I had sworn off PC gaming for quite a while but let a friend talk me into picking this up to play. I had long been an FPS and RTS fan on the PC but since my Xbox360 entered the home the PC had been left alone as far as gaming was concerned. If you're looking for a game to get you back on the PC then this is it. Supreme Commander as well as the Forged Alliance expansion is top notch. I wont go into some massive review since there are pleny of sites out there that do a much better job. I will say however that this game is a 'big' RTS. By that I mean that you will have massive numbers of units in massive battles. I love playing this game and the expansion. I'd suggest it to anyone looking for a great RTS.

Not found in the above description, I keyed this in from the back of the box -

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack2, Vista
1.8Ghz processor
512 MB RAM
8 GB available hard drive space
128 MB video RAM or greater, with DirectX 9 Vertex Shader / Pixel Shader 2.0 support
Sound card, speakers or headphones
56.6 kpps Internet connection required.

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
3.0 GHz Intel or equivalent AMD processor or better
1 GB RAM or better
8 GB available hard drive space
256 MB video RAM, with DirectX 9 Vertex Shader / Pixel Shader 2.0 support (Nvidia 6800 or better)
Internet connection with Cable/DSL speeds)
Note: recommended specifications provide optimal experience for the single player and up to 4 player/medium size map multiplayer

The title says it all, If you have never played a good RTS game, then maybe you will like this game, but for anyone who has played a game like StarCraft then you know how bad this game sucks. it was fun for like 2 hours or so, but i found it to be not very interesting at all. i only made it through like 4 levels or so before i had to call it quits. can you say boring. play World In Conflict instead. Maybe this is one of those games that is meant to be played multi-player only as it seems that would be quite enjoyable, but as for the single-player experience two thumbs down.

This game was a huge disappointment. The game was won't even work on my computer even though my computer meets or surpasses all of the required software. And I couldn't even contact the company. I would not recommend buying this game.

The 'skirmish' (botmatch) feature is pretty good, and the game is solid overall. I've run into a few crashes on one of the larger maps, when 7 bots are running (total of 8 players), but have had no problems, otherwise.

The replay value of the skirmishes is not great, mostly because the game lacks 'atmosphere.' I think this is mostly a shortcoming of the massive zoom capability; zooming all the way out makes coordinating units much easier, but it also means that you're only ever looking at very simplified graphics. Older games limited the user's ability to zoom out, which had the paradoxical side benefit of forcing the user to interact with the optimized graphics. If the gameplay is going to compel the player to zoom out in order to take advantage of the strategic value, then the game needs to compensate by optimizing the graphics and audio for the zoomed-out perspective.

Some variation among the units used by the different factions would have been nice. The vehicles and towers are virtually identical, compared with, say, Warcraft or Dark Reign 2, which featured unique and synthesized units across the different factions.

Finally, the fabrication and assault animations are relatively simplistic and cartoony. There are older games with more primitive graphics that have done it better.