Recent reviews by Arnare Zephos

Most epic RTS I've ever played. Where games like Age of Empires and War Craft 3 added more "Emersion" and games got smaller scale, SupCom blew the boundaries off zooming in/out on large scale warfare. Command up to 1000 land/air/sea units AND buildings in 4 tech tiers. Massive base building (no limit on individual unit types other than 1000 max cap) zoom in to near 1st person and hold space bar for a rotating close up higher detail cam view of battles, or zoom out past the clouds to see the entire MASSIVE map shrunk down to minimap scale and watch a sea of little enemy lights blink out. Even in 2014 it's a beautiful game, does not look out dated. Not quite as pretty as Tiberium Wars maxed out settings, but plenty of eye candy. Very replayable, different strategies, different races. If you've played and liked any of the other games mentioned above and the like, your collection is not complete without SupCom 1 and Forged Alliance, I've dusted off both many times.

Games include the entry: Supreme Commander, a standalone expansion pack: SupCom- Forged Alliance, and Supcom 2 - which is a Square Enix takeover and is a dramatic change to the game. Highly recommend Buying Supcom 1 and Forged Alliance as a package deal.

Bought this game on SSS like 2 years ago. Playing it now and wow what a Diamond in my library.

+ Ages really well game came out 10/2014, still a fresh experience 6/2017
+ Wei ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Shen
+ Asian GTA without being too over daunting and unfinishable.
+ Martial Arts Combat gameplay, very intuitive
+ Racing... suprisingly great controls
+ Great Story highlighting Asian values being tested
+ Asian flavored vehicles (lol): Supra, Skyline, Evo, WRX lookalikes.
+ Outfits = Asian Hero costumes! ie Jackie Chan's Drunken Fist & Rumble in the Bronx, Jet Li's Chen Zen, Black Mask, Green Hornet, Tony Ja's Ong Bak, Donnie's Ip Man, Buddhist Monk, Sun Wu Kong & Bruce Lee's Tournament outfits. Some outfits actually have signature moves like Ip Man's Wing Chun fast punches! Buy Definitive for that, otherwise those are microtransactions.

- I'm currently trying to be a completionist. 2 achievements in particular are bugged Achieve 30 Silver Stats & 30 Gold Stat Awards. I currently have 83/88 Silver Stats & 84/88 Gold Stats.
- There are a specific 30/88 particular golden stats that count toward the 30 Stat Achievement.
- You tend to lose your gun when you start a new mission if you pick it up via open world roaming.
- I'm done with everything. All achievements. 100%

10/10

This review is for the developers that made this game, I don't want to simply put "This game is bad."
Now onto the review.
Graphics
The game is visually appealing to me, looks really good and very smooth, nice work with the texturing and making everything fit in together nicely.
Controls
Why are there no PC controls options?
Seriously, why can't I have my controls displayed to me in PC terms rather than an Xbox or PS controller?
Protip : If you want to release a game on PC, give us the OPTION to play with a controller, or if we choose, to play with KBM w/ KBM controls at our disposal.
Gameplay
It's not the worst in the world to play this game, but it is not good to any standards. the gameplay seems wonky, like where you aren't even close to the enemy and you hit them with a swing, or they are behind you and they magically explode. Could've spent alot more time in this department rather than the rest, and this game would've been alot better.
Animations
This kind of grabs onto the gameplay part as well, but the moving heavy attack that you can do is just plain awful. Your legs don't move at all, and your person just seems like he is made of butter. Slow attacks, and slides around during animations. Make us not be able to move when we heavy attack or something, this would make alot of people more content with animations.
Overall
This is a very good example of Graphics > Gameplay. They flexed their muscles on the graphics department, but forgot the most important aspect of gaming, Fun. The game is dull with the same characters pasted over and over, and these "Combos" are almost nil. Your attack is pretty much the same swings over and over again. Gets stale really quick, and I mean QUICK.
Last words
Yes, I know this is a free game, Yes I know I was a bit harsh in this review. This review is just to let the developers know what to expect when they create a game that lacks in Gameplay. I do not want to end their careers or destroy their hopes, but they do need to know what is truly wrong with this game.
I hope this review helps the developers, and they learn from their mistakes.

