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3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 16
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've bought the game, but have not received it yet to be able to play and judge based on that (hence the 3 stars seems Amazon won't allow unrated). However, I see a lot of complaints in here about "uniqueness" and feel obligated to point something out to them, and to people who haven't bought it yet.

Simply put, if you're looking for a RTS game that is unique, both compared to other games and its own factions against eachother, this is not the game you're looking for. The game was designed to be the "spiritual" successor to a 1997 game, Total Annihilation. Most of the things in this game will be very similar to that one, only upgraded due to our level of technoligy today. Total Annihilation had 2 factions, both of them being near equivalant to each other aside from looks. There were minor variations between the two, such as firepower, speed, or attack range, but other wise whatever one faction had, the other had a twin.

So again, this game was designed to be a successor to Total Annihilation, and those of you who want a unique game are not going to get what you want from this one. The only reason why it isn't called Total Annihilation 2 is due to legallity issues, with the original designers having lost the copyright on it when their original company got bought out by another one.

T. A. fans will be disappointed.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: June 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Total Annihilation fans: this is not a new and improved version of T.A. I tried single player skirmish. The zoom viewing is pretty neat, but the maps are boring and their terrain, including graphics, is mediocre. The screen movement is jerky and the maps blur while you move across. The mini map is not as good as the T.A. one. The assignment lines showing unit routes are awkward and confusing. I was disappointed. It was a waste of money. No doubt there will be a lot of used ones for sale.

Not pleased...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After being a Total Annihilation junky years ago, I decided to give Supreme Commander a try. The game has a large selection of units and the AI is very sofisticated (it took me three or four tries before I beat the skirmish on Hard). The problem is my brand new laptop had trouble running it.

The Best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've played many games, but this is by far the best! The graphics is great, the scale of the game is awesome. Strategy is very important, you have to plan well what kind of army, navy and air force you want, to win the game. Once you have the right mix, go for it and enjoy watching your units battle it out with the enemy!

Could Be Great, But...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game could be great, but when grouping large varied armies and attempting to move them in formation the pace at which they travel is painfully slowwwwwwww. I've seen paint dry faster. All it takes is one slow unit and the whole pack moves at that pace. I know the game designers were trying to make it realistic, but I say...BE A THINKER...making it fun is more important than real. Duh! If you do get this game be sure to group up like units or send in the slowest ones 15 minutes early so that they get there when you send the fast moving ones or just play Warcraft III. Even Starcraft...a 10 year old game is better thought out than this.

Aside from that one maddening detail it is actually quite fun...especially if you have a 32 inch screen to play it on. You'll need the extra space to view your planes and ground troops. Some of the units fire at such an incredibly long range that you have to pan back so far to see the volley. Once you do pan back the unit firing is so small you can't identify it...so you pan back in. Then you have to pan back out and then in again to get to the units under fire and give them commands. The panning or zooming in and out is endless and annoying.

This game has such potential and they really blew it.

Stupid Stars aint working!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok the stars are not working... So its rated 5/5 for fun and Overal. I love TA and waited what seams like forever for this game to come around. Its a bit demanding, but once you have a pc that can handle it, its a great experiance. It has many diffrent units, big maps, an ok story, and looks pretty. Very Modable, so there is alot of content for it around the web. I like Command and Conquer 3, but SupCom takes the gold hands down. CnC3 just like the rest of the gameline, does not have enough unit variation to keep me entertained (same w/ warcraft n starcraft). This game has alot of units to start with, but with the people out there moding it, there are alot more for grabs! So this is a no brainer when it comes to buying it... i hope forged alliance will expand even more on this great game.

Supreme commander

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game. I was a big fan of Total Annihilation and this takes the best aspects and combines them with new ideas and pulls it off well!

The game title is wrong. Should be "Supreme Economist"

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There are a few very excellent gameplay reviews about SupCom here in Amazon so I guess I can conveniently skip that.

Here I want to talk about more about other aspect:

1: Technically broken. This game technically broken. Only the last patch renders my game playable online. Before that, all my online matches consist of hangs and crashes and famous "quiet time bug". Amazingly, single player is fine.
If you installed some mod or other stuff, remember to remove them EACH TIME you install a patch and WAIT FOR UPDATED MOD.
GPGnet patch is a pain. Usually you have to download the patch manually and run it to prevent patching bugs that make you unable to run GPGnet.
I'm running Vista on a decent setup: Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM and 7900GS graphic card. Now stop thinking Vista sucks because if you think this way you obviously never tried Vista. I'm using Vista now and I can tell you I run all my games without any problem.

2: Master of Economics. By reading the community forums, you'll soon discover that top players always chanting that this game is not about strategy, it's about economics. All forum posts about balancing/tactics/strategy are calculations of Mass/Energy consumption and cost/performance ratio.
Now this is confusing. I bought this game for RTS, Real-Time Strategy. I understand economic is important but why it is more important than tactic/strategy? By watching top players replays, I realized why don't Chris Taylor rename this game to SupEcom?

This, together with some other excellent reviews here in Amazon, should give you some insight about general players' experience.

Best Real Time Strategy Game this year!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excellent interface. Plays fast and keeps you involved. It demands a lot of power, so expect to upgrade your system if you are not up to date (today is Jan 2008). You'll need at least a 2GHz processor with a Gig of ram (unless you made the mistake of buying Vista. Then you'll need a 3GHz processor and 2 Gig of RAM). The graphics are top notch so make sure that you have a gaming video card with 512Meg of RAM. I haven't found any bugs and have never locked up while playing, so the programmers did a great job. [Nothing like MicroShaft's "Age of Empires" -God, what an abortion that is!]
This has the feel of StarCraft with better animation and far more challanging computer simulation. There are three waring factions, each with their own tech upgrades. No need to sit and read the manual, just jump in and play the tutorial for a few minutes and your ready to go.
If you are only going to buy one game this year, get this one!

Overall a good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big C&C fan myself. I found after I got a more up to date computer that the game was very user friendly and playable. You tend to do a lot of zooming in and out of the screens as the battles go on. I've found my bases which were located in different areas being destroy and had no warnings or alerts about it being attacked. So I would have to say it high-pasted.

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