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Command & Conquer Red Alert 2

Command & Conquer Red Alert 2

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wow. Best RTS I've ever played
Review: As I've said, this is simply THE BEST RTS of ALL TIME--that is, except for Yuri's Revenge :)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pros and Cons
Review: Pros:

Their are several pros to this game. The engine itself is pretty good. If you played any of the other C&C games, you'll know exactly how to play this one. The game also doesn't have some of the problems that Tiberian Sun Possessed. In TS, the AI would just send a thousand sacrificial Engineers to your camp, you kill 999 of them, but one of them always made it through and took over your construction yard. RA2 has sacrificial engineers coming your way but they are balanced enough that they rarely ever make it through your front lines. The cinematics are great. Full Screen. What could be more fun then watching a terrorist with a bomb strapped to his chest and blow up a general.

Cons: These are my personal feelings. The game has a CD-key. I hate CD-Keys just because you can't just put the CD in a CD carry case and let it be. Also, the disk is protected by SafeDisc(like all new Westwood games.) It is pretty easy to get around if you know how. I'm not going to tell you how but it makes it an annoyance if you want to make a backup copy for archival purposes.

The game itself has little cons. It is just fun. It'll give you 20 hours or so of solid game play.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: don't like the demo
Review: first of all, i'm a huge fan of the command & conquer games. i have every one of them (except this one).. red alert 2: yuri's revenge is one of my favorite games ever. anyhow, i downloaded the demo of renegade and i was so disappointed. it just does not compete with the good fps games.. get medal of honor: allied assault instead. actually, there are 1 level demos of renegade and mohaa..get them both and see the difference!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This game is the bomb ! !
Review: this game was the best strategy game i ever played. the good part was the graphics and even the sound. the levels had good themes on them. This game has good graphics and a good theme to it. The game design was good because it wasn't like the other strategy games that I played before. The first level of the game, when your playing as the allies, is pretty easy if you know what your doing. Of course the levels get harder and harder but that's what makes the game so fun. It would give you an intense feeling. If your playing as the solviets then your in for a treat. the best thing that they have on them is their ability to have nukes and the iron curtin. thats their strong weapons. for the allies, the weather machine and the chronosphere are their strong weapons. Also playing the computer can be fun. thats if your playing the skirmish games. they give you a practice and what to expect from each country you face.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good, but could be better
Review: 1. The enemy AI. I killed the guy before he even noticed me!
2. It takes a really good system to run.
3. Voice acting is a little bad
4. I really like just going around in a mammoth tank running over and blowing up things.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great addition to the C&C legacy
Review: Renegade is a basic game, kill. The plot is thin but what else would you expect? I love being in the C&C universe, walking around seeing the buildings from a different perspective. The same voice is used, "Building Destroyed." It's I recommend this game to anyone that enjoys C&C. If you haven't played C&C, don't expect much from it. Also if you have a low-end computer and a slower ISP you will miss half the fun, Multi-Player.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The world is under my control
Review: this is a great game. its kinda the same as the last one but alot of new features if you liked the fist one you'll love this. It gets boring after awhile but you can come back later and it is just as fun. the only thing i dont like is that Yuri has to much power.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: coolest game ever
Review: this game is the coolest. you go around destroying other peopl's bases. if you play super weapons you get to use nukes. the french have this thing called the grand cannon. it shoots giant exploding shells. the soviets are the best thow.they get this blimp called a kirof. it drops nukes on people. i would recomend this game to some one who likes action and is good at planning. you wouldn't want a 5 year old playing it thow. its not bloody but people get killed.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: C&C fans (like me) will like it - others may expect better
Review: I can still remember the final battle of the original Command and Conquer from back in the '90's. What I thought would take a few hours ended up taking an entire evening. Defeating those wicked NOD guys was the most mind-numbing experience ever - I could still feel my brain pounding long after the final cutscene played. Getting up for work the next day was almost as difficult!

So, of course when Westwood announced they were going to make a first-person shooter based on C&C, I had to get it. I can tell you C&C Renegade is a worthy first attempt yet it does fall short compared to the current crop of shooters out now.

