What is a good RTS similar to Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2 and Age of Empires?

[endersblade]

Games RTS style like Warcraft 3, as in build a base and attack your neighbors:

Command and Conquer series
Age of Empires/Mythologies
Empire earth 1 and 2
Rise of Nations
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
Dark Reign 1 and 2 (though 2 is way better)
Metal Fatigue
Ground Control 1 and 2
Total Annihilation and TA: Kingdoms
Supreme Commander 1 and 2
The list goes on. There are literally hundreds of games in this genre that play like W3.

For the person who said X-COM...I'm not even sure how you made that connection. It's not an RTS, if anything, it's a Turn-based strategy. Still my favorite game though.

There are other styles of RTS, as some have mentioned; Dawn of War 1 and 2, Company of Heroes, Jagged Alliance 1/2/3. These are more about your individual units instead of mass armies, and the missions are more covert than swarm-the-enemy types.

And then, of course, branching from there you can hit the 4X space games...don't even get me started.

[Togasa]

Impossible Creatures, Rise of nations good games

[kynthrus]

what other kind of rts could there be?

Ogre battle, command your army, liberate towns, don't build shit.

[Deleted]

If you liked Age of Empires II: there is a new (unofficial) expansion including 5 new civilizations, 2 new building sets, harder AI, new campaigns (only teaser atm), balance changes, new UU, ... .

www.forgottenempires.net if you want to check it out

[Djuntas]

If you liked Age of Empires II: there is a new (unofficial) expansion including 5 new civilizations, 2 new building sets, harder AI, new campaigns (only teaser atm), balance changes, new UU, ... .

www.forgottenempires.net if you want to check it out

I tried to install it some days ago, but it fails sadly. Gonna guess my cracked version dosen't for to well for it My old AOE2 CD's are gone, and coulden't seem to find it elsewhere so cracked it was :P

[TEHPALLYTANK]

Oho, someone else in this thread who remembers Metal Fatigue(T_T I am so sad my disks for it are broken).

• Earth 2150 and 2160 are pretty good, they have a good deal of unit customization involved.
  
• The Warlord's Battlecry series is fun, you have one constant hero that you keep and level throughout the game.
  
• Stronghold is a fun medieval RTS, focuses heavily on managing resources.
  

Any others I can think of have already been mentioned.

[Tradu]

what other kind of rts could there be?

Dawn of War 2. Very little base building, mostly focused on microing squads of units.

[Deleted]

I tried to install it some days ago, but it fails sadly. Gonna guess my cracked version dosen't for to well for it My old AOE2 CD's are gone, and coulden't seem to find it elsewhere so cracked it was :P

http://www.forgottenempires.net/install contains some trouble shoot and a how-to-video. In addition there is an alternative download (http://mirror.forgottenempires.net/). I know (somehow ) that cracked or not shouldn't matter.

[dokilar]

i always liked the command and conquer games, i would suggest giving them a try. i also enjoyed the lords of the realm games but i never played the 3rd one. the first two are a tad old

[Sky High]

red alert is the best!

no...ANY C&C GAME IS THE BEST. except fucking command and conquer 4, which isn't a total POS it just shits on everything that made CnC enjoyable.

[Yossarian]

nice topic, I played most of the games you listed, I loved some much RTS games

but I never played Supreme Commander and Company of Heroes, even though they are often considered as the best RTSs of the last years (Starcraft 2 apart)

if you like Tolkien, Battle for Middle Earth is a nice series, gameplay is a bit like warhammer 40k

I also enjoyed much Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, it's basically AoE2 in the Star Wars universe, same engine

and I agree, C&C is the best RTS series ever

[Zavri]

Red Alert 2 was my favorite RTS.

So much fun

[McNeil]

Any Command & Conquer game got my vote, except C&C4: Tiberian Twilight. My favorite ones are Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun

Really looking forward to Generals 2. I'll probably get an early beta invite for owning the ultimate collection

[Deleted]

Age of Mythology
Rise of Nations - less story here though
Rise of legends.
Red Alert series.
Supreme Commander.

[r3d3mpt10n]

I guess it depends what sort of Era you like really, i mean... if you're into tanks and stuff, you wont generally like AoE... and C&C wwill be one for you.

However... since RA2 C&C as a product has gone downhill imo... Its purely because Westwood Studios let EA in on it.

[Slaughty8]

I suggest Warhammer 40 000: Dawn of War I and II (+ all expansions (awesome campaign, rare these days)), it will keep you busy for weeks. Also, Age of Mythology (awesome campaign, rare these days) and Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars + expansion Kayne's Wrath. Besides of that, Supreme Commander. Sins of Solar Empire is an awesome game too and Homeworld (but a bit booring). Also Battle for Middle Earth 2 (1 is booring) is great.
Ah, and Stronghold: Crusader if you like middle ages, but it's slighty dull tbh.

[ParanoiD84]

The original Dawn of War, Dawn of War 2 have no basebuilding but it's a damn good game.

[stanang]

Any of these RTS suggestions not require you to live the game like the Evony series did?

[Deleted]

What about any made after 2010? Other than Starcraft that is..

[Moonatic]

Despite some stunningly terrible voice acting I had a lot of fun with the Spellforce games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mm0klJGGSs . They often turn up in online sales really cheap. Just stay away from the most recent xpac Faith in Destiny.