Shattered Union is a turn based game as is Daisenryaku VII (I probably misspelled that). For real time there are the Kingdom Under Fire games (which are more actiony then strategy...y), Goblin Commander, and some Alien vs. Predator game.

Dai Senryaku VIII is excellent.

By the way, can anyone confirm my suspicion that this game is a sequel the the equally superb SNES game titled "Super Conflict." My searches for information on this matter have come up empty (although this may be because I am misspelling the newer game's name).

I think that the only prequel to hit the US was for the Saturn and named something else. For the life of me, though, I can't remember where I came up with this info. Might be wrong.

Gladius was pretty good if you like Tactics style strategy/RPGs. And Wrath Unleashed, the updated Archon is pretty and fun, but the load times are on the noticeably long side.

I see. Well, if it is not the same series, then at the very least Dai Senryaku and Conflict are twins separated at birth.

You'd be amazed at how much energy and bandwidth Donan saves over a year by omitting the O in Xbox.

I'm more interested in the newly announced Battle For Middle Earth II Xbox 360 port. I haven't the slightest idea as to how they are going to map that to a gamepad.

Thanks folks for all the recomendations!

I want to second Atras' suggestion on Phantom Dust. I was lucky enough to pick it up from a fellow GWJer on a trade, and absolutely love the game. The gameplay consists of a superb blend of luck, skill, and planning that caters very well to anyone that enjoys RTS, Collectible Card Game, Action/Adventure, or Action/RPG style games. Very unique and fun stuff!

I never knew Pirates! was on Xbox. Gotta get that one!

Not on topic exactly, but did you ever play the original Conflict?

Not if you had played it when it was new. My best friend and I rented that game many times, as we never once saw a copy of the game for sale anywhere, ever. Back then, it was the only game like that we'd ever seen.

Gladius sucks! Played 6 hours and was so bored to death I'm glad it was a rental.

That Daywhatsit VII game sounds neat, a more complicated Advance Wars you say? Is it import only?

Can't find a topic for Battle for Middle Earth II, and it's a bit old (and apparently underplayed) to get it's own topic now, so I'll settle for here:

Got this from Gamefly and am on the 7th mission of the Good campaign. So far mixed reactions...it's a good attempt at an RTS on the console but still clearly would play better on the desktop (I'm not clear on whether the initial design was for desktop or console). Things go awfully slowly (I suspect to give the console user time to get around the map) and there's often twiddliness in trying to select things. Thank goodness I guessed that double-clicking the 'A' would select all the nearby stuff, or I would have gone nuts. Which touches on the fact that, for a game style foreign to consoles, they should have had a rich tutorial explaining all the twiddly details but they didn't.

Nonetheless it didn't get the heave ho back to Gamefly mostly because the feel is very true to LOTR and I am willing to give it a chance. The first 6 missions are deadly easy (playing on Normal) and the 7th falls off a cliff of difficulty. Suddenly I'm in a timed mission and have to defend three fronts, building up a base and units, and jumping all over a large map (which is rather painful on the console) directing the fighting.

I replayed this mission numerous times and am still getting creamed. This isn't annoying me (yet) as it's causing me to really learn how to play the game and to get into all the nooks and crannies of the command menus that I haven't needed to bother with until now. I'd certainly be doing better on desktop (but that wouldn't increase my gamer score, now would it?) I have at least a couple of more things to try before I get more frustrated.

I spent hours replaying the mission and suspect I have at least a few hours more to get it right...if anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears! (I think next up is actually making use of the Dwarven mines to move units around quickly...)

By the way, building up a fortress and giving it flaming catapults is quite satisfying, and very LOTR-ish...

Might have been? I dunno, this thread is pretty old. I don't remember much about Daisenryaku anymore, other than I liked it.