Originally posted by: Zebonka
They can stick the 750mb download in their ear... though, if I see a copy of the demo in any DVD from a game magazine I'll be sure to check it out. I might be alone in this, but I *really* liked Force Commander (the chincy cutscenes especially). Strategy's fun.

I never played Force Commander, since most gaming magazines gave it a "thumbs down" back then. Yet I suppose there may be parallels to it, I don't know for sure.

What I can say is, that they incorporated quite a chunk of ideas from "StarWars: Rebellion": You need to conquer planets and build structures on them to be able to create troops and ships and you can send spies and saboteurs to infiltrate an enemy system (the political component is missing though - so no more angst riots when you use the death star as the empire, mwuharhar >: ).

The rest is pretty much like your average real time strategy game. You can have battles in space or on a planets surface (you can call in planetary bombardments if you have a fleet in orbit). The space battles take place on a 2 dimensional grid within a 3 dimensional environment - so it's not like in 'real space', but it's still a lot of fun. The atmosphere is pretty dense and I suppose if you liked Force Commander, you'll really enjoy this one.