14 DAY TRIAL // THQ has just gone public announcing that the latest installment in their famous RTS franchise Supreme Commander, has shipped to retailers. Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is a standalone title sporting a new strategic single-player campaign, an additional playable faction and new multiplayer maps.
"Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance builds on the features that made its predecessor one of the most compelling RTS titles on the market," said Kevin Kraff, director of global brand management, THQ. "Adding a new faction, more than 100 new units and plenty of new large-scale battlefields has opened up enough options to keep gamers planning galactic domination for years to come."
"Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance pushes the scope and scale of the RTS genre to the next level, offering the largest battlefields and the biggest armies ever seen," said Chris Taylor, CEO, Gas Powered Games. "GPG has listened closely to what the fans want and we've used that feedback to make Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance the ultimate RTS experience."
Gameplay features confirmed a while ago by THQ, look a little something like this:
- New Playable Faction: A completely new playable faction will be available in multiplayer games and serve as the main threat during the new single-player campaign. This new threat is a cunning and devious race with advanced technology and are true masters of quantum technology. New weapons, new strategies, new conquests!
- New Units: 110 new land, sea, air, base and experimental units evolve armies to address strategic weaknesses or become the ultimate expressions of factional military doctrine.
- Warfare on an Epic Scale: Fully realized navies, orbital weaponry and advanced counter intelligence technologies give commanders unprecedented, deadly new capabilities in what is already the most strategic RTS on the market today.
- New Multiplayer Maps: new multiplayer battlefields provide new grounds for players to prove their supremacy.
- New Single Player Campaign: Play through a brand new single player campaign as you gather your forces to save mankind from extinction.
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance has been developed by Chris Taylor and Gas Powered Game and is now available in North America for $39.99 a piece.