strategy games

ahyeah78 · 24-09-2011 5:29pm #1

I like most stuff from the command and conquer universe-what other games are like these?

Da Bounca · 24-09-2011 5:36pm

Starcraft 2 has a big following

johnny_ultimate · 24-09-2011 5:39pm

Civilisation 5 is like what happens when you inject yourself with heroin, but the syringe is a computer game and the heroin is history.

ríomhaire · 24-09-2011 5:56pm

Universe at War is an RTS made by a lot of ex-C&C developers. The MP is terribly unbalanced but the SP is a lot of fun.

As a personal preference I also absolutely adore Company of Heroes.

Spunge · 24-09-2011 5:56pm

Definitely check out Starcraft 2 if you like C&C.

Theres also Dawn of War, Total War , Company of Heroes.

ShadowHearth · 24-09-2011 5:57pm

Total war games are on sale on steam. go grab it while its there m8.

Sephiroth_dude · 24-09-2011 6:39pm

company of heros

ThunderApple · 24-09-2011 6:57pm

check out Starcraft 2. I cannot stop playing it. And I have so much to do..... aaargh, I hate it

richymcdermott · 24-09-2011 7:04pm

What platform ?

If you have a ps3 valkyria chronicles is a masterpiece to play

ríomhaire · 24-09-2011 10:50pm

richymcdermott wrote: »

What platform ?

If he was playing C&C on anything other than a PC I feel sorry for him.

mikemac · 24-09-2011 10:52pm

Rise of Nations

richymcdermott · 24-09-2011 10:57pm

ríomhaire wrote: »

If he was playing C&C on anything other than a PC I feel sorry for him.

I actually lold:pac:

Krusader · 25-09-2011 10:18am

Definetly SC2, if you like C&C

Dcully · 25-09-2011 10:24am

SC2 for sure, but personally i suck at it so i stay well away from multiplayer.
My favourite strategy right now is Civ 5 simply fantastic game.

ShadowHearth · 25-09-2011 10:57am

Dcully wrote: »

SC2 for sure, but personally i suck at it so i stay well away from multiplayer.
My favourite strategy right now is Civ 5 simply fantastic game.

SC2 is briliant game, but if you want to be any good at it, you got to quit real life and any other game you play.

i just could not handle it... if you dont play for 2-3 days, then when you come back you become a door mat...

Potential-Monke · 25-09-2011 11:03am

Dcully wrote: »

My favourite strategy right now is Civ 5 simply fantastic game.

On a slight side note, is Civ 5 completely turn based? Or is it more like Age of Empires, in so far that it's all to yourself and when the fighting starts it turns turn-based?

Blowfish · 25-09-2011 11:05am

Potential-Monke wrote: »

On a slight side note, is Civ 5 completely turn based? Or is it more like Age of Empires, in so far that it's all to yourself and when the fighting starts it turns turn-based?

Completely turn based.

Potential-Monke · 25-09-2011 11:20am

Booo...

ríomhaire · 25-09-2011 1:33pm

Oh yeah and to mention something I'd totally forgotten: Advance Wars is a great series. There's four of them, two for the GBA, two for the DS. They're turn based strategies. All sides have the same units but you choose your commanding officer. The COs affect units stats and also have special abilities. Eg Sami is the CO who's focused on capturing and infantry. Her infantry are stronger and her transport units move one extra square per turn and her troops capture towns/enemy bases faster. Her superpower allows you to capture any objective in one turn. The balance is pretty damn awful to the point where more than half of the COs are considered to be overpowered in multiplayer but the story mode and challenge mode are a hell of a lot of fun.

AnCapaillMor · 25-09-2011 2:16pm

Used love setting up huge island skirmish maps on empire earth and having all out war with 3-4 AI opponents. The Sea battles were great and you could spend a whole day on it. There was about 20 or more ages\era's to advance to. there was always one of the ai's that didn't advance as quick as the others and you'd be attacking them with WW2 bombers\tanks\plane and they'd have knights and old galleons.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 25-09-2011 3:21pm

if you want a more slow paced methodical game, check out supreme commander

I had great fun slowly slowly slowly playing the campaign

mise · 26-09-2011 7:52pm

I'm loving Civ 5 at the moment. I'd also recommend checking out RUSE

Sephiroth_dude · 26-09-2011 7:56pm

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Used love setting up huge island skirmish maps on empire earth and having all out war with 3-4 AI opponents. The Sea battles were great and you could spend a whole day on it. There was about 20 or more ages\era's to advance to. there was always one of the ai's that didn't advance as quick as the others and you'd be attacking them with WW2 bombers\tanks\plane and they'd have knights and old galleons.

Sorry but what game are you talking about there

?

Ethan.Saaris · 27-09-2011 8:44am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Sorry but what game are you talking about there ?

