Supreme Commander is what the HQ Monaro GTS is to a car enthusiast it may not have the same universal appeal as a Ferrari or a Mercedes but to a select group it is one of the best in the world. In the same way, Supreme Commander is an RTS-fanatics RTS game its simply not going to be for everyone. The spiritual successor to Total Annihilation, the games learning curve is so steep that those uninitiated with the genre will likely drown in the games complicated controls, sprawling maps and deep navigation systems. And boy, are those navigation systems deep Supreme Commander pioneered the concept of being able to zoom out so incredibly far that you were able to see the whole map and thereby have a complete overview of your strategic situation. From here you can then zoom in close on any point in the battlefield to have a closer look at the action and admire your handiwork if youve outfoxed an enemy. The game follows three futuristic factions the United Earth Federation (or UEF), the Cybran Nation and the Aeon Illuminate as they battle for energy and mass (the games resources). Supreme Commander has four technological tiers to indicate which stage in the game youre in. By far the most appealing is the fourth "experimental" tier which allows you to build the games incredibly powerful units such as the highly dangerous Cybrans Monkeylord Spiderbot.