Sonic 295 Posted May 23, 2008 One of the other new features on the new look Official Red Alert 3 Site is the second instalment of Chris Corry's Red Alert 3 Premier Blog. In this new blog he discusses EALA's recent trip to Moscow, Russia where they presented Red Alert 3 to members of the community and press in a Soviet-era underground bunker, 200 feet beneath the earth's surface. Here is a sample..... If you haven't heard about it yet, we're starting to see coverage of the Red Alert 3 Moscow event hitting the Intertubes and I wanted to share a few thoughts about the whole affair. For the most part I'll leave it up to the members of the press and C&C community to detail what we showed them of the game, but I'm still reeling from the sheer "coolness" of our time in Russia. Maybe talking a little about it here will bring me back to earth and in a working frame of mind. Early in the development of Red Alert 3 I recall a conversation about how cool it would be to present the game at a press or community event in Russia. It was one of those pie-in-the-sky things that you joke about with your friends over dinner or a late night out at a bar. Frankly, on the development team we never really gave it serious consideration because we knew that it would be expensive and logistically challenging, but when EA Russia and our PR team came to us and said they actually wanted to do it, we were thrilled. Little did we know what lay in store for us. The first big surprise was the venue. We gave the demo to about 75 members of the community and press in a Soviet-era underground bunker, right in the middle of the city and 16 stories beneath the surface. The idea of descending some 200 feet into the earth to show off the game was exciting and maybe even a little scary. When we arrived at the site for the first time I took out my wife's digital camera and recorded some video. As you can see, the bunker is quite extraordinary. It's comprised of a warren of narrow tunnels built to withstand a direct nuclear hit; everything is reinforced with an ungodly amount of steel and concrete, it's pretty much exactly what you would expect a Soviet bunker to look like, except this time it wasn't in some cold-war thriller playing at the multiplex, it was real. Click here for more, including some photos and video footage. Share this post Link to post
Pyrodaimon 0 Posted May 23, 2008 Travelling to Rusia, renting a soviet-era bunker for 75 persons plus press plus the dev team, establishing in the bunker with whatever load of things they must've brought, giving demos, getting back to USA... Damn, those guys surely got a f***ing big load of money! Share this post Link to post
Gben 20 Posted May 27, 2008 that video footage. awed silence... ...extradordinary. Share this post Link to post
