Supreme Commander 2

I have a few mixed feelings about this game that all stem from how odd it is made. Supreme Commander 2 isn't really a bad game per say, it just feels like there is something missing wherever you look. To start is the story. If you don't want a 15 year old game spoiled for you then play it yourself find out. [spoiler]Otherwise the gist is that the three factions are at war with each other for some reason and we play as three commanders who just so happen to have former ties to one another. One of them fights some Cybran thespian guy then fights his former command because they committed war crimes. Then the other commander unwittingly helps the same Cybran thespian in doing even more war crimes until he betrays her. Lastly is a Cybran who doesn't commit war crimes who fights the same Cybran thespian again after planet hopping and fighting his lackeys all the way to an ancient terraforming machine. The guy you play as wins and decides everyone is going to fight over it and blows it up all because he had a hunch.[/spoiler] While the campaign isn't too much to handle there are moments when the game gives a lot more push than I think it should. Particularly with the first mission of the last campaign where you have to fight waves of enemies for a whole 30 minutes with very little resources and some bad path finding that can really screw you over when the end comes around. The third mission of the first can also be a bit of a pickle but not to the extent of that Cybran one. As for the skirmish things have changed a fair bit from the last two games. Instead of making any strategy viable to each faction they are all different. UEF is arty heavy making them the turtle faction. Their tech tree is very fleshed out everywhere and arty is their best mode of attack with air in second and land coming up third. Cybrans are more of a rush faction, they can still turtle but that isn't what their tech is built for. Land air and naval are all viable for them to some degrees. Then there is the Illuminate or the Aeon as they are better called IMO. They are only built for the rush. They have the least amount of techs and no long range arty. They do have quite a lot of experimentals but these require a lot of research points and often times get out classed by the other two. What I think went wrong is that the factions aren't created equal like in the original. In SupCom 1 or forged alliance everyone was relatively equal with notable differences in at least one or two units from every tech level and their experimentals. Another thing is that gameplay generally goes from slow to fast. When building up you are going slow and when the fight begins you go fast. Here everything is slow. Units take nearly half a minute to build on their own. They move slow without the necessary upgrades to speed them up. It's not the unit's fault it is as slow as it is but more so the fact that it is designed to be that way. Also the maps are quite big so that might not help much either. Another thing is that experimentals, while strong don't stack up on their own. In the original they needed a big army/air force to take down, here however they are easy pickings for decently sized groups. In larger numbers they can prove powerful but otherwise are entirely optional to build. All in all I can say if you really want to play the game go ahead. Also if you bought the DLC like I did make sure to turn it on if your game crashes for no reason. That does fix it but it also turns the AI into a ruthless killing machine if you don't fight back. All in all 7/10 A flawed but relatively decent game worth at least a few hours of gameplay.