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I am considering buying this game from Direct2Drive, it's on sale for $14.95.
I know it had good reviews for the multiplayer aspect but I am more interested in the single player. Is the sp gameplay long, short, was there a good story etc...

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i didnt get this game when it came out. a year and a bit later, i picked it up because the reviews RAVED about it. i convinced my friend to get it as well.

we never really got past the graphics... everything looks the same, and bland.

we dont play it anymore. we play red alert 3. probably not as good as a game technically, but it sure looks nice. ^^

Reply to neon neophyte

Thanks for the reply, so you would recommend C&C over this game?

Reply to jgiron

it really depends on you. some people would call me absolutely mad for ever suggesting such a thing. supreme commander is known for its HUGE maps. you can also scroll your view up very high, letting you see lots (or all) of the map at once. in many ways, this game is above and beyond the others.

on the other hand red alert 3 is fun and has a large community.

Reply to neon neophyte

yeah..hundreds of units swarming..jet fighters and tactical missiles nuke will take a while to reach its target, its like intercontinental battle..micro manage ur economy.. i played it for a while,finished all 3 factions but i got bored with it too quickly.. if you're huge fan of super massive battle..then i suggest you to buy it..might as well buy a used one -cheaper.

Reply to redkachina

Imo supreme commander was ''meh'' although forged alliance really did it for me. A great game in many aspects,but better b ready with some high overclocked dual core or quad, since it eats cpu power, i find it a pain to play onlince since there r many ppl running the game on to high graph sets/ or with old p4's either way it becomes unplayable after 20 min on large maps with lotsa units. So i often find my self playing solo vs Ai just so i have solid gameplay

Reply to ill b ben

Hmm, well due to the fact that once played all rts's are crap compared to it, it depends.

If you want to scream at other rts's for being so small scale and your tiny window you get as a view, don't buy it.

If you have a poor comp, don't buy it.

If you like a nice balanced rts, with good graphics, and base building on a massive scale pick it up and give it a go, although it is very difficult at higher settings at least it was for me.

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Reply to strangestranger

I just saw the game at Target for $10, I might buy it and play it in the future. My comp can handle it and I really don't care about the mp aspect. I look for the sp enjoyment. Good base building, AI, units, strategy etc..

Thanks to all for your info.

Reply to jgiron

I played this game for a while with my friends...it was simply okay. There are a few bugs that tend to come up from time to time. When the game is turned on medium high it would tend to crash every once and a while. All 4 of the machines that we were using were using the fully patched version of the game. I have also played C&C 3. C&C 3 and C&C Red Alert 2 are much shorter games. The learning curve for the C&C series is a lot lower. SC involves lots of micro managing and long playing time but I guess it all depends on what playing style you like.

Reply to dvanholland

If your config is as stated in your profile I wouldn't be surprised if it crashed.

lol, that was the 1st comp I ever built

Reply to jgiron

Mine wasn't the only one that crashed. Both my friends where running PCs with Q6600's and 9600GTs.

Reply to dvanholland

The game needs help running well, partly due to the demands partly due to it being badly made I think.

Ther game will slow down and crash sometimes due to the way threading is handled and madboris' core maximiser tool can help.

The other one is ram, when it runs out, it crashes or slows down. On large battles you need to enable the game to use more than 2GB's otherwise it will crash, in a system with say only 1GB free ram it will crash earlier.

Maybe it was buggy and the crashes weren't hardware related but many people underestimate just how much resources a game like that needs.

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