THQ unveils Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

By Tom Bramwell Published 28 June, 2007

Exclusive: standalone PC title due in November.

THQ has told Eurogamer that the next chapter in the Supreme Commander series is scheduled for release in November on Windows-based PCs.

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance will be a standalone title that's nevertheless compatible with the original, allowing for new strategic options in both.

The new game follows the epic story of the Infinite War, introducing a brand new single-player campaign, a new faction and new multiplayer features.

It also introduces over 100 new units, allowing for fully realised navies, orbital weaponry and advanced counter-intelligence technologies.

"Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is not only the continuation of the epic story that is unfolding inside the game's universe, it is the continuation of our goal to move the bar for RTS gaming even higher than ever," says Chris Taylor, CEO of Gas Powered Games, who continues at the helm of the series' development.

"Forged Alliance offers over 100 new units, more maps and an entirely new faction... we are stuffing this game with all kinds of new features!"

The original Supreme Commander, released earlier this year, came remarkably close to winning top marks, eventually settling for a grand 9/10 and having to put up with being labelled "a triumphant achievement" and "a love letter to the fans". Bet they were gutted!

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Comments (20) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Metalfish #1 5 years ago

    Ah, this appears to be the year for RTS expansions, what with there being one for CoH, one for Medieval2 and now one for this.

  • rhinoxious #2 5 years ago

    Do you think they'll add the promised DX10 mode into this one?

  • Gurgeh #3 5 years ago

    They've done a great job with the patches for SC - it runs a lot better now on lower-spec machines than it did at release.

  • Jigglybean #4 5 years ago

    I found the game promised so much but delivered so little. Bring on World in Conflict and Universe at War

  • afray #5 5 years ago

    I like the idea for stand-alone expansions - but does that mean full price?

  • Lurks #6 5 years ago

    Oh yes! I suspect this game will be what really ought to have been delivered in the first game. But that's okay, just so long as it shows up.

  • frod. #7 5 years ago

    Don't think I've ever been more disappointed by a game then I was by SC :(

  • Xerx3s #8 5 years ago

    If only my pc would run this. :/

  • Ryuken #9 5 years ago

    rhinoxious: DX10 will never make it into SupCom (at least not with SupCom 1 tech), GPG already said that some months after release. I guess they realized it was more important to cater to the DX9 crowd, that DX10 patch for CoH also wasn't something to get enthusiastic about.

    I hope it's the same price as with Dark Crusade, really curious to the new units (although within a month it's very likely GPG will release free units as well according to a counter on GPGnet). A bit worried though that it comes so soon after the original game (which was ace if you played it for more than a few hours).

  • EzyRyder #10 5 years ago

    Great! My fav game at the moment and this coming before the end of the year. If it supports DX10 I will have to take the plunge and upgrade to Vista :o)

    The original was great if you got over the fact that the campaign was a bit pants and everything felt a bit souless (a bit like TA)

  • Matfink #11 5 years ago

    Jayzus 'Rider, don't do it!!

  • EzyRyder #12 5 years ago

    What da ya mean? About Vista? I know, I don't want to do it ... but I am a graphics whore and also Crysis is around the corner and that looks sweet :o)

  • Hunam #13 5 years ago

    Dear THQ,

    I wub joo

    Hunam

  • EzyRyder #14 5 years ago

    Yeah, got to say, THQ is my fav developer right now! :)

  • thinktank #15 5 years ago

    THQ is not a dev matey

  • Pirotic #16 5 years ago

    Wish they would spend more time fixing the game breaking bugs in the original game before starting work on an expansion. It was not only released in a right old state, but even now it now runs a little faster, it's still crashing a hell of a lot of people with nvidia cards :p every patch seems to bring about another critical bug.

    Last time I checked the tech support forum had more threads than the 'general game chat' one :p and I haven't been able to play it properly since launch because one bug or another is always crashing me to desktop once every half a dozen games :(
    Edited by 1 at 28/06/07 @ 18:52

  • DerFlange #17 5 years ago

    Hunam

    I wubbed dem first... and longest.

  • Benno #18 5 years ago

    Supreme Commander is the best RTS i have ever played since Warzone 2100

  • Jigglybean #19 5 years ago

    @ Benno OMG then you must have only played those 2 RTS games. SC was the biggest let down. All the previews focused on alot of key features - but where were they?

    It has the worse UI of ANY game (excluding Caesar IV) and is probably one of the worse RTS games out there as there is really no strategy involved at all. Why must there be an expansion/add-on that MIGHT correct the UI? No thanks.

    Bring on World in Conflict!

  • EzyRyder #20 5 years ago

    The UI on SC is quite good, but you have to get used to it. There is also an option for a smaller UI (that I do not like).

    SC has got strategy, it lacks a bit of tactical / micromanagement game but it's a good trade off if you ask me.

    If you are the type of person that like StarCraft and considers that game a strategy game is likely to be let down though.

    And yep, thinktank you are right, THQ is not a developer completely, it's more a publisher than anything :o)