Sonic 297 Posted November 6, 2008 Bit-Tech.net are the latest site to review Red Alert 3. The good news is they found the game a lot more enjoyable than Crispy Gamer did. A great score of 8/10 was given. Here's some of the review. All of the actors play their parts beautifully too - hamming everything up to maximum and doing their best fake accents and ridiculous voices. Gemma Atkinson is desperately trying to look earnest when she tells you to defend Brighton Beach and Jenny McCarthy really thinks she looks threatening with a fake knife and a tank-top, to the extent that you can't help but chuckle and just go along with it all. In the end, Red Alert 3 perhaps isn't all it could have been. A more expansive tech tree for basic ground and air units would have been a slightly better choice than giving players dozens of super weapons to choose from, fun as it is to point a screen-sized crosshair at your enemy's base. Red Alert 3 ticks all the right boxes - it has co-op, it has armoured bears, a funny plot and some good, basic strategy gameplay - but overall it fails to really pull together to be something we haven't already seen before and that's a shame. If you're after some quick real-time strategy this Christmas then Red Alert 3 will definitely see you right, but we wouldn't be surprised if it failed to stand the test of time. Click here for the full review. Share this post Link to post
hagren 0 Posted November 6, 2008 The good thing is that CnC games are not meant to stand the test of time- The average player completes the campaign and enjoys a skirmish here and there, and then purchases the next one. That does not mean however that the games are bad, on the contrary; for that short time, they're always the most enjoyable one can get out of the genre. But they're never meant to be a hallmark for RTS gaming. On the other hand, I still play RA2 and TW/KW skirmishes, and I'm sure I'm going to do the same with RA3. Share this post Link to post
