Supreme Commander 2- PC

Excellent.

This game is awesome. I’ve played several games against the AI, online and the campaign and I had a ton of fun. I see that a lot of people are upset about the all the things that are different than the original supreme commander. I think a lot of the changes were great and that forged alliance kind of showed that they were heading to changes that are part of supreme commander 2(like weakening the experimenal units compared to the first game where they destroyed almost anything instantly). In forged alliance experimentals moved much faster but did considerably less damage and died faster than the experimentals in the original supreme commander, one thing that was kind of nice but that also made playing the first one enjoyable when I really wanted to feel like I was controlling units with complete superiority.

Exeperimentals can act either way in supreme commander 2. Get an experimental as fast as you can and it will destroy everyone in front of it (by the way since the release of the game experimentals power has been increased to FA levels, before updates they were overwhelming weak, I agree). As the game goes on, units are updated on both sides and experimentals can’t take everyone by themselves anymore, so later in the games you will normally see experimentals mixed with all sort of units. That is one of the best things about supreme commander 2, unlike its predecessor, it allows all units to be played at any moment in the game rather than having T1 units that were part of the game for the first 10 minutes or less and T2 units that sometimes wouldn’t even be part of the game at all and T3 units and experimentals that would be used for the rest of the game. Now it is harder to see someone just turtling their way up to high tech levels building only defenses and spending 25 min of the game just focused on building and waiting for upgrades to finish. Some people complained that in the previous game all races were the same just wearing a different skin. This was definitely fixed in SupCom 2. True that the basic units are pretty much the same with different skins until you can reach some of their unique upgrades but Experimentals are more unique and numerous than ever. No longer you only have 3 or 4 (FA) experimental units to make but a bunch.

The game is pure action from the beginning to the end and although there are some weak defense structures there are upgrades that allows all sort of structures to attack the enemy and energy generators to auto repair all of your base structures making them really tough to destroy. This game is awesome and you will see that when you get a fully upgraded commander capable of taking down experimentals rather than being on the backstage of the battle for the whole game like in supreme commander 1 and forged alliance. The maps are indeed smaller as said in other reviews and this is a bad point for me but after beating some games and the campaign I can tell that it works because it makes constant battle possible since units don’t have to move to another part of the map for ages. Also with the latest DLC you can play some pretty huge maps if you really want to. One thing that I didn’t like is that the maps don’t have a consistent texture quality, some maps look terrible when you zoom in a lot and others look great but you can fix that downloading a high texture patch mod that will make them all look great. This is an acquired taste that proves to be better in the end. Supreme commander 2 and 1 are awesome and I find myself playing both of them frequently depending on what I want. If I want to feel like I’m battling to take control of an entire planet I play the first one. If I want a much faster game and feel like I’m battling for control of really key areas and facilities I play the second one. If you just want to use the SupCom 2 experimentals with the units from the first one you can just download mods that can give them all and more to you, some even give you the previous economy system.

By the way this game runs much better than the previous one and can support more units before any lag is visible.

Summarizing it:

PRO:
Factions more Unique and more experimentals
Game runs and plays faster than previous one
Mods can give you all you had in the first one plus the new stuff (if you want)
Adjustments made since release have pumped up AI, a lot, and made experimentals about as powerful as they were in FA
Can play either really large (DLC) maps or small ones

Con:
Some ugly maps (fixable through mods and texture patches)
Campaign story is super cheesy so if you thought the story of the campaign of the first one wasn’t that great this one isn’t either.

This game is lots and lots of fun.

Delivery time was three weeks from the UK. Very impressed with game: level of detail, complexity and compelling draw

This is the best strategie game RTS of all time and i realy enjoie this games
So mush fun and easy