If you are looking for a standout in the RTS genre, this does not disappoint. Between the many factions to choose from, you will quickly find you favorite, and your favorite playstyle. The Warhammer series in general has lent itself to some amazing games, and Dawn of War proves not only to be no exception, but probably the best Warhammer game ever made. With the collection pack, and all the factions you get, you will get your crack at playing the many dreaded factions, from the dreaded Drukhari to the nefarious Necrons, all in your hands. Rejoice ye fans of WH40K, your hour of hallelujah has come.

ons: It can be very pay to win. It's a bit of a grind to unlock decent weapons to survive early on, I purchased the season pass just to get access to decent weaponry. The terrain can be very glitchy at times, I fell through the map on multiple occasions. The crafting system is almost useless because you'll often loot a full inventory of throwables from a few dead enemies. The games NPCs feel very wooden, they have very limited interactions and the towns and farmsteads don't feel alive. The enemies have no real intelligence either, they'll pass through your bullets to make a direct line to you, killing themselves mostly. The menu and loading screen music started off as beautiful. But after you hear it on loop a few hundred times, it makes you want to scream.

Pros: It has a vibrant, colourful world that reacts you you. Punch a door, and the window will break. Swing a socketed pipe at it, and it will splinter. No more towers. Thank god. There is more weaponry than you can feasibly know what to do with - same goes for vehicles. Explosions are beautiful in this game. Although the everyday NPCs and enemies seem to be copy and pasted, the four main antagonists are incredibly portrayed, voiced, and you'll learn to love or hate each one to varying degrees. Environmental effects are mind blowing. Perks are balanced, and it is made harder to obtain them, so you don't wind up halfway through the game being some kind of super soldier. Every situation can be dealt with in multiple ways, except the scripted ones of course. There is a dog called Boomer and you can give him pets!

All in all, this game is fantastic. Pagan Min is my all time favourite Far Cry "villian", but Joseph Seed comes very close. If you're looking for a visually stunning, high octane action packed RPG, you can honestly do much worse than this game. It definitely has soul.

Probably my FAVORITE game in the Command and Conquer series. It has fun gameplay, enjoyable cutscenes, innovation from previous entries, and many more adjustments that give you lots of reason to keep playing. I logged just under 38 hours with a completionish/100% mentality and barely realized how much time I spent in the game. Even a decade later I still found myself smiling and enjoying my time in the RTS genre again. This serves as a great game to get into the series as well as a fun game with innovation we don't see any the genre as a whole.

Definitely worth a buy if you are looking to play the series on Steam!

This game is not worth $20 in its current state. I don't regret my purchase, but I will generally support any rts game, that I think has potential, and this game does have that.

Pros:
1) A little bit of base building.
2) A decent variety of units.
3) Experienced based global abilities per game.
4) Can pick your loadout( or what your able to build in game) out of/before game and save 3 different loadouts.
5) Suprisingly for once, good scale.

What it needs:
1) Better environmental system of advantages and disadvantages. Height, cover, obstacles( firing lanes), and concealment.
2) Repair system.
3) Unit Vetrancy.
4) More variety of same type of units. Both in the armory and what your able to build. You should be able to build a couple different kind tanks, with differnt versions of each kind.
5) The armory needs at least 10x the selection for each unit. And it may need a point system in in of itself, to minimize exploitation, the cost of the unit in game might be enough to offset this, but I am not so sure.
6) More structures and implacements.
7) Bigger maps.
8) A little bit more zoom out.

Cons:
1) No campaign. For this type of game, its not really a con for me, but I know for a lot of people it is a deal breaker.
2) A lack of everything I stated it needs. :)

Overall its playable in its current state, and while I recomend the game, I do so only to those that understand what an early access/alpha/beta means and the kind of support and patience that indie/one person developers need. I will edit later accordingly.

http://cnc-online.net/ <- go here for multiplayer.

