If you enjoy war strategy games, you are in luck. There are some great titles on the market as well as some great games on the way.
Although strategy games have a single player element, I really love them for the multiplayer games. Computer AI becomes very predictable, while every human plays differently. Which means these games are a fresh challenge every time you play them.
Strategy games tend to have online communities form around them. Members of these communities then program special maps or mods for the community. These mods regularly become more popular than the campaigns and maps from the developers.
First lets look at the upcoming games.
Starcraft II is the upcoming sequel from Blizzard. The same people who made Warcraft and World of Warcraft. Starcraft was arguably the best strategy game ever, so Blizzard has allot to live up to.
The game is set in the future. Humanity has set out to the stars. There they have come in contact with 2 very hostile races. The Zerg and the Protoss.
Protoss: The Protoss are an ancient and technologically advanced race. They use energy weapons and shields and so on. Basically the Protoss live for war. Their problem is that they don’t have the kind of numbers that the other 2 races have.
Zerg: The Zerg are a biologically centred race. Everything from their buildings to their ships are biological. They hatch basic creatures which then mutate into specialized buildings and combat monsters. The Zerg’s minions are weaker than the other 2 races, but they are far greater in number.
Human: The humans are a little further along technologically than we are. But they still use gatling guns, tanks and rockets. You might think this leaves them a little under armed, but they also have tactical nukes and stealth units to even the playing field.
My personal favourites are the Zerg, they are ugly but they get the job done.
Games that are currently out.
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C&C 3 is set in the not too distant future. Earth has been poisoned with a self replicating crystal, Tiberium. This has broken the earth up into 3 types of zones. The red zones where the Tiberium has killed everything, The yellow zones that are fairly heavily poisoned and the green zones that are Tiberium free. Two factions the Nod and GDI fight each other for domination. The Nod is a rebel group, they favour hit and run tactics. The GDI is the world governing body, they favour overwhelming fire power. Enter into this alien invaders, come to conquer the earth and harvest the Tiberium.
What really sets C&C 3 apart from the competition is their use of cut scenes to move the story forward. They really make the single player games much more “real”.
C&C 3 uses the GameSpy engine to make playing online quick and easy.
The other strategy games are very resource hungry. With C&C 3 you don’t need a great system to enjoy it.
They have also released Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath the expansion in early 2008. So I you find yourself wanting more, you can get it.
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Supreme commander is set in the distant future. Humanity has evolved into 3 different species and they go at it for control of the galaxy.
Where C&C is for the casual strategy gamer, Supreme Commander is for the hard core gamer.
There is also an expansion out for Supreme Commander, “Forged Alliance”.
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