The Cybran are robotic/cybernetic people with insect like units. Similarly, the characters are all morally ambiguous people living in giant space suits with no real urgency or importance given to each faction. The units are all futuristic robots fighting each other-you won’t see any blood or organic matter (save some grass) in the entirety of the battlefield. If there has ever been a flaw to Taylor’s games it’s that there’s too much uniformity to the units and not enough emotional weight to the story. While the missions are challenging and take hours to complete, the characters, voice acting, and story are all forgettable. Finally you play as Ivan Brackman, a cybernetic composite of several people who is trying to help his friends and still fight for his “father,” the leader of the cybernetic Cybran nation. Next you play as a rogue Illuminate brother and sister who are angry at their own government for what they see to be its oppression. You start as the UEF commander Maddox who ends up rebelling against the oppressive and bigoted faction in order to protect his Illuminate wife and family. But without larger contextual cutscenes, everything feels like designed battlefields. Supreme Commander 2’s story focuses on three commanders from the differing factions and their personal struggles to see justice done in a galaxy at war. You’ll be doing your fair share of resource gathering by extracting mass and producing electricity, but you can only extract mass from specific, tactically-important sources. There are also tanks, robots, air units, naval units, hovercraft, experimental units, amphibious units, nuclear bombs, and experimental structures. All three factions start with an ACU, which is a building unit/mech that has a great defensive system but is often essential to keep intact in order to win any mission. This of course means that build-orders and micromanaging are extremely important in Supreme Commander 2, even more so than in games likeĬommand & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars ( ). You also don’t have just one build unit, but can train slews of engineers to build your armies and bases in no time. While other games will present you with a mini map of the entire battlefield, with Supreme Commander, you can zoom in and out and actually see the entire battlefield from a God-like vantage point or zoom in and see individual units attack and defend.
That 200-unit cap you see with other sci-fi RTS? Pfft.
SUPREME COMMANDER 2 BEST FACTION SERIES
The Supreme Commander series still puts the “epic” in real-time strategy. Gas Powered Games has always been unafraid of scale. Now that I’ve spoken like a true bitter fan boy for the first part of this review, let me explain why Supreme Commander 2 is still an exceptional game. Any map with a body of water now makes little sense to play with the Illuminate. I also have no idea why the designers chose to eliminate the Illuminate’s (one of the three factions) entire naval force. Now since research points can be allocated to the tech tree of your choice, you can essentially “research rush” a specific force (land, sea, or air) and have an unbalanced, but tactically superior force in no time. While the game still looks great and on my iMac i7, never hiccupped even when engaged in full-scale battles with hundreds of units, it’s disappointing to see that the maps are generally smaller and the battle systems so genuinely altered.įor a series that is built on balance and flexibility, there are also some strange design choices that reduce your strategy options. Supreme Commander 2 cuts out many of the units from the first game, simplifies the research system, and even manages to reduce the scale all the while being less graphically complex. So, yes, fans of the series will be disappointed. It’s important to understand the back-story on the game because traditionally speaking, this is a series of games meant for a very specific, dedicated real time strategy audience.
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