What is the best strategy game

Mussels · Nov 27, 2010

stalkers FPS/RPG, not RTS at all.

Best RTS games are supreme commander forged alliance and starcraft II.

edit: i forgot company of heroes! shame on me.

FordGT90Concept · Nov 27, 2010

Older, but awesome RTS games:
-Earth 2150 series (Lost Souls is extremely challenging) - Stands out because it is one of the few games where you can tunnel and customize units. It's also got three very unique factions to play and they are well balanced. Oh, and in the campaign, you can save units and money from one mission to the next in most cases.
-Empire Earth (really, really challenging)
-Ground Control II - Best story in an RTS I've seen and the gameplay mechanics are excellent too (very little structure building).
-World War III: Black Gold (same awesome engine as Earth 2150 and really challenging)
-Act of War: Direct Action and High Treason

ShogoXT · Nov 27, 2010

Mussels said:
stalkers FPS/RPG, not RTS at all.

Best RTS games are supreme commander forged alliance and starcraft II.

edit: i forgot company of heroes! shame on me.

Starcraft 2 single player is very fun, but i got tired of its multiplayer playstyle ever since Dawn of War 1 and Company of Heroes came out.

Besides those 2 mentioned I like Supreme Commander 1 (not 2 sorry), Sins of a Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizations 2 (twilight of arnor expack is awesome. Also way better than Civ 5 for me.) , Heroes of Might and Magic 5 is good, but i guess im terrible at it.

MilkyWay · Nov 27, 2010

Empire Total War and Civ 5 are good ones for me.
Company Of Heroes is great and so is Supreme Commander but try avoid Supreme Commander 2.

StarCraft 2 is a decent newish RTS.

Frick · Nov 27, 2010

FordGT90Concept said:
-Empire Earth (really, really challenging)
-Ground Control II - Best story in an RTS I've seen and the gameplay mechanics are excellent too (very little structure building).

Empire Earth had some sweet ideas, but I never really got into it. The Ground Control games are seriously underrated though. They are pretty darn good. -_-

Stak · Nov 28, 2010

my top rts list:

1. sc:Forged alliance
2. W 40k: DoW 2
3: civ III
4:CIV IV
5: SC 2 its worse of the series, but stioll enjoy it as its faster. tho i hope sc3 is more like SCFA

one to avoid!

EE III worst rts i have ever played and still doent run smoothly on my rig. when i have 10 units plus a few trees on screen i already get 30-40 fps or someting insane! while without any i get smooth 60 fps

IggSter · Nov 28, 2010

If you like Company of Heroes, have a look at the Men of War series - incredible amount of control and some interesting game types.

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entropy13 · Nov 28, 2010

Total War series
Company of Heroes plus expansions
Hearts of Iron 3 plus expansions
Europa Universalis plus expansions
Heroes of Might and Magic series
King's Bounty - Crossworlds
World in Conflict
R.U.S.E.
Starcraft 2

Actually almost all of the Paradox Interactive games

You can try Cossacks II - Napoleonic Wars and Cossacks II - Battle for Europe as well, it's from the makers of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games (heck they started with Cossacks as their first major international game 5 years ago).

FordGT90Concept · Nov 29, 2010

Stak said:
EE III worst rts i have ever played and still doent run smoothly on my rig. when i have 10 units plus a few trees on screen i already get 30-40 fps or someting insane! while without any i get smooth 60 fps

Agreed. They completely failed with EE III. EE II is okay but EE is best.

Frick · Nov 29, 2010

Stak said:
my top rts list:

1. sc:Forged alliance
2. W 40k: DoW 2
3: civ III
4:CIV IV
5: SC 2 its worse of the series, but stioll enjoy it as its faster. tho i hope sc3 is more like SCFA

one to avoid!

