Supreme Commander Forged Alliance review

Gameplay-7/10
Good
-TRUE standalone expansion with all races available for multiplayer(unlike COH:opposing forces)
-deep strategic depth
-T4 now much cheaper and built faster
-new race differ from the original races greatly
-Fun of 8 way skirmish with 500 units cap
Fugly
-Extremely steep learning curve
-nukes nurfed
-way point problems still exist(but tremendously reduced from the original)
-long loading times, especially for saved game
-After completing objectives in story mode,enemies will suddenly spwan in hundreds and attack you from nowhere
-Lame story(expected though)

Graphics-7/10
Good
-Impressive sight when thousands of unit fight the shit out
-Improved visual effects like explosions
-Improved GUI
Fugly
-Bad multithread performance
-Texture still rather weak
-Boring environments

Overall-7/10
If you doesnt like supreme commander, you not gonna like this expansion either.Even to RTS veterns,this is gonna be hell lot of a challenge,requiring hours of devotion on learning this massive RTS.Single player scripting is fucked up badly,with hundreds of units spawn out of noway when you accomplish an objective,which obviously leads to death.But skirmish is hell lot of fun with fast t4 build time and a new race to wreck havok in.GUI is streamlined too which really clear up more space to enjoy the carnage.With such a heavily CPU dependent game,supreme commander is still badly written for multithreading which lead to abmysal performance.With a 8800gt and 2.8ghz allendale,1280x960 get a frame rate of 10 in most battles which really spoil the epic experience.
You will like this only if you enjoy supreme commander,which i really do.


LAG!!


Solution for lags


Epic battles paid by epic economy


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