C&C Red Alert 3 Review

[gammer_ghn]

I bought this game with great hopes since i have been waiting for it to come by for way too long. I played it two and a half days casually for about 6-7 hours daily and finished all three campaign modes in two and a half days. The story was cool the acting was great as always

Oh boy did ea really ruin this game. Its not fun like the old one... it reminds me of generals now... What happened to all the good units this game barely has any units.... The spy cant even go in the barracks or war factory or even the damn tech center to get me some higher ranking solders and tanks! It was a good game all and all but when the expansion pack comes along it better impress me and im disappointed big time!

DL the game since the price is a bit hefty for a game like this. mininova has it for sure as i checked yesterday.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Yep, I played the Beta and grew less and less fond of it. EA went WAY too far to the multiplayer direction. They're fools: no matter how popular the multiplayer aspect of RA2 was, the reason the games are so special is the singleplayer campaign and the C&C setting. They've removed most of the C&C feel, ruined the C&C story, and added little of value to the Red Alert gameplay experience. They should have slapped another name and different logos on it and sold it as something not C&C-related.

Oh, well. At least I still have C&C3 and Kane's Wrath. Peace Through Power!

[gammer_ghn]

is C&C 3 good i have played the demo but not the real thing is it fun and worth playing? how many hours of gameplay so far?

[MinisterofDOOM]

C&C3 is great. It holds true to the C&C legacy.I actually still haven't finished it as I don't often have time to play through whole missions. I'm sure there are MANY hours worth of gameplay considering that single missions can take hours if you let them, and both factions combined equals quite a few missions.

Kane's Wrath (the expansion for C&C3) is a lot of fun, too, but got poor press due to it's unusual style. Instead of being a continuation of C&C3, it goes back to events during and after Tiberian Sun and shows them from a different point of view. You serve as Kane's one trusted general after he is supposedly killed and goes into hiding. It's very nostalgic feeling and does a good job of feeling like Tiberian Sun while still being C&C3. It also introduces a VERY fun "Risk" like aspect to the games. Instead of fighting where you're told (remember in the earlier games you sometimes had one or two battlefield choices but beyond that it was linear?) you choose where, when, and how to proceed. Global domination is the goal, and it combines a world-map similar to Risk with C&C gameplay for battle resolution (though can actually do a Risk-style dice-roll to resolve battles if you want). It's a ton of fun and makes the C&C experience very scalable (as far as necessary time investment and degree of strategy).

[f1seb]

It was all about Westwood

[MinisterofDOOM]

Yep.

EDIT:Back on the original subject (RA3) I'm pissed at EA for more than just ruining the game. After Beta was well under way, they sent all beta testers an email promising a nice surprise as a thank-you for helping test the game. What we got was LAME. We get a free download of a (one, singular, 1) map that EVERYONE will be able to get. Whupty ****. Thanks EA. I tested and was massively let down by your violated perversion of Red Alert and all I got was a lousy multiplayer map. Where can I get a T-shirt that says that?

[gammer_ghn]

i have torrent for the game since its not worth buying tell me and ill email you...