It's Empire Earth, it's in the first phrase

Oh, and I totally like the Age of Empires series - still playing Rise of Rome with a friend, almost daily - and the Cossacks series.

Age of Empires 1 IS the ruling strategy game. One of the first, also.

Not to mention Red Alert and Warcraft 2.

Yeah, got me, old time gamer here, hehe.

chopperbyrne · 27-09-2011 8:58am

Age of Empires Online is out now. Very similar to the C&C games.

Ethan.Saaris · 27-09-2011 9:05am

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Age of Empires Online is out now. Very similar to the C&C games.

I don't like it. It's that low-poly trend and the "fun" features. I want history and immersion, not "fun".

Jayd0g · 27-09-2011 9:06am

Ethan.Saaris wrote: »

It's Empire Earth, it's in the first phrase

Oh, and I totally like the Age of Empires series - still playing Rise of Rome with a friend, almost daily - and the Cossacks series.

Age of Empires 1 IS the ruling strategy game. One of the first, also.

Not to mention Red Alert and Warcraft 2.

Yeah, got me, old time gamer here, hehe.

I went back and replayed Empire Earth 2 the other day, still quality.

Rise of Nations is a similar game which came out at the time, I loved the world domination mode.

They borrowed that game mode for Warhammer 40K: Dark Crusade on PC a few years later, another great game.

Ethan.Saaris · 27-09-2011 9:10am

Jayd0g wrote: »

Rise of Nations is a similar game which came out at the time, I loved the world domination mode.

Rise of Nations: finished that game. Loved the steampunk addition.

AnCapaillMor · 27-09-2011 9:30am

Sins of a solar empire with the starwars or star trek mods was epic. another one where you could generate a massive random maps and spend hours on it.

RoyalMarine · 27-09-2011 9:50am

starcraft 2
age of empires 2 <-- clearly the best strategy game for multiplayer ever made
civ 3,4,5 <-- 4 being the best, 5 the latest and pretty different than the others.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 27-09-2011 10:08am

RoyalMarine wrote: »

starcraft 2
age of empires 2 <-- clearly the best strategy game for multiplayer ever made
civ 3,4,5 <-- 4 being the best, 5 the latest and pretty different than the others.

if you're a talentless bitch, sure.

penev10 · 27-09-2011 10:31am

RUSE isn't too removed from C&C and the zoom in/pan out functionality is great.

Dawn of War is a good one too if you fancy somethign slightly different to C&C

Sephiroth_dude · 27-09-2011 10:37am

Ethan.Saaris wrote: »

It's Empire Earth, it's in the first phrase

.

didn't see that

Must reinstall it :-)

chopperbyrne · 27-09-2011 11:47am

Ethan.Saaris wrote: »

I don't like it. It's that low-poly trend and the "fun" features. I want history and immersion, not "fun".

Good thing I was replying to the OP and not you then.

Who the hell wants to play a game that's not fun?

Ethan.Saaris · 27-09-2011 12:13pm

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Good thing I was replying to the OP and not you then.

Who the hell wants to play a game that's not fun?

Don't get me wrong here, I like fun games, but they're pushing it a bit. Age of Empires had warriors and catapults and castles, not cartoons.

Elrollo · 27-09-2011 1:04pm

penev10 wrote: »

RUSE isn't too removed from C&C and the zoom in/pan out functionality is great.

Dawn of War is a good one too if you fancy somethign slightly different to C&C

The entire DOW series is cracking! Love Retribution!

Jayd0g · 27-09-2011 1:06pm

Elrollo wrote: »

The entire DOW series is cracking! Love Retribution!

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade is my fave, loved the way you gained extra starting units based on which territories you owned.

It was more of a full game than an add-on. As an added bonus you don't need the original to play it.

Elrollo · 27-09-2011 1:10pm

Jayd0g wrote: »

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade is my fave, loved the way you gained extra starting units based on which territories you owned.

It was more of a full game than an add-on. As an added bonus you don't need the original to play it.

Ah stop, it was a class game! Ork crusade still gives me a good laugh aswell! Have ye played Retribution yet?

Jayd0g · 27-09-2011 1:31pm

Elrollo wrote: »

Ah stop, it was a class game! Ork crusade still gives me a good laugh aswell! Have ye played Retribution yet?

Yeah I played it through a while back, but never felt the need to re-install.

Dark Crusade's been dug out a few times over the years though

Doctor_Socks · 27-09-2011 2:04pm

This is going back a long time now but one strategy game that I absolutely loved was Total Annihilation! Absolutely epic game, i've gone back and played it a few times, only thing that ever used to drive me insane was that I could never get a proper lan going with my friends, spent hours of my life playing skirmishes in it though! Would definatly recommend it OP

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