The rules of engagement are a little faster and looser, a little more about entertaining yourself instead of purely honing your skill.

Now, it's about creating an army and a strategy of your choosing, and seeing how it fares against a similarly custom-tailored force. The shape of the game has changed at a fundamental level - it's no longer quite as reliant on creating these seething hordes of tiny geometric robots and hurling them at the enemy from the right direction whilst simultaneously micro-managing a complicated economy. Perhaps hardware restrictions have had some effect, but in practice you'll see it isn't a 'just because' thing. The cry that's gone up from some aggrieved corners of the SupCom community is that this must be because it's been dumbed down (a phrase that the world could only be a happier place without) for the impending 360 version. Where SupCom 2 differs from its predecessor is that the scale has been shrunk somewhat, predominantly in terms of the map sizes and consequently the time a match or mission takes. That's the key difference between this and the more intimate, exacting environment of the StarCraft or Command & Conquer model of RTS. Its strategy lies in its scale, moving formations of several dozen or even hundred units around at once, rather than micro-managing the precise actions of individual units. Supreme Commander 2 can yield great rewards for minimal investment.īroadly, it's very similar to the first SupCom and its standalone expansion - three sci-fi factions pitting delightfully vast legions of tanks, planes and boats at each other.

It might be less of a talking point, but chuck some food in a bowl a couple of times a day and that's about all it needs to show you love. StarCraft is like some rare breed of exquisite tropical fish which requires constant care and attention else it'll perish, while SupCom 2's more like an average moggy. Given that Supreme Commander 2 and StarCraft II are entirely different strategy animals, it tears the brain asunder.

Intensively playing two real-time strategy games with the initials SC2 in the same week is bad enough.

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