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#3 is looking great. I'm in the multiplayer beta, and it looks great and plays just as well. Of course the strategy for winning is the same as it's been in C&C multiplayer games (e.g. harvest lots, fast. Then cheap-tank spam your opponent into submission.)

The first C&C/Red Alert games were damn fine games, but then (of course) they went on to churn out a bajillion of these games which were not more than the same game but with different graphics and different names for the units. I was tired of this formula after the first Red Alert.

I resent them for not even trying to do something different. Not within the "main universe" or carrying the same name, because we all know the nerd rage that would trigger. But some sort of offshoot like Renegade, but still RTS, either highly tactical (think Soldiers: heroes of WWII) or highly strategical (think SupCom).

But who am I kidding, the masses still wet their pants over this, so why take any chances.

Also, while reading I thought, "wait this doesn't make any sense, it's too early for this to be a promotional stunt, right?" thinking it was just some buzz campaign, but then I read "To get it, all you need to do is pre-order the game's third, deliciously cheesy installment." and everything made perfect sense.

RA3 has very significantly changed the gameplay. The new units are pretty creative (if a little bizarre) and the whole game is sort of based on an amphibious land/sea/air thing where each unit can do two of the above, e.g. transform from a submarine to a plane, or a tank to a boat.

It looks very different to RA2 to me.

@WhoMe

Sounds like you need to check out a little game called Tiberium.

Live action cut scenes are a staple of the C&C series, and I'll have it no other way.

Are you really putting down the acting? It's SUPPOSED to be cheesy and over the top. You're not supposed to take it seriously. Plus they get awesome actors... JK Simmons, Jenny McCarthy, Tim Curry, George Tekai. How can you not be in love with the live-action? I guess your avatar is fitting. >_

It was done better with GTA, didn't have to pre-order anything, they just stuck a bunch of games including GTA and GTA2 for free on their site.
I hope Konami eventually do that with the origional 2 Metal Gears, I would like to see the first Final Fantasy's for free too but they are too busy squeezing some more cash out of them on the DS.

Still, on topic, I suppose this is pretty cool if you havent played the first two, not my kind of game but making sure older games never die is a great thing there are some forgotten gems out there.

Technically, it's half half. They did offer something entirely free (RA original), but for RA2, I consider it to be in the same vein as the Orange Box combo (without portal and TF2).

You know that's just a bad George Orwell ripoff right?

Something wrong with artsy WW2-era graphic styles?

Ha whoops I stopped reading once it started talking about Vista. I guess I won't be playing it, I don't have any blank CDs lying around. Thanks for the heads up.

Unless you're using Vista (or some other non-common OS), all instructions and patches are provided within the DL.

If you're using Vista, you should've read the instructions provided with the DL before downloading.