*** Red Alert 3 ***
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it's all the cartoonish graphics that get to me... and it is nowhere near as grim as RA 1 was...
still getting the Premier Edition, though
still getting the Premier Edition, though
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after playing multiplayer, its better than all the others in the C&C series...
imo anyway..
i still dont see why people hate this game, its not meant to make much sence to start with so dont try and make sence out of it, lol
you'll end up with a broken brain!!
really enjoyed this game, ive moved on to FO3 now.. got a few more days untill WotLK is released... enjoying my gaming atm
imo anyway..
i still dont see why people hate this game, its not meant to make much sence to start with so dont try and make sence out of it, lol
you'll end up with a broken brain!! really enjoyed this game, ive moved on to FO3 now.. got a few more days untill WotLK is released... enjoying my gaming atm
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why do people keep saying the crappy acting is good as its in line with the other games.
Theres a huge difference. Great story that sucks you in, with great FMV's, with good scripts but crappy acting is great. RA3 has, just the crappy acting, the FMV's are ridiculously bad, the story is woeful, the complete and utter lack of building up to the final battle is missing, the story jumping from one bit to another with no linking, the incredibly shortness. Gemma might be semi hot, but her baps were covered, seeing her knee's doesn't really do anything for me and well, theres hammy, camp bad acting, then theres cringe worthy hit the mute button acting, and she certainly isn't doing the former.
The smiling thing someone mentioned I believe is her trying to flirt, or trying to portray flighting through acting, but it comes across as a weird facial tic that causes a half smile for a split second, and apparently causes her accent to change every 3rd word slightly and every third FMV almost completely.
Its utterly not comparable, as a game to the first two RA's, or the earlier games in the series, its got 1/2 ok units but most suck, die way to easily, have sucky range and just aren't really fun.
I seem to remember other games where you're almost beaten, fight some hard faught battles to turn the war and gradually gain ground back, this ones a joke, we're almost dead, one simply mission later you're hitting one of their main bases, one mission later, your enemy has completely changed, another mission and you're allied with people who were on the brink of wiping you from the face of the planet, etc, etc. Such a painfully bad story and in games that always relied on FMV's to provide the tension, give you a feeling of scale of importance of what you're doing and try to remotely make you care whats happening its a huge hole they left.
Graphically I wouldn't have cared how it looks if it played great and/or had a great story, but the poor story with utterly generic bland maps, which are all tiny and short just stops pretty much anything about the game being good.
Seriously, am I the only one who remembers when the game was difficult, and got into the levels that took hours to finish, and when a campaign for just one side could easily take you 3-4 days at least.
Theres a huge difference. Great story that sucks you in, with great FMV's, with good scripts but crappy acting is great. RA3 has, just the crappy acting, the FMV's are ridiculously bad, the story is woeful, the complete and utter lack of building up to the final battle is missing, the story jumping from one bit to another with no linking, the incredibly shortness. Gemma might be semi hot, but her baps were covered, seeing her knee's doesn't really do anything for me and well, theres hammy, camp bad acting, then theres cringe worthy hit the mute button acting, and she certainly isn't doing the former.
The smiling thing someone mentioned I believe is her trying to flirt, or trying to portray flighting through acting, but it comes across as a weird facial tic that causes a half smile for a split second, and apparently causes her accent to change every 3rd word slightly and every third FMV almost completely.
Its utterly not comparable, as a game to the first two RA's, or the earlier games in the series, its got 1/2 ok units but most suck, die way to easily, have sucky range and just aren't really fun.
I seem to remember other games where you're almost beaten, fight some hard faught battles to turn the war and gradually gain ground back, this ones a joke, we're almost dead, one simply mission later you're hitting one of their main bases, one mission later, your enemy has completely changed, another mission and you're allied with people who were on the brink of wiping you from the face of the planet, etc, etc. Such a painfully bad story and in games that always relied on FMV's to provide the tension, give you a feeling of scale of importance of what you're doing and try to remotely make you care whats happening its a huge hole they left.
Graphically I wouldn't have cared how it looks if it played great and/or had a great story, but the poor story with utterly generic bland maps, which are all tiny and short just stops pretty much anything about the game being good.
Seriously, am I the only one who remembers when the game was difficult, and got into the levels that took hours to finish, and when a campaign for just one side could easily take you 3-4 days at least.
dunno about completing them in 3-4 days, ive always completed the whole game in a day or 2 at most, lol.... thats probably just me though!
the only one i had trouble with was the first C&C.. mission with the commando.. took me ages, mind you i was only about 9-10
(cant remember what year it was released,... 95?)
the only one i had trouble with was the first C&C.. mission with the commando.. took me ages, mind you i was only about 9-10
(cant remember what year it was released,... 95?)
Hard is a walkover and brutal cheats like a *****.
The AI is useless. When ever you scount and the enemy annouce who they are you know what tactics they are going to use. Hi Zhana, any chance of a different tactic other than Twin Blade spam, thought not.
Hard AI is so easy and Brutal cheats.
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In 2v2/3v3 etc with mates you don't get those voice overs but even then you just press 'q' when they are approaching you and they always run away
I've been doing a fair bit of 3v3 online with 2 of my flatmates and that's where the game really shines imo.
I've been doing a fair bit of 3v3 online with 2 of my flatmates and that's where the game really shines imo.
I used to feel compelled to play RA1 and 2 but with this i just don't even want to play it :/
Anyone know how to turn off the annoying AI players taunting you when playing skirmish? It's incredibly annoying when you're at an important part and the mini map dissapears!
Secondly, when you place a beacon, how do you remove it?!
Secondly, when you place a beacon, how do you remove it?!
select it and delete it (press delete)
Cheers! Cant believe I didnt figure that out myself!!
Played online today for the first time since the beta. Still fun but had enough of playing the Japs as they are far too overpowered so easy to win with. Yuriko is far too overpowered compared to other commandos its unbelievable. I wish there were more multiplayer options turning off super weapons and support powers as I really enjoy the early games but as soon as super powers are in use it becomes pointless as you cant destroy the buildings unless you wipe out all the constructions yards.
Hopefully in a future patch they allow us to turn off special abilities in multiplayer.
Anyone else had trouble with Soviet mission 5 (Mykonos)? Breezed through the first four but totally stuck here - just can't get enough resources to build enough units and get overrun by the enemy all the time. Got through to the final stage once but had no hope of dealing with the stupid numbers of units the enemy was throwing at me.
Feel I must be missing some obvious tactic here but can't see it
Feel I must be missing some obvious tactic here but can't see it
If it's the mission I am thinking of then lots of flack cannons and dreadnoughts... Order your AI to stand by at your base... Ignore the allies and just go for the traitor... all his stuff will become yours when you take out a few structures. then bring on the pain for the allies.
TrUz
TrUz
