Your Favourite RTS Campaign?

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

I quite enjoyed Supreme Commander's campaign, not so much for the story, but for the way the battlefield would expand as you complete objectives. Rather than be in the same theater for 5 - 6 missions and having to rebuild your base from scratch each time. Also, the scale of the battles you could have in the end game was impressive. As the battlefield would expand, so would your unit cap. You'd start with a cap of 150 buildings and units and by the end of the map it would gradually expand out to 500 buildings and units.

 

[Dragunai]

Dawn of war 2 is probably my standing favourite.
The story is well told, the characters are well developed (for space marines =P) and the structure of the missions works really well for a "I want lots of optional missions" person like me.

Loads of gameplay hours and the RPG style of gearing and leveling your squads made it even better.
I got the gold edition so I got vanilla and Chaos rising, just bought retribution a few hours back from amazon and Ill have it in 2 days.

From what I read its even better than the ones I played which has me excited ^_^

 

[Stu35]

Dawn of War : Winter Assault - specifically, the Imperial Guard sections. I also am particuarly fond of the way the levels are blended between the races - so you play the first half as the Imperial Guard, before interfering as the Eldar to ensure the Imperiums victory.

 

[liquidsolid]

Age of Empires II: The Atilla the Hun campaign. The Huns are my main civilization in the expansion pack and it's just so awesomely amazing killing and pillaging with a horde of Hun horsemen.

 

[Spygon]

Red Alert 3 Soviet campaign... why?

Tim Curry, that's why!

I know her from somewhere, wiki is saying it's Jenny McCarthy but it's not. Do you know ho she is?

She is one Gina Joy Carano a mixed martial artist and actor hope that helps.

OP:Mine would be command and conquer red alert retalation (counter-strike in the US) Soviet campaign.As there was much depth and created a great story in a awesome world.

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Warcraft III Reign of Chaos + The Frozen Throne

 

[Testosticore]

Id have to say its a tie between Dawn of War 2 [Chaos rising included] and Warcraft 3.

Dawn of War 2 because It really felt like a desperate attempt to stave off a world devouring enemy all by yourself until help arrives and Chaos rising because of the fucking space hulk missions are probably the 3 best missions ever put into an RTS.

I liked Warcraft 3 because it was my first RTS. Yeah, I just spammed Hunter Trolls, but it got me into the genre as a whole.

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

Age of Empires III campaigns. The best part of a game that was otherwise inferior to its predecessor.

 

[Lucyfer86]

Starcraft 2.

 

[Ando85]

I enjoyed the Starcraft campaigns. But, what I liked more was the campaign editor. I recall a long time creating my own campaign with my own created maps with triggers and dialogue. Was a very user friendly creation tool.

 

[Halceon]

AI War. Definitely, absolutely, clearly!

 

[demoman_chaos]

I think my favorite was either my Greek campaign in Rome Total War or my Scottish one in M2:TW Britannia. The Scottish one was fairly easy while the Greek was tough at the start (once I got armored hoplites, twas easy peasy). I did make more money during the Scottish one if I remember right.
Then again, the bit of the Shiamazu campaign in Shogun 2 I was able to play was quite fun.....
Screw it, any Total War campaign that doesn't start you off royally boned like the English in the M2 Britannia one.

 

[poppabaggins]

I would say Homeworld if I had ever managed to get past the Gardens of Kadesh . Maybe it's time to try that again, now that I understand strategy.

But yeah, World in Conflict campaign is great, but I found the multiplayer sadly lacking after a while.

Also, Dawn of War 2 (+ Chaos Rising). More of a real-time tactical RPG than an RTS. Basically, I want Relic to just make a full on RPG, using the Dawn of War 2 campaign gameplay (with more variation, of course).

The Company of Heroes campaign was decent enough for a more traditional RTS experience.

Hmmmm... I think I might like Relic.

 

[Fledge]

The Warcraft 3 (including the expansion) campaign. One of the best stories ever told in a videogame.

Agreed.

 

[omega 616]

She is one Gina Joy Carano a mixed martial artist and actor hope that helps.

I knew I knew that person, shame she got battered by that man beast cyborg. Didn't know she was an actor though, learn something new every day.

I remember Randy couture was in a C&C game, I think it was red alert 3 as well actually. Amazing how cage fighters are getting into games these days.

Anyway, I am totally off topic. Thanks for putting my mind at rest.

 

[starkiller212]

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Screw it, any Total War campaign that doesn't start you off royally boned like the English in the M2 Britannia one.

Funnily enough, my favorite Total War campaigns are the ones where you start off in a terrible position. Western Rome in R:BI and England in M2:K forced me to strategically withdraw from entire regions, and sacrifice thousands of my own citizens and soldiers to restore order to what I had left. The Tokugawa campaign in S2 is great too, I had to depend on diplomacy and agents to survive while fighting a defensive war on 2 fronts, and at one point I was friendly with all the surviving clans in Japan. Those extremely challenging scenarios make for some truly unique gameplay, far more interesting than the simple "expand rebuild repeat" core of most campaigns, IMHO.

 

[LtButtstrong]

Homeworld:Cataclysm.

YES. Thank you, you ninja

Having played and thoroughly enjoyed the entire Homeworld series Cataclysm was by far my favourite, taking everything that made the original great and just making it better and if I were going to replay a Homeworld game anytime soon it would be that one.

 

[Yureina]

World in Conflict and Warcraft III.

 

[Magicmad5511]

Halo wars. It was fun with a decent storyline and vaguely challenging at times.
To tell the truth I haven't played any other campaigns in RTS games but Halo Wars is fun.

 

[stefman]

I'm including both RTS and RTT games here, if you care to make the distinction. So what's your favourite campaign in one of these such games?

I just finished the World In Conflict campaign (including the expansion, which plays out as part of the same campaign) for the first time, and I must say that it was a hell of a lot of fun the whole way through. You'd be hard pressed finding a better looking or more action-packed campaign in an RTS game. The reinforcements system and at times abundance of air support are a little odd at first, but they serve their purpose, which is to keep the game as entertaining as possible. It even had a pretty good story going and solid voice acting. It's definitely moved up near the top of my list.

But I'm sure you'll try to tell me that there are bigger/better/prettier campaigns going around. So let me know what your favourites are.

does shining force on sega genesis count? cuz if so that times infinity. love that series!!