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Summary: A Great RTS Game
Review: To be honeset I have owned Red Alert 2 for quite some time and just never said anything about it publicly until now. This game is great! Much better then Red Alert or even Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 keeps a basic concept of all Command and Conquer games but enhances the fun and gameplay in it. The storyline is very well put together even though it's not very realistic. The storyline is simple: The Soviet Union is invading the United States and all of Europe in a revenge attempt from the first war they lost in the original Red Alert. There are 2 campaigns in which you can play. You can play as the Allies and stop the Soviets and destroy them or play as the Soviets and conquer America and the rest of the world. Both campaigns are very interactive and fun in which you fight in major cities throughout the world such as New York, Washington D.C., Miami, St.Louis, Colorado Springs, Paris, Moscow and many more and fight in countries like the United States, France, Russia, Poland, Mexico, Cuba and other territories. Much of the fighting is in an urban enviroments. You can garrison buildings and destroy famous landmarks.
Each side, the Allies and Soviets have their own special units. They both have the basic infantry unit: The American G.I. and the Soviet Conscript. The difference is that the G.I. is stronger and costs more, while Conscipts are weak and cheap to build in mass numbers. Soviet tanks have stronger armor but Allied tanks can have more firepower like Prism or Mirage Tanks. The building is easy: buy it and place it on the ground and go up the tech-tree to become more powerful. Basiclly you build and kill in every mission which can become boring but each mission has its own purpose and which units to build. Each side has a navy and airforce as well, however the American air power is much more powerful then the Soviet Air Force. Getting money is simple by building miners and collecting ore to build buildings, base defense, soldiers etc. The units are not as balanced as they are in Tiberian Sun which makes it more unique for both sides. Each side has superweapons like nuclear missiles or weather storms and even invincible devices or teleporting machines.
There are cut-scene videos in between missions which are very entertaining to watch. Real Actors! *WARNING*Known to be cheesy though. Overall the single-player game is excellent and the graphics are very good and better then Starcraft and the previous Command and Conquer games. Their is great color and building details.
The multiplayer on the internet is good and you can play as 8 differnet nations and have up to 8 players per game. The skirmishes are fun(not internet.) The same details apply and you can play different forms like free for all or deathmatches. The internet is not as well rounded as Starcrafts but still fun. Overall multiplayer is fun. The sound in the game is good and has different mixes to it and the units talk when you click on them. The game concept is fun and controlling hundreds of units can be a challenge but exciting. There is even a basic training course to help you. This game has everything a RTS should have and I have no complaints.
Rating:
Gamplay- A
Single-Player Missions- A
Multiplayer- B+
Skirmishes- A-
Sound- B
Replay Value- A+
Overall- A
THIS GAME RULES AND IS THE BEST RTS I HAVE PLAYED!
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Summary: Frustratingly bad AI, but all else is fair and good
Review: This game frustrates me. Games are not supposed to do that. I like a challenge but I have noticed that the poor intelligence of the individual units, combined with the horribly clunky interface makes for a frustratingly frantic click-fest. The units will make poor decisions on when they attack the enemy for example; you might order your fleet of tanks to move to a location, but when they get attacked, the tanks will usually ignore them and wait for you to tell them what to do. In long games with many tasks to handle at once, this gets annoying, and you will end up losing whole armies because your units wont fight back on their own, instead they sit their idle. In some cases, your supply gatherers will be under fire, but instead of retreating, they continue their routes and ultimately explode. The worst thing is that the game wont warn you when your units are attacked or taking damage, only your buildings. You only know that you are attacked when you lose a unit. By that time you are toast anyway. You have to keep an eye on an impossibly small area map that will give you one small red radar "blip" when you are attacked. If you fail to see that, you fail to come out without casualties. Giving commands to units is like pulling teeth. You cannot have units patrol an area like you can in the Starcraft or Warcraft games. You can only have units guard and area, in which case they will simply sit idle and take fire, only returning fire when the enemy is within range. This is laughable. Setting waypoints for units is also clunky.
