Supreme Commander

aka: SupCom

Moby ID: 26709

Released

February 16th, 2007 on Windows

Credits

318 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

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Developers

Moby Score

7.9

#3,084 of 165K

Critics

81% (60)

Players

(39)

Ranking

#500 on Windows
#1,079 on Xbox 360

Collected By

159 players

Genre: Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Diagonal-down
Top-down
Visual: Free camera
Pacing: Real-time
Gameplay: Real-time strategy (RTS)
Interface: Multiple units/characters control
Point and select
Setting: Sci-fi / futuristic
Narrative: War

Windows Specs

ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+

Business Model: Commercial
Media Type: Download, DVD-ROM
Multiplayer Options: Internet, LAN
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player
Number of Online Players: 2-8 Players

Description official descriptions

Three opposing sides - the Cybran Nation, the Aeon Illuminate and the United Earth Federation - have been fighting in the Infinite War all across the galaxy, spreading chaos and unrest. You are a Supreme Commander and you have to take one of the sides and put an end to this war.

As in most strategy games, you have to build up a base, gather resources and build armies to fight off your enemies. But being created by Chris Taylor of Total Annihilation fame, the RTS also has many unique features, such as a huge unit cap of 500 units per side, different resource management, queue up commands and waypoints, diverse unit types and even dual screen support.

Players can play through the Campaign and carry on the story as one of the sides, or fight off computer enemies in Skirmish and human opponents in Multiplayer.

The Xbox 360 version has redesigned controls and HUD. The game uses circular controls to replace the many short-cuts and buttons. The right stick is used to zoom in or out quickly. It also includes new units, updated maps and two new multiplayer modes (King of the Hill - defend a strategic point, and Command Point - capture as many civilian buildings as possible), available to play over Xbox Live with four players simultaneously.

Spellings

最高指挥官 - Simplified Chinese spelling
最高指揮官 - Traditional Chinese spelling

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Credits (Windows version)

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Lead Designer / Creative Director	Chris Taylor
Senior Designer	Bradley Rebh
AI Designer	John Comes
Campaign Designer	Jason Janicki
Designer	Evan Pongress
Lead Engineer	Jonathan Mavor
Lead Architect	Jeff Petkau
Senior Engineers	Robert Berry Jr. William Howe-Lott Daniel Teh Christopher Blackwell
Graphics and Tools Engineer	Ivan Rumsey
Balance and Tuning Lead	Jacob McMahon
Balance and Tuning	Mike Marr
Balance Production Assistant	Eric Williamson
Executive Producer	Kent McNall
Producer	Gary Wagner
Associate Producer	Jeremy Ables
Assistant Producer / Content Engineering	Marc Scattergood
Associate Producer / Mission Briefings / FMV	Evan Pongress
Production & Content Coordinator	David Kirwan
UI Scripter / Production Assistant	Ted Snook
Production and Additional Design	Jason Ernsdorff
Production Assistant	Damian Smolko
Production Assistants / Art	Audrey Cox
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Reviews

Critics

Average score: 81% (based on 60 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.6 out of 5 (based on 39 ratings with 1 reviews)

Real successor for TA

The Good
This is one of the few games that can be called a real strategy game. You don't control a mere 10-20 units when you attack, like in C&C or Warcraft games, this game makes it possible to have attacks with 100s of units (air, sea or land). To enable such massive conflicts, you get maps which are huge...really huge. Some maps are 40x40 Kms, which means that even aircraft will travel some time from one end to the other. It is also one of the few games where units and buildings are more or less scale to each other. You won't find huge tanks and tiny ships here like in C&C.

The Bad
There are 2 main issues with the game, which can sour the thrill of the battles. - It is CPU hungry, not a bit, a lot. If you don't have at least a 1.8Ghz Dual Core CPU, don't buy it, you will only get frustrated with the lag. - The huge maps have also a shadowy side: Units which tend to be large and well animated in other RTS games, like tanks or walkers will be small in this one. There are however a couple of huge units, like huge battleships which will make you forget this flaw.

The Bottom Line
Its a nice and almost realistic RTS which will give you the opportunity to lead huge battles on land, air or sea.

Windows · by Tamas Molnar (19) · 2008

Discussion

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hefty manual, xbox 360 version	Pseudo_Intellectual (65481)	Jul 6th, 2015

Trivia

1001 Video Games

Supreme Commander appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Development

The original Supreme Commander design included 500 different units. However, this had to be abandoned very fast when the team faced the much higher production costs per unit compared to Total Annihilation.