With that out of the way, let me just remind you of what you're getting into here - everything about this game is over-the-top - the story, the characters, the artstyle, the units, the actresses' cleavage. Basically, a Red Alert game like any other, maybe except for that last part.

There are three factions to choose from, the Allies, the Soviet Union, and the Empire of the Rising Sun. Don't ask. Okay, you just had to, fine. Einstein invented the time machine, erased Hitler from the timeline. Soviets got ballsy and started WWII instead of Nazi Germany which is now nonexistent. Then Allies kicked their asses twice, and at that point they invented a time machine of their own to kill Einstein. "Wait, that would mean there is Nazi Germany now and-" No, shut up and go defend your refinery from cryocopters.

Behind the nonsense of a story, there is a jewel of RTS design, hands down. Every unit has a secondary attack, meaning more micro options. There are air, land and sea units (every building except barracks and war factory can be built on water), some can freely switch between two or even all three. Every faction is unique to play down to the way they build their bases, each has something different to offer depending on your preferences and they're overall balanced relative to each other. People might tell you that Allies are the best faction which is kind of true but there was a time when they said the same about Empire so whatever. Just play Soviets, they have bears.

"Dragon Age: Origins" is a masterpiece.

I could finish this review now at this point. There is no need to continue. You ... the undecided user ... might ask now "Why?".

" Sit down my child and listen! Let me tell you the story of roaring dragons, scorched lands, hideous monsters, elves in dispair, dwarves at their brink of extinction and humanity as a shadow of their own forerunners. There is only one hope in this world and this one person is you....."

This is how the game might start out for you. But this isn't your average "I am the one" story. This story is about your comrades and enemies, friends and foes.

The Story

This story.... Right here. This is some beefed up J.R.R. Tolkien stuff. It is great. I really don't want to tell you what it is about. I went into this game back on its release completly blind and you can get really suprised. The lore of the land, each races, theirr coexistence, its characters... it is brilliantly made and a joy to experience. Bioware even made up whole religion and describe all its rites and traditions in a detail that you can really feel the immersion. But be warned! This game is in fact and adult dark fantasy game and it gets dark.... very fast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q94rdV9M1M4

Character Creation

You create your own character and choose his own destiny. The way you start the game, will change the way you play and the way you encounter other people. Many classic RPGs do this step of being able to decide your race, class and origin story. It is a really good idea and the replayabiltiy is high.

Gameplay

If you ever played "Baldurs Gate" before (Yes even the latest one!) or "Divinity: Original Sin 2" you know how this game works. The game on its own is a really good and fleshed out RPG. You have your dialouges with a sheer amount of possible answers which also change some of the outcomes of quests. The way you play your character and the way you develeop your character is up to you at this point. Like in all other old Bioware games you can be super mean or the hero everyone deserves. The gameplay in combat is also worth to talk about.

In a simple way: You click on the enemy -> Your character attacks the enemy -> You press skill buttons for cool effect

More complex: You see a group of bad people and you pause the time. You tell your Archer to shoot at the tall guy and blind him while you mage should channel an AOE fire attack on the smaller ones. Your thief should activate the cloak and sneak past the smaller ones to backstab the big one. You on your own playing a tank in this situation. You start a taunt so that any survivng enemy might focus you. But what is that... After you continued the game and all of your allies execute your commands you see that your archer got attacked by an hidden mage of the enemy. Good that you used the optional tactics menu before for your Party (specificly the mage) and set up "IF ally is below 25% HP THAN use heal spell" while your Archer got the task "IF enemy has range THAN attack range first".

And there are many of these things for different situations you can program into your party set up.

Classes

Well there are Mages, Rogues and Warriors! So if you start the game and see "Oh only 3 classes?!" ... Do not be dissapointed, because it gets better! These are just the mainclasses. Each of them has their own subclasses. An example: As a mage you can go full damage or full support and even both. Or you change the way you use your magic in a way you wouldn't think you could do this when you just start the game.

Graphics

They are okay for a game this old, just don't expect some next gen thing. The atmosphere is still amazing and the effects are still looking good!

