down the game a bit. The controls is mainly mouse and keyboard for short cuts but the keys are pretty easy to remember and use, you can set them to your own choice if you like.

Difficulty

The AI is pretty good and has been well designed the basics of the game is easy but it is fairly hard to master and the game is pretty hard to complete.

Multiplayer

You can play up to eight people online over a wide choice of maps and you can the play the campaigns co-op as well with another player.


Value for Money

A very good strategy game that is well written, has plenty of choice and lots of levels, when you add the multiplayer into the game there is plenty of game play. Although to play the game at its best you will need a good PC on lower settings the game is nowhere near as impressive.

Additional Information


The game also comes with a map and mission editor which allows you to build your own missions, there is plenty of new missions that have been made by fans of the game to download and play that are really good.





System Requirements

The main problem with Supreme Commander is that with it being so graphically it needs a really good pc to be able to keep the game running at a good speed when you have hundreds of units on the screen at the same time.

Minimum

Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
1.8 GHz processor
512 MB RAM
8 GB HDD space
128 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics Card
Keyboard
Mouse

Recommended

Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
3 GHz processor
1 MB RAM
10 GB HDD space
Nvidia 6800 or better

Difficulty - 9 out of 10
Game play - 9out of 10
Graphics - 10 out of 10
Multiplayer - 9 out of 10
Story - 8 out of 10
Value - 9 out of 10
Overall - 9 out of 10

Summary: a good strategy game with great graphics