Supreme Commander features a riveting, action-packed storyline, ground-breaking gameplay and genre-defining online multiplayer battles. For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: Their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
The 1.1Gb Supreme Commander demo includes part of the Cybran Nation single-player campaign, one skirmish map Finn's Revenge, playable on easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels.
Hmm... I'll definately have to give this a try and see how it runs on my system.
I had friends who were huge Total Annihilation fans back in the day. I liked the game and all, but never really got hooked on it like I did Warcraft 2 and C&C.
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Considering the beta has been out for a while prior to the Vista launch I'm gonna go with no.
If you're asking whether or not this will use the advantages and features of Vista and DX10, then all I can say is that I don't know, but, it's place at that tech show that MS held a little while ago for DX10 games would indicate yes.
Yeesh, I'll just wait 'til a torrent pops up somewhere. Any word on whether the demo is optimized/makes use of Dual Core setups as the full version is supposed to? I want to see the difference between my two systems.
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Damn it. I was hoping to have the new computer built before this released. I can't wait to give this game a try though. Hopefully it can live up to the TA memories I have.
Queues? What queues?? Doesn't everybody use Bit-torrent anyways?
I think I'm going to uninstall the beta. Multiplayer was never my thing. Actually, I don't mind MP, but this game is something you definitely get a handle on by playing offline for a bit (not to mention a tutorial) or else you get destroyed online (as I frequently am).
Welp... maybe I'm in the minority and I'll probably get flamed to hell and back but...
I downloaded the demo. Installed it, and played it for a bit. And.... I didn't really like it all that much. Overall the impression was kinda "meh" -- I'm pretty underwhelmed.
Storyline was laughable (but then again it is a RTS), but the game itself had some odd interface issues that kinda popped up in my face. I'm sure I could've gotten used to them after a while but it was still a bit jarring when I first ran into them.
Examples:
- Couldn't drag my view around the mini-map.
- The game doesn't handle a multi-monitor setup gracefully so moving the mouse cursor to the right won't scroll the game view to the right (where the 2nd monitor is), but it does scroll in all other directions -- forcing me to use the arrow keys to scroll around.
- Interceptors don't attack ground units (fair enough), but when I ordered them to attack ground units, they'd fly over, LAND ON THE GROUND, where they get eaten alive (without budging).
These are minor annoyances that I'm sure will get addressed in a patch or two and I think I'll probably like it better by then. The game does show promises of having deep strategy, but I don't think it's quite there yet (judging by the demo).
