Supreme Commander - Groundbreaking

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...

smooth_criminal_ 17.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Supreme Commander (PC)

Wing Commander.

Advantages: A good Sci-Fi film.
Disadvantages: None

...Wing Commander = A well thought out and superbly acted movie. It is set in the mid 27th century and the earth is at war with well basically Aliens, (The Felinoid Kilrathi Empire). The Empire launches a surprise attack on earth and it falls to our heroes to defend the earth until reinforcements arrive. They find themselves under fierce attack and are massively outnumbered but they valiantly fight on. The film has plenty of special effects and at time is a bit Star War-y. The battle scenes are quite spectacular and it is suspenseful and the accompanying music is complimentary to the plot scenes. This film was in the same vein as star ship troopers and had that little cheesy aspect but to be honest it was fun to watch. The special effects where quite good, the acting as previously stated good and the whole movie...

MaldivesHoliday 11.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Wing Commander (DVD)

Command & Conquer Step Aside!

Advantages: Highly addictive gameplay, hours of value
Disadvantages: No base creation

...If your familiar to game playing the title Command & Conquer will at the least be vaguely familiar to you; you cannot help but compare Field Commander to Command & Conquer. I guess the question to ask is if Field Commander is any better than Command & Conquer? When I decided I wanted a PSP one of the top purchases on my buying schedule was Field Commander, regardless of all the other style games I enjoy my favourite has to be turned based strategy games. The plot is simple, you have to control an army of soldiers and there vehicles on a variety of missions. Unlike Command & Conquer which was a similar style, Field Commander gives you much more playability through a grand total of 76 missions in basic mode alone; but the playability does not end there, you can play others in your vicinity with PSP consoles (and the game) or connect to...

sghawken 29.08.2006 · Read review
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Supreme Commander

Advantages: Awesome online, graphics awesome
Disadvantages: Poor Single Player Game

...Name of the game: Supreme Commander Platform: PC Genre: Real Time Strategy My Points: 8 Comments.: One of the best RTS games to hit the computer gaming world in years Supreme Commander is the spiritual successor of the smash hit RTS game Total Annihilation; both games are creations of Chris Taylor. This game has it all for hardcore strategy gamers. First things first this game is massive. It?s Epic. You can command up to 500 units the same time. There are 4 types of Units in the game, ground, aerial, naval and experimental. From medium tanks, to heavy "strategic" bombers? ;and frigates to submarines and massive experimental units such as the Cybran Monkeylord - a spider like robot with a devastating beam. You start off with an ACU ? Armoured Command Unit. It?s like a huge robot that you command your forces with. If your ACU...

DevilsLore 31.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Supreme Commander (PC)

Supreme Commander --- or is it???

Advantages: Graphics are out of this world
Disadvantages: Hard to micro manage battles at times. Poor single player mode

...Well having heard so much about this new game Supreme Commander, and how it had pushed the boundaries of modern gaming warfare, I decided it must be worth a purchase and hence why I am writing this review. The game was heralded as the successor to Total Annihilation as king of the real time strategy games, and every review in magazines, from word of mouth, and right here on good old Ciao was positive. The game cost me £29.99 from Game, although it is also available from all good computer game stores, as well as online through all the well known distributors, and if you shop around you can probably get it a little bit cheaper, although I was in a rush to get home and play it. The box is a simple DVD and comes complete on one DVD with a technology and star map provided as well as a pretty detailed manual, which I prefer to these...

pumfster 06.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Supreme Commander (PC)

Supreme Commander - A Game To Buy

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 ******************************** 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...

burns2007 11.08.2008 · Read review
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Commanding presence

Advantages: Nicely paced book of a series
Disadvantages: Not to everyones taste of Genre.

...Command Decision - Elizabeth Moon. ~ About the Author ~ Elizabeth Moon is a Sci-Fi and Fantasy writer of some considerable note. What makes her writing fairly unique though is the fact she has a military background, attaining the rank of Lieutenant with the US Marine Corps, who she joined in 1968. She is also an experienced paramedic, has at least one degree in History and has been involved in local government at various levels. A lot of her military background comes across in her novels, and Command Decision is no exception. ~ The Book ~ This is the Fourth book in a series of 4 (although a 5th is due to be published sometime in early 2008). It is very much a Sci-Fi novel, so not to everyone's taste. The series has been described as being 'Space Opera' - A term I hadn't heard of, but having looked, describes it as...

runetune 13.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Command Decision (Vatta's War) - Elizabeth Moon

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

Advantages: Looks Good, Sounds Good, Fun for a while
Disadvantages: Gets boring very quickly, No depth at all

...The first installment of the ever popular Red Alert has been released on the Xbox 360. For years Real Time Strategys have been isolated to the PC due to they're complexity and the need for an effective user interface and control scheme that a gamepad isn't able to deliver, however in recent years a few RTSs have made their way to the console scene, games such as Lord of the Ring: Battle For Middle Earth and Westwoods own Command & Conquer 3. While these games were praised for their creative control schemes and ease of use, they both lacked something, something you only get from playing with a keyboard and mouse. So does Red Alert deliver where all other strategy games seem to fail? The first thing I would like to mention before jumping into the control scheme and interface are the visuals. Red Alert 3 looks good. The colours are...

AndyCreighton 15.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Xbox 360)

Agent Cody Banks, there's a spy in our ranks.

Advantages: Kids love action films, keeps them quiet!!!
Disadvantages: Not one for the adults quite corney

...STARS: Frankie Muniz (Malcom in the middle) Hilary Duff (Lizzie Mcguire) Cynthia Stevenson Keith David Daniel Roebuck Ian McShane (Lovejoy) Arnold Vosloo Angie Harmon DIRECTOR: Harald Zwart PLOT: This is like a young 007 film, but no so good...... Cody Banks is a teenage boy who's family and best friend have no idea he is an undercover agent for the CIA. He has lots of cool gadgets like, suction shoes to walk on ceilings, cool skateboard and a necklace with a tracker inside. Cody goes away to a training establishment under the rouse of summer camp. He gets sent on a mission to a prep school to get close to Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) who is the daughter of a scientist who is developing Nanobots which could potentially destroy the world. The only problem is he doesn't know how to talk to girls (unlike...

Kaz1773 30.05.2006 (31.05.2006) · Read review
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Review of Agent Cody Banks (DVD)

Command and Conquer

Advantages: Brilliant Multiplayer, Good Story, Months of fun
Disadvantages: Too Addictive, A bit Samey

...I always liked strategy games such as Age of Empires and Warcraft, and I especially liked the Command and Conquer series back when it was produced by Westwood Studios; Red Alert was always fun but my favourate branch was always Tiberian Sun. So when EA announced they would take over the series and release a sequel to the Tiberium series I knew that I would get it straight away when it was released in March 2007. For me, the story was fairly good. The basic elements were there, the good guys (Global Defense Initiative) and the bad guys (Brotherhood of Nod); however, EA also introduced a new race to the game, the Scrin, a new alien species that provided a twist to the plot, if only a little. The story basically revolves around the year 2047 during a third "Tiberium" War; the enemy (Nod) have planned to end seveteen years of peace...

themegmugster 04.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Command and Conquer: Tiberium Wars (PC-DVD)