New Red Alert 3 Uprising Q&A

[Luk3us 63]

A new Question and Answer session has been conducted by the good folks over at GameSpot. Producer Greg Kasavin, of Command School fame, talks with GameSpot about numerous aspects of the Red Alert 3 expansion. Specifically mentioning details about the campaigns to be featured in Uprising, along with some insight into the Commander's Challenge and how it compares with the same feature from Zero Hour. Also, another new unit is unveiled, the Giga Fortress, as seen below.

 

A small snippet from GameSpot.

 

GS: What other content will the expansion offer? For instance, we understand there will be an expanded set of skirmish maps for both co-op and competitive play?

 

GK: On top of the four new minicampaigns, we're adding roughly 30 new maps for traditional skirmish. Many of these take place in new environments, such as a spooky European village with low-hanging fog. So we're taking a few detours from Red Alert 3's usually-bright, colorful world to add more variety.

 

There's also the Commander's Challenge mode, which features 50 unique, successively tougher scenarios, some of which are unlike anything we've ever done before. For example, in one particular challenge you get to go toe-to-toe with a new breed of Soviet War Bear, which happens to be much bigger and much nastier than usual. This mode offers an additional 30 hours of gameplay that we think the fans will enjoy. We're really happy with the way it's shaping up.

To view the entire Q&A session, head on over to GameSpot.

[Malevolence 6]

Looking forward to creative modifications to specialized units structures and hopefully protocols! Man, look at that indoor environment of Yuriko's facility! It is truly incredible!

[Inferno 22]

Awesome

[Hannibal 0]

One thing I was really glad to hear was a map with FOG! I hope we'll have some other sweet weather effects too!

 

Oh, the Yuriko campaign and Commander's Challenge thing sound pretty good too.

[rEdaSbLood 1]

nice screenys ! which in the giga fortress screen shot...is the giga fortress?

[Johnnyxp64 20]

those interior screenshots are AMAZING! great tileset EALA! i dont like that much that they are keep repeating the General's Idea in all games again and again thought, but i have Allready PREORDER it

 

hehe cant wait! i like this kind of mini expansion they will kepp my interest always alive!

[Gben 20]

Am I reading this right? No Co-Op Campaigns?

 

GS: What additions and enhancements will be made to the game's multiplayer? Any chance of some tweaks to make co-op games easier to get into and play?

 

GK: When we set out to make Red Alert 3: Uprising, we decided up front that it would purely be a single-player campaign expansion, mainly because the features our fans have been asking for more of (more storyline, units, et cetera) fall more into line with a single-player offering. The co-op gameplay we introduced in Red Alert 3 resonated extremely well among both fans and newcomers, and we definitely view it as a successful experiment that we'll be closely looking at in future endeavors.

 

Another reason for our decision to focus on single-player with Uprising was that it allowed for us to experiment more with different types of missions in the campaign. For example, the types of missions we wanted to make for Uprising, especially the Yuriko missions, wouldn't have worked well in co-op, and the new units were designed to be fun, powerful new units and tuned specifically for offline play.

 

GS: When will Uprising hit store shelves for the PC? Will we also see the game hit console platforms in some form, either as a separate game product like Kane's Wrath for the Xbox 360, or as an all-in-one special edition with the original game?

Edited January 15, 2009 by gben

[Sonic 298]

Co-Op is a multiplayer mode. Uprising has no multiplayer what so ever. As already confirmed.

[Gben 20]

In other thoughts... I would have hoped for more 'epic' SP units in the campaigns... or at least more challenging uses for the existing ones!

 

(I don't think it's quite sunk in that there is no MP play at all in this new expansion. I expected no new features, but a function LAN/Online game. Weird.)

[Sonic 298]

I find the focus on SP much more appealing, but that's obviously because I'm not interested in MP.

[rEdaSbLood 1]

i like SP more, and no co-op is ok, but no MP at all? cmon. unnecessary

[spark 0]

The Giga Fortress reminds me of Yuri's Barracks except it is flying.

[zÆRo 0]

i see a gundam astray head floating in mid air.....

[chimera1277 0]

hi, newbie here. I say the Empire has new toys to play with, can wait for Uprising to come out. the Challenge and Yurikp must be good, we'll see how it goes.....

[Silverthorn 0]

I find the focus on SP much more appealing, but that's obviously because I'm not interested in MP.

 

Me too, in the co-op feature, I can end each missions in different various ways too.

 

But since I'm already a working adult, I no longer have much interest on MP anymore, maybe someday I might not be able to make it for the beta session of that new C&C game.