Good RTS

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

These are all pretty good RTS's that ive enjoyed, hope you do too :D
 
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.
 
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Getting a demo of Sacrifice down, thanks.
 
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 )
 
The best RTS I have ever played was "Total Annihilation"

- twiga
 
yeah, that one is still a classic... pity its successor Supreme Commander will only be out in 2007 as it got delayed... bummer.
 
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
 
things happen fastest in Dawn of War... before 2 mins are up there already skirmishes with up to 8 players at once.. hectic!
 
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.
 
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. =\
 
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