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Quoting regabond, reply 5Where did you find this information and that pic?Someone posted it on the GPG forum after we asked him to finally scan the article.

Quoting regabond, reply 5First it's not june yetHave you ever bought a gaming magazine? The June issue comes in May, the May issue in April, etc.

Quoting regabond, reply 5and second I've looked all over the internet and haven't found anything close to this awesome about supreme commander 2.Unfortunately, this is not awesome. Chris Taylor has to dumb down Supreme Commander, in order to increase sales. This is what the text says"If I start the game and in the first 60 seconds I build
a tank, I want that tank to deliver the killing blow to
my opponent 35 minutes to 90 minutes later"
That's Chris Taylor's goal for Supreme Commander 2. It's
completely counter to the philosophy of both the beloved
Total Annihalation and the mighty Supreme Commander.
Both strategy games revolved around a stark
stratification of combat power. Tech 1 bots were tiny
gnats next to the state of the art you'd be churning out
half an hour into a match.
But Chris and his team are fresh from their success with
Demigod, the small-scale strategy/RPG hybrid (reviewed
on page 84) where hero units level up and buy equipment
on the battlefield. It's a safe bet that we'll see
Supreme Commander's Veterancy system explanded in which
units become stronger as they score more kills, but
thats not all. Their objective, Chris says, is to ensure
that "every one of them has the ability to sustain
themselves throughout the entire game, so we need each
of them to be much more complex and have amny facets."
Elsewhere though, Supreme Commander is getting simpler.
In the first game it was as challenging to set up a
functioning economy as it was to win a given skirmish.
Now, Gas Powered Games have decided to "take the economy
management off the table... You'll be able to play this
like any other RTS," Chris says, worryingly.
It wasn't always fun to deal with crashing mass in
SupCom but that challenge was half the game. Even Chris
sounds upset about it; "The nerd in me died a little
bit," he confesses, [someone] said, "That's OK Chris,
because more people are going to have fun with the
combat aspect of the game and not get bogged down in the
economic management," It was an expressive [something].
Bizzarely, Gas Powered Games have chosen to partner with
Final Fantasy creators Square Enix for the sequel. Chris
says this is part of the push to give Supreme Commander
more character. "We're going away from iconographic
units to a living, breathing RTS game - Square Enix has
this unbelievable [resource?] for creating stories and
characters and they're experts at this."
Hard details are currently too scarce to get a clear
idea of where Chris and his team are going with this,
but it's already clear that SupCom 2 is going to be a
very different game. It'll still have hundreds of units
on screen though and as a final deal-sweetener, Chris
promises "spectacular visual change" that'll run well on
a £500 PC.And the picture looks very StarCrafty.
 

I know that it's far too early to jump to conclusions yet and the picture is probably just some concept art (remember the first screens of SupCom?). But all in all, this preview does not induce any excitement .

Please don't suck, please don't suck...

Notice it's coming out for PC and Xbox360 - that is why both the game's scope and complexity are being stripped down.  Gotta run on Xbox hardware and gotta appeal to the LCD.

 

The PC Gamer preveiw wasn't very revealing.

The new editor is chief is totally ruining the magazine. He got rid of the preview section, mixing it with the eyewitness section, making the whole thing a big mess. The high and low areas of the final score area in the review section are gone, as are the columns in the magazine. The new art style is horrible as well, with all the letters being made to look like they're pixelated This guys been editor is chief for only three or four issues, and he's already wrecking this mag.

At least most editor is chiefs at PC Gamer aren't there for a prolonged time period. If he's still there I'm unsubscribing.