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Almost every RTS ever made has tried to best imitate war and everything that it involves, but if we take a minute to think about it not many of them succeeded, hardly any actually. Is Supreme Commander any different?

Ever since it was announced this game has attracted a lot of attention probably also because Gas Powered Games promised us a strategic experience unlike any other, massive armies clashing on huge battle maps, the possibility to create an unlimited number of units, everything sounded a lot like Total Annihilation a classic of the genre, so everyone got more and more excited. So when it was finally launched everybody was expecting no less than masterpiece. Were they disappointed? Not by a longshot.

Supreme Commander delivered on it’s promise and in my opinion it’s one of the greatest strategy games ever made…it’s practically a war simulator, a very good one.

Aside from the huge scale of the game another great thing about Supreme Commander is that strategy really works here, the ways in which you can approach your opponents are practically infinite, you can attack them head on, take them by surprise by dropping troops off behind enemy lines, you can take out his anti aircraft defenses and then crush him with aerial attacks, pound him continuously with huge artillery cannons, destroy his antimissile defenses and use nuclear missiles or you can…do anything you can think of…the possibilities are endless.


There are 3 factions you can chose from but apart from their physical appearance there are no noticeable differences between them, there’s United Earth Federation, the Cybran and the Aeon Illuminate. They all have the same type of units divided into the three main categories: land, naval and aerial units. There are three campaigns to play in the single player mode ,each with five or six missions. Might not sound like much but trust me the missions are so long and so complex that you’ll find yourself playing one for hours on end.

The only resources you’ll need in Supreme Commander are energy and mass and while energy can be obtained through generators and power plants, mass can only be mined from certain key points throughout the map. This makes things very interesting because this means violent battles to capture and hold this positions.

The only serious weak point of the game, if it can even be called that, is that you need a monster of a computer to play it in decent conditions. The requirements are very steep, and if you don’t have one of the latest graphic cards on the market, at least a 3 Ghz processor and a minimum of 1,5 Gb of RAM don’t even think about Supreme Commander. It’s designed as a strategy game for the next five years so it’s improbable that there’s a PC out there that can handle this game without stuttering even a little

Bottom line is Supreme Commander is one of the best RTS games ever, maybe even the best and if you can afford to play it you should do so without hesitation. There are still a lot of things to be said about this game but it’s better if you discover them on your own.

This is going to be a very important week for all Wii and Nintendo DS owners, as Konami has announced the release of 5 new games for these platforms, Wing Island and Kororinpa: Marble Mania for the Wii and Lost in Blue 2, Steel Horizon and Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2007 for Nintendo DS.

In Wing Island, the first flying action game on the Wii, you’ll play as Junior, a teenager pilot, fly around Shell Island and take jobs to keep family business running.




Kororinpa: Marble Mania is a puzzle game that allows players to rotate and tilt the Wii remote to roll through a maze and reach there goal.




In Lost in Blue 2 you’ll play as Jack and Amy, two teenagers struggling to survive on a deserted island after their ship went down at sea.





Steel Horizon is both a turn based strategy and a real time strategy game in wich players take control of a naval armada complete with battleships, submarines, airplanes and artillery. As an American captain you’ll fight against the Axis in 20 missions set in the Atlantic and in the Pacific.




Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship makes it’s debut on the Nintendo DS, and gives players the chance to duel worldwide thanks to Nintendo’s WI-FI connection. The game includes 1600 cards and even more will be available for download.

This should keep you busy for a while.

Seth, the evil god of chaos and destruction of the Egyptian mythology has escaped his sealed prison where he had been cast after being defeated by Osiris and the other Egyptian gods and he is ready to take revenge and destroy the world. Who’s going to stop him??? Well...you are.

Loki is an action role playing game developed by Cyanide Studios, the people who created Chaos League. You’ll take control of one of 4 available heroes and embark on an epic journey throughout four different mythologies(North, Greek, Aztec and Egyptian) to stop Seth from achieving his goal.

You’ll be able to fight against mythological creatures such as Fenrir the wolf, Fafnir the dragon, Medusa and others and encounter characters like Achiles, Thor, Akhenaton, Cortes and many more.

The game will also feature a PvP mode inside an on-line arena and an on-line challenge mode.

Ships out June 2007