Advantages: Great visuals, groundbreaking scale, and superb gameplay Disadvantages: High end system required for best performance
Games like Supreme Commander, it is safe to say, do not come around very often. The enormous hype, anticipation, and mass hysteria that has surrounded this game since its announcement is a testament to its rarity. After a few years of no real improvement and few new benchmarks, real-time strategy needed a game like Supreme Commander. It needed it not just to push the boundaries, but to shove them violently to the wayside in a moment of awesome gaming splendour, mocking the memory of everything that has come before, and setting the standard for years to come.
In its size and scale, this game is groundbreaking; in its visual quality and presentation, it is stunning; and in its gameplay it is unrivalled in the genre. For the hardcore fan of real-time strategy and the average gamer alike, Supreme Commander is a must. Innovative, engaging ...
Advantages: Great insights, highly motivating Disadvantages: Some elements were staged
All things considered, Arnold Schwarzenegger has had an interesting life. He arrived in America with almost no money and barely able to speak a word of English, then through sheer hard work and determination went on to win bodybuilding's biggest title a record-breaking seven times, became arguably the greatest action movie star of all time and got elected as the governor of California. Clearly you don't achieve all that without having something a little special, and Pumping Iron gives us an insight into this.
It's 1975 and Arnold Schwarzenegger is preparing to defend his Mr Olympia title for the sixth time in a row. He's been king of the hill for the last five years, but now there's new competition in the shape of Lou Ferrigno - a massive 6'5" bodybuilder who is younger, bigger and hungry for success. The documentary charts their ...
Advantages: Graphics, Gameplay, Storyline, Campaigns, Skirmish, Zoom, Technology - What more do I have to say Disadvantages: NONE
When Supreme Commander came out it started selling for around £29.99 so I left it a while for the price to come down and managed to get at £15 (bargain). It comes on a single DVD.
Ins and Outs of the Game
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Supreme Commander is a futurist based strategy game offering three main campaigns on the campaign mode or offering multiplayer game play over the internet. Each campaign offers six main missions coinciding with the current story line from these different points of view. Each campaign represents a race of man kind which is the United Earth Federation, Cybran and the Aeon.
- Game History/Storyline
The United Earth Federation is what has been built from the remains of the utopian Earth that used to be before war broke out. The Cybran empire are a race of androids/humans that want to survive been ...
