Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Comments by Quintin Smith

Red Alert games have always been the best C&C has to offer.

FINISH THE FIGHT!

You've got you've got war cries

What's this? A grammatical error on EG? First time I spot one of those.

i'd go more with "occasionally campy, occasionally bad" acting...

Forget this game, I want an hour-long video of William H. Macy dancing on a topless Steve Buscemi.

I'd have to disagree with the reviewer on this one.

First of all the protocol weapons all start off much weaker than the super weapons of Red Alert 2, and you only get protocol weapons by gaining enough xp via killing other units. So if you sit around waiting to react, you'll be the first player out of the game. By the 4th/5th upgrade the protocol weapons are pretty nasty, but by this point you've probably been playing long enough to reach a near stalemate with whatever enemy you have left, and so it rewards players who go out looking for kills rather than turtling and prolonging defeat. It's more there to keep the end game exciting than to interfere too much with the strategy which must come before it.

In the single player (well, co-op) mode it's balanced quite nicely as well, you can hang back and defend if you want to knowing all the kills you'll rack up can eventually be put towards destroying the AI from orbit, but the AI often has a super weapon of it's own which 'must be destroyed' before the countdown zeroes, which forces even the most avid turtler such as myself to plan a daring assault.

Online everything can be toggled on and off, so again, die hard strategists turn most of the super weapons off which was was also the case with Red Alert 2.

The final score is probably about right. I'd of given it a 9 but horses for courses.

I didn't see any mention of the music in the review. I'm listening to the OST now, and christ, Frank Klepacki has absolutely outdone himself, it's awesome. This may just surpass the OST from the original C&C.

This has Tim Curry, a pleathora of invitingly displayed boobies, and armored dolphins. I didn't even realize I was supposed to be playing until 20 minutes in.
Only the aforementioned Macy/Buscemi nude dancing could possibly make this more full of win.

Worth 8 points just for the Russian lady who gives you the orders/horn.

This has Tim Curry, a pleathora of invitingly displayed boobies, and armored dolphins. I didn't even realize I was supposed to be playing until 20 minutes in.

Brilliant.

Sometimes during the RA2 days I did miss the more measured ridiculousness of Red Alert 1, but on balance I think I can safely say SOLD!!!!!111one

Is that Tim Curry in the photograph?

If so, \o/

I'm not buying this, but still, \o/

Is anyone else pissed at the lack of a LAN option for cooperative play?

I don't see why I need to go through the EA servers to play with the person sitting on the desk next to me

I didn't fancy this at all, but I do like co-op stuff, I might even invest in this one.

What's with C&C naming and continuity though, I don't get it.

It's a shame, I wanna buy this, but... The DRM. Oh the humanity!

Why don't you want my money EA? Why?

I am quite disappointed with this (and was the same with C&C3) ... I think I have actually lost my love of the RTS! .. Though I'm still extremely excited for Empire(s?): Total War! So maybe it's just me that's broken on the whole campiness of it all!

"What's with C&C naming and continuity though"

Red Alert is a separate universe from the "Tiberium" games, and Generals is best forgotten.

Anything with Tim Curry cannot be bad.

There's all this talk of boobies, and so on, yet the screenshot gallery is completely devoid of them. This is not right.

CHRIST! this was a violent review wasn't it?!

im sweating.

From the front page it looks as if Rafa Benitez makes an appearance!

In which case I can only assume the Command and Conquer title is ironic.

The perfect antidote to the (slight ;-) bleakness of Fallout and Far Cry - how can you not love firing a hot pant clad sniper into battle from your Man Cannon...

The Serious Sam of RTS...

"an APC which unloads troops by firing them out of a cannon"

I'm not sure if this is brilliant or unbelievably fucking stupid.

Tim Curry rocked in Legend as the devil demon - I think he was in the pick of destiny too! lol

Tim Curry? And no love for Jonathan Pryce? I mean Pryce > Curry!

I didn't see any mention of the music in the review. I'm listening to the OST now, and christ, Frank Klepacki has absolutely outdone himself, it's awesome. This may just surpass the OST from the original C&C.

Um, Klepacki didn't do the music, only the Hellmarch piece. For more info visit this wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26...

