At a time when the genre seems obsessed with reducing the number of units players control, Gas Powered Games has been brave enough to stick to its guns. As your base and army grows and the battle expands to span multiple fronts, SupCom 2’s strategic brilliance comes to the fore. In the game, scrolling down with the mouse wheel zooms out, as it does in all RTS games, but you can keep on going… and going… and going… until your units are mere blue blips and missiles are nothing more than slow-moving pixels. There’s no need to panic.įor example, SupCom’s trademark “Strategic Mode” has been faithfully retained. The same can be said for base building – again, streamlined – but at a time when so few RTSs even have base building, SupCom’s spirit is still strongly felt. Resource gathering – in this case extracting “mass” – is an easier process, but by virtue of it merely existing, the game differs in comparison with so many recent rivals.
So, while the number of units you have to play with has been reduced, the scale of Supreme Commander 2 still stands out as huge. But, and this is an important but, Gas Powered Games is doing it without compromise.
With the upcoming sequel, due out next month on PC and Xbox 360, developer Gas Powered Games is affecting a change that should make the over-the-top sci-fi metal on metal smash-em-up more palatable to modern tastes. “The Times They Are A-Changin’.”Īnd so is Supreme Commander, for many the last bastion of the hardcore RTS. Replacing them are squads of units, levelling up and fast-paced, story-driven action pioneered by the likes of Relic’s Company of Heroes and Dawn of War series. The old ways – the mind-bending resource gathering, complex base-building and gargantuan army management of yesteryear – are falling out of favour with modern tastes. The real-time strategy genre is in a state of flux.
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