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Summary: Good fun, must buy for any and all PC gamers
Review: Well this is Westwood's 4th C&C RTS game, and it's GREAT as usual. I gave this 4 1/2 stars, but I rounded that to 5 to display on the title.Red Alert 2, like all it's predecesors, is a strategy/war game by Westwood,a strategy gaming company owned by the huge Electronic Arts for a while now. It features 2 campaigns, 1 for each side, that walk you through the plot and train you for the regular battles ahead. There is a skirmish mode, which lets you play a multiplayer-style game with the AI. I once used this mode to re-inact the Bay of Pigs invasion, there are so many little options. True fun comes, though, with multiplayer mode, which is the main focus of the game. Although in previous C&Cs, especially Tiberian Sun, there was a quite a lot of blood and gore when an infantry guy got killed, Red Alert 2 has NO Blood and NO Gore. In fact, when an infantryman is killed now, sometimes he'll say things like "Do'h!" and then fall over and disappear. Still, it's rated "T"like most strategy games. No swearing, either; the president says in the intro movie, "I wouldn't give a wooden nickel about your legacy." The story is simple: after Red Alert (original), where the Soviets invade Europe in about 1940 instead of Germany because of some complex time-travel assasination that nobody really understands, the Allies install a puppet leader
in Russia. Seeming at first to be an advocate of peace, he later invades the Allies' main supplier and most important fighter the U.S.A. using mind-control and quite a few other intresting technologies. FMV movies will tell you most of the plot. Once again, Westwod has included graphics that succeed in telling the player what is happening, but not state-of-the-art. They have continued to use their MegaVoxel technology, which models the game in a sort of 2D/3D cross but makes
the units look like an army of mold campared to conventional graphics. (Well that's an exaggeration but they're still quite bad-looking). But as I said before, they still let the player see what's happening, and that's enough,
I think. The good news is that it needs no such 3D graphics cards that some conventional graphics games do. Like in the original Red Alert you can pick the Allies or Soviets on a quest for world domination. The Soviets have more in the way of general power, the Allies have intresting technologies to counter that, usually involving prisms
or time travel. The gameplay is fun and easy to learn. Veterans of C&C will know the interface as soon as they load up the game, it's pratically the same except the the waypoints have gotten confusing and a new cursor has been added to tell you if you are in range to fire or if your units must move first. The tank rush
is easier to resist now, you now have better base defenses and you can garrison buildings with troops. Garrisons are extremely powerful, underestimation of them will lead to a failed assualt that costs you 100,000 credits. The gameplay has been made quicker now, allowing you to finish in about 30 minutes to 1 hour. New multiplayer modes include team alliance and others. The sound is still sharp, and each class of units has a different selection of random words to say when they are selected, moved, and fired. The music is good, provides ambience and has more speach than any other C&C games. No,
not like somebody is actually singing, but rather every once in a while someone'll say something like, "Gentlemen, it's a nuclear device," or something inaudible in the background. The game is stable, but like all games you'll get a complete hang once in a while. This game is a good buy and I had some great fun. It has its set of disadvantages, like all games, but it's gotten better and C&C is starting to get better each release. Obviously destined to be in a museum one of these years. The Last Remaining Copy will behind glass, with a demonstration on a computer to the side. The sign'll say, "Red Alert 2. Archeologists confirm
that it was probobly the best game of the year in 2000." Pros +Fast paced, action gameplay
+Easy to learn
+Another bumper crop of new units Cons
-Graphics not quite, eh, state of the art
-Confusing Waypoints.
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Summary: Be a renegade . . .
Review: I am a major fan of C&C games and other FPS's and RTS's, but this game takes the cake, you actually get to be on the battlefield with your soliders, blowing up NOD soliders and Vehicles, and also look around in buildings you've always wanted to look into. On top of all of this, they have added C&C mode to multiplayer which allows to take control of a base, purchase different character class like Minigunners, Engineers, and yes even the legendary and all powerful Mammoth tank, you have to place your super weapon becon inside the enemy barracks to end C&C mode. Although
the system requirements are steep, I suggest you get this game.
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Summary: Red alert 2 is the best
Review: This game has it all. Strategy humor so much gameplay it will blow your mind! Training movies soviets america... Tanyas back and ready to kick some butt! Yuris revenge is the expantion and its just as good!
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Summary: Ya Gotta get it!
