It's not a " sit back and watch the batttle between two massive factions unfold" kind of game. Starcraft 2 requires you to use the keyboard just as frantically as your mouse.
They are both in the RTS genre and that's where the similarity stops. Starcraft 2 and Supreme Commander 2 are two totally different games with two totally different goals.
Now, I will be the first to admit that I hate the whole "rush with 2 units" crap that's goig on, but if you have good macro skills and know how to micro, then the cheese rush can be countered most of the time. In Starcraft 2, it's up to you to position your units to where they need to be AS THEY ARE FIGHTING. Other RTS will hold a formation of sorts. Send a ball of Terran Marines at my Protoss squad and just watch as my High Templar rips them a new one. Starcraft 2 makes you focus on your ability to macro your base and forces while micro'ing your units. Unlike many other RTS games, Starcraft 2 is not about building a bunch of units, clicking them to a point on the map, and watching them fight. The main problem people are having with Starcraft 2 is the same problem they had with the original Starcraft once people had been playing it for a while: Supreme Commander 2 is geared more for very large battles on multiple fronts. Supreme Commander 2 offers more depth, but a shallower learning curve. there are already other RTS out there making this one look dated (even when comparing to old 2D titles). Skirmish mode becomes repetitive after just a few battles. some gameplay aspects and options could have been better thought to make it more playable. Build as many as you can and faster to win. So in short, it will put your system to its nees craving for more resources but it wont offer you anything more than other lighter titles of this genre. The game comes with a map editor but frankly I already got bored playing the title altogether. That sucks and 50% of my interest for it drops right there. I used to make LAN parties with the previous iteration, and I have fond memories of it (we skipped university classes for it and played nearly 24h straight, peeing on bottles, eating pizzas etc) :Dīut StarCraftII has no LAN play, only internet. It is the same as Starcraft I but with some more units and special abilities. In Starcraft II the maps can easly get filled with units the size of your fist. Appalling considering its been more than 3 years in the making. StarcraftII also has less gaming modes than StarCraft I, both in solo and multiplayer. So I just spent frustrating several hours trying to get into a large war without seeing any action myself. building a second base for the minerals takes too long. In StarCraftII either the enemy kills you first or any of your AI alies will destroy the other side way before you even had time to gather 1/10th of the needed troops. You can make the fights so that the enemy wont cheat its production rate and attack you while your still building your first structures.
Sup com is also tactically much more diverse and rich than StarcraftII.įor Solo Play I have to say Supreme commander is light years ahead of it. Supreme commander supports many many more units and much bigger maps (albeit with a crash bug when the 2 are true).
And not much an evolution ever since Dune RTS back in 1989. You either loose or win by making as many units as possible in the shortest time then your adversary (the game concept and gameplay features makes this a requirement and you even get awarded for being fast, which is kinda dumb). And this is a 3 year gap between the games launch. If you ask me the graphics are on the same level. The game is DX9, just like Supreme Commander. My CPU usage is about 40%, during multi AI races large fights. So this is for triple core, dual core minimum. If your wondering how many cores it uses, they are 4 threads, but 2 of them might just squeeze onto 1 core.
You need to tune up your PC to avoid crashes and system freezes, even overheating your graphics card (happened with me when engaged 32XAA, first time it did) I have it maxed out and it will eat my RAM, all 4GB of it. I have been playing Starcraft II and I leave here my personal review comparing it to Supreme commander.įirst of all, those who are considering purchasing this game beware that it WILL tax your system resources heavily. Well this is not a SIM but I had nowhere else to put this thread so: