By Jim Rossignol on April 7th, 2011 at 4:26 pm.
Supreme Ruler: Cold War, the latest in the Supreme Ruler series of strategy games, is an extremely large and intricate Cold War-era war title, featuring lots of diplomacy and a global conflict map which can be played as a giant sandbox game of domination. Heavy stuff. So it’s admirable to see its developers, Battlegoat Studios, sexing things up with a trailer full of repurposed newsreel footage and a rock-n-rolling soundtrack. Diplomacy! Menu-sliders! Tiny tanks moving along roads! Sexxxxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Ahem. It could be good. No release date yet, but “Q2″ this year, for sure.
07/04/2011 at 16:42 SAM-site says:
I’m in.
07/04/2011 at 17:30 The Pink Ninja says:
How realistic thing is this?
Can you win without having a direct war between the super powers?
07/04/2011 at 18:10 Caleb367 says:
Mixed feelings about this. I was REALLY disappointed with SR2010 (broken economy / migration model, nonexistant military AI, poor diplomatic and economic AI) and several of its problems have carried on SR2020 (namely the poor AI and a general feeling of being rough and unpolished – example: you’re stuck with the grey silhouette as profile avatar, cabinet ministers have American-style names even if you play China or Germany, poor overall performance (I think it isn’t optimized for multi-core CPUs, it’s mind-numbingly slow HoI3 style)). On the other hand, never had a good Cold War game since Balance of Power. Think I’ll wait for a review or a demo.
08/04/2011 at 01:42 PUKED says:
Same here, thought SR2010 had a lot of aimless potential that the sequel didn’t really deliver on. Plus they expected you to micromanage an entire country’s army at the battalion level in real time, and I can’t even pretend to muster the brand of insanity required for that.
Also a war game with often times nonsensical diplomacy probably isn’t the best choice for a Cold War setting.
07/04/2011 at 18:13 rasputinsownbear says:
I’ll be able to obliterate Lyubertsy? Oh god. Instant buy.
07/04/2011 at 18:56 Navagon says:
Do you have to keep reminding me of all the games in that Paradox Collection I got which I have yet to play? I think I’d have a breakdown if I thought about the sheer weight of gameplay hours in that collection.
07/04/2011 at 21:41 Megadyptes says:
Meh, last games in this series were kinda crappy. I doubt this will be any much better.
07/04/2011 at 22:47 patricij says:
An emergent gameplay – how soon after the start of the Cold War you manage to start a “hot” war with nukes and stuff? :)
07/04/2011 at 23:12 Duke of Chutney says:
i like the music, though it doesn’t immediately bring cold war to mind
08/04/2011 at 18:49 Vitruality says:
The music is by Kevin Macleod, who writes awesome royalty-free music. I know because I used the exact same music for a game trailer myself. Great minds…