RA3!

[Alvestein]

http://www.ea.com/redalert/

nuff said, go check it out comrade!

[BlackWolf]

The first step towards participating in the Beta program is ordering Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath. Not only will you get to play the latest installment of the Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars Saga,, but within every purchase of Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath that contains the Red Alert 3 Beta Key Sticker is a key that guarantees you access to the Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Beta program if you register before September 15, 2008.
Ohh yeah im thrilled... not.

[Alvestein]

i haven't got Kanes wrath so i'll just wait until it comes out fully :)

[BlackWolf]

Thats over year away m8.

[Alvestein]

i can wait :)

[Charlie_B]

The promo video for RA 3 was utterly horrible :/

[Alvestein]

you mean the podcast with that idiot of a guy doing a tv showesk thing? he sucks :P

[kyx]

WOOHOO.

Red Alerts 1 and 2 and Yuri's Revenge were great, and let's hope Red Alert 3 would be EVEN BETTER!

[Xbox]

No doubt EA will **** it up.

[Gooner-fan-deano]

Red alert 2 was awesome

[kyx]

The fact is, Red Alert 2 was developef by Westwood while Red Alert 3 will be by EA, because Westwood disbanded.

[Weeble]

Westwood and Bullfrog were perhaps two of the world's sexiest ever companies. Such a shame they both don't exist anymore :-(
And you're right, EA have really buggered the Command and Conquer series up, if we're honest. They took it to unnecessary levels.

[f0xx]

Blizzard is the world's sexiest company :P

[kyx]

Nayy if they were sexy they would make WoW free.

[vlad]

Nayy if they were sexy they would make WoW free.

But, no other game offers what WoW overs in the way of support/game updates. I mean .. some of these patches they release in all honesty should be expansions, but they are done for free. So thats what you are paying for, not to mention the reliability of the connectivity service :D

And yeah, i miss the games like Dungeon keeper, they were ace :D

[TehPantz]

I love the red alert series...but when you were able to play as yuri it loses some fun because he is so overpowered.

[Weeble]

Not really... during multiplayer matches I found it quite easy to rape Yuri blind.

[DarkSider]

Allied have all the great offensive weapons. You can swarm rockets and send them kamikaze on enemy MCV and other buildings they can get before dying or just mass prisms and once you have enough of them no other soviet nation or yuri can do anything :P Especially as i recently found out it's easy as pie to upgrade them infiltrating a spy in your own tech center :o

[kyx]

WoW gives expansions like the burning crusade and wrath of the lich king, and their patching is good, but not that spectacular..

[Alvestein]

darksider, prisms suck vs Units. :) a few ivans will have those expensive tanks turned into scraps within seconds.

now if you were to have a tanya in an IVF, 2 mirage tanks and 2 prism tanks. chrono into the enemies base. you practically win.

[Weeble]

darksider, prisms suck vs Units. :) a few ivans will have those expensive tanks turned into scraps within seconds.

now if you were to have a tanya in an IVF, 2 mirage tanks and 2 prism tanks. chrono into the enemies base. you practically win.

Pfft, ever faced an entire map-full of Prisms with a bunch of ivans? They stand no chance.

[Bunion]

I remember back when RA2 was first released, the hype was about more tactical battles, where massing wouldn't work. There was a video of a mammoth tank swarm on an Allied base, defended by prism towers...it was a massacre :p

[Alvestein]

so.....>.>.......mammoth tanks ARE the ownage though. and i believe they're called apocalpyse tanks ¬_¬

[Bunion]

Hush! They're mammoths! They have always been mammoths and they'll be mammoths forever!!

[Weeble]

You're a mammoth.

[vlad]

Hush! They're mammoths! They have always been mammoths and they'll be mammoths forever!!

thats C&C .. but yeah, i'm the same ..
You can get away with it being the same game series i suppose.

[Souls]

You're a mammoth.

That's what she said! ;)

[CLem]

darksider, prisms suck vs Units. :) a few ivans will have those expensive tanks turned into scraps within seconds.

now if you were to have a tanya in an IVF, 2 mirage tanks and 2 prism tanks. chrono into the enemies base. you practically win.

prisms ****ing own once they are upgraded, i always have a sniper in an upgraded IVF as well i found them MUCH better than putting machine gun ones, go close to the enermy base and *bup bup bup* all human troops dead.

Another thing that i did was kamikazi Kirovs right into their base if i got soviet or have fun with nuclear trucks lol

[kyx]

demo trucks are nice, i like to put 4 of them in an amphibious transport ans send them straight into the enemy's base.

prisms are actually quite good, they do good damage against many units but are weak against apocalypse and air.

they are mammoth tanks in tiberium wars and RA, but in RA2 and YR they were apocalypse tanks.

