Harkdawg Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Guys tell me some good new (2004/2005) RTS games.Just finished playing Earth 2160 Campaigns, the game itself lacks something, not very good.I ask this question every now and then, hopefully some of you have found a "pearl" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuvollari Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Warcraft 3 TFT(2003) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragoon Knight Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne is, indeed, an amazing RTS. If you want something a bit newer, grab yourself a copy of "The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth".Excellent gameplay and graphics for a game set on a HUGE scale. You can play as Good or Evil, and you play across the entire map of Middle-Earth. Excellent music and commentary, and trampling helpless Mordor Archers with my Rohirrim, or pelting Nazgul with 100 Gondor Rangers with fire arrows, never gets old. :PAnd that's saying nothing of the Battle for Helm's Deep, or the Battle of Minas Tirith... or even the Battle at the Black Gate. :DI think I might play it a bit now, actually... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Battle for Middle Earth gets boring reasonably quickly. Age of Wonders now, that's good. Especially the third incarnation, Shadow Magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWS Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Cossacks 2 or Empire earth 2 for the win! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3m0nger Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 Warcraft 3Warhammer 40000 : Dawn of war/Winter assault.Both perfect, if you're more into tanks and heavy battles you should go for Warhammer, if you're looking for a harder, less action more magic game then Warcraft is the RIGHT thing for you :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terror Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 Well, one of the newer RTS games is Age of Empires 3. I don't know how good it is. But I presume it's pretty cool. Or maybe Age of Mythology (though it's about 3 years old now). Apart from that I don't know many new RTS titles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harkdawg Posted November 24, 2005 Author Share Posted November 24, 2005 Shouldve mentioned guys, no friggin AXES,BOWS and SWORDS rts please. Miniguns, tanks, lazers - all that stuff :) ill grab warhammer and see whats it about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWS Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 Don't really have much choice then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 Eh, forget it then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectral Paladin Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 In that case, I would suggest Conflict zone. It's a 4-year old game (thus you can find it at a good price) but its graphics are quite good (3D, absolute freedom with the camera), it's modern fighting and has an original (and realistic) way of gathering resources (by rescuing or recruiting civilians and even using cameramen). There is no rock-paper-scissor balance and the weapons do what you expect them to do. A machine gun post is merciless against infantry and if soldiers are hit by a rocket, they are sent flying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 Ground Control 2 was fun, it's getting on a bit now but still really fun, Act of War was quite good as well, worth a look but have to agree Warhammer's probably one of the best lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harkdawg Posted November 24, 2005 Author Share Posted November 24, 2005 I have Act of War, bought it and played online for a few months, it was ok but not very good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuvollari Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 lol u could try generals..but its a buggy game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megashrap Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 Well my vote is for BF2, not an RTS I know, but still great online playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner154 Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 Dune II...... Oh wait. 2004/2005? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harkdawg Posted November 25, 2005 Author Share Posted November 25, 2005 i have Generals aswell, Original, played it also for couple of months online few years ago, didnt like it either that much and single player sucked royally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner154 Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 I thought Generals was okay. Gameplay was good. System requirements is retarded though. Singleplayer does suck royally though :PPlaying against the AI in custom game is fun anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3m0nger Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 Warhammer FTWhttp://www.counterfrag.com/screenshots/warhammer%2040k%20dawn%20of%20war/2.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harkdawg Posted November 25, 2005 Author Share Posted November 25, 2005 i just got Warhammer DOW, while the game looks good, the units are nice, HOWEVER i think its Modern Warcraft. While resource gathering is quite refreshing, i do not like it for multiplayer. I hate things where there is no equal chances, i dont like when u have to capture something and thus someone gets 1 more than other and gains advantage. Or with heroes, somone can creep hes heroe to oblivon and uve lost the game. In emperor you have unit veterancy and while veteran units are better they do not make big shift on the outcome.I do not like the units abilities, wich has been my beef with many present day games. U make a unit and it has 10 more options/abilites/spells/upgrades. A unit oughta be with 1 purpose, no need for 10 more options to enchance it, now and build 5 diffrent units, u get 50 diffrent options, thus makeing the game WAAAY complex and being complex is not that fun, its rather frusturating.The upgrades is another bad spot for this game @ multiplayer level, u have all those bzillion upgrades and each take some time to get, but in multiplayer ud have to upgrade them each game takeing shitloads of time ... in emperor u got several upgrades for buildings and BOOM, u got the money ? u got the upgrade, fast and done.Also i dont like the 5 barracks u can build 5 men simoltaneously, i like old WW style of just speeding up the process.Nowdays, companies just try to make more complex and complex games, add new options each game, enchantments, upgrades, abilites, spells while in the end it may look cool, but its absolutaley annoying atleast in multiplayer.Keep it rather simple, with complexness to a degree = fun , wich a game oughta be.Ill play the Warhammer campaigns, probably the expansion aswell, but thats it, the dream of a good game being developed nowdays is getting slimmer and slimmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectral Paladin Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 Well, conflict zone has none of these problems. No heroes, no units with tenths of abilities (in fact i think there is only 1 unit with two modes), no upgrades for buildings. Veterancy for units, but doesn't affect the game that much. And there is a building that speeds up the process WW style.I like that game very much because it really gives the feeling of modern fighting (or at least I think it does). You might want to consider it, it shouldn't cost more than 10-15E now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harkdawg Posted November 25, 2005 Author Share Posted November 25, 2005 is there multiplayer ? i think ill give it a go, i also liked Ground Control, havent played 2, only thing with ground control was it didnt have bases right ? u had given units Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectral Paladin Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 There is multiplayer (tcp/ip and lan), but not on a server I think(I don't have the game right now to tell you). Perhaps it is supported by gamespy arcade or something similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harkdawg Posted November 25, 2005 Author Share Posted November 25, 2005 probably its died out then, oh well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuvollari Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 lol in my opinion go and try StarCraft,online..Its alot better than EMP OR WC3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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