Rts Games!!

[Merlin4458]

Im a big fan of RTS games, like rome total war, generals, rise of nations. Basically i want to know wot the next instalment of a RTS is gonna be> I know Act of war has come out but i duno if its good or not.? I jsut like playing with my m8 over the net

Thanks lads

[Dooms]

AOE3 on its way but still awhile off... *drool*

[Dorza]

Earth 2160 should be out around june time i think. If the previous releases are anything to go by this should/will be awesome especially online. Just do a google for it, the graphics are really spectacular looking aswell

[Merlin4458]

thanks lads. i loved rise of nations, any news on microsoft making a new one/

[alterion]

dow winter assault expansion pack coming soon.. (crosses fingers)

[Merlin4458]

what is DOW, have i missed something, is it like rome total war?

[Norky]

Darwinia! Mind blowing game

[Merlin4458]

wot would u compare darwinia too?

[Norky]

Space Invaders vs. Tron 2.0 vs. Total Annihalation vs. Sim City

[Aaron]

Act of War is OK, nothing special but good fun. The mind boogles as to why they decided to use FMV cut-scenes though, they look so cheesy.

[chazt]

fmv cut scenes are brilliant. red alert 2 is one of the best games ever!

[[DW]Cougho]

dawn of war is the best RTS atm (simple RTS like Age of empires or C&C) its based on the warhammer 40k series but even if your not a warhammer fan (im not) its still superb, and winter assault should be good although im disappointed its only the imperial guard who are being added.

[Dooms]

Space Invaders vs. Tron 2.0 vs. Total Annihalation vs. Sim City

OMG I MUST HAVE THIS GAME!

[autopilot]

Just for your info, cdwow are doing Act Of War for £19.99 delivered...

http://www6.cd-wow.com/detail_result...6846&subcat=pc

[snedger]

Act of War is on my "will buy when price slashed" list. £19.99 is close, but I think I'll hang on 'til it's about 6 months old and get it for about a £10'er.
I got Perimeter at Game for £9.98 a week ago. When I played the demo ages ago I thought it was interestingly different, but not worth £30. Just remembered, it completely slayed my then 1Ghz PIII PC.

Darwinia demo was great fun. But doesn't sound like it's got enough levels. So will wait for reduction.

I reckon Rome Total War (I do buy some games on release day!) should give me everything an RTS can offer for still quite some time and it's a shame not to have any new game to look forward to (apart from when mediocre games get reduced to the same price as a pub lunch).

[jeNK^]

Act of War is pretty and I would put it in a "good" category, but it gets very boring when both teams have nuke capabilities as all you do is sit back and push those red buttons, which is amazingly boring.

But before that is good fun, you get points for capturing foe instead of killing them and the different units can and do have very specific roles, so no mass building of one type like the gattling cannons in Generals