Supreme Commanders' final patch: Forged Alliance. Lesson 1: How to improve a succes story and actually succeed.
There were some things that me think otherwise. The high system specs required, the somewhat pre 2000 interface, glitches, lack of effects to intensive battlefields, were some of these things.
Now, when I started playing Forged Alliance.. all of these cons just.. vanished. It is a great example of how fast gameplay and game technology advances in time.
When I place Supreme Commander next to Forged Alliance you can clearly see who's the best around.
Gameplay experience improved, the game barely lags any more (system dependent though, but compared to SCOM) and its a superset, featuring all original units as well as some new ones.
I like the improvement of effects like explosions, bullets, lasers piew piew. Graphics improved as well.
Units became more balanced and some were actually worth building now (like the Mavor). I dont like the 'new' nuke though. I have to admit the old one was rather overpowered and cheesy to throw at enemy's experimentals in the field though. The new one is just wayyy too expensive and underpowered! It takes me about 1 hour from silo to ready nuke (with 10 engineers) and when actually launched, it's grabbed out of orbit about 1 in 2 times (not that odd though) and when it hits, it strikes with 2x less punch. I liked the nuke! I like the effect of a massive explosion the battlefield, yeaahh.
I see Forged Alliance as a kind of final patch to a great game. About every bad thing that I experienced in SCOM got dealt with. I find the fact that all armies feature same kind of units a bad thing as well but that's just how the game is.
I've just been playing this game for 10 hours now but I just felt the need to write a review.
I rated SupCom 8/10, Forged Alliance, 8.5/10