"Tons of fun at weddings, funerals, birthday parties, you name it," says Gas Powered's Chris Taylor of today's featured Supreme Commander 2 unit, the AC1000.
Inspired by the real-life AC130 gunship (as flown by the United States Air Force), the AC1000 circles enemy units, raining holy terror upon them with a hail of bullets. The AC1000, with its quick flight and intense firepower, should be the perfect unit to take out an enemy's ground position.
Oh, and remind us not to stay away from any of Taylor's birthday parties... if the AC1000 is involved, it'll likely lead to a funeral.
We had previously taken an exclusive look at Supreme Commander 2's Bomb Bouncer and The Kraken. Tomorrow, we turn our eyes towards the Pulinsmash unit which, believe it or not, smashes things. You'll just have to see it with your own eyes.
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1:00 PM on 02.10.2010 | 
Oh and the soul ripper is so much cooler than this unit.
can't wait until this is hacked into mw2
Also, yeah, it didn't actually circle.
Seconded. The "making of" videos for SupCom1 were actually painful to watch. All the enthusiasm in the world can't make up for poor communication skills and a voice that grates more than the average dubbed JRPG protagonist.
The new unit is nice in functional terms, but it has an incredibly silly name and not enough personality, especially as compared to previous superunits like the full-auto artillery gun (forget its name). Either they need to make it actually circle the target - triple-A be damned - or they should go all the way with that "guns deploying animation" gimmick and make it do a full-on transformation from its cruising mode into a floating fortress bristling with guns.
So, you want to die, eh Nick? I mean, I know Chris Taylor is "great" and all (read: washed up) but do you fawn so bad you'd take a bullet from his Virtua Copter?
Really, though, you guys need a copy editor? It seems like gaming blogs are in short supply.