What good strategy games are out there atm?

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I'm looking for a decent, fairly new strategy game, I don't really mind the setting. I've enjoyed the following:

Company of Heroes
Sins of a solar empire
Age of empires/Age of mythology
Supreme Commander
Civ 4

Though most are underplayed I want to find a good strategy game that will keep my attention for more than an hour or so at a time. Anyone got any good suggestion, also please could you describe a bit about them so I can see why you like them. Thanks.
 
I been playing World in Conflict lately, it's a bit like Command and Conquer games but much larger scale warfare and related to what could happen if USA fought Russia.The gfx are pretty good, gameplay is fun and it's only £8 or so at most places for the complete edition which comes with the expansion already built into the original game.

Some people on here say it's the best rts game ever made though i've not played it much yet but find it quite enjoyable and needs a decent pc too.(it has fantastic missile/nuke gfx and realism on them)
 
Galactic civilizations 2 with the twilight of the arnor expansion.

Should be able to be had pretty cheap now.


THere's also a big mod for it that adds the star trek and starwars races :p

somthing childishly fun about a borg cube taking out an imperial star destroyer :D


Oh and it's not just a case of "research this to build this unit" it's research different engines weapons defences and huls and you can build your own ships customized for your enemies weakness :p


I always like trading around some high-level missile defences to other people for money etc while equpiing my fleet with beam weapons using the money so when we meet in battle they're using the anti missile defence tech and get ****ed :p



heres the diary of one of the pcgamer writers game in twilight

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=195920 (last 2 days are here http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=198344&site=pcg )


He tried to play peaceful and through a series of bizarre events ends up blowing up a sun :p
 
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Just reading through some sites about the games mentioned above. Not sure what I think, I'm planning to put a lot of hours into a good game if I find something I like. Galactic Civ 2 looks good, but I'm not entirely sure about it.

Anyone tried Settlers 7 is that any good?

And yeah I've got Empire total war but I didn't really enjoy it. Never played the others though.
 
Well as it's already been mentioned but I enjoyed World in Conflict a lot, infact only complaint I had was that it wasn't long enough! Also may be worth checking out Tropico and Anno series although they are more management and less warfare so may not be exactly what you looking for.
 
Tefal said:
Galactic civilizations 2 with the twilight of the arnor expansion.

Should be able to be had pretty cheap now.


THere's also a big mod for it that adds the star trek and starwars races :p

somthing childishly fun about a borg cube taking out an imperial star destroyer :D


Oh and it's not just a case of "research this to build this unit" it's research different engines weapons defences and huls and you can build your own ships customized for your enemies weakness :p


I always like trading around some high-level missile defences to other people for money etc while equpiing my fleet with beam weapons using the money so when we meet in battle they're using the anti missile defence tech and get ****ed :p



heres the diary of one of the pcgamer writers game in twilight

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=195920 (last 2 days are here http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=198344&site=pcg )


He tried to play peaceful and through a series of bizarre events ends up blowing up a sun :p
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ive always pondered buying Galactic civilizations 2 always wondered does it have any multiplayer to it?
 
Try Rome: Total War, pretty much said to be one of the best, if not the best in the series...

That being said, I'd throw out Homeworld 2. It's a neat little game, basically a space RTS... but, it's well worth getting in to - has a decent modding community to make the game more expansive / enjoyable. And to be brutally honest, its the only RTS I ever go back too from time to time. I just love the battles you can have in it... little fighter craft dogfighting with each other and cruisers / destroyers knocking ten bells out of each other for supreme dominance of whatever sector you're fighting in.
 
iamdjdz said:
Just reading through some sites about the games mentioned above. Not sure what I think, I'm planning to put a lot of hours into a good game if I find something I like. Galactic Civ 2 looks good, but I'm not entirely sure about it.
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have a read of the diary.


the game lasted 28 days :p
 
heres the first diary of galactic civ 2 (dread lords) he did


http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=161570&site=pcg



It seems mostly standard with some cunning AI, but it's only in the last few turns there's the amazing twist where he actually realizes what the AI has been doing the whole game explaining all the odd events.

It shows perfectly how insane the AIs "long term" plans are and how much of a unique personality each race has.


This is the one where he tries to conquer all by eating eyes and burning worlds :p

Tis a good read :p
 
My homeworld, richest, most populous and most productive colony was also my least happy planet, partially because its citizenry had swelled to fill the generous eating-room I'd given them by building so many goddamn farms. My generosity had been my downfall. My most loyal people were about to defect unless I stopped charging taxes entirely, which thanks to my knife-edge budgeting would bankrupt me in weeks.

The solution was as clear as it was terrible. Six billion people on my homeworld of Blood had to go. I'd never be able to deport them with spacecraft - I didn't have any, and it would take years to research the tech for colony modules large enough to transport that number of people, and I wasn't even sure if I could 'colonise' planets on which I already had colonies. Quite aside from which, these too would be cramped by then. No, there was a simple, cheap and very, very quick solution to this problem, and I took it immediately. I razed my farms. In one week, six billion people starved to death, and my approval rate among the survivors - who could now breathe - went from 49 percent, to 99. I could see why dictators did it.
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It's just the malevolence you can stoop to in this game that fills me with joy ^_^
 
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