[atsanjose]

change the .ini file so you can buy einstein and change his fire rate to a nano second :O

the good old days 8)

[Weeble]

I made some absolutely awesome mods and missions back in the day. RA2 still has a very strong modding community actually! I was quite surprised at how long it's lived so far. But then I realised what I was surprised about and figured it was quite normal. All in all, the above sentence is pointless.

Baaaaaaack to the topic:
I'm a bit skeptical about RA3. I've not really been a fan of the whole '3D interface' for the C&C series. It worked (sort of) for Generals, but then again you can't really call that a proper C&C game. EA made C&C3 quite awful, if we're honest, so I'm very doubtful as to what they'll end up doing to RA3. Bring back the awesome times of 2D interfaces (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrVVIVyLx-Y).

[BlackWolf]

I played first time C&C3 after i had played supreme commander... it so sucked!
Its interface was so poor and you just couldnt get high enought from surface to do anything in it. Its whole unit system felt so bad and no matter how long i played it didnt get any better. It was entertaining cause it had nice videos tho... but as game and on game play... it was awfull to be honest.

[Maxi]

Seems opinions diverse once again. :P

I liked C&C3. Liked, not loved. It didn't have the Tiberian Sun or RA2 'feel' to it, but hey, it's a new game after all! Being quite active on a big cnc website and forum, in general reactions on the game has been positive in that community. We'll see about RA3, though. I don't like them removing Soviet nukes, naval combat is crucial, and a Japanese faction, erhm yerr?

Whatever it is they decide to do, it will work. Its the one thing all the CnC games have held in common, whether it was a new idea, or the continuation of the old, the games have worked and they have all been good. Some better than others, some maybe some of us regret spending a full $60 on, but they've all been enjoyable games.

Some pointers - http://forums.cncden.com/showthread.php?t=22890
Screenshots - http://forums.cncden.com/showthread.php?t=22857

[Bunion]

CnC3 is a good game, unlike the two shockers before it of Tiberium Sun and Generals. The engine is beautiful on high graphics, the art is great, the only issue is that the Scrin are what my friends like to call "The new Yuri", especially with Devastator Warships receiving a stupidly unneeded buff in 1.09!

As for RA3, what I've seen so far looks good, with the only worry is that Japan (Rising Sun, w/e) are going to be "The next Yuri", stupidly overpowered with silly concepts and no actual direction (think GDI armour, NOD stealth).

[Alvestein]

i agree, i liked CnC3. alot more then Generals. the graphics are amazing on CnC3 (if you have a good enough pc) but i agree that RA2 is still the best so far, probably because it was so smooth and i dont know what but i suspect something to do with the gameplay made it so addictivly good(something which no one who is a fan of the CnC games can disagree with). tbh does anyone know why Westwood disbanded when they had done such a good job??

[Maxi]

Westwood studios was disbanded by EA Games, and absorbed into EALA, but most of the Westwood staff went off and created a new company called Petroglyph. (Universe at War & Star Wars: Empire at War)

Gotta love Frank Klepacki btw, for his awesome games music ; Hell March - http://youtube.com/watch?v=srqOjppHqTo

"We want war, wake up!" :twisted:

[Yang]

CNC3 was a dissapointment IMO as it was the same as any old RTS out there.

Not enough new innovations were introduced to it to distinguish it from the others.

CNC kinda has gone downhill after EA took over Westwood...

[Weeble]

Westwood Studious was bought by EA in... 1998(?) and from there it slowly went downhill. RA2 came out, no problem, but their next venture - C&C: Renegade - was such a flop that EA decided to liquidate Westwood and merge the remaining employees into it's core company - EA LA (I think it was LA...).

Couple of Westwood employees broke out into a company called Petroglyph though. They've been responsible for Star Wars: Empire at War, and Universe at War: Earth Assault (both of which were pretty good). More to come from them in the future mehopes!



Edit: damn you Maxi!

[DarkSider]

I made some absolutely awesome mods and missions back in the day.

Gimme gimme :o

[Weeble]

Don't think I have them anymore.... they were at least 3 hard drives ago. Might be on one of my int-to-ext drives (internal IDE hooked up to external chassis'), I'll check when I get some free time.
I had one total conversion mod - changed every side, etc. Worked....fairly well :P
And numerous game change mods, including plenty - plenty - of additional units, some crafted by me, others I just got the models from people. I even made a conversion for Tanya with a sort of winter-coat, much like the one Jolie wears in Tomb Raider. It looked awesome!