Review: If you enjoyed R/A 2, the complexity of units and their application within this expansion pack offer a great challenge.
After you play the scenarios, give a try at using Yuri's troops and equipment. Awsome interactivity ! ! !
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Summary: Great expansion pack!
Review: This is without a doubt one of the great expansion packs ever released. You get an American and a Russian story consisting 7 or 8 missions for each side. The American missions are pretty hard, especially the last one and the Russian missions are a little more fun with extra surprises that really make this game a blast. You also get the Yuri faction which is a completly new group you can play as in multiplayer mode with a complete new set of buildings, weapons, and units. The cutscenes are very cool and the story is solid. the only thing I did not like was when trying to load the next mission or load a saved game, it took a very long time. But it is definitely worth the wait. This makes a great game even better. If you already have Red Alert 2, then you definitely need this expansion pack.
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Summary: CNC Renegade
Review: I've played this game and it is great. I can't wait till my pre-ordered version with the 8 extra(i heard there were five more skins to get) skins come. Like sydney's new skin with the Personal Ion Cannon. When i was playing i got sruck with the Obelisk. This game is great! Even if your not a CNC fan, i recommend you should get this First-Person-Shooter game!
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Summary: yuri's revenge
Review: oh god when i first played this i was like oh, boring. but when i got to the harder levels it got so interesting i got hooked.
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Summary: Command And Conquer Red Alert 2 rocks!!
Review: I have played quite a few computer games(Star craft, Red Alert 1, Brood War, C&C....) Out of all these games I think this game is the best. I would easily give it an A+. It is full of action. It has an enormous variety of units that you can build. The graphics is great. The terrain is destroyable and deformable. The buildings are really detaild. There are many ways to beat each mission. If you like PC Strategy games, this one should definitely be next on your list.
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Summary: Better than the original - but lacks originality!
Review: I have both versions, and this by far has better everything including graphics and weaponry. My only complaints are the following. 1) In the original Red Alert (hereinafter referred to as RA1) you had to have tactics and skills. In RA2 all that is needed is 30 tanks and you can wipe out the other team. 2)Not enough air or sea advantages. 3) Super weapons are too powerful. 4) The Soviet side is still better than the Allies. It is only worth purchasing if you do not have RA2.
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Summary: Yuri's Revenge almost seems pointless...
Review: Well I am finally back to review the Add On pack for Red Alert 2, Yuri's Revenge. Yuri's Revenge almost seems pointless because the AI in the game is still the same it seems, all the back to the Original Command and Conquer. The multiplayer aspect of the game is a HUGE PLUS. But let's talk about different aspect of Yuri's Revenge Single Player.
The GAME - The storyline is very odd and weirder now that Red Alert:Yuri's Revenge is messing with Time Travel. Yuri has taken over the world with his Psychic Dominators and now it is up to you (Allies or Soviets) to go back in time and foil his plans. There are two Jurassic Park like scences which really play out funny. Ray Wise has made another appearance in this movie which really goes to show you how well his acting career is doing (LOL). Pretty simple rules apply here, Destroy Yuri and stop his Psychic Dominators. One of the battles will even take you to the Moon to fight Yuri!
The GRAPHICS are what to be expected from a RTS. Not anything really special to look at but your standard 2D explosions and firefights. But I still love how much Command and Conquer has come from the first game and its Pixalated units.
The GAMEPLAY is very nice with many new features and weapons. It is now even easier to get veteran units than before and I don't know what I would do without the ability to Garrison buildings. The Battle Fortress is a very awsome unit next to the Tank Killers and the Soviets still rule with the APOC tanks.
GAMEPLAY BALANCE - Man don't start me on this again because I could go on for hours! I have seen better AI in Quake 2 and even Star Trek Armada. And again you only have to build a certain unit to pretty much destroy the computer. On the Allies side its all about building Prism Tanks. Amass about 20 of these units and you can destroy any base. On the Soviet side all you have to build is about 15 APOC tanks and you can overwhelm any base. Playing around with different stratagies is fun, but sooner or later you are ready to whip the tar out of the computer and complete the mission.
Overall, I found this game to be enjoyable and a worthy add on to Red Alert. With different Units and three different sides to play in Multiplayer it makes to be quite spectacular. Yuri on the other hand was a complete ... His taunting in the game was pretty annoying and it really seems he could not even Mind Control himself a Pizza. But it was still enjoyable. I wonder what new Command and Conquer will come next after Renegade.
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