Need good Strategy games for single player

Hi guys i just played though Dawn of War and the expansion Winter assualt. Now i need a new good RTS game with a good campaign. Please come with some suggestions but i will play em on the laptop in my specs ^_^

P.S if someone know any good singleplayer mods for Dawn of War plz tell me.

 

C&C3 - Tiberium Wars

 

For WWII strategy games try Combat Mission. They have a new one with modern combat called Combat Mission: Shock Force, but the requirements might be too high for your laptop to play it. Some of the older Combat Mission games would play fine though.
Tim

 

Company of Heroes (+ Opposing Fronts Expansion Pack is good as well)

 

Awesome, I'm gonna start getting into these too. Any others?

 

i'm looking for one as well, i;m thinking of getting COH: opposing fronts, but do i need to have the first one? i'm actually downloading the demo of opposing fronts right now.

 

Is turn based strategy ok? If so you can't beat HoMM3.

 

Galactic Civilizations II + expansions

Sins of a Solar Empire

Civ IV + expansions

Get all of these and you'll be set for the next few years.

 

This game is awful. It brings nothing new to the RTS genre.

 

+1 for Company of Heroes (plus expansion Opposing Fronts).
Just make sure to check if the X3100 can handle it.

 

Many people would disagree with that (including all the reviews); in fact, the Red Alert and Command & Conquer series pretty much started the genre.

But, I digress; people have their opinions.

 

What's a good game to start with? First timer here...not really into sci-fi stuff but if there is something highly recommended I'll consider it. I was thinking of getting C&C 3: Tiberium Wars.

 

^^ Generally speaking, I read the reviews for a game before I buy it; they are usually pretty accurate evaluations of how good a given game is.

 

Other than HOMM3 I would not recommend playing ANY of the games listed on the x3100. You will be disappointed. Try the demos first to see if you can tolerate the frame rate.

 

HOMM3 is very good but i already played it and 1,2 and 4. How about 5? Is it good?

 

I say Warcraft 3.

I still pick it up and play it now and then, not matter how many times you played it or beat it, there is always a new game on battlenet under the custom games section as people get very creative with the map editor and make totally new games out of the old one.

Everything from RPG's to Samurai Vs Ninja.

 

Heroes 5 is fun, but the X3100 might not be able to run it since the requirements for 5 are quite the step up from 4 and the rest of the series.

 

is it just me or do you guys think the campaign in COH is too hard even at normal?

 

I second the warcraft 3 suggestion. Huge community and no RTS game has come close.

Tiberium Wars was awful from an RTS standpoint. Balance and Micro and Unit Diversity and A Working Economy System were thrown right out the door.

 

Warcraft 3 + TFT is generally considered to be one of the best RTS of all time. If you haven't played it yet, go for it.
Otherwise, Homeworld 2 is a really complex game that should run just fine on the x3100, although it's quite difficult.
There is also CIV4 and Hearts of Iron 2, if you don't mind a lack of story.
I wouldn't really recommend Tiberium Wars. The balance is quite awful and the story isn't nearly as good as it was in the predecessors. And this is coming from a lifelong C&C fan...

 

World in Conflict is the probably the best RTS game ever made in my opinion you should defiantely check it out.

 

supreme commander and the civ series are great. also black and white 2 was loads of fun.

 

i agree, but just check the system specs and you'll see supreme comm to be a big bit too much for it. civ series... well civ 3 seems, i believe, better than 4th edition. b&w2 - now that's a good title, but i'm not sure if it'll run smoothly on the hardware in question.

to the OP: i "nth" (is it 5th or 6th time you see this title here?) the warcraft 3 w/ exps...

 

Guess ill get WC3, i never finished the expansion set for it.

By the way are there any games like this

Rome total War. that will work on my laptop? Dont have to be this game but something older maybe?

 

it's high time you finished it

your laptop is probably going to have really hard time to run this title, actually i doubt it'll be playable even in 800x600res... as for the desktop from your sig, it should work perfectly well (i finished rome tw with exps for the first time on P4 [email protected]+1GBRAM+Radeon9800Pro).

 

Rome should work, but you'll have to turn the settings down quite a bit, especially res, animations and number of soldiers per unit. I'm sorry to say it won't look nearly as good as in the screenshot on your laptop, but your desktop ought to run it just fine.

 

but are there any other games like Rome Total War?

Maybe one that is a few years older? so it can run well on my system.

I will however download the demo to test it.

 

There are other games in the Total War series. Shogun and Medieval are both older than Rome and don't require as powerful of a system.

 

Wow the demo ran very well for me on medium high settings some slowdown but totally playable

 

Warhammer 40k: Dark Crusade (better than Winter Assault)
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (very similar to Total Wars but smaller scale)
Age of Mythology + Titans + Golden Gift official addon
Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

a good game is a good game regardless of whether it brings something 'new' to the table. there aren't nearly enough solid RTS games to overlook Tiberium Wars.

 

I've started the campaign at normal and was able to finish it completely.
Some levels like Hill 192 were pretty tough though and have taken me quite some time.

 

While I recommended WC3, I still always liked the way WCII and SC played more. I did not like the addition of Hero's into the game system. So I hope we get back to the basics when Starcraft 2 graces us with its presence.

 

on normal i can finish it comfortably with all the medals...on hard, i start missing out on the madals on some of the harder ones......and on hardest, i can't finish it

 

As much flak as I may take for it from purists, I really enjoyed Fallout:Tactics. As long as you don't mind turn based strategy games.

 

My vote is for Civ 4 + all expansions. If you like it you love it and yoiu will never be able to stop just one more turn...
It is by the way the only game I know that has a built in timer that you could set for so long you want to play...

 

A few other games had that. MoO3 comes to mind - of course in that case, the timer ended up being sadly unnecessary (except for a few die-hard fans I suppose).

What we really need is a decent epic fantasy rts. Warcraft 3 is nice and all, but it's a bit dated, and the style isn't quite so "epic" - it's more a tactical game than full out strategy.

Battle for Middle Earth series was nice too, but it seems to be too derivative of the movies and books IMO.

We need something along the lines of Master of Magic meets Sins of a Solar Empire....

 

Just picked up Civilization 4 Gold...got like 12 more games I wanna pick up lol

 

starcraft brood war
old classic