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Supreme Commander: Gold (PC DVD) |  | From: THQ
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1531
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows XP
Genre: sci-fi-strategy-games
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
EAN: 4005209101134
Release Date: November 23, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Supreme Commander features: - Brand new RTS from Chris Taylor.
- Planetary warfare on a Galactic scale-zoom from the tactical unit level all the way out to the full theatre of war in one seamless motion.
- Includes full naval, ground and air combat.
- 3 unique factions that each appeal to different player personalities with approximately 80 units/structures per faction.
- 3 story-driven single-player campaigns with a detailed and rich background history that weaves into gameplay.
- Intuitive & customizable gameplay interface with unsurpassed command and control features let you quickly and efficiently manoeuvre troops across the battle field. Also includes dual-monitor support!
- Robust multiplayer gaming with up to 8 players online plus co-op mode.
- Full-on community support including a map & mission editor, downloadable content and instant battle replay features.
Forged Alliance features: - New Playable Faction - A completely new playable faction will be available in multiplayer games and serve as the main threat during the new single-player campaign. This new threat is a cunning and devious race with advanced technology and are true masters of quantum technology. New weapons, new strategies, new conquests!
- New Units - 110 new land, sea, air, base and experimental units evolve armies to address strategic weaknesses or become the ultimate expressions of factional military doctrine.
- Warfare on an Epic Scale - Fully realized navies, orbital weaponry and advanced counter intelligence technologies give commanders unprecedented, deadly new capabilities in what is already the most strategic RTS on the market today.
- New Multiplayer Maps - New multiplayer battlefields provide new grounds for players to prove their supremacy.
- New Single Player Cam
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Good game overall,with some problems May 18, 2010
Moorland8
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought SC as the unofficial successor to the old classic Total Annihilation, since its by the same guy. I find its as big and power hungry a game as I was led to believe. The maps are so huge you end up playing most of the game zoomed out so that the units are symbols (so much for the excellent close up graphics). Nevertheless the gameplay is good, once you get to grips with the strengths of the gear (artillery and special T4 units are great once youve figured how to use them right). The sound is nice, terrain and maps are well made, and the variety of the factions is a significant factor in gameplay. With a decent computer it runs fine, but its easy to see how a slightly lower end system would have problems (less so nowadays though). The multiplayer option is not very smooth, and hard to get into, with some obvious common gliches, but maybe with time I'tll get better.
In short, its turning out to be a good game the more I stick at it, but its been frustrating getting this far, especially since battles routinely take hours to play.
 FOR ALL THE PEOPLE USING COMODO FIREWALL AND HAVING ISSUES WITH THIS GAME! September 4, 2009
Mäki Markku (Finland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In order to get this game to work you need to disable defense+ in your Comodo firewall. Click the Comodo firewall icon on your desktop or in the task bar, go to defence+ menu (third icon in the top), click advanced on the left, then defence+ settings (below), and tick the last box (deactivate the defense+ permanently). Reboot the system. It should now run flawlessly.
 minimum specifications for your computer are bs July 23, 2009
J. Leary
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
lags badddly! probably quite a good game if it worked.
also when on the lowest graphics setting setting (to try to get it working) it doesn't look that good.
waste of £20.
best stick with the original until a new league of super computers come out / down in price...
Brilliant Game, but has performance issues July 18, 2009
A. Day
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is absolutely fantastic, so much so i was tempted to put 5 stars, but unfortunately I can't since the over all performance of the game is bad.
Let me explain the performance problems in detail, my computer has a 3.0ghz core 2 quad and a 896mb evga graphics card with 4 gig of RAM...this is WAY above the min specs stated on the case and yet I can't run the game without "slowdown".
This is the first game ive ever played where its the same speed whether i've got the graphics maxed out or on the lowest settings possible....thus I have it maxed out and when zoomed in close the graphics are fantastic, but in large games (6 player or more) the game slows down loads so I find it more fun to play 4 player on a small map where the performance is perfect.
This all means that you want a monster of a PC to run this properly, but my laptop can just about get away with 4 player (thats a dell XPS) so I can do multiplayer when I have someone staying round.
Right now i've covered the bad performance of the game lets get onto the gameplay:
Strategic Zoom: This game is all about the strategic zoom, which is the ability to zoom out and view exactly what is going on all over the map, this is very informative and when you zoom in it homes into the mouse cursor rather than the screens centre so traversing the huge maps is extremely quick.
This tool is extremely useful.
Controls: The controls and hud will work whatever way you want in supreme commander forged alliance, you can put a mini-map in, or you could hide it for more space on the main screen, you can get the economic information for the individual units to appear on screen...or the ranges of your military units or intelligence structures.
In other words the control mechanism is customisible in such a way that it will display exactly what you want and hide the rest, this is useful since you can hide all the annoying parts of the hud for a bigger view of battlefield.
Large Battles: IF you have a very powerful PC then you can get massive 8 player battles on 80km maps and 1000 unit limit each....so if you can run that then I imagine the battles get fantastic, maybe one day i'll experience it as well but the performance isn't good enough for me.
Races: There are 4 "races" in supreme commander forged alliance...though 3 of them are humans with differences in opinions.
The Cybran nation is a group of semi-mechanical humans that we're previosly enslaved by the UEF (ill get to them in a minute) and they now fight for thier freedom and the freedom of thier fellows.
The cybrans tend to use stealth and quick construction to win thier battles.
The UEF (United Earth Federation...i think) are plain and simple humans, good old tanks and nukes!
They want to unite the human race under one banner...theres!
There units have tough armour and there defenses are the best.
The Aeon Illuminate are the final race of humans, fanatically religous they think the cybrans are abominations and naturally hate the UEF.
There my least favourite people to play as, but many of thier units can hover...which means they can cross water without building a navy and they also have better range on thier light tanks than thier UEF rivals.
The Seraphim are the only aliens in the game, bent on revenge against the human race they seek to kill every human (if you watch the opening sequence in supreme commander u'll know why the want vengeance)
Graphics: Brilliant for an RTS...what more can I say? I love the graphics.
Anyway if you like RTS and have a powerful gaming PC GET THIS!
If it weren't for the performance issues it would be the best RTS i've ever played.
Supreme Commander: Gold (PC DVD) June 4, 2009
Mr. J. E. Warren (England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is an amazing stratergy game.
if you like things like command and conqure this is a game for you.
amazing games play and features, but very hard and time consuming, i can easily spend atleast a couple of hours completing one mission.
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