RA3 Interview: Never Before Seen Units

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Its been a big day of updates from the Official Red Alert 3 Site, so here's one more in the form of an interview with Red Alert 3's Lead Art Director Matt Britton and Designer Jason Torres. Its a look at some of the never before seen units and why were the cut from game. You can also check out some concept art of these units. Like the Chrono Tank below.

 

Nearly resurrected from Red Alert: Aftermath, what was the original purpose of the Chrono Tank for Red Alert 3? What was the original design and directive?

 

Matt Britton: The Chrono Tank idea was pretty straightforward. On the art side it came together easily - it's just a slightly futuristic tank with a chronosphere mounted on it.

 

Jason Torres: The original design was to utilize a unique movement mechanic (teleportation) on the Allied Faction's special tank. We thought it would be fun to teleport Chrono Tanks and surprise the enemy, but we didn't want that ability on the main battle tank (the Guardian Tank) for balance and faction asymmetry reasons (the Rising Sun already had a unique, fast traveling main battle tank in the Tsunami).

 

What power was the chronosphere effect going to have. Was that intended to be a secondary ability?

 

Matt Britton: The intent was that the tank would have a teleportation ability by virtue of the on-board chronosphere.

 

Jason Torres: Actually, I don't think we came up with a secondary ability. Or at least I don't remember it. The teleportation was its primary method of travel, so I don't think that was its secondary.

Click here for more of the interview and the concept art. The concept art is also available in our Red Alert 3 gallery.

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Some of those units would have been fun. The Chrono Tank looks just like a regular tank only that it can Chronoshift, could have been more creative.

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Some of those units would have been fun. The Chrono Tank looks just like a regular tank only that it can Chronoshift, could have been more creative.

^ That and that chronosphere just looks weird.