I’ve never actually said those words before now, which is really odd, because you’d think it’d be the first thing out of my mouth when I was launching the first Supreme Commander. “It’s really leading the way in large scale RTS.

Taylor also put a moniker on Supreme Commander which was never there before, but makes a whole lot of sense.

There’s no border edge around the map anymore, it feathers straight out to the horizon,” Chris said. “The maps and terrain, the whole look of the game is so much more dynamic and interesting. The ability to zoom out to a macro scale was a tenet of the first Supreme Commander and Taylor says that the sequel delivers that kind of beauty once again. “I think it’s one of the best games we’ve made at GPG. “I’m very very pleased with the way Supreme Commander 2 worked out,” Taylor said. Today at GDC 2010, I sat down with Chris Taylor, the lead designer and CEO of Gas Powered Games and we talked about why he considers Supreme Commander 2 a “large-scale RTS” and how designing an RTS for the Xbox controller informed the design on all platforms.Īs the lead designer on the large RTS, Taylor is psyched about the end result.

Supreme Commander 2 was released for the PC on March 2, and will be available on the Xbox 360 on March 16th. Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games places Supreme Commander 2 as one of the best games that he’s ever made.

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