Command & Conquer: Red Alert

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Summary: Don't buy this package....
Review: Red alert is a great game and certainly worth buying but you can pick it up in a variety of packages and prices here on amazon and this one is NOT the most economical. I'll explain later.

Now to the game. Yes red alert is now an old game by PC standards. The graphics are still ok but not obviously up to snuff compared to tiberian sun or it's sequal red alert 2. Never the less red alert is a blast and might still be the most enjoyable, playable game in the whole command and conquer seris including those newer games. Anybody familiar with any one CnC game basically knows how to play them all because the concept is the same. You need two resources to function. The most important resource is had by making refineries and sending out harvesters to gather it. In this game it is called ore, in tiberian sun it is called tiberian but it all doesn't matter because the entire game is focused on getting as many harvesters at work as possible and protecting them so you have the credits neccesary to build your military. From an offensive perspective of course you want to try and cut off your opponents harvesters and that's at least half the game. The other resource is power which is easily had by building power plants from time to time.

The game features two very evenly matched sides in a mostly conventional military battle. The russians and the ukrainians on one side and the allies on the other with germany, france and england. The russians and the ukrainians have the bigger more powerful tanks, a heavy tank and the mammoth. The allies have tanks that are smaller quicker and cheaper. The russians can make deadly telsa coils for defense which electrocute the enemy while the ally countries can make cheaper better armoured conventional turrets and pill boxes. The russians can make a substantial air attack with fast flying mig bombers and yaks. The allies are limited to helecopters but can make a real navy with destroyers and crusiers while the other side can only make defensive submarines. The sides are balanced and which country you choose to play with will be determined by the map. If the map has lot's of water on it you may prefer to be one of the ally countries so you can build a navy.

Overall the action is constant and the battles can be intense. One of the things that sets this game and all the CnC games apart from other rts games is that these games are much more base camp limited. In this game you have a command center and you build around it. You can make a sevice depot and then make an mcv but you still have to place it down some place and build around it. Those who are more used to games like total annililation or age of empires may find this confining. In those games you have mobile units that allow you to build anything anywhere on the map irregardless of how close or far they may be from another structure or unit. Here you have to build within the camp and while you can make mcv's and build other camps they are not easy to protect and mcv's are expensive. Normally in the course of a game you may have your major camp and one smaller additional one whose purpose is to protect you harvesters as they have to go out further and further for ore.

Overall red alert is a very fun well balanced game that still has many followers today. Go on mplayer or westwood and you will find dozens even hundreds of players. There are dozens of good downloads available online including mega maps and desktop theme packs. I highly recommend the coop maps which allow you and a bud to ally and take on a super charged AI opponent. With coop you can really play as a single team where each player can control the others units and the maps are great.

Finally, don't buy this game package. You can buy just red alert for $ so why pay more for this? Also red alert is now available in a couple of nice game packages. You can buy red alert and gettysburg along with another rts game in one package and another package allows you to buy 10 games including this one.

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Summary: A classic.
Review: Red Alert is one of my all time favorite games. I would recommend it to all. The missions are great. There is only one problem in that you can't save skirmishes. This mistake is made up for by the fact that you are so addicted you'll play for hours. The theme of the game is that scienticts went back in time and killed Hitler. Now the Soviets and Allies do battle. Both sides are intertaining and diffrent. The game is diffrent enough to own Tiberan Sun and Red Alert. I would recommend to one and all.

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Summary: Wow!
Review: Red Alert is one of the best games out there. The single player campaigns are good and the multiplayer game is great. It has little or no lag. If your a RTS buff or just love computer games than get this A.S.A.P.

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Summary: One of the Best
Review: Red Alert is one of the best stratagy games that i have ever played. In this game you will find many things but the one that stands out the most is once you have had a taste of this game you will need to keep playing, you will not beable to stop. I suggest that you get Red Alert insted of the new one tiberian sun

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Summary: The most addictive game ever!
Review: Red Alert is the greatest game. You engage the Solviets with strong tanks, nukes and high technology like the Chronosphere. If you get bored of games quickly, this doesn't get boring. I've had this game for a long time and it hasn't crashed once. If you like stradegy games, then this is the perfect for you.

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Summary: Greatest Computer Game Ever Made!!!
Review: Red Alert is the most awesome game ever created. Every thing about it is wonderful, especially the gameplay. Red Alert is best played if you include the "Aftermath" and "Counterstrike" add-ons. Everyone should own a copy of Command and Conquer: Red Alert!!!

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Summary: unfair
Review: the game is good..excellent strategy game...so why one star?.

the game is made UNFAIRLY. The russians are way much stronger and powerful than the allies. Eventough by playing on the allies side is very challenging, the fact that the game is made unfairly and so i gave it one star.

the best is still the original C&C by westwood.

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Summary: An all time classic
Review: The real time strategy (along with Warcraft) got a change when Westwood released this game.

Counterstrike made it better.

Join the history of pc-gaming by getting this game.

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Summary: Command and Conquer Redalert Rules
Review: This game is the best ever made. Tens times better than Tiberian Sun. Great Story line and Movies. Best of the Command and Conquer Series.

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Summary: the best
Review: This game is the best game just like gameslice pc gamer and computer life think it is. Great levels,buildings and war trucks/men.A little bad picture great sound.