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awesome... if you can handle it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a huge scale RTS, with literally hundreds of units on screen at any given time. But, as you might have guessed, requires a computer system thats outrageous. My brand new computer (custom built, better than alienware) can only handle the full graphics if there is less than 400 units total... and i've seen games where there were 8000 units total. the only other drawback, I think, is there is no such thing as a "quick game" or supreme commander. even one on one games can last an hour. but if you can handle the power, this is the game for you/

SUPCOM is amazing, if you can run it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Supreme Commander is one of the best RTSs on the market and is incredibly sophisticated. The game itself, with the exception of the weak storyline, is absolutely amazing. The problem I faced is that I have a brand new laptop with a dual core processor that is 1.8 ghz and 2 gb of ram and a very nice video and sound card, but I still had to drop the settings in order to reduce the lag. The game didn't look nearly as nice, but I wanted to be able to play the game. If you've got the system for it, there's no better RTS, otherwise, play an old C & C.

PIXEL WARS!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 23
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is not good. I don't know how else to put it. I honestly am just astounded that people DO find it fun. It makes me feel like I'm missing something. To begin with, the interface is awful. You have to continually zoom in and zoom out because the minimap is worthless. maps are huge. There is no real differentiation between factions. It feels like they just skinned them differently and voila!
Now to my major complaint. The game is not fun.
First off, the units are too small. This would be ok if you could zoom in and rotate the camera around, but, being intelligent they decided to limit camera control to ZOOM IN SO MUCH YOU CANT SEE and ZOOM OUT SO THAT YOU'RE FIGHTING WITH PIXELS OF COLOR. Unfortunately that is really the only way to fight. If you zoom in in the slightest you are unable to really see the map. Next, Hey, I'm a game that requires a ridiculous computer for some reason. you see, I have bland textures and graphics that are not anything to write home about. plus you'll see a lot of those bland map textures because the game has you walking for ages to engage in a battle because the maps are so ridiculously large.
Time spent walking to battle; 3 minutes
Time battling: 30 seconds
Total amount of fun: 0 Seconds.
If you want something fun to play and don't need "flashy" graphics, aka an excuse to get into a computer war, "MY COMPUTER RUNS SUPREME COMMANDER MAXED, DOES YOURS?!?!", go play starcraft or warcraft or C+C. Hell, Company of Heroes got it right with wonderful maps, balanced factions, and gorgeous graphics. Go play anything but this game.

Amazingly fun RTS - a fit "spiritual sequel" to TA...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: March 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Graphics are amazing, sound is wonderful. Ability to zoom to ground level on any unit, anywhere and back out to complete overview.

With huge maps (64000+ sq km), 3 completely separate single player campaigns and the ability to have massive battles involving up to 8 players - this is the RTS to own/play in 2007.

Love RTS? Miss Starcraft and TA? GET SupCom (supreme commander) today

Supreme Commander

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like RTS gaming, you'll love this one. Reminds me of the old Command and Conquer series modernized with new features and graphics.

Simply Amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is very well done, the zoom is the coolest thing to be used in an RTS in years, it totally puts the minimap to shame, and the beauty is how big the maps can get, simply amazing, tons of units, air, land, naval, simply amazing.

Total Annihilation comes to XP and Vista

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: April 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think total annihilation was one of the best games made.
I loved coming home after a long day at work and Nuke the whole dam world.
Great that it finally got ported to XP/Vista at Supreme Commander and the dual screen support makes it just about right. Wish I had a quadcore when the fighting gets intense because it slows down a bit. Still worth the wait.

Dual Core Sysems Only

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you don't have dual core don't buy this game. You can play the game on single core but you won't be able to complete the campaign due to the last few levels being massive with several thousand units attacking at once. You also won't be able to play the large maps or play more then one AI at a time. Don't try playing against more then one person online as well or play online with large maps.

If you have a ATI x1900 or Nvidia 7900 or better and have dual core then this game will be the best game RTS you can play on the computer, especially online. Two gigs of ram will be needed for playing large maps against multiple opponents as well.

When I say large I mean these maps are the biggest maps you will see in an RTS for some time to come. That means thousands of units and scouting threw the fog of war to find forward bases.

SUPREME DUD

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If there was ever an example of an over-hyped game, SUPREME COMMANDER takes the cake (with BIOSHOCK a close second).

I get suspicious when a game receives so many "raving" reviews from gaming magazines and IT sites, yet people who bought it cannot get rid of it quick enough: look how many misinformed and disillusioned customers are selling their used copies for a pittance.

SupCom sports huge maps - of...undifferentiated landscape. Low mountains, hills and plains are just colored patches as in no way do they affect the movements of the units! So what is the use of a big map in a "Strategy" game if the landscape plays no role in the gameplay?

I have a fairly good PC system (3.2MHz P4, 2GB RAM, 256MB 7600GT GX-Card on an ASUS P800 MB) and as long as the number of units were below a couple of hundred I experienced no syncopated sound, stuttering or freezing. As the game progressed though, and the number of units increased, all of the above made their gradual appearance. And the quality of the graphics in NO way can it justify such system drainage!

Zooming in is an empty treat: sure, one can zoom in almost as much as with C&C3, and they did pay attention in the detailed design of the units and explosions. However, with such huge maps, no actual maneuvering is possible unless one zooms OUT enough to have an overview of the battlefield - and this only happens when, instead of units, the only thing visible are their info-tags. This is what we are left moving around: rectangular, pixelated info-tags...

Balanced? Are you kidding? Pokemon is more balanced than SupCom! Hell, good old Rock-Paper-Scissors is more balanced than SupCom!

Frustrating? Try ordering a group of tanks to attack an enemy unit about to destroy a structure of yours: they 'll take their sweet time about it! I guess they are in a union and no one can do anything about it...

I cannot even begin to imagine what they packaged into the 9GB(!!!) it takes up on the HD. The three campaigns differ in name only. Replayability? Only by someone else. If bored to death. And then, only for less than an hour.

My advice: Pass.
Instead, replay LOTR-BATTLE FOR MIDDLE EARTH or even EMPEROR: BATTLE FOR DUNE. They are much better games.

Great game - no complaints.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've had a blast playing this on a modest system. I can't see why people are saying you need a $10,000 brand new PC with dual monitors to play and enjoy this game - IT SIMPLY ISN'T True!

Buy it, play it, love it. I did and I haven't regretted it since.

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