Supreme Commander 2 Pre-Loading Begins on Steam

by Brian Leahy, Feb 25, 2010 5:30pm PST

Valve have announced that Gas Powered Games and Square-Enix's Supreme Commander 2 is now available for pre-loading ahead of the strategy game's March 2, 2010 release date. A demo of the game was released on Steam yesterday along with confirmation that the game will utilize Steamworks for DRM.

Gas Powered Games have released two new trailers, showing off some more experimental units. First up, the Noah Unit Cannon:

Next, we have the Universal Colossus:

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Play the demo, but you'll find out what the rest of us have: This game is a dumbed down, scaled back, pale shadow of the first. =(

Feb 25, 2010 5:42pm PST

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Play the demo, but you'll find out what the rest of us have: This game is a dumbed down, scaled back, pal... : ckozlowski
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- Really? That is sad... I enjoyed the first one, but I felt like I was really missing some crucial det... : SeraphielX
- I actually enjoyed it... But I never played Total Annihilation so I dont think I have the same expecta... : Sturm08
- I liked the first one, but that was before I had played Company of Heroes or the Total War series. The S... : TurtlePerson2
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  I'm enjoying the hell out of the demo. I had a lot of gripes with the first and have been pleasantly sup... : JamesArhy
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    Ever try the mod "TAUCP" combined with the "5000 unit patch"? Epic combination... : Epsilon Sector
    - +1 Happy times. : Dodgy
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  There has been a lot of talk lately about RPG-Lite games like Mass Effect and how they are "great" or a s... : sweetnutz
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    From what I can tell C&C 4 is going to be RTS-Lite. Dawn of War 2 might also be considered that, or mayb... : schnitz76
    - DoW2 was more like Diablo 2 with less clicking. The game had bunches of loot and I kind of had the feelin... : Sailor of Fortune
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  Really? To me, it seems like a more streamlined version of the first game, much like how Mass Effect 2 c... : LoneBoco
  - The "deficit spending" economy of the first SupCom and TA before it was a hallmark of the series. It was ... : ckozlowski
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  Simplified .. Yes. But still more complex than C&C and Starcraft, which are the ultimate in dumbed down RTS games. Choose your poison !
  
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  Simplified .. Yes. But still more complex than C&C and Starcraft, which are the ultimate in dumbed down R... : lewchenko
  - Calling StarCraft dumbed down is ridiculous. That game still has new strategies being developed 12 years... : 0mar
- If this is true then that really sucks. I thought Chris had bigger balls than that! : yaystuff

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