A bit of history: the Red Alert 1 is an alternate for the C&C universe. In the first Red Alert, Einstein goes back in time and eliminates Adolf Hitler. Years later, you can find Kane, who found Einstein's Time Machine, at the Soviet's side in a high ranking position, scheming for the time when NOD will control the russian territory ( NOD always had strong support in Russia, Eastern Europe and the african countries).
Some of the older gamer might remember the motto:
"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
So the C&C name was initially justified. Right now, I'm not sure anymore, but I'd really like to see Kane in a comeback in the RA universe.
As for Generals, yes that should be forgotten. Or the C&C removed from the title, because the game was pretty good in MP, but had no ties with the C&C whatsoever.

Indeed Generals was an acceptable MP game but in no way tied to the C&C franchise

Not played this yet, but I have to share the sentiment of the first paragraph. Like the series, but my interest has gone down as the numbers have gone up. Nowt wrong with some silliness, but there's nowt right with dolphins, squids and any new ones for this.

Still, probably will love it.

This review should have been written by two reviewers cooperatively.

This review should have been written by two reviewers cooperatively.

I bought this for Gemma Atkinson.

True story.

Maximilian - my respect

I love how this game has attracted 30 comments whilst the GoW 2 thread is on 250+ after slightly less time up. PCs forever!

Well, the DRM and the single player campaign in CO-OP didn't helped much. The CO-OP play kind of defeats the purpose to name Single Player the Single Player part of the campaign....

The PC is dead. Well, one of mine is. Anyone got a spare 550W PSU lying around.

Death to C&C Generals. What a load of absolute bollox.

DRM etc.

Nah! PC is just comatose due to some serious mishandling and fan alienation. Otherwise, he's just peachy, as Gemma Atkinson would try to tell you with a strange english accent...

Absolute best opening paragraph on the site. And since 90% of the internet's great opening paragraphs are to be found on this site, this says a lot.

not much interest in this, im looking forward to getting stuck into its co op single player.

The fact that there are more posts here in Eurogamer doesn't surprise me. At the end of the day the UK is mainly a console nation.

i dont understand y people say red alert is ridiculous. just abt any game is ridiculous. u think war bears are weird??? wht abt ridin a bloody dragon in warcraft or fightin the undead. just cant understand y RA is tagged as the ridiculous RTS. No one ever said RA was gonna be a realistic game. it s obviously fantasy/sci fi based as they keep changin stuff by goin bak in time..

i finished the campaigns and i ve been playin online for a couple of days and this game is awesome!!!! been a RA fan ever since RA1(duh..) and this game doesnt disappoint. the reviewer should get his facts straight abt a game before reviewin. also like some1 mentioned earlier the music in this game is absolutely stunnin.... it actually stands out. i got the ost for RA3 cus it s tht damn good.

Blasted through the Allies and Soviets over the weekend, and most of the Empire campaign. I wish they'd been longer, but the entertainment value was high most of the way through. Not yet fired up co-op, mainly because my mate doesn't have the game yet >.>

So many people complained about the ridiculousness of the cutscenes and units (including the reviewer), but they are made so on porpose. Most RTS games take themselves to serious, and RA3 just makes fun of them coming with something more ridiculous. Think it Team Fortress' RTS counterpart.

And I can't believe the soundtrack hasn't been mentioned, I dare to say it's at least as good as Tiberian Dawn's, thus making it one of the best OSTs ever!

If Quintin gave it an 8 without fully getting it, it makes me think that otherwise it would have gave it a 10 :) Though I think 8 is a fair score, an outstanding soundtrack and sarcastic aproach can't make up the fact that the gampeplay, though fun, does not bring anything fresh to the genre beside the co-op campaign.

No mention of the 30 frames per second-cap, eh?

Disappointing, as it completely destroys the game.

Majinraptor, it's because it doesn't sit well (for me) in the context of the setting. Warcraft is obviously fantasy. Red Alert is too, but I preferred 1 over 2 and the look of 3. I know it's supposed to be insane, but it doesn't work for me. I don't 'buy' it.

Nill: It honestly doesn't feel destroyed to my plebian eyes - I didn't know about the 30fps cap and it looked gorgeous to me

Better than C+C3 Tiberium Wars?

To the guy who said Frank Klepacki has outdone himself on RA3.... what are you talking about????? Klepacki did about 2 tracks out 60 for RA3. The rest is by Tim Wynn and James Hannigan. Klepacki just did HM3 and Grinder 2. Two nice tracks but for chrissakes get your facts right.