Soundtrack

Amazing score! Amazing ambient! Amazing songs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWFEVbfCcOY

And this is all I wanted to tell you, but it is not over yet!



The problems with the other Dragon Age games and why this one is the best!

!CAUTION PERSONAL OPINION!

This game can be seen as only one game and all the following games were optional. Over the time they did the same thing with Dragon Age what they did with Mass Effect. Too much action and less RPG. While Mass Effect is made for that kind of gameplay and it turned out quiet well, Dragon Age lost its RPG heavy part and went over to a semi hack and slash with as less tactics as possible while also tuning down the lore. In short: Dragon Age got casualized for the masses. This isn't exactly Biowares fault and most likely the fault of the publisher (Looking at you EA). They even retconned some huge parts of the plots during their next games.

So feel free to play the other games of this franchise, but I will promise you that none of the mwill affect yout that much as the first one did!

Dawn of War continues its epic conquest with Winter Assault. Fixing most of the unbalances of the original. Winter Assault even brings an additional kick by adding the Imperial Guard (my favorite team).

Story:
The campaign offers two stories, the Forces of Order and the Campaign of Disorder. The Forces of Order has five missions and that switches between the Eldar and Imperial Guard. Unlike your traditional strategy campaign both the campaigns allow you to manipulate the story. The campaign is rather fun and delves into the issue of the fallen Imperator Class Imperial Titan. If you played 40,000k Space Marine you know have seen the Titan before and that it is known as a ultimate weapon. Each team has a different objective, but they all revolve around getting to the same final location. Interestingly, there are four endings there is one “correct” ending which the story picks up and continues with in Dark Crusade (do not read the next secion if you do not want any clues to the games campaign)

Additions:
The new team is the Imperial Guard. If you are unfamiliar with the series they essentially represent, in my opinion, a futuristic style army based around communist Russia. The army is initially based on sheer numbers and they even have units which execute soldiers in order to scare other units and make them hold the line. The game shows the Imperial Guardsmen surrounded by snow, which as we know is a strong environmental factor in Russia. Thus this team to me is like playing as the Russians. Similar to the orcs they fight in numbers, but unlike the orcs the strategies for the Imperial Guard early in the game lies in pairing up squads appropriately with commander units and working with your hero squad. While later the Imperial guard shift and play like other teams by using a few strong unit squads rather than keeping the weaker Imperial Guardsmen.

Multiplayer:
If you want to play online with friends I would recommend getting Dawn of War: Dark Crusade instead. As Dark Crusade fixes most of the glitches and unbalances of Dawn of War Winter Assault. These are not really game-breaking, but can be noticeable. Plus Dark Crusade offers the benefit of adding two new teams.

If you haven’t played the first Dawn of War then skip the next section:


Results:
I loved this game and all the installments so much I repurchased them all on steam. Despite that I still have all the discs, in functional condition, right next to me. Although it looks like there are more Pros than Cons this game is a good game, and definitely a worthy installment to the epic Dawn of War saga.

Pros:
+More balanced than the first game
+Campaign introduces new elements to the story by allowing you to choose the ending.
+A whole new team (the Imperial Guard)
+Missions are rather interesting and the campaign is not too long.
+Economic, Base building, and macro unit management
+Fantastic story and campaign (which is very rare in a strategy game)
+Amazing teams which each play completely differently.
+Fast paced gameplay which requires expansion to acquire resource nodes (but those nodes do not run out like in most games)
+Unit customization allows you to create squads for specific tasks
+Fantastic computer AI that puts you to your wits

Cons:
-My game glitched after the third mission of the Campaign of Disorder where I could not load any of my saves (I tried validating the files and it replaced the lost files yet still I could not load any of my saves. Then I tried to reinstall the game, but still to no avail).
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-The game can still not be played with a second monitor. If you have two monitors and you move the cursor to the edge of your monitor that is adjacent to your extended monitor then the cursor leaves the game and causes it to minimize. It’s as if the game is permanently in windowed mode.
-The movement AI can be annoying causing units to spread out rather than clump together. This is fine expect when you want to ambush an enemy and one unit gets too close because it decided to go too far from the rest of the group.