Supreme Commander

Good game for its time. Can't recommend it at full price though.
One major problem I had with the game is when commanding 350+ units, they cease responding and sit in the field like lemons. This is a mild annoyance unless said unit happens to be your ACU... in which case, you simply end up losing the game. :P

Good Game Favorite Game

There is no RTS game like Supreme Commander. The micro and macro scales, the hour + long matches against cheating AI or screwing around with friends, the ability to place almost any building almost anywhere instead of being confined to select areas, its a 10/10 if you are a die hard RTS fan, especially if you play Forged Alliance and play the Forged Alliance Forever multiplayer mod/launcher thing.

So sad we will probably never see SC3, and most imitations of the game just aren't the same.

Crashes but cool

love the game

GG

Let me paint a picture for you.

late 2000's RTS consisted of essentially 2 franchises, Command & Conquer and War/Starcraft.

Total Anihilation burned out after TA Kingdoms fell. it suffered the fate of corporate sabotage and sell outs from it's studio leading to an eventual spiritual successor that is Supreme Commander.

I have been playing RTS games since I was 8 years old. I know almost all of them. Supreme Commander, in that era was essentially a dead game because no one played online, it didn't have good marketing, but it was a Genuinely Good Game.

Fast forward to now, EA is a shitshow, Blizzard couldn't even remaster their own game themselves, and the only other RTS games are either franchised slop, souless cash grabs on pretty engines, or uninteresting clones of better games made cheap and adding nothing new or worse stripping out what made their originators better.

Supreme Commander still is a genuinely Good Game, with tism elements overlooked and a generally misunderstood cycle, but protip: increase your unit cap significantly and you'll have a better time.

Games does not work on Windows 11. Alt-Tab crashes the game.
Whenever audio cut scene occurs (i.e. commander gives you an order), the game stutters.

Good Game

The spiritual successor to Total annihilation, the very first PC game i ever bought (and the expansions) the game kicked it up a notch when it dropped it payload back then. Today it still stands tall as alot of AAA studios phone it in. Anyone not versed in the RT Strats is gonna leave angry and dejected in the OFFLINE mode! This game brings the unfairness and requires you to know how to use your units well. With mods you get new life to this game and can expand your "what can i build" to 11.

my "unbiased" view is 25/10, but my review gives this a 7/10. You wanna relive your glory days, shes stillhere waiting commander.

I know this game from the first release in 2007 and I still play it when I do have the time. Despite the fact that Forged Alliance is the more complete game from my perspective I play the original campaigns because they also are great and give a lot of fun.

Very good game :)

very good

This game is good, but just go get Supreme Commander Forged Alliance

The game overall is good, but Forged alliance is the better version, that said, the entire game is like 15 years+ old. so a rehash or a remaster is needed

A grate rts with alot to think about and very well made.

For being an RTS game, the actual unit AI does *NOT* hold up. You will not be able to do formations, you will not be able to move units competently across the battle field. Troops will relentlessly slam into each other which creates a massive traffic jam, with the only solution being to micro-mange your entire army. This singular, but massive flaw has completely turned me off from playing this game.

The game is absolutely amazing. I've played it multiple times.

GREAT RTS.

gg wp thnx

Watching units move in this game is about as entertaining as watching hair grow, or an ice cube melt, I don't say paint dry because that's more satisfying to watch. You must see it to believe it. I have never seen an RTS with such a horrible pathfinding and it's compounded by an extremely slow unit movement speed.

The game supposedly compensates this by giving the player the possibility to queue unlimited actions for every unit, but it turns the game into a semi-automated waiting simulator, where you just need to have bomber / fighter jets ready to intervene in case of an attack on your automated military transport airships.

The process of taking ground units into cargo planes ( air transport units), which is mandatory to mitigate the broken pathfinding / sluggish movement speed and make this game playable takes so long, I thought it was a joke. You just queue orders for every transport airship to go back and forth from base to wherever you want to send your army / workers then you just sit there as you watch them slowly move your army across the map 2 units at a time for what feels like an eternity. What used to take a split second in C&C / RA from 1996 takes a solid 15 minutes in supreme commander and is more tedious by a factor of x10.

The second mission took me 2 hours and 41 minutes, and it's not like a lot of stuff happens in that mission, it's just tedious, repetitive and excruciatingly slow. The economy system is unintuitive, but I admit I skipped half the tutorial because it is drawn-out and so boring I fell asleep halfway through it in each of my 3 or so attempts at going through it. Engineers (worker units) are also pain to manage effectively.

On a positive note, it is satisfying to mess around with a squadron of 200 bombers.

GLORIOUS, JUST GLORIOUS. I got the game because i remembered when i was younger i played the sequel on the xbox 360 so i wanted to see what the original was. All i can say is that i will never regret getting this.

An excellent RTS.

Had a good friend not introduced me to Supreme Commander, I'd have never known about it!

It features a great storyline with three fantastic factions to play as.

The main thing that sets Supreme Commander apart from other RTS, is the larger sized maps, as well as a wider arsenal of units including massive experimental units that you can build. The way you build units is also unique; you can queue units from multiple factories in order to create gigantic armies - there's a wide array of land, sea and air units to choose from.

The economy of Supreme Commander is you trying to maintain a delicate balance of mining as much metal as possible with being able to produce enough energy in order to keep churning out armies non-stop.

