Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

How do I even start reviewing Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance? I think I'll start by telling about something that happened earlier today while I was playing a multiplayer match, an experience that quite well describes several of the qualities of this game. It was quite late into the game, about 30-40 min in and everyone had grown quite powerful. My Armored Command Unit, your most important unit that you use to build your whole army and whose death means you're out of the game in most cases, was under heavy attack from a swarm of Gunships and a Heavy Artillery Installation firing away from the other side of the map. I managed to bring my fighter planes in to take care of the enemy Gunships but the ACU was really low on health, another devastating artillery shell was incomming and if it hit I would be out of the game. The shell was going straight for it's target, I was going to lose. Bu

YES I DO RECOMMEND THIS GAME. One of the most under-appreciated games of all time. The most positively user reviewed game tagged with RTS on Steam. Mediocre campaign generally speaking, but containing the BEST real-time strategy gameplay... ever. When you have learned how to play it properly (50+ hours at least), you realise that SupCom FA does real-time strategy better than any other RTS in the world. An RTS should allow the player to use all the systems he has at his disposal, and use those systems -and his excellent knowledge and wisdom- to make TOOLS in which he uses to complete the objective. Let me explain. In other RTS games, you get resources, you put those resources into aggressive units, and you attack the enemy. In Supreme Commander, you have a basic start, and then the rest is completely up to you. There are many resources: Mass, Energy, Time, "Build Power", "Micro", bu

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This is the best RTS ever made. It is so good that the company who made it went broke. It was so good it could only run on a handful of PCs at the time. Now it is more than 10 years later and we, the ones who have not forgotten are still out there playing. Here on Steam and on FAF. There is so much detail, so much to know. Just the navy in this game has more polish and diversity than whole other games. This game was the highest point, before developers pulled back and started making RTS games for the unwashed masses. Every shot was calulated in real time. There is no magic, no fudging. Just gritty simulation with zero forgiveness. It is the most beautiful, the deepest, the game that even after all of these years is really the only thing I want to play.

People told me this game was good, but I never expected THIS. - Great graphics, especially for a game from 2007. - 4 unique factions. - 4 tiers of technology! 4! - A very good intel system. - 4 TIERS. 4!!! - A good campaign with a good story. - Interesting characters. Oh yes. - Your commander is actually useful, even later in the game. - T1 units stay pretty relevant. Building 20 factories to unleash a swarm of T1 tanks is funny.