a good war based strategy game!!

[shady_inc]

can anyone suggest some?
i don't want 1st person shooters like call of duty.strictly a strategy game based,preferably on WW-2
the game shud have nice gfx but not overload my PC a lot

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Rise of Nations is a good bet.It covers ancient to modern era.
Get RoN and Warcraft3.Warcraft is the best RTS I have played.
also consult this http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?type=top_rated&category=Real-Time+Strategy&platform=5&mode=top&sort=score&page_type=games&dlx_type=all&date_filter=all&sortdir=asc

[esumitkumar]

commandos..beyond the call of duty..sehr gut game :D

[fun2sh]

Age Of Empires 3

[techtronic]

Commandos 2 - Men Of Courage
(Best Game I have played till date) :cool:

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Come on guys commandos(even Men of courage) is nowhere near warcraft or RoN.:p

[shady_inc]

wow!commandos and warcraft sound like pretty good games to me.just hope i can play them on onboard grafix:D

[Arsenal_Gunners]

I played WC on my old intel D845 MB's onboard GFX:p
Warcraft 3 movie
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nTBRxFVW5pw&mode=related&search=[/URL]
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(http://youtube.com/watch?v=oMsZ34F1Lzk&mode=related&search=)

Commandos movie http://youtube.com/watch?v=BhQKvymsf2w

[shady_inc]

that's great!!that 845g chipset i exactly what i got.so i am off to downloadin the game now...!!

EDIT:WHICH is the best site for game reviews???

[Arsenal_Gunners]

How much ram do you have?

[shady_inc]

RAM is no problem ..i got 1gb a stick

[Arsenal_Gunners]

It ran fine on 256MB for me:p
The name is
Warcraft 3:The reign of chaos
expansion pack: The frozen throne.

[shady_inc]

Warcraft later.1st i will be downloadin commandos 2.coz i always prefer world war 2 games:) :) :)

[Arsenal_Gunners]

There is a new kick-ass game "company of heroes" based on WW2 out there.But it wont run on onboard gfx.

[Darthvader]

dude company of heroes is sweeeet so just get a cheap gcard ( even a geforce 4 or 3 will do) and u can play

[thunderbird.117]

Well if you have graphics card you can play

1. Act of war : Direct Action and high treason.
2. Warcraft 3 and the frozen throne.
3. Company of heroes.
4. Supreme Commander.


They many RTS games on market.

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

RoN:Thrones & Patriots

[Rockstar11]

Commandos 2 - Men Of Courage

commandos rullzz ;)

[Arsenal_Gunners]

EDIT:WHICH is the best site for game reviews???
1.Gamespot.com
2.Ign.com

[blackleopard92]

there is no need for GFX card to play yester year games. i played warcraft on intel 810 with 128 mb ram and PIII 500. :D
anyways, RTS like
warcraft, Age of empires, age of mythology, empire Earth I, rise of nations are excellent games.

then comes turn based strategy, which is lead by games like Civilization series.

commandoes is a different breed of game. it's a 3rd person action game

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Nope commandos is strategy too.But it does not include base building and other deep strategical elements.

[blackleopard92]

Nope commandos is strategy too.But it does not include base building and other deep strategical elements.
no, there is difference bwt tactics and stratgy.
commandoes is a tactical 3rd person shooter.

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Gamespot classifies commandos as a RTS game.Let me show a game which is 'real' tactical 3rd person shooter.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/coldzero/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;review

[thunderbird.117]

At one time i been fighting with people who says genre are not important and the other time i been fighting with people who are confused what a genre is.

Ah well.

[blackleopard92]

Gamespot classifies commandos as a RTS game.Let me show a game which is 'real' tactical 3rd person shooter.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/coldzero/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;review
well, to me its always a tactical based shooter than a stratgy one, but it doesn't matter.
commandoes is a excellent game series( barring the lastest) and should be played by all who like excercise of grey shells

[Arsenal_Gunners]

^^Have you played warcraft?

[blackleopard92]

^^Have you played warcraft?
yup. preety good game.only if played online though.AI is too tough..

personally, i like AOE II. it's the fav stratgy game for lan parties.:)
not to mention it's the best RTS.

[Arsenal_Gunners]

for me warcraft is much better than aoe series.If you have enough micro management skills,fighting ai could be hell of a fun.

[shady_inc]

micro-management skills???

i just got the game and i am still learning how to move the unit:D s

[blackleopard92]

for me warcraft is much better than aoe series.If you have enough micro management skills,fighting ai could be hell of a fun.
yea i know that.when i first played it, the individual unit abilities was something totally new for me.i was used to AOE II back then. however, when i was trying to learn about it, that super hard AI simply frustrated me to hell.after loosing uncountable games with AI, i simply moved back to AOE.

it was only when i was browsing some forums that i learnt that warcraft III AI is incredibly tough.so i tried it again on net and i liked it a lot.but i had dial up that time, so no use.

fortunately, with broadband's arrival, i might start playing it again this summer. :D soo many people still have 845 chipsets powering their systems.

[Arsenal_Gunners]

did you try lowering difficulty?

[blackleopard92]

did you try lowering difficulty?
easy was noobish, normal was quite hard for me. the only way i found out to win was to rush the AI. back those days, i considered rushing "unmanly" :p. so i left it.
however, now with every RTS game focusing on rushing aspect, there was no way one can ignore it.

[shantanu]

Company of heroes or world in conflict.. i played company of heroes..

[thunderbird.117]

Company of heroes or world in conflict.. i played company of heroes..

World in conflict have not been released.

[shantanu]

thats why i didnt say about that just saw that on NZONE . so said it .. BTW i played company of heroes.. thats all.. :p