Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #738 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Released on: 2007-11-23
• Platform: Windows Vista

Customer Reviews

C&C clone
Well what can I say, except that it's all been done before but better. I am probably missing the point as my internet connection at home is not working, and this is probably a lot of fun on line. However as a single player experience it's actually rather dull.

Build your base collect resources, build an army, build sheilds, attack in force blah blah blah. Yawn Yawn. Defeat the occasional boss.

I'm not even sure it's worth three stars.

Cracking
Some things in life don't change and an RTS is at home on a PC (a powerful one is handy I admit though). A PS3 with a mouse still isn't going to cut it.

Forged Alliance is awesome. Better than Supreme Commander since we get all the toys available from the word go this time. But don't let me distract anyone from buying the first version and getting to grips with that as that too is a cracker.

On the specs side of things, I've got a pretty evil machine so I can't really advice on minimum specs sorry.

FA
This expansion fixes nearly all the problems that the original supreme commander had. The new units really complement the old ones and factional diversity has been greatly expanded (before it was pretty much just experimental units). Online games are now fast and dynamic with a wide range of strategic options available (unlike most rts, where its not so much general strategy, but more about microing the units you have effectively). The scale of the game allows for a number of really sneaky tactics. For example, if you're being overwhelmed by the enemy attack force, but you can hold out for a few more minutes you might find he left his own base undefended and be able to blow up a large number of his production facilities forcing him to deal with that first.