Warcraft 3 and it's expansion are the only RTS single player games I've ever really liked, and played through to the finish for everything no cheating.
Starcraft 1 has the nostalgic factor, and the story was actually amazing...but it was just so long ago, and I pretty much was a little cheating bastard back in those days. Good lord I was bad at the game xD
But that was before I knew what starcraft REALLY was, and thankfully iccup saved me YEARS later.
WC3 both reign of chaos and frozen throne were absolutely a blast. They were quite awesome. Other than that I recall the red alert 2 campaign being quite good as well. Now when I think about it the red alert 2 campaign was probably on an even stage with the WC3 ones. I spent hours and hours on that game when I was younger.
On March 25 2011 01:58 TOCHMY wrote: I have to say Red Alert 2, hands down. I think i played through the campaign like 10 times as a kid. Absolutely LOVE that game. The gameplay combined with the cutscenes that wasn't animated was so cool I thought when i was a kid (now i realize how terrible the actors are). And Tanya was hawt ). The Yuri expansion wasn't good though in my opinion
EDIT: Also Rexxar campaign i WC3 :D
RA2 was great because of the terrible acting though. Kind of like Arnie in the 80's when he was in Commando and Batman and Robin.
The campaigns in Age of Empires 1 and 2 were the best in my experience. Each game contained about 5 historical and accurate campaigns that weren't just "build a base and kill all AI", but actually were interesting. There was the William Wallace Campaign and the Joan of Arc Campaign that I think were the best.
Warcraft:RoC and TFT were quite a blast, I play them through every few years when I get the urge.
RA2 was also quite hilarious because of the cheesy cinematics.
Rise of Legends and Age of Mythology weren't half bad either.
Despite what people say I found the WoL campaign excellent as far as the mission design goes. Never liked campaigns where you had to just create a massive army and roll the retarded AI.
Also remembered Supreme Commander+Forged Alliance. Who doesn't love continuous pumping of T3 units+experimentals and nukes going off everywhere.
Now I realized that the OP asked for my favorite campaign so I'm gonna go with WC3 and WoL sharing first place and SupCom coming in close second.
Homeworld probably had my favorite RTS campaign, I played through it multiple times. It's also a fun campaign to play in that your army carries over between levels and you can either build an invincible fleet or lose everything in one level and be screwed for the remaining part of the game.
The WC3 campaigns were also a lot of fun to play, I liked the aspect the heroes added to the game.
On March 25 2011 03:01 NationInArms wrote: The campaigns in Age of Empires 1 and 2 were the best in my experience. Each game contained about 5 historical and accurate campaigns that weren't just "build a base and kill all AI", but actually were interesting. There was the William Wallace Campaign and the Joan of Arc Campaign that I think were the best.
Alright, enough.
William Wallace -
1) There MAY have been a Bridge involved in the Battle of Stirling Bridge (the third last mission)...
i got bored of WoL campaign after the like 1st 3 missions lol. the story/narrative was really lame and the gameplay itself was really easy/boring. this is probably just because i was so used to really competitive BW that it was just unbearably easy (basically the campaign felt like I was just waiting for a clock to rundown or for an AI unit to reach a destination the whole time) for me.
Im sure someone with no real BW experience would of liked it more but i thought it was just boring as shit.
I really liked world in conflict and the first company of heroes campaigns. although bear in mind i was still a newb so I thought they were really fun. perhaps if they came out after I got really back in BW i would of found them dull as well and i would feel the same way about them as I had SC2.
although as said before, WiC has such as amazing narrative. easily the best for an RTS game ever, and it still stick around with me now as one of the more memorable game narratives in the last 5 years. a very cool game and I really wish the game was more popular :\.
To be honest, I've never once finished an RTS campaign. RTS vs the computer really just isnt that interesting. However, of the time i spent with any RTS i liked CoH the most. I guess shooting mortars is fun no matter who you are doing it too.
On March 24 2011 21:42 relexa wrote: Myth/ end thread
This.
The story, the atmosphere, the music, everything. It's a shame so many people missed out on Myth, was an amazing series and to this day I'm sad that it died out.
Myth II was good as well, better gameplay, but Myth:TFL had the best single player campaign.
On March 24 2011 21:42 relexa wrote: Myth/ end thread
This.
The story, the atmosphere, the music, everything. It's a shame so many people missed out on Myth, was an amazing series and to this day I'm sad that it died out.
Myth II was good as well, better gameplay, but Myth:TFL had the best single player campaign.
I LOVED myth 2, but I'm not really sure if i would consider it an RTS by definition.
Age of Empires 2 original campaigns. They were scattered across the different cultures, and fairly short, but I liked the historical tie ins, especially as a kid.