Developer: Gas Powered Games Released: 2007 Despite many real-time strategy games featuring narratives that are large in scope, the gameplay often doesn't reflect this. Instead, most feature skirmishes that take place as part of a greater war effort, on small, manageable maps. Supreme Commander does away with the notion that RTS games have to restrict themselves by offering genuinely large-scale battles. The first time you zoom out from seeing tiny details on an individual unit, all the way to a birds-eye view of an entire country, it's hard not to be blown away. Supreme Commander puts the player in charge of hundreds of units, across maps hundreds of times larger than most RTS offerings. Supreme Commander has a notoriously steep learning curve, but the rewards are huge for those willing to put in the time.
