Supreme Commander 2

This game has been developed by Gas Powered Games and released by Square Enix. The game has been brought out for the pc, but also for the Xbox 360. ( Don’t ask me why)

The story begins 25 years after the end of SC: Forged Alliance, the expansion of Supreme Commander, where the UEF, Cybran Nation and the Aeon Illuminate have formed an alliance. The story really revolves around the breakdown of that alliance, but in the end you will find out that all is saved. The campaign follows a chronological order, beginning with the missions of the UEF, then the Aeon and ending with the Cybrans. In the effort to connect the players with the main characters, they added personal histories and experiences to those characters. While it adds a little RPG into the game, but that all it does. Now the main characters, you will fight with their ACU and with them sitting in it. The main’s are Thalia Kael, who works for the Aeon, Ivan Brackman, is on the Cybran side, and last but not least the UEF commander Dominic Maddox. Throughout the game you will encounter a commander named Gauge. He’s the bad guy that tries to ruin the fragile alliance between the major factions.

A lot of gameplay features of SC are also present in SC 2. Like in SC every shell, missile or bomb fired never hits the same location. Again mass and energy are your main resources. Although this time they did things different and that’s not positive. You know get a steady income of mass and energy units instead of a stream. With this I mean that before you can construct a unit, you have to get a number of mass and energy. Where in SC you could queue a large number of units without looking at your economy, now you are forced to save units of mass and energy. My opinion is that this is a step down. It was an art in SC to get your economy stable and now you get a income system that has been made casual.

The maps in SC2 are smaller than the previous game. Instead of big maps we got maps that look great when you zoom out. Zoom in and you get a bit disappointed. To me, the maps feel empty.

Over to the units. In SC2 they threw away the concept of having T1/2/3 units and went to having a few basic units and more experimental units. Unlocking some basic units and experimental’s forces you to do research. This accounts for a lot of structures too. With research you can upgrade your basic units and structures, so they can do more damage, have more combat capabilities or are better protected. But for you to research something you have to amass research points. And to get them you need to build research centers. Very original, but let’s move on. To build your experimental units you first have to build gantries, for land and air experimental’s. Naval versions are build on water without gantry. Another thing they did was optimizing how your units merge into formation. A thing that I appreciate, because in SC you would see your units bumping against each other, eventually forming together in a sort of formation.

Well I really don’t have anything else to say about this game. I really liked the first one and waited long time to finally play this game. Now I have played it, I really think they took a step back. The maps are smaller, you have fewer units and the economy is messed up. But I wouldn’t say that it’s a bad game, it’s just a step back from a good game.