PROS:
1. Graphics - I'm surprised at other reviewer's complaints. Not the best in terms of detail or graphic quality, but still very good for a game of this size and scope.
2. Action - Very engaging. It's not a one-man show - you're usually thrown into the heat of battle with explosions all around you. Plus you get to drive a lot of the vehicles too.
3. C&C Theme - all the goodies, GDI Cannons, Tiberium Harvesters, Obelisks, etc... The sound effects are very reminiscent of the early games, it even keeps track of the number of NOD soldiers you squish in your mammoth tank.
4. Cutscenes - very cool. Just when I think Westwood is slacking towards the later levels they throw in a nice epic movie to watch between levels.
5. Music - Awesome!! (as always) C&C games still have the best soundtracks.

NEUTRAL:
1. Level Design - Yeah, it's Westwood's first foray into level design and it shows. But quite frankly it shows just how accustomed gamers have gotten to having everything linear; we expect to follow a straight line to the goal and never have to backtrack once! At least in this game you can pretend this would be more like a real world assault. Besides, we're doing everything from beach assaults to desert sieges to sneak attacks in cities, submarines and snow covered mountain bases. What's wrong with that?
2. Voice Acting - Decent. Our hero Major Havoc sounds more like Duke Nukem. "You're going up against a whole squadron by yourself?" "Yeah, doesn't seem fair does it? Maybe I'll shoot left-handed." Am I the only one who gets a little creeped out by the way they move their lips?
3. Weapons - All nicely balanced with the exception of the grenade launcher. This worthless weapon makes huge explosions that seem to leave the enemy unfazed most of the time. Is this thing on?

CONS:
1. Load Times - Ugh. Over 2 min to load a level! If you're killed or even if you restart the same level it takes just as long! It's so annoying you'll end up playing the easier difficulty settings just to avoid dying. Minus one star for this annoyance.
2. Enemy AI - Atrocious! As much as I'd like to be biased I have to admit this is one of the worst ever. I can round a corner, see someone crouched behind a box, pump about ten rounds into him and while I stop to reload, he goes back to crouching behind the box... uhhh hello? I'll pick off someone with my sniper rifle and the guy next to him will just stand there and wait for his turn. I smirk when I'm warned of "elite" enemy forces approaching as these high-caliber opponents basically run into my line of fire and take maybe a few more hits to kill. Doom had better AI. Minus one star for this (and that's being nice!)
3. System Requirements - Considering a game like Wolfenstein runs on my system without a hitch, I'm disappointed I have to minimize all the detail settings using my (fairly new) Geforce 2 Pro and even then the frame rates choppy. You're gonna need a 1.4 gig system and a GF3 at the very least to run this game smoothly.

To sum it up - C&C fans (with sufficient hardware) will find enough to overlook the rather major annoyances in the game. Hardcore action fans, however, will find plenty to nitpick about but may realize that, in spite of it all, it's still a really fun game to play.

Hope my review helped!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Bah
Review: This game was by far one of the best I have ever played. The single player leaves some to be desired, but the real fun of CnC games has ALWAYS been the multiplay, and Renegade is no exception. Right now there are 10 diffrent levels to play on, some with defenses, some not. Both sides are also almost completly diffrent. While Nod will depend on stealth and hit and run tactics, GDI depends on brute force in your face fire power. Most of the complaints I have seen regarding this game so far are people saying that the defenses are too hard to get by. Well of course they are! Most people don't realize that this is a team game, so if your looking for a deathmatch, this isen't a game for you. It's no wonder half of the reviewers tell you about other deathmatch games or games like Tribes where the autoguns do everything for you. Also many people have been complaining about graphics. Ya the graphics aren't THAt pretty, but Westwoods engine is a completly new one. The reason they made a new one was to make the veichles as usable as they are, which no other FPS has been able to do. So all in all the game is about gameplay and teamwork, not pretty graphics and rambo-deathmatch style playing, although the headshots never hurt :)


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