RA3 Uprising Reviews Round Up

[Sonic 296]

A few reviews of Red Alert 3 Uprising have appeared on various gaming sites over the past few days. An average score of 60% has been calculated from the following reviews.

• 1UP | Grade C
• Eurogamer | 5 / 10
• D+PAD Magazine | 3 out of 5
• Play.tm | 68%
• GameSpy | 3 out of 5

There are some parts of these reviews that I agree with, but I also found many examples where its a case of the reviewer not knowing anything about Red Alert 3 Uprising to begin with. One reviewer made up his own names for the new units, rather than give the correct names. Hit the links above for the full Red Alert 3 Uprising reviews.

[Nmenth 291]

The last link seems to be broken.

[Sonic 296]

Oops!! All fixed now - http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/command-conquer-r...-/962590p1.html

[Nmenth 291]

I must say, those reviews seem to say the exact things I feared this expansion would become as soon as the rumors about booster expansions came about.

Before RA3, I mentioned to a friend that I predicted RA3 would be interesting, but lacking in some ways and not reveal its full glory until its (first) expansion. Unfortunately, I think I was right about the first half and wrong on the second.

Nevertheless, I will still buy Uprising at some point, no review will deter that.

[Luk3us 63]

The campaigns and such are rather dull. But I think the commander challenge well makes up for it.

[Johnnyxp64 20]

i dont care what they think

i care what i think.-

 

they never even buy a game! and they talk? lol.

 

generally i think they where critisising a mini expansion with critirias of a complete expansion. (or maybe EALA refused to pay them to advertise the game, cause we all remember the gamespot and gamespy skandals with the paid-sponsor partners that pushes writers to give a good critic / score to their game) duh.

 

almost i never trust totally sites of that kind. i prefer reading real peoples comments and try it my self.

Edited March 21, 2009 by Johnnyxp64

[Malevolence 6]

It'll be a matter of time before I to play Uprising. I won't miss any C&C campaigns.

[ghost_zero 0]

@Nmenth:

I think you are quite correct. After all expansions very often polish games - even if only a few units were added but if those are the right units it can do wonders.

However, with this "expansion" everything is kinda wrong and not to mention that it is way overpriced. OK, the commander's challenge doesn't seem to be that uninteresting to play and I also liked Yuriko's campaing (though it was way to short and it still didn't tell much about her). However, in games I am also extremely interested in the story and there this expansion didn't really offer anything (or much) at all.

They didn't unveil much, nor change anything for further expansions regarding the story but as said I am very interested in the story of games - which is also why I like RPGs so much.

OK. I have to admit I have only played Yuriko and Soviet so far but after the Soviet campaign I am so unsatisfied that I don't want to finish the other campaigns anymore.

Even more so as those campaigns already sound boring from the beginning.

I have started Commander's challenge, however, and I might finish that one or at least play it further as it seems to be way more fun - though it doesn't compensate for the messed up campaigns at all - as there is not really anything story related and are no campaing missions either - of course.

 

Actually, I think this "expansion" is more like something to want to rush out to get money. I mean: The new units aren't even a little balanced but well: They aren't available for multiplayer games either (which somehow is good here).

I think a fully normal expansion could have been way better than many fast released small expansion. It then can have a longer campaign/better story because creating such missions isn't as problematic as designing new balanced units. Not to mention that the performance/cost-ratio would be way better (actually if the full expansion was really good I would also pay a bit more for it than they cost normally - IF and only if the expansion was good).

Edited March 21, 2009 by ghost_zero

[Aaron Kaufman 0]

Of all the reviews, and i'm not pointing this one out just because they gave us the highest score so far, but IGN "gets it":

 

http://pc.ign.com/articles/965/965057p1.html (8/10)

 

We never aimed to market Uprising as an "expansion", but rather a single-player add-on, hence the low price point, no multiplayer, and short development time. We had an opportunity to provide the C&C community a high quality single player campaign extension, all bias aside, I do think our team delivered on the campaign front as well as they did for Red Alert 3 (minus no co-op). The Yuriko campaign is really a departure from anything you've experienced before in a C&C game, its a lot of whacky fun. As is Commanders Challenge. For $19.99 you get quite a bit of content.

 

So in the end, Uprising is not a traditional expansion, and if I were a reviewer, I don't think it'd be constructively fair to review it as "missing traditional expansion pack features" when we announced at the beginning it would have no multiplayer. The uniits are balanced for "fun", not for hardcore multiplayer. But I definitely understand reviewers criticism of this point, its a fair judgement either way.

 

I'm confident however, the community will use our upcoming RA3 Mod SDK to make an Uprising-MP-mod that will likely go through many iterations of balance, infact I predict that first mod will be called Red Alert 3 Uprising Retarded =) Right Gunrun?

 

-APOC

[Sonic 296]

i dont care what they think

i care what i think.

That's exactly how I think. Don't let this gaming sites influence your decision to buy a game. Most of these gaming sites only care about about page views and ad views so the usually churn out a quick review based on 10 minutes of looking at the game.

 

Of all the reviews, and i'm not pointing this one out just because they gave us the highest score so far, but IGN "gets it":

 

http://pc.ign.com/articles/965/965057p1.html (8/10)

Credit to IGN for using their own screen shots. So many reviews (for RA3) and the recent Uprising ones rehash the same screen shots over and over. Again another indication that no effort has been put into the review.

 

[Luk3us 63]

I like Gamespot reviews, they're usually half decent, so it'll be interesting to see if they are kind to Uprising.

[General Kane Nash 0]

Cant say anything... I dont have yet the game, but at this point I dont give too much credit to the game reviews, they said Fallout 3 was awesome and has more playability than Dead Space, currently I dont even finished the game sicne I got bored (which is the only error I cant forgive of a game) while is like my sixth time playing the DS campaign, I even made that video I used at the contest in hopes to get a free key of Uprising.

 

In the end is a matter of personal taste, for example, many people and "serious" reviewers will say this video fails, while I consider it's awesome and funny, since I am living my life and not theirs it's easy to conlcude I dont care about what they say, I am happy and amused while they not, so I win and they fail

 

By the way, the last part was of Googleearth, right? That sun beam was so cool!

Edited March 22, 2009 by General Kane Nash

[Red Blitzkrieg 0]

zey deserve threats against their stuff! it should be at least 3.5s, a c+, AND a 8 because it is Red Alert.......fear my nerd rage! XD

Edited March 22, 2009 by Red Blitzkrieg

[General Kane Nash 0]

zey deserve threats against their stuff! it should be at least 3.5s, a c+, AND a 8 because it is Red Alert.......fear my nerd rage! XD

 

Or just ignore them and watch that video linked in my previous reply...

 

"Meow, meow, nyancology, mankind, meow, tres bien..."

[hagren 0]

There was only one review I've read that I could agree with, and it was in German. The only review which "gets" Uprising a tad is Gamespy's. No one should care about reviews though- Bioshock was treated like an excellent FPS even though it had many apparent flaws.