Unless you are hiding under a rock, you will know by now that Blizzard has officially announced Starcraft 2. Juciy cinematic and gameplay videos are cluttering the Internet, fanboys and detractors heated in dialectic debates about the apparent lack of a difference between this game and the original. Me? I loved the original and I don’t mind Starcraft 1.5 with a visual upgrade. I don’t mind that at all. It looks exactly how I hoped it would, nothing more and nothing less.

Until Starcraft 2 arrives, many of us have Supreme Commander, the spiritual successor of Total Annihilation. Now, few games have captured me like the original TA did. The sheer scope of the battles, the technical features, the mods, and especially the community-created movie recording and playback tools all sucked a lot of time from me.

The bad news is, Supreme Commander is a massive resource hog. However, I have a new beefy machine to play game on. I didn’t bring my old desktop to Vancouver, and the good old laptop was showing its age. Mirek of Kube Computers has built an excellent (and QUIET!) machine, so if you are in Vancouver and buying a PC, I recommend them.

The worse news is, Supreme Commander is annoying in many ways. I’ll give it a bit more time before I write a long tirade about the game and the severe lack of polish, but my disappointment is dangerously close to what I felt when the horrible TA: Kingdoms was released.