[DarkSider]

I played several mods and campaigns, but i'm after campaigns more, in mods i get bored fairly quick after i check what does each unit :P

[Twigley]

I LOVED Ra2.
Like ... omg play it every night in between ticks for house.

Ra3 dispointed me.
Like BW said, it just felt crappy.

[Alvestein]

twigley do you mean CnC3? RA3 isn't out yet..

[Weeble]

I played several mods and campaigns, but i'm after campaigns more, in mods i get bored fairly quick after i check what does each unit :P
Hah, I made some damn kickass missions as well. At the time I was a corporal for the ATC, and so was involved in planning the night exercises - for some of them I modelled them on missions I'd made with RA2. Had two new campaigns, one for Soviets and one for the Alliance. Aaaaah I miss those days!

[Twigley]

twigley do you mean CnC3? RA3 isn't out yet..

Yes. :P

[kyx]

thats nice.. i thought u meant the RA3 beta version which comes with Kane's Wrath

[[Ninja-7]]

@ Weeble
Hell Yeah ATC!!! Im a sargeant :D
And I used to love modding, could never get the flying units to work though, they just seemed to eat my game when I built them, and I'd have to start it up all over again....
But more to the point, I can't wait for RA3, Ive not played CNC3, but I have generals, and thought that the graphics worked well, but there wasnt enough variation in units/structures... That and I missed the boats... :P

P.S. Did anyone ever play the Eagle Red mod? It was always my fav. but I've had to reformat my HD, so I dont have it any more, and can't find it for download :(

[Azzer]

C&C 3 is fun, especially in a multiplayer game where you can park up suicide trucks next to all of your team-mates buildings wait for him to attack the enemy and just as his army is out fighting the war you detonate all of the det-trucks and blow your team-mate up despite no friendly fire.

Can't imagine who'd do such a thing though, can you Weeble!?

[kyx]

I'm reviving this thread. Hooray for RA3 fans cos it goes to the top and people will discuss it again.

Here are the unit profiles + gameplay demo

Unit Profiles - http://www.ea.com/redalert/factions.jsp

Gameplay Demo - http://www.ea.com/redalert/movie.jsp?id=4

More unit profiles will be released every week... so don't forget to check back every few weeks.

[Maxi]

*drools at the sight of those dreadnoughts* :D

[BeakY]

gamespot have some nice vids

[BeakY]

Comrades,



If you are receiving this e-mail then you are officially registered for the Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Multiplayer Beta Test and are in our queue. Soviet Kirov’s bombed our beta test satellite communications around the launch of Kane’s Wrath in a deliberate attempt to halt our initial beta test communication e-mails to you upon your registration. While they were successful in their attempt, we were still able to retrieve all data and have continued to collect Beta Test registrations in numerical order since Kane’s Wrath shipped. We’ve recently reconstructed our communication technology with far better systems and defenses and will now be sending you frequent updates throughout the course of our multiplayer beta test. So fear not Comrade, we did not forget you!



:hug: EA :hug:

[BeakY]

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the first wide release of the Red Alert 3 public beta test. We will continue to grow the pool of beta participants over the course of the beta, but for now you will be one of the first people outside of the development team to have the opportunity to play Red Alert 3.

any1 else playing yet?

[[Ninja-7]]

Is no-one else interested anymore? 4 days till release and I cant wait :D The cast wouldn't be out of place in a movie, albeit a little dodgy with Jenny McCarthy in it ;)
And did I mention how poon-ting all the new units look? I'm loving the new focus on Navy, I missed that in Generals....

[Steve_God]

4 days??? I thought it was do be released around X-Mas???

[[Ninja-7]]

nope, October 28th, according to the site :D

[Steve_God]

Oooo... Looks like I'm going shopping at the weekend! \o/

[Weeble]

C&C 3 is fun, especially in a multiplayer game where you can park up suicide trucks next to all of your team-mates buildings wait for him to attack the enemy and just as his army is out fighting the war you detonate all of the det-trucks and blow your team-mate up despite no friendly fire.

Can't imagine who'd do such a thing though, can you Weeble!?
You mean Generals? That's why I don't play any of the C&C series with you any more :-P (you willy)

[Maxi]

I'm getting it tomorrow or so- if any of you want to try out the co-op campaign, nudge me. :P

[Steve_God]

Oooo... Looks like I'm going shopping at the weekend! \o/
I've checked the spec and I need a better graphics card dammit!!! :(

[Alvestein]

same, i could only just about run CnC3 on my pc at uber low settings, dunno how im gonnamanage this one.

[rooney]

first impressions?

[BlackWolf]

Did I already write page full of crap about this game?