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I picked it up last night, played through a few missions.

I don't like how the characters look like Final Fantasy rejects - but oh well, thanks SquareEnix.

Coming from Forged Alliance, it's not the same game.
I mean there were changes from SC1 and FA - but they felt more like upgrades to the engine.

Here, it's like they rebuilt the game from the ground up based on a few ideas from the first one.

I was hoping for something a bit more like SC1, but I think I can be happy with what SC2 is.

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I play SC1, TA and FA on a regular basis. I was expecting a similar or better game than these. I feel like I have wasted $55. I can't even get through 3 missions. I haven't touched the game since the third one.

They have changed around a lot of the game mechanics enough to the point where I feel like it's a knock off SC game. It feels like they have dumbed down the game so everyone can like it. It's terrible

They have taken the resource mechanic out. It is no longer a sustainable economy type game. It's more like Red Alert or WarCraft. You just pre-purchase units now rather than order them, then use resources to build them.

I cannot believe that they removed the tier system. That was the main mechanic of the unit system. And where the hell did all the units go? There used to be over 100, now there are like 20 different ones. It's not fun to me to just spam the one and only fighter jet over and over and over without being able to upgrade to something else. That was the point of SC1 and FA, tech up to rape the other lower tech units. Plus, some god damn variety wouldn't hurt. Fuck.

But oh noes! I can spam research centers and get tons of points to magically make my units in the field better. How do you know what you are researching if you don't choose it before hand? I mean, they claimed that this research will sway the strategy of the player. No it won't, I will spam research centers until I have all the garbage upgrades. It's not like the centers are an expensive building anyways.

Speaking of units, why even bother to build those 10 crap units for each faction when you can churn out some experimental's? Oh wait, I know why... because they all suck. Seriously, it takes like maybe 15? tanks to take out an experimental now. What the fuck. They are supposed to be a serious problem. Like, "Holy shit, there is a colossus coming right for me. I am totally fucked" not, "I'll just send like ...10 aircraft for like 2 minutes and it's done".

The story line is trash. Ohh, who cares about this guys family. The voice acting is so bad that I cannot even get into it. What happened to the good looking characters? It looks like a child rendered these in game faces. Ugh...

Square Enix has ruined this series. They have taken all of the fun things that made SC1 and FA a great game and turned it into some bland shit so they can make their numbers. I wish I could send this game back in a box with a turd on top. Serious failure.

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