This game answers alot of the original problems well but lacks fast play gameplay that is exciting.
User Rating: 6 | Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance PC
FA was the game that I was obsessing over for about four weeks until I just stopped playing it. This games' worste point is that the gameplay is ridiculously hard and annoying which makes the whole SupCom experience one of smashing your mouse with your fist. The tedious micro-managment of engineers in the early game just makes the opening ten minutes like watching paint dry. The scale of the maps is wonderful at first until it takes your units ten minutes just to rach one area of the map. This is advancing the genre though. The campaign really does throw you in at the deep end with tech 3 bombers coming in from everywhere whilst your just trying to get a shield up and running. The three factions are VERY similar and the whole tech 1 level is completely useless apart from the engineers. Lastly, this game seems a race to who can build the best experimental unit (spiderbot) first. This ruins the experience slightly. They say its hard to go back to playing usuall RTS playing this game but I just longed to have my small map and garrison some buildings as a defensive line and not spread miles of defenses which tech 3 unites destroy like little lice. Great game at first but the overwhelming scale makes the gameplay extremely fustrating.
