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Anyone know of good war games for PC?

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tryptameany

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I'm looking for presents for a buddy of mine. He's a pretty hardcore RTS gamer, so he has most stuff that's popular. I'm not really familiar with the genre and I don't know all of what he has. I need either something obscure or something new or coming soon. Anyone know any good RTS war games? Any suggestions are appreciated!
 
Kohan 2: Kings of War is a good one that has kinda flown in under the radar for the most part because of the bigger name games that came out at about the same time.

The strength of the game is the gameplay and interface that focuses on strategy elements rather than micromanagment. If you get used to playing it, it's hard to go back to playing something "inferior" (to someone who likes playing RTStrategy instead of RTMicromanager) like Blizzard games.

If he's big into RTS's, he might already have it...but most people went for R:TW and Warhammer in this generation of RTS's instead.
 
Rome:Total War was a great game. HUGE armies that are easy to control, a really fun and sometimes difficult campaign, instant battles (when you want to see how a couple thousand archers do against war dogs ;)). Quite honestly, I revere it as one of the best RTS games to date along with games like Rise of Nations.

If he is into the Lord of the Rings and whatnot, I'd recommend Battle for Middle Earth which is similar to Rome: Total War but doesn't feature as many extras.

Warcraft III is also an undying classic with tons of fan made mods/maps. What can I say about besides that it's pretty and highly competetive--it's really an online only game once you beat campaign (if you bother with it at all).

I am confident that whatever titles you see in this thread and forum referring RTS games will help you choose a great game.
 
Ground Control 2 is pretty fun. Sci-fi space age....alittle different than the mine as fast as you can build as much as you can style. You fight to control access points and the more of those you control the more money you get...plus some are flagged key to winning and you can't lose control of that base area....good graphics and presentation though.
 
John G said:
Kohan 2: Kings of War is a good one that has kinda flown in under the radar for the most part because of the bigger name games that came out at about the same time.

The strength of the game is the gameplay and interface that focuses on strategy elements rather than micromanagment. If you get used to playing it, it's hard to go back to playing something "inferior" (to someone who likes playing RTStrategy instead of RTMicromanager) like Blizzard games.

Are there many people playing this online? Is it a good online game?

I recently bought warcraft 3 to fill my online, team based strategy warefare fix, but it turns out I'm terrible at it due to the intense micromanagement required....
 
The best war games out are Call of duty, C and C generals, Battelfield 1942, And Rome total war.
 
Erebos668 said:
The best war games out are Call of duty, C and C generals, Battelfield 1942, And Rome total war.
Call of Duty is NOT an RTS nor is Battlefield 1942 but Rome Total War and Command and Conquer: Generals are ;) Remember, he wants RTS games.
 
garasaki said:
Are there many people playing this online? Is it a good online game?

I recently bought warcraft 3 to fill my online, team based strategy warefare fix, but it turns out I'm terrible at it due to the intense micromanagement required....

Well, I have just recently started Kings of War and haven't gotten into the online play much yet (still finishing the campaign), but I did play Kohan IS/AG (the previous games) fairly extensively online.

I expect that the online atmosphere is probably very similar.

It's definitely not going to be the gigantic community that is on Battle.net, but rather a smaller group of hardcore players. The earlier Kohan games stayed alive online for years (at least up until this new game) despite the dated graphics and such...and the code was supported and updated the whole time. There was even a community patch released eventually. Definitely a lot less bodily orifices per capita than on WC3 too.

Another nice thing is that there is a very good random map generator in the game. Multiplayer typically uses random maps so that no one knows the map going in...makes things much more fair and interesting.

There is a significant learning curve in getting good at online play on this game, but it's a different type of curve than WC3.

In WC3, you're having to develop your mouse clicking micro skills. Sure, there's tactics to learn and some basic strategies, but they will do you no good at all to know them if you can't micromanage up to speed. IMO, it's not worth the effort and practice to get good at it if there's any other good alternatives.

In Kohan, getting up to mouse clicking speed is pretty easy. There just isn't that much clicking to do and most people play the game at reasonable speeds. The learning curve is more in learning all the strategy involved. How and when to build what kind of companies with what kind of economies. When it's okay to tank your eco...when to retreat and flank...when to worry about your supply lines, etc... Learning that type of stuff is fun, though.
 
Thanks for the great suggestions, everyone. I printed them out and will try to check against what he already has while he's at work. I know he has a lot of the big names already.

C&C:Generals is his favorite, so I did a search for games like it coming soon and found a game called "Act of War" here:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/actofwardirectaction/media.html
It looks excellent to me, but I've never played an RTS game, therefore am not sure it would appeal to my buddy. Anyone heard anything about it? Played the demo?
 
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