EE III worst rts i have ever played and still doent run smoothly on my rig. when i have 10 units plus a few trees on screen i already get 30-40 fps or someting insane! while without any i get smooth 60 fps

Can't we just agree that SC = Starcraft and SupCom = Supreme Commander?? I got VERY fonfused when I read your post. :roll:

arroyo · Nov 29, 2010

Plants vs Zombies

(FIH) The Don · Nov 29, 2010

Fallen Haven

entropy13 · Nov 29, 2010

Forgot to mention Real Warfare 1242, another strategy game by a Russian company (the one that made the new King's Bounty games)

Peter1986C · Nov 29, 2010

A good turn based strategy game is the open source project The Battle for Wesnoth. It's 2d, but for a reason I can't explain the graphics are very charming. Deep and challenging gameplay too.

I agree on the quality of EE 1 and the Total War series (never played Starcraft and Civilisation), but I thought it would be nice to suggest a game that is less known.

Frick · Nov 29, 2010

Chevalr1c said:
A good turn based strategy game is the open source project The Battle for Wesnoth. It's 2d, but for a reason I can't explain the graphics are very charming. Deep and challenging gameplay too.

+1, it's suprisingly good, and it's downloadable for Win, OSX and a bunch of linux distros. Aside from the source code of course.

boise49ers · Nov 29, 2010

Dune 2000

OK maybe not the best , but the last one I played a hundred years ago.

gvblake22 · Nov 29, 2010

Oh man, Dune 2000 got me hooked on RTS. I bought Emperor: Battle for Dune as soon as it came out and I played the $h!t outta that game! Good times.

Since then, I've poured the rest of my RTS hours into the original Supreme Commander series (mainly Forged Alliance) as well as the sequel, Supreme Commander 2. I liked SupCom:FA a bit better than SupCom2 though. However, that's not to say SupCom2 is a bad game, I still play it almost every day and have lots of fun. It's just not as good as it could have been. I think they wanted to make it easier for people to play in hopes of getting more players (which makes sense from a business perspective).

Virus-j · Nov 29, 2010

Westwood Studio Game, Command and Conquer Series are the Best My Fav is Tiberian Sun Great Story Line Easily to get Hooked still play it To date now and then Online. Sadly Ea Ruined the Series of C&C once they bought Out westwood Studios.

Lately I play company of Hereos which alot have mentioned........ Which im not supprised by at all Great Game.

@gvblake Ah Yes I remember Emperor Battle For Dune Amazing Game In it's Time When it first come out i had to have it Sadly my Old Crappy Tiny Pc Had 400Mhz Processor (Cant remember what it was) and 4mb Graphics card couldn't Handle it ......Lol

gvblake22 · Nov 30, 2010

Virus-j said:
@gvblake Ah Yes I remember Emperor Battle For Dune Amazing Game In it's Time When it first come out i had to have it Sadly my Old Crappy Tiny Pc 400Mhz Processor Cant remember what it was and 4mb Graphics card couldn't Handle it ......Lol

Hehehe, yeah. I played it on a 900Mhz Pentium III with ATI Mobility M4 graphics all packed into a Dell Inspiron laptop, being displayed at 1024x768 on a 15" screen. It was just enough to play the game but not enough to really crank up the graphics too much. A lot of units would really bog it down. Definitely a great game for its time though. Had to be one of the very first fully 3D RTS games available anywhere, no?

Anarchy0110 · Nov 30, 2010

Warcraft and Starcraft :rockout:

No need to ask why

Play3r · Nov 30, 2010

Dune 1/2
Age of Empires 1/2
C&C 95, Red Alert, C&C Generals
Starcraft1/2
Warcraft 1/2/3
Civ 2/3/4
Heroes: Might and Magic 3/4/5
Dawn of War I (imo DoW II was diarrhea)
Supreme Commander 1
Total War

Most of these where pretty good :rockout:

Virus-j · Nov 30, 2010

Oh Forgot to add, Another Good Game is Battle Realms Bit old Now But still good....

Thrackan · Nov 30, 2010

Total Annihilation.

Kreij · Nov 30, 2010

Total Annihilation is on sale on Impulse for $4.99 at the moment.
Just in case anyone cares.

Mussels · Nov 30, 2010

i still own TA on CD-ROM

pity you cant play multi over lan in windows 7

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