RTS Games

[Zonorhc]

Total Annihilation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Civilisation 3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dawn of War.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's all you need.

[Continuum]

I ditched Total Annihilation for Supreme Commander.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, here's the RTS games I play...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Supreme Commander-Awesome game, steep hardware requirements. Which my computer can handle, I'm very glad to say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Command & Conquer genre-Awesome games, but the mouse clicking it kind of annoying since it messes up all my other RTS gamingness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Starcraft genre-Another set of awesome games, I'm highly anticipating the third installment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Civilization 3-Inferior to Civilization 4, but okay if you already have it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Dawn of War-Yup, pretty good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Good Turn-Based Games~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Risk II-Yeah, it's awesome. Basically it's the boardgame, except it goes quicker and you can build up armies more (Like, say, the thousands)...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. DEFCON- Nukes. Automatically cool.

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i hav a feeling that age of empires is way way way better, but i havnt played it, i just stuffed around with it at a friends place

AoE is better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The concept of EE is good; but poorly implemented. And dsavi_x4 also hit a good point - it's a resources [bleep] well over what is recomended. The Epoch structure is nice - but what completely throws it out is the possible spread and ultimately makes it very easy to created VERY unbalanced gameplay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With most other RTS games which run on similar setups - they're more constrained and the technological spread is fixed so that those with the best can still be beaten by those who aren't quite there yet (ie: you don't get tanks going against bows and arrows in AoE like you can end up with in EE and such).

[xXru1n3dXx]

Rome: Total War and Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion are quite addicting (and fun!).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I might buy Shogun: Total War this week. In history (elective) were doing the Bushido and Samurai topic, so it will get me in the mood. It's a little old though so the graphics won't be the best unfortunately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course, the Age Of Empire games are fun, along with Rise Of nations, Empire Earth and so on.

[Zonorhc]

Rome: Total War and Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion are quite addicting (and fun!).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I might buy Shogun: Total War this week. In history (elective) were doing the Bushido and Samurai topic, so it will get me in the mood. It's a little old though so the graphics won't be the best unfortunately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course, the Age Of Empire games are fun, along with Rise Of nations, Empire Earth and so on.

 

 

 

I find that the Total War games are excellent insofar as that you can apply Sun Tzu to them without worrying about magic or giant flying lizard-tanks.

[Make7upu101]

Risk II sounds good. I looked it up and it was only about 15 bucks. Is it worth it? I love the game but can never get my friends to play with me.

[rocketman089]

Risk II sounds good. I looked it up and it was only about 15 bucks. Is it worth it? I love the game but can never get my friends to play with me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I looove that game! It's really nice having a classic straight-up risk game on the pc that also adds a lot more. You can get the free trial for like 1 hour of gametime or something so you can see if you really like it. There's a lot of websites that do multiplayer with the game too, but i've never tried it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All this RCT 3 talk is givin me a huge hankerin to re-install it and try it out again, WoW is gettin a little old right now

[Bufoman]

Homeworld game of the year addition. it was one of the first to feture such a level of graphics and easy to use yet compehensive interface. and it still has a online community today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

other rts's that where good well I have only played midevial total war so I cant speek for the others. the online element seems rather dead now days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

command and conquer red alert 2 was good dispite the old graphics and build/ click and destroy game play that has plauged the series for so long. Id like to see a RTS that fetures more stratagy and less building and resource harvesting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ground controll did this pretty well and Ground controll 2 fetured a rather interesting way to bring in troops and get resources. you brough them in with drop ships and got command points for takeing objectives. but if you had too many troops all the command points would go twoards supporting them so you wouldent be getting any more reinforcements. this was nice becouse it fixed the old build ten time the enemys ammount of forces and swarm them approch that gets old reel fast and foreced you to aculy put some stratagy into it. add the fact that you want vetren troops it made you less likely to use suicide attacks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the AI on the other hand was somewhat lacking in my oppinion. sending legionares to assult your flame thrower defence batteries was beyond stupid especialy as they where supposed to be on the defencive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well at any rate their are 5 good RTS Games that you may of never heard of. and since the original Ground controll is free in perpicipation with game spy it makes it the one game listed heer every one could try if they wanted too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but if your running a NT based operateing system do yourself a favor and set the compatibility mood to windows 98. even then the briefings can turn into broken records from time to time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the nice thing about the original Ground controll is No in game reinforcements unless its in the scenerio. that In my oppinion is something thats lacking in RTS games at large. of course the total war series did a nice job of fixeing that problem with battles too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also Stronghold was fun but its more of a castle Sim than a RTS

[Korla]

Does Settlers II count? :oops: I think it's freeware, gonna go check it out now

[monkeyboo2]

All the age of Empires series own, so many good games with those.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Age of mythology and its expansion, the titans are great. I bet u cant beat me at em.

[No_OnE]

I love Starcraft. I used to hate it when I was younger but by the time I was about 12, I would play it all the time. I just recently started playing it again. It's as good as ever.

[Make7upu101]

I really liked Age of Mythology but was disappointed with the expansion pack. The whole game was get a titan and win.

[sebbeberg]

Svea Rike 3

 

 

 

Age of Empires series

 

 

 

Dawn of War

 

 

 

Company of Heroes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Svea Rike 3 is so damn awesome! \

[Necromagus]

Dune 2000. I've got it on my mp3 player. It runs on pretty much any computer, and anybody can pick up the basics fast enough to play a decent game within an hour.

[baron8000]

Total Annihilation - I spent years playing that, and damn near cried when my new pc refused to run it, even going to the point of setting the old one up elsewhere for the sole purpose of playing it. The Commander unit was a great, original idea and has never been bettered, the community rocks too (unlike some other games cough)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Command and Conquer - The NOD were cool, and very little is more fun than ion cannoning an enemy (except D-gunning with a commander in above game)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rome total war - simply for the strategy and the lack of a win all tank rush tactic. That and Romans are cool, as are chariots and catapults.

[Duke_Freedom]

Command and Conquer, best rts genre (before EA got ahold of it)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heh so true. :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starcraft still has my vote for best RTS ever though.