You really have to play Supreme Commander in order to experience it.

Great game, better if you buy expansion as well.

This is game is great.

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The original before Forged Alliance came out and more or less made this game obsolete. An epic game that holds a huge amount of nostalgia for me. A must have for true RTS fans

There's a lot to like here, but it does not run well on modern systems, & the keys are not re-bindable.

Teaches patience and strategy

old but a great game

Still holds up today and is an excellent example of how wonderful RTS games were before companies focused the genre around competitive game play, and pushing out casual players.

If you love RTS games, this game is a must-play. Growing up with Red Alert 2 as a kid and later discovering Supreme Commander in a local game store, I bought it, played it, and was blown away. The battlefields are massive, the gameplay is fun, and there's an incredible amount of depth. For instance, you have multiple modes for units, and you can manually fire or aim certain weapons. The strategic possibilities are endless—enough to intimidate any seasoned general. Truly one of the best PC games ever made.

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Played campaign, was fun enough. Just save game once in a while, because as you reach next objectives - the map expands often. You may end up having enemy very close to you from an unexpected side.

Simple fun.

Nice ultra rts game

It is really beginner friendly, for an RTS game. Cocaine and autism are not necessary.

Better than Forged Alliance in terms of story telling and the campaign eases you into the game while Forged Alliance expects you to know the game already and throws you into the cold water on mission 1.

But both games are bad at teaching you how to use advanced strategies, when/how to progress through the tech tiers and how to play towards a "game ender" like prototype spam, or a bomber snipe or the good ol attrition warfare, which rarely works out by itself.

Forged Alliances on the other hand has more units and some much needed balancing like tier 3 point defense and a better UI. It also has a playerbase with FAF compared to this one.

Play this for the story and a very long "tutorial" and then get Forged Alliance to play the big boy campaign and against your friends (or random people on the internet via FAF)

but the one thing that can Supreme Commander 2 can hold over these two games is the path finding and some QoL features.
Its atrocious if you try to move more than 40 units and you should use waypoints if you want them to move around big or many objects or they will get stuck and only half the army will show up to the fight

Good for its age.

It's a classic slugfest RTS with tons of units - and modern PCs can handle the insanity that strained the best PCs back when it first released.

A large scale RTS that has few comparisons; if your system can support it, you can have enormous battles that feel extremely satisfying.

This game has got to be up there, if not, the greatest RTS game ever made. Air, Land and Sea units and graphics that are detailed but simple enough not to get too messy to take in quickly. For a game that's 17 years on from release now how well it stands up to playing today is a work of dark magic. Absolutely recommend trying this out, even if your useless at these type of games like me.

This game has completely destroyed my azs and my perspective on how a good RTS should look.

I’m honestly struggling with this game. It feels slow, tedious, and the overall design just doesn’t click. The graphics are underwhelming, the sound design is lacking, and the UI is really clunky. The gameplay itself is frustrating, and the first mission against the Aeon faction (playing as the UEF) was where I completely lost patience. The lack of responsiveness is a huge issue, and on top of that, enemies can attack from outside the playable area, which feels unfair and like a design choice to limit player options. It’s incredibly difficult to keep up when artillery and aircraft constantly bombard you, and replacing your losses takes way too long.

To make matters worse, the AI’s light artillery can fire not only from outside the playable area but also from within the fog of war, making it even harder to react.

And the announcers... they’re just too much. It feels like they’re constantly yelling at you, which only adds to the stress. I’m just trying to manage my forces and deal with the game’s challenges, but the constant interruptions make everything feel like it’s working against me.

Overall, this game isn’t fun. It’s frustrating, slow, and filled with design issues that make it feel more like a chore than an enjoyable experience. I’m not interested in finding workarounds or strategies to deal with these problems at this point. I wouldn’t recommend this game.

They don't make 'em like they used to. Supreme Commander has some of the largest simulated battles in all of RTS history, with hundreds of sea, air, and land units at your disposal. With three different factions, each having a full-length campaign of multi-hour long missions, there's a lot of content to enjoy and even after multiple playthroughs I'm still learning new strategies for tackling the harder difficulties.

Each faction is unique in both looks and gameplay; the UEF have high-HP units that can soak up and dish out a lot of damage, the Aeon are supreme in range and can hover over water but are lacking in armor until the mid to late-game, and the Cybran have inferior firepower and armor in exchange for stealth capabilities and cheaper units. This all culminates into a surprisingly balanced experience where dealing with each faction requires a different strategy, with numerous paths to victory available.

However, there are some places where Supreme Commander falls short. The path-finding can be very frustrating at times, although this is more forgivable considering its age and the number of units that can move simultaneously. As a result, intense micro is much more difficult here than in other RTS games- your units simply can’t move that fast. Another issue I had with this game is that the campaign missions have sudden ramps in difficulty, which can lead to a quick defeat if you don’t already know what’s coming next. These missions are hours long, so if you haven’t saved, you have to restart from the beginning.

Overall, Supreme Commander is a gem of a game, still unmatched by modern attempts to recreate its glory. The amount of content and mastery of gameplay design more than make up for its drawbacks. I simply can’t recommend the game enough.

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Pathfinding makes it unplayable

Old school massive RTS...

iT IS AMAZING GAME WOULD RECOMAND JUST TAKES TIME