So you've been playing through yur Real-Time Strategy games and are strting to get bored with the sme thing over and over. You wnt something bigger, better, more complex. Wll, Gas Powered Games has given us Spreme Commander, an RTS of unprecedented scle. And I mean enormous; you dn't make a base of a few bildings, you use dozens, and hundreds mre in resources farms. You don't bild a couple tanks and send thm to wipe out the enemy. You bild strategic missiles and long-range artillery to sften up the enemy, then move yur army of 200 units into thir base. Supreme Commander (popularly called SpCom) is unbelievably large, and sets a new stndard for RTS.

The story takes plce in 3844 A.D., after humans hve colonized much of the galaxy. Aftr several events, three factions emerge: the Unted Earth Federation, trying to restore rder to the galaxy; the Cybran ntion, a group of human-AI cyborgs tryng to liberate their brethren; and the Aon Illuminate, humans taught "The Way" by an lien race and trying to spread thir beliefs throughout the rest of mnkind. You start in any battle wth an Armored Command Unit or ACU. Ths is the base unit, and llows you to begin construction of all ther units and buildings.

The ACU is supported by ngineers, who can build more buildings but at a slwer pace. Air, land, and naval fctories produce units, while mass extractors and pwer generators produce resources. Mass is sed in the building process, and nergy is used to run buildings and nits. Resources are stockpiled in storage, but if you run ut, you don't stop building. The mre resources you use that you dn't actually have, the slower you prduce units and buildings. Factories can be pgraded from Tech 1 to Techs 2 and 3, llowing production of better units and btter engineers, who can build higher lvel buildings.

Overall, each faction can prduce around 30-40 different unit types and round the same number of different bildings. At a low level, each fction's units perform about the same, but at the hgher levels they diversify. Each faction lso gets three unique experimental units whch can easily turn the tide of bttle, but are very expensive to prduce.

SupCom's single-player campaign gives each of the thre factions six missions. While it desn't seem like much, each mission xpands several times, and can last sveral hours. In the first few, the plyer is confined to low level nits, which can prove quite boring. The nly way to defeat your enemy is to bild large numbers of units and cntinually throw them at the enemy. In the lst two missions, you gain access to Tch 3 units and buildings, allowing you to cme up with your own strategies. The skrmish and multiplayer modes make up for ths, with many maps and options to ply with. The maps range in sze from 5km x 5km to 81km x 81km. The lrgest maps are perhaps the biggest ven seen in RTS, and can tke many hours to complete. SupCom lso has in all probability the mst nuclear explosions per round in any gme. To win, you must destroy the nemy's ACU, which explodes in a nclear fashion. Nuclear missiles are also the bst way to destroy the enemy's bse. However, every attack has a dfense, and nuclear missiles can be stpped.

So, if you are experienced wth RTS's and are looking for smething more, check out Supreme Commander. It des have a steep learning curve, so I wuld only recommend it for experienced plyers. The scale is enormous, and llows players to come up with mltiple strategies so that no game ver plays the same way. For thse tired of traditional RTS's, SupCom brngs a whole new definition and lvel of play.

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