Supreme Commander

[ZerBah]

Po meni jedna od najboljih strategija svih vremena je Total Annihilation (Kingdoms nikada nije dorasla do prvog TA). Veoma dugo sam zeleo da neko napravi produzetak, poshto je Cavedog bankrotirao (valjda). I evo posle 7 godina se konachno pojavio nastavak:

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Imagine, if you will, a tank. It's a full-on beast: wide base, massive treads, two enormous cannons, independently rotating turret, surface details including antennas and whirling radar dishes, you name it. As it rumbles powerfully along the 3D landscape it leaves twin tread marks in the sand. Smaller vehicles will skitter around it, powersliding across the terrain, but the tank is a rock: it moves with weight and power. Next, imagine taking your mousewheel and spinning it, slowly moving the camera out. Your tank is not alone; dozens more are continually spewing from a factory, rolling out to join the first. Most real-time strategy games stop there, but not Supreme Commander. As you keep panning out, a shoreline becomes visible, and just offshore sits a battleship.

The battleship is enormous. Compared to the tank, the side of the hull is a wall of steel. The huge ship doesn't fit on a single screen, no, you have to keep zooming out to take it all in. The deck of this monstrosity is surrounded by independently-rotating anti-aircraft guns, each one bigger than the tank. Mighty columns of steel rotating on gigantic turrets signify the battleship's main bombardment guns: the screen shakes when they fire, and they can hurl giant shells as big as a car for miles inland. Compared to the battleship, the tank is a tiny little bundle of pixels. But wait... you can keep scrolling.

The scale in Supreme Commander is so immense, your units may sometimes step on your other units. Each of these little guys is as big as a tank, and the enomrous spider is bigger than a city block.

As you pan back, you see that the battleship is not alone. It's surrounded by a flotilla of cruisers and destroyers, surrounding aircraft carriers in formation and leaving rippling white wakes in the blue sea. Subs drift menacingly along the outskirts of the fleet, only their conning towers breaking the surface of the ocean. At this scale, the curving shore of the main landmass is visible, and the tanks are so small that they are now represented by icons. No more than dots, really. But this mass of arms on the coast is just a tiny part of the action happening around the globe. As you keep panning out, even your enormous fleets become little more than symbols on the map, representing your enormous ground, naval, and air forces. At this level you can give commands to your fleets, your army, your air force: "fly here, attack here, coordinate to invade this landmass simultaneously..." War is fought on a massive scale. You're not just futzing with little squads of men or tanks: You are the Supreme Commander.

Chris Taylor, the game design guru behind Total Annihilation, is returning to the real-time strategy scene with a game so immense that "supreme" might be too delicate a word. The modern RTS, Taylor asserts, has been moving inward: in games like Warcraft III you deal up close with individual units or small squads. Taylor wants to move outward. Real strategy happens before the battle, he claims, when you're managing an economy, evading the enemy, gearing up a massive war machine, finding out about your opponent's armament, and striking hardest where it'll hurt the most. Like Eisenhower in World War II, in Supreme Commander you'll be commanding fleets and armies on the grandest of scales. Although Supreme Commander clearly takes a page from Total Annihilation's book, this is an all-new franchise on a scale that dwarfs any other RTS on the market.

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[Nemananas@]

Ovo zhestoko obetjava!!!!

Jedva chekam da izadje pa da se oprobam u ulozi napoleona(naravno kada izadje mod) ili anakina(naravno kada izadje mod).

[Lucky]

Jest' ... TA je zaista bila odlicna igra u svoje vreme. Imala je dodushe neke glupe sisteme, ali je nadoknadjivala nekim originalnim pristupima ... bash bi bilo fino da nastave tom politikom i naprave nesto dobro.

[ZerBah]

Secam se TA i kako se tamo moglo budziti jedinica - na mom Pentiumu 100 bez 3D grafichke je sve radilu cakum-pakum sa stotinama robotica koji su se shibali na ogromnim mapama, da ne pricham o nuklearkama i big bertama Ako Supreme Commander bude u ovom stilu, bice strava. Da ne pricham o tome shto ce jedinice da budu real size - tj. tenk ce biti 5 puta veci od strike robota, brod ce biti 100 puta veci od tenka itd.

[Lucky]

Da ali kada je TA izashao jos je bilo trunchice misli u glavama programera "daj da napravimo nesto zarazno a ne graficki zajebano" ... sad su se stvari malcice promenile :)

[KadeshiAmbassador]

Super, super, super ...znam da sam se malo razocarao kada sam igrao kingdoms ali stari total je bio ekstra...jos uvek ga igram.

Hvala za informaciju.

[ZIVP]

Jel su u TA avioni onako Izlazili van mape kad se bore u vazduhu? ili se varam?

[mrHe]

ne veras se, izlazili su ako napadnes neku metu blizu ivice mape

[genofilos]

TA se i dalje igra na mojoj mrezi, ali nikako svoju zenu da zarazim da igra strategije... jel' to izgleda tipicna zenska osobina da ne vole da igrajus strategije, vec samo tamo neke tetrise i slicno?

BTW, imam skoro sve mape za TA, pa ako nekom trebaju neka mi se javi...

Pozdrav

[`Dr. Nick Riviera`]

Ovo mi budi stare uspomene... :P

Jedva chekam...

Inache imam originalne CDove skoro svih dosadashnjih verzija i nastavaka...