Supreme Commander 2

This is a good game. Much more strategic and detailed than Starcraft. There is a combat unit specialized for everything. The biggest difference between this and starcraft is there is no resource cap. So the battles can go on forever if you don't make a good army. My only complaint is the controls and unit descriptions aren't really detailed or intuitive. This game takes a lot of practice to master. I think Starcraft is good for strategic training before moving on to this one.

Total Annihalation is my all time fav this is a soid runner up

I have forgotten how clunky this sequel was. It is a pale imitation of the original supreme commander. The story is a joke and the mechanics make this a poor imitation of the rush mechanics of C&C 3.

I am a sucker for RTS which play well, and this does play well. Even though the missions are partly scripted you have the change to think what to do and how to win since the triggers are rarely bound to a timer. And you can still zoom out from being close to a unit to see the complete map, something I liked about the first Supreme Commander games. You are practically not limited by resources here if you know how. The story is still the same style, being the hero switching sides. Though I am still at UEF missions the story clearly develops the same way. Why four stars? You can't remap the keyboard layout, "Space" is pause for me, but here it is "turn battlefield view" which is normally the middle mouse key. "Pause" is actual pause. If you know Autohotkey you can work around it that way. Graphically they could have done a bit more shine, higher texture resolution and HDR for a 2010 game, but the gameplay and the missions are good so far, and the tech tree has to be used differently for each mission. Both negative point are probably since Gas Powered Games was bought up by Square Enix somewhere in development, at least that's what internet rumors tell.

is very good game!!!