Good RTS

[dog]

Hello,

can anyone recommend a good strategy game, either new or not so new. Have never found one that comes close to Starcraft/Broodwars - the 3D versions (warcraft/warhammer) seem clumsy compared to the sprite-based ones.

Having said that, I aint a spring chicken and last year spent a fair few hours playing Police Quest II.

Maybe I should just download 1988's tour de force Battle Chess?

 

[SeanH]

Warhammer 40k: dawn of war
Emporer: Battle for dune
Spellforce
Star wars: Empire at war (well.... the demo at least )

These are all pretty good RTS's that ive enjoyed, hope you do too

 

[DigitalSoldier]

dog i agree with u no rts comes close to sc/bw but there are rumours of a sc2 but it will prolly also be 3d

 

[dog]

Played Emporer and liked it; found WarHammer clumsy (could have been my buggy hardware).

Star wars: Empire at war - is that the latest? The demo is over 700mb.

Will have a look at Spellforce.

Shot.

 

[DigitalSoldier]

u can also try sacrifice if u havent played it yet but doubt u will be able to find it

 

[dog]

Getting a demo of Sacrifice down, thanks.

 

[gkm]

Spellforce was the best RTS I played in a long time.

 

[dog]

Spellforce looks impressive on its site - I suppose it would.

I see Spellforce 2 "beta test" is available - in German apparently.

http://www.spellforce.com/sf2/betatest/

 

[dog]

Completely unrelated, here is a ska version of the Gummy Bears theme tune:

http://www.newgumbrea.com/snds/g-theme-ska-suburbanlegends.mp3

 

[Silent_Bob]

^^^^ wtf!

 

[useless]

Act of War
Ground Control 2
Dawn of War : Winter Assault expansion
Total Annihilation ( if you can still find it )
Battle for Middle Earth 2 ( TBA in 2 weeks time but try the demo first as EA makes yucky RTS games )

 

[DigitalSoldier]

battle for middle earth 2 is out already but not legally

 

[DigitalSoldier]

WOW !! thanks for the link dog its awesome

 

[dog]

WOW !! thanks for the link dog its awesome

Haha.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

[twiga]

The best RTS I have ever played was "Total Annihilation"

- twiga

 

[useless]

yeah, that one is still a classic... pity its successor Supreme Commander will only be out in 2007 as it got delayed... bummer.

 

[masticore]

depends what you mean by "good", dog.

Some people say the AoE types are good because they have more "depth". I consider them slow and boring.

For me, C&C Red Alert 2 is the all-time best. C&C Generals is a close second. Things happen faster in the C&C-type RTSs than in the AoE-types.

ymmv

 

[useless]

things happen fastest in Dawn of War... before 2 mins are up there already skirmishes with up to 8 players at once.. hectic!

 

[dog]

masticore,

I also preferred C&C to AoE. Faster the better. That's why I liked Starcraft.

Downloaded the Sacrifice demo, played it briefly. Seems more like a RPG than RTS.

 

[Darric]

I'll second (third?) Total Annihilation. It's an excellent game with solid multiplayer too. I still break it out at LANs, and there are loads of people who consider it the best RTS ever made.

Good luck getting hold of it, though. =\