Though you can battle it out on "small" maps that are a mere 5km-by-5km, the average maps are 20km-by-20km large, and the largest maps weigh in at a whopping 81km-by-81km. The game's biggest asset is its sheer size, which is measured in virtual kilometers.
Each faction fights for what it believes in, and hence, no side is really "evil." It's a nice touch, because that mentality captures the essence of war. Unlike those in most other RTS games, where all three campaigns would usually be tied together in a linear fashion to tell a bigger story, the campaigns in Supreme Commander all stand alone. The single-player campaign is divided into three smaller campaigns, letting you battle from the perspective of each of the factions. The United Earth Federation represents order and empire, the cybernetic Cybran fight for independence, while the alien-enlightened Aeon seek to liberate the universe. Supreme Commander is set in the distant future, and humanity has split into three competing factions. Now Playing: Supreme Commander Video Review Though set in the future, Supreme Commander is very much a game about modern strategy, as you'll command tanks, aircraft, battleships, and much, much more.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Instead of raising one battle group and racing across a small battlefield, you can raise multiple air, land, and sea battle groups and toss them at the enemies, or ferry an army via air transport around their defenses and land them in the rear, or send wave after wave of bombers to cripple their strategic defenses and then unleash nuclear hellfire upon them, or do much, much more. This is a game that's less concerned with the aesthetics of combat than it is with capturing a sense of awesome scale, though it does look amazing when armies clash. Instead, the long-awaited strategy game from Gas Powered Games is everything that was promised. Well, Supreme Commander isn't that kind of game. The battlefields never feel that large, and the focus is more on economics and tactics than it is on actual strategy. As such, the scale of RTS games has stayed mostly the same over the past decade.
When it comes to real-time strategy games, few developers have followed the philosophy that bigger is better.
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