Hello and greetings from Eastern Europe, my name is ColdBeerHD and this is the third part
of Best RTS games ever made.
There is no difference where to begin, watch this part freely, you will find links to other
parts in the description below or at the very end of this video.
Let’s roll!
Supreme Commander
With three lengthy and diverse campaigns, a skirmish mode, and online community, Supreme
Commander is truly what the genre is all about.
Also it has good mod support so it extends the lifetime of this game like vodka extends
your evening with friends.
Vodka will save your life, just drink it, trust me.
Overall, if you played Total Annihilation, the Supreme Commander will feel familiar,
it has the same vibes.
Because Supreme Commander is 12 years old, it might run on the worst pc you have.
Actually I think my mobile phone would be powerful enough to run it, so it’s a real
treat for people who can’t afford high end PC, but still want to play best games.
And Supreme Commander is all that including more than 800 very positive reviews on Steam.
So what’s wrong with it?
Well, it is old, so it might crash, freeze and so on.
Most of the negative comments on steam are exactly like that: game crashes too often
for them.
For everyone else – it’s a wonderful game.
So I guess it might be a thing of a luck.
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
This is a treat for any Age of Empires fan.
Here you can choose from 18 different nations, each with special abilities and unique military
units.
You have to guide your nation through 8 stages of worlds history, starting with sticks and
stones and climbing your way into to the future with helicopters and similar stuff.
Game has some unique gameplay elements, like automatic spawning of citizens-workers who
automatically look for a task to perform.
In my opinion this kind of automation is really bad thing, because what's next?
Automatic spawning of warriors, automatic building construction?
Automatic going to war?
What else?
Robots taking our jobs?
Robots drinking our vodka?
Hell no.
Say no to automatic workers!
While the original game was released in a year 2003, the Extended Edition came to life
at Steam in 2014.
In addition of a original game it now has improved visuals, improved textures, achievements,
cloud saves and multiplayer with ranked matches.
To say short - it now has everything a modern RTS should have.
Empire Earth franchise
First part is the most loved by the oldschool players.
But let's be fair – graphics are outdated, so if you're not already a fan, please choose
some other part.
But... not third.
Because third is bad.
In metacritic.com it has user score of 3.1.
Yes, out of 10.
You don’t want to play that.
You better play with a homeless cat full of parasites instead of this game.
So you're left with the second part of the Empire Earth.
It has much better graphics than the first one and is more fun to play than a homeless
cat full of parasites.
Especially if you liked Age of Empires, Empire Earth 2 should be your choice number one.
Dungeon Keeper 2
Though the first Dungeon Keeper made a revolution in the field of strategy games, second part
was the one which is still praised by thousands of fans all over the world.
Released in a year 1999, this was one of the last games Bullfrog ever made, because it’s
owner Electronic Arts closed the studio few years later and canceled the production of
Dungeon Keeper 3 in favor of more profitable, as it seemed then, Harry Potter and Lord of
the Rings games.
Don’t be very angry about that, because later they released Battle for Middle Earth
– one of the best real time strategy games ever made.
Dungeon Keeper 2 was the game that strengthened the new genre of Dungeon manager, where your
creatures mind their own business and you just make their lives as comfortable as you
can, because the better is your dungeon, the better creatures come through the portal and
this makes you more powerful dungeon master.
Dungeon Keeper 2 was dark and gloomy, but also it had wonderful sense of humor.
And humor, you know, it can be addictive.
Nightside
You probably never even heard about it, but this game deserves to be in our list because
it is one of the most original RTS games in a way of how it looks.
At first glimpse it looks like a lot of different blobs, globs, lumps, jumbles, gribles, schmocks,
shlobs, tangles and hunks, are fighting each other.
At the second glimpse you realize that you’re right.
Controlwise it resembles Starcraft, because commands are executed using right clicks,
and unit special abilities and upgrades are available through a command bar in a lower
right.
This game has no fog of war, instead your units and buildings has lighting sources to
see further into the landscape and to spot enemies around them.
Game features 4 factions fighting over the resource called "the green ice".
Game is quite slow, nothing is here for a fast pace combat lowers, but just look at
it, its beautiful.
Just like you my friend.
Starcraft 2
Starcraft 2 is one of the best games ever made.
Not only in RTS world, but overall.
Released in a year 2010 it is still widely playable around the world, not only in South
Korea, where if I have heard right, Starcraft Brood War is still more popular than the Starcraft
2.
If any Koreans watch my videos, please tell me how it really is in the comment section.
I like them both, but I’m a sucker for shiny graphics, so Starcraft 2 is my jam.
I played it for 8 years, occasionally of course, not every day, not even every month, and I
stopped only recently, because I just got bored.
Let’s be fair and square – Blizzard is milking the same cow and last new game for
the PC they announced was Overwatch.
You know when they announced it?
5 years ago.
So the company is pretty much dead weight right now, barely holding on with their old
games.
This year Blizzard laid off about 800 employees, so things are probably not as good as they
were before.
But no matter, if you never played Starcraft 2 it’s a game you must try.
Game is still great today and, as I mentioned before it still gets new stuff added almost
every month, well obviously because they have no new games, so they have to do something,
righ?
And you can play it for free.
Even if your’e not into multiplayer, that is also free to play, keep in mind that you
can play entire Wings of Liberty campaign without paying a dime.
It’s probably more than 10 hours of fun.
Also the pro gaming scene is great.
You can watch bonjwas play the game on tournaments and cheer for them.
Prizes are also big.
In example winner of Blizzcon tournament gets 200 000 dollars.
For me it’s better than any sport.
And as Lithuanian I should be huge fan of basketball, but I’m not, I’m a fan of
Starcraft 2.
Believe me, you can become one too, pretty easily, just try it.
Dune 2000
I have never felt so helpless like the moment when I saw the giant sandworm trail quickly
approaching my beloved harvester.
After a few seconds the monster emerged from the dunes and my resource collecting machine
was gone forever in the jaws of a the giant sand creature.
I had no money to build another and after a two hour playtime I was quickly overwhelmed
by approaching enemies.
This is a real memory from my childhood, and not a pleasant one.
Game is based on a novel written by Frank Herbert.
I have read the book when I was a teenager and it made a good impression to me, but now
I realize that it was because this book was written for a teenagers.
Main protagonist is a child who have to overcome various difficulties and at the same time
he founds that he has some superpowers and can control and ride giant sandworms.
Yes those sandworms.
This would be useless ability on any planet without sandworms, but it so happened that
he was on one that had them.
Yay for him!
So, long story short, people made several strategy games based on Dune, because story
contained several factions that hated each other, and it was easy to export them to the
game.
While Dune 2000 was meant to be a remake of Dune 2, the game that has popularized the
entire genre of RTS, Dune 2000 has entirely different plot and till this day looks really
good.
Now it’s considered abandonware, you can easily get this game for free and even find
how to play it with your friends.
Planetary Annihilation: Titans
It kinda reminds me the book named The Little Prince, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
because here you will also have your little planet, but that’s the end of similarities,
because this little planet of yours will be responsible for raping and pillaging other
planets.
Planetary Annihilation Titans is a huge stand alone expansion for Planetary Annihilation
game which ads tons of new content along with a base game itself.
Here you can play the game alone or dive into the multiplayer battles.
Reviews are mostly positive, but better wait for a sale, because it's not cheap.
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