One more thing really irritated me. My buddy had a stealth unit in my base setting demolition charges on my buildings. One by one they exploded, but I had no idea that my base was being destroyed because I was too busy micromanaging my dopey units somewhere else. I didn't even know what was going on until I tried to select my jets, but they were not selecting. That's when I looked over to the airbase to see why and realized that my base was 80% ashes and debris. There were no warnings or anything. It's that lack of game polish that is making me sell this game. Otherwise the graphics, sound, and overall funfactor are all good. It's fun to play on the LAN, but still frustrating. I know my way around this game well and still yell at the screen, telling my stupid units to move. It is this fact that takes away from the strategic element and turns this game into a finger aching click-fest. Whoever can build the most units in a given time will win, hands down. I enjoy anything from Blizzard much more. If this game simply used Blizzards RTS interface, it would really shine, but since your options are limited and so is the intelligence of your units, you are out of luck and expect to be screaming at your monitor more that once.
Three and a half stars is accurate
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Summary: What is the difference?
Review: I have played the C&C series, and I have a question: what is the difference between Generals and all the other C&C games. I have to agree with the CLICK CLICK CLICK theory, that is the way C&C has been and always will be:( basically the game is about 3 races: US, china, and the "global liberation army" (terrorist). The story for the US and China missions is that the GLA is coming and and you must destroy them. I story for the GLA missions is the US and china are coming and you must destroy them. The missions are encredibly easy even compared to the other C&C games. Generals does have its Pros, though. Sometimes building mass armies of Paladin tanks and charging in the enemy base with guns blazing and no strategy can be fun, but the effect soon wares off.
So to in summary of the game.....:
Pro's: 3d graphics(first time ever in C&C game), graphics, SOME gameplay
Con's: no strategy involved, horrible AI, and no difference in any of the other games. I can truely say that I thought this game would be different, and might have more strategy then "whoever build the most wins," but it is exactly the same. this game could have been a LOT more fun and strategic, but westwood made it just another Red Alert with 3d graphics:(
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Summary: the best game EVER!!!!
Review: this is the best game i have ever played, playing alot of games this has meaning. online play is the best feature, along with cutting edge graphics and game play. BUY THIS GAME!!!! i dream about it, thinking how i can beat the AI (which is better then ever). This game is a MUST!
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Summary: Need a monster machine
Review: This is a very entertaining game if you want instant gratification. Warning, you need a monster machine to run it with high detail. My 1.6 P4, 512 MB RAM, 64 MB GeForce 4 runs the lower res with no fancy graphics just fine. Anything more causes the game play to be a little choppy. I am upgrading to a better vid card and hope this will help. The visuals (particularly shadows and lighting) are stunning and there is no goofy plot to deal with. The only gripe I have is not being able to escape out of the mission briefings.
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Summary: Unbelievable Game. Put's all other computer games to shame.
Review: This game is amazing. From the foundation you can tell they spent a lot of time developing this game. The graphics are pronounced and amazing. The game play is heart pounding. Where else can you launch a nuke at your opponent and see it devistate his troops and base. NO WHERE! except C & C generals. This game lives up to the legacy of its predeccesor C & C red alert. If your computer is fast enough, you will not regret owning this game. GUARENTEED. ... ONLINE MULTIPLAYER BATTLES ARE WHERE THE GAME TRULY SHINES!!
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Summary: fun but really easy...
Review: well, i played at a friend's house and i find the game to be quite fun. Although the AI might need some work. i started the second mission, waiting for the AI to attack, but what do i get one or two suicide bombers running toward my gattling guns. it's a fun game, even though is on the easy side, i suppose it's best for online gaming, which would provide some more challenge. ...
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Summary: Yuri Power
Review: This is a really good game, excellent story, nice grapgics and detailed backgrounds, and this is a game for everyone.
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Summary: Great Game!
Review: Complaining to Westwood about how outdated this game is isnt going to acheive anything. I disagree regarding your CLICK CLICK CLICK theory, have you forgotten about C&C - Renegade. This was TOTALY different to what we have here. Westwood tested a different formula and i have to say that i enjoyed it. Yes with this new game it may be similar in some ways to previous releases however if it sells then Westwood will continue to rewamp the formula. The day will come when they totally change the entire format and people will complain then as well. They can never please anyone, so if you dont like the game dont buy it. Rent it first and then if you like, buy!
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Summary: best so far
Review: best one so far! you go westwood! great graphics and i thought it was fun and good for the money.
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