Square Enix and Gas Powered Games have announced that they are collaborating on a new title - Supreme Commander 2. The 'strategic' partnership between to the two gaming giants is one of the first moves made by Square Enix in an effort to capture more attention in the western market.

The expansion of Square Enix into the western market is one which has been slow, and plagued by awfully staggered release dates. By partnering with a well known developer such as Gas Powered Games, while at the same time branching out into a completely new genre is a massive move by Square Enix.

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Hopefully hardware has caught up with this game.

The sudden crashes when reaching the 2gig limit on a single process sucked.

Square Enix and GPG... Never saw that one coming. I also wonder who's going to publish the title? Personally I hope they stick with Stardock for SupCom2 but yah never know what squenix will bring to the table.

This is awesome news! I love sup comm, been playing it fairly steadily since it came out.

Eastern RPG Publisher + Western RTS Developer. Strange mix IMO, Reminds me of when Sega US started publishing Creative Assembly, since Sega wasn't known for RTS games rather RPGs, Platformers and Sports. Just goes to show though leaving your comfort zone can be a good thing and I hope this starts SquareEnix off in the RTS genre as a developer.

Never really liked SC much.

I loathed supcom, 2 hours of unit building only to have them all wiped out by defences within seconds maybe MP is better but I could care less

Best RTS ever.

This sounds... interesting. I think supreme commander is a fantastic game, shame the online community never really took off. exe3 next time don't just build tier 1 bots

Im still playing it and i can jump any day any time and fine 5 games to choose from. The problem is everyone is on Forged Alliance, no one on SupCom.

thats what killed the game, they released the expansion too soon, and in my poibnt of view what should have been a patch was a game you had to pay for. None the less i picked it up for 15 bucks a month ago and have been playing heaps since, go check out Dickies sale or a harveys, should be able to find it for 20 or so bucks

Awesome news!!!!! One of the BEST rts imo! When I saw the headline I got happy after what was a very bad day!

HOpefully its like supcom but obviously more advanced and better AI... and true Dual/quad core support!

Supcom had a few bugs (like the 2gb crash mentioned above) but most were fixed in FA... its a huge game and not an easy one to master, but very rewarding... hopefully they DONT dumb it down.

With current PC's and hardware FA runs very fast even with 6 AI players on HUGE maps... also if anyone is interested, there is a guy developing AI for it called "Sorian" which simply kicks ass, best AI in any RTS game to date!

Me and a few mates used to play weekly until about 3 or 4 months ago as all these new games came out... but eager to have a game, great in co-op vs AI.

Yapa

maybe that was the problem as I was playing campaign and you could only build Tier1 units, but then the question is why would they make Tier1 so damn useless? I like games where all units have a use

I hope not since that basically kills any chance the game had to come to Steam (Since Stardock have their own DD service (Impule))

I think this will be a very interesting title.

Loved Supcom, and the Square Enix games I've played have been good, but very weird (WTF was with the extended story in Drakengard?)

Maybe they will make it like supcom, but with Japanese style mecha and a weird-ass story, who knows?

otto

There was a certain balance in SupCom. In singleplayer you'll generally have to use artillery or long range bombardment to take out base defences, whilst defending this with T1Bots or tanks.

Unit counters hurt in SupCom, more so than other RTS games, where you're usually able to cancel out (say an anti-air defence) with a squad of bombers or the like. SupCom is a lot more "hardcore" in these respects and unforgiving for mistakes or tactical errors.