Comments on: Red Alert 3: “Make-up makes foes ill-at-ease”

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:31:23 +0000

Well, if you’re going to kick recent C&Cs, C&C3 (and, by the looks of it, RA3) are just too fast. C&C1/2, RA, and even RA2, seem almost as slow and methodical as SupCom in comparison.

There’s also the fact that the [voice] acting talent is back down to TibSun standards. “Rubber shoes in motion”, this ‘ain’t.

By: Someone

Someone — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:11:55 +0000

There are MiGs in RA3 too.

And to whoever mentioned it, RA3 is much less spammy than TW or KW.You won’t win by just spamming 1-2 units.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:13:45 +0000

Anyone from “Shorty McShorts’ Shorts” is fine by me, hahahahahahhhaha!

Not too sure about this game. Might bargain bin it, though.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:44:35 +0000

I think I can actually pinpoint why I haven’t liked Red Alert 2 and won’t even bother playing Red Alert 3. Reading the preview of Red Alert 3 in the latest PCG, and looking at the screenshots, it strikes me that, well, none of this looks even vaguely like an alternate universe 1960s or whatever. All the units look like the terribly generic FUTUROCRAFT that blighted Empire Earth’s ‘future’ ages. What was nice about the original Red Alert was that you were using Yaks and MiGs and all that sort of thing for the ridiculous plotline. Whereas Red Alert 3 has gone all hover-laser-bollocks. Blergh.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:48:02 +0000

Wow, schoolgirls and mechas. There has obviously gone a load of market research in creating that faction.

By: theapologist

theapologist — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:07:06 +0000

Anyone working this hard to include Japanese schoolgirls into my games deserve only praise.

Some sort of EA-wide policy is in order – Dragon Age…HL2: EP3, Left4Dead. Seriously, Jack Trenton take note

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:29:59 +0000

The real question is, will I have to use strategy, or will this be “SPAM SOME SHIT HOLMES,” like C&C has been for awhile now…

RA was all about the tank rush. Glorious times accused of being a cheater because my Russian tanks beat an Allied tank force.

By: Real Horrorshow

Real Horrorshow — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:36:25 +0000

Anyone who thinks RA3 has been raped by EA into being some stupid game made for console kiddies for the sake of profit needs to jump off the anti-EA bandwagon and play RA2 again, ESPECIALLY Yuri’s Revenge.

Grey hulk mutants who smash tanks apart with their bare hands, sentient dolphins with sound attack, mind controlled squids, double-barrelled supertanks with anti-air missiles, flying saucers, commando units that can teleport across the map and use a ray gun to make buildings vanish into thin air, a campaign mission fought on the fucking MOON, a tank that’s main weapon is LIGHT, robotic spiders, tanks that shoot lighting bolts, soldiers who attack people with their mind, a tank that lifts other tanks into the air using a purple magnetron beam, and tanks with gigantic psychic brains inside a glass bubble.

EALA is only following the example Westwood theirselves have made for them.

By: CannedLizard

CannedLizard — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:36:01 +0000

Coming soon, the thrilling Red Alert vs Nextwave CROSSOVER!

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:42:37 +0000

The real question is, will I have to use strategy, or will this be “SPAM SOME SHIT HOLMES,” like C&C has been for awhile now…

Still, Parachuting Armored Bears is the coolest thing ever.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:43:58 +0000

Very dreadful, and that’s not even counting the little nitpick that’s bugging me, which I’ll go into later. If a small localization firm can find a talent agency employing a 50-year-old voice actress who can convincingly portray a teenager (or younger), then a development studio inside a massive corporate empire should be able to do the same. Jennifer Hale, this one ain’t.

On the topic of pronouncing Yuriko, and many other three-syllable Japanese names where the syllable isn’t a nasal-end sound (as represented by “-n.”)

You don’t stress the middle syllable. Heck, you’re not supposed to stress *any* syllable. But if you must stress a syllable, then at least stress the first one. You can pass that off as an accent quirk, because the actual accent quirk–the middle-stress–winds up sounding cringe-worthy, even to people who share your accent.

Well, I guess the annoying bits about the Japanese side outweighs the coolness of the Soviet side for me. Frowns all around, here.

(Oh, and the 50-year-old voice actress bit wasn’t about Ms. Hale, I was actually referring to Rebecca Forstadt. But most gamers would recognize the former as far as talent goes.)

By: Eyemessiah

Eyemessiah — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:00:03 +0000

That is some dreadful voice acting.