Supreme Ruler Cold War Review

July 23rd, 2011Out of the three Supreme Ruler titles developed by BattleGoat Studios, Supreme Ruler: Cold War is the only one set in the past. As inferred from the title, the game unfolds during the events of the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States. Those are the two selectable nations that you can play as in this game, letting you choose between Communism and Capitalism. This setting seems to be extremely favorable to a strategy game, and overall, it is.There are a lot of customization options when “setting up” your game; more than you would think would be in a title like this. The difficulty level of Cold War is classed into “economic,” “military,” and “diplomatic.” Other things that you can set up are the frequency of events in the game, the amount of resources available, and whether or not nuclear weapons will be available for use.The game is very complex when it comes to the map in which you will play, with the world being displayed in a “satellite imagery” style. There are many types of structures available for players to build — such as power plants, and factories that will produce any number of consumer or military goods.

Obviously you have the ability to zoom in, which is an ability you will use often. You will be sorry you did though, as the graphics are less than desirable when viewed from up close. The textures are really rough, and structures themselves lack detail.The shortcomings in the graphics department definitely are made up for in the complexity of the title, though. Throughout all of the events of Cold War you are managing everything imaginable. Decisions can be made by you or by your advisers, and you have the ability to oversee things at both the micro and macro level. However, sometimes the amount of choices you are supposed to make can seem overwhelming, as the game is super in-depth about everything. Buttons for options are everywhere and I feel that most players will be confused while playing more than often than not.

The amount of possibilities in this game are very impressive, but never at any point does the game feel like a game more than a serious simulator.All and all, Supreme Ruler: Cold War stands out as a very solid simulation game. The graphics are disappointing, and looking at them you will make many assume that the title is far older than it actually is. That aside, it is quite interesting to see how all of your choices play out, and that’s certainly worth something for serious strategy players.

Supreme Ruler: Cold War is a well done simulation of an era and manages to capture the tone of the times and recreate the tense situations that occurred as the superpowers challenged each other across the globe while avoiding direct conflict. It is relatively bug free and played easily on my four year old Dell. Supreme Ruler: Cold War Review. 05 August 2011 By Richard Lane. Supreme ambition, cold chores. There seems to be something of a paradox when it.

Supreme Ruler Cold War Rated: RPPlayers: 1-2 playersPrice: 29.99Platforms: PCGenre: RTS/SimulationDeveloper: BattleGoat StudiosRelease date: 2011-07-19Even fifty years after Russia has posed a reasonable threat against the western world, an obsession with the Cold War has lingered. Supreme Ruler: Cold War takes a look back at the post-war conflict that almost was.

Unfortunately all the game seems interested in is looking. With no direction, apparent purpose, or ultimate goal to the game, it’s a curious retrospective of the Cold War.Even though western popular culture maintained Russia as the go-to villains even into the Clinton years, by the time that the Cold War ended America had outpaced the Soviets militarily and improved relations had reduced tensions to a formality. Hatred for the Russians existed because. Well, Rocky had to fight someone. But in 1949 tension across the world was high, the first proxy wars in Asia were about to be fought, and competition for support in Central America and the Middle East had just kicked off.

Supreme Rulers captures none of this. There’s a map of the world circa 1949. That’s it.The game has three modes: sandbox, campaign, and scenario, none with any important differences. Apparently the goal of each game mode is to “win” the cold war by holding more world influence than the Ruskies after an allotted amount of time.

The lack of tutorials and impenetrable interface make it difficult to tell exactly how the player is supposed to do that, but the goal nonetheless remains the same. There seems to be two major ways to ensure your international dominance: by making more friends than the Russians or by pounding them into irrelevance.The beginning of the game takes place in 1949 and all but sandbox mode give the player one year to outpace Red for world dominance.

In the meantime, you must manage the day-to-day affairs of governance. The game never tells you how to do this, but each important aspect of ruling comes with a cabinet minister that can be programmed to adjust spending, taxing, trading research, and so on.I made two honest attempts to win the world: one by trying to buy a neutral country’s allegiance with monstrously unfair trades and the other where I got fed up and declared war against the entire planet.

But since the game doesn’t explain how to earn foreign respect, improve your country’s image abroad, or even how to control your own armies, every action is a crapshoot. Anything that the player does is at the mercy of a complex and invisible equation. The player is forced to figure out each mechanic alone and then discover that most of them don’t even work.After my second attempt at playing this game I programmed my ministers to manage resources on their own and left the game alone while I went to a friend’s to play Smash Brothers Brawl. When I returned home that night, I found that the marginal lead over Russia had held and that I’d beaten the game.

Supreme Rulers is the only game that I’ve ever played that rewarded me for playing a better game. But still it provides an interesting interpretation of the Cold War.According to Supreme Rulers the tension of the Cold War was inevitable.

This is due to the fact that they generally work with a specific version of the game and after updating it or choosing another language they may (although do not have to) stop working or even malfunction.Extra care should be taken with modifications, trainers, and other things that were not created by the game’s developers. During the game you will be able to take advantage of the following keys:NUM1 -immortalityNUM2 -SGNUM3 -BGNUM4 -maximum comboNUM5 – lack of time during the battleNUM6 -all itemsNUM7 -all materialsNUM9 -all stylesNUM0 – kills one blowCTRL + NUM1 -unlimited GaldCTRL + NUM2 -ghosts KatzCTRL + NUM3 – unlimited experienceCTRL + NUM4 -the maximum level of the storeCTRL-NUM5 -maximum level of cookingCTRL + NUM6 -easy to unlock the best skillsCTRL + NUM7 -super speedCTRL + NUM8 -save anywhereF1/F2/F3/F4 -experience x 2/4/8/16F5/F6/F7/F8 -Gald x 2/4/8/16HOME -disabling all accessibility features. Note: The cheats and tricks listed above may not necessarily work with your copy of the game.

Ideological clashing could not be avoided, and nothing any leader had done could have improved it. In fact, any attempt to speed a solution along (say, within a year) could only worsen the situation. The Cold War of reality took thirty years to overcome and consequences of the tension still haven’t completely resolved; no short course of action could repair it.

Only patience could.,The best solution is to carry on, weather the storm. Send the ministers to their desks and have them keep up the good fight at home while the commander-in-chief receives letters from foreign leaders and updates on the situation. Left to the invisible hand of the free market, all things are mended. The Soviet Union can only collapse in the long term, and so long as administrative intervention is minimized (or eliminated), American small-governance will prevail.The supreme ruler of the game’s title is the one that stands back and lets the equation run its course. The game places you in a complicated world and steadfastly refuses to tell you how it works or even how to use the machinery that affects it.

Of course the meddlesome player will only implode the world market or ignite tensions abroad. The free market dictates the world and works only when uninterrupted. That, or the game is broken and has no business being played.There are probably people that would enjoy the stubborn imperviousness of Supreme Ruler. Those same people would probably find satisfaction in meticulously pining over every detail and absolutely maximizing every statistic that the game operates. I still beat it while I was eating pizza and falcon punching my friends two blocks away. Supreme Ruler: Cold War can only find hope as a niche game and that niche can have it all to themselves.