PC Gamers: recommend a good RTS game
 

Been searching for a while for a good real time strategy game. What can you recommend?

Rome its old but pretty good or if you like mafia games go and play mafiaoutlaw.com lol

I have Rome and like it, but yeah it's pretty old. Looking for something new and with awesome graphics.

Anyone plat Sins of a Solar Empire? How good is it?

dig up whatever the latest command and conquer is for pc. never had a c&c let me down.

World in Conflict is a year or so old, but the graphics and gameplay are pretty awesome, I still play it pretty much everynight.

It's not your typical RTS where you build a base and stuff. In WiC, you just drop units and start taking control of the map, smashing all who oppose you!

Supreme Commander is generally considered to be one of the best recent RTS games, though I've not played it myself.

I like that one, too. Before that I was a huge Age of Empires III fan. Very fun to play even on single player campaigns.

Tom Clancy's Endwar was pretty cool. A lot of people complained that it was too simple but I liked it. You can only see the map from the viewpoint of your actual units so it adds to the stress when you are fighting instead of just being able to look down on everything like in most RTS games. The action starts right away, there is no mining or building up for the first 30 minutes.

Has a cool voice command so it's fun to say (Air strike on Hostile Six - Deploy Gunships - Unit 1 secure Alpha) even though you sound like a total dork if anyone else is in earshot.

I only played it on the console but I'd assume the PC version is the same.

There are no tech trees or anything like that so if you like that sort of complication, don't get it.

duck hunt, track & field, frogger

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I still play AOE2 on my netbook regularly on long travels.

the knights of the old republic games were pretty sweet, if you're in to star wars anyway...

Warcraft II :=)

Im waiting for Starcraft 2 to come out. That should be a great one.

Haven't people been waiting on that for like 10 years now.. lol

btw I'm surprised no one mentioned the Total War series.

Yep. We are very patient.

try Travian... :thumbsup

haha so very true. I actually played the beta back at the last blizzcon, looks pretty solid so far.

last good one ever made

Starcraft

What he said. Order of preference:

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (expansion)

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: uprising (expansion)


A good diversion, and still winnable if you are a casual RTS player.

starcraft2 is taking forever! Command & Conquer is always reliable.

starcraft2 for sure if they would ever release the damn game

I agree, I played that game all throughout highschool. Still one of the most popular online games in the world in the competitive gaming world. :thumbsup:thumbsup

older for laptop
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age of empires 2
command and conquer generals

newer
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company of heroes - has great 1 player and online repeat value
world in conflict - has a decent storyline for 1 player but gets old in online play.

new
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tropico 3, looks great. first two were fun.