Comments on: Red Alert Free

By: Larington

Larington — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:54:46 +0000

I’m still really fond of the characterisation of Nadia in this, perhaps because I so definately would if presented the opportunity.
The woman characters in RA3 are nothing compared to her, except maybe Zhana (One of your russian co-commanders).

By: Thor

Thor — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:02:17 +0000

And who cut off Kane from the picture above? As he said in the Red Alert Soviet outro: “I am the future”

By: Marius

Marius — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:10:14 +0000

The “giving Red Alert 2 if you preorder Red Alert 3″ part is wrong.

If you preorder from the link on the EA website (takes you to GameStop), you only get Red Alert 3.

I contacted GameStop, and the reply was that this is only an EA promotion.

By: Chis

Chis — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:04:33 +0000

For ANYONE trying to download this or other large files using Firefox, use Downthemall. It’s a good addon download manager, with PROPER resuming (don’t say cancel for this though, always use pause).

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:53:20 +0000

Oh, the TibSun cutscenes were dire—a load of professional actors hamming it up to truly awful scripts. Seeing the same in C&C3 is one of the reasons I never went past Generals: Zero Hour.

I actually think the C&C1 FMV was some of the best. They didn’t overact so hard, and it had Kane without plastic facemasks.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:22:41 +0000

Yeah, Tib Sun was OK, but the plot was non-existent. They spent a lot of money making disjointed cutscenes with no real direction. Would have probably cost them peanuts to hire a writer to put the plot together for them, but never mind.

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:11:55 +0000

If C&C4 has them putting up C&C2 for free, I'm expecting some interesting retrospectives on it. TibSun got a lot of (well-deserved) kicking when released, but I finally played through Firestorm recently, and—you know what?—the single-player campaigns are actually bloody good. Not least as they don't have those stupid hunter-killer drones from MP/Skirmish, which would always target your construction yard, but your enemy's lone infantryman standing in a forgotten corner. Grr. Random death is a bug, Westwood, not a feature. But the terrain is deformable and actually matters, there's some Ground-Control-ish, C&C-commando-ish baseless missions which are surprisingly open and tactical, there are some neat indirect units (e.g. limpet mines; mobile stealth that needs deploying, thereby requiring careful chaining; subterrainian APCs), and the tiberium/vinehole hazard dynamics are great. None of which SupCom can claim.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:05:25 +0000

How appropriate, we can make-believe war between America and Russia, just as actual war between America and Russia is looming on the horizon.

Of course, if the South Ossetia conflict turns out to be a massive PR stunt by EA, there’s going to be a lot of stern faces in the Hague.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:47:30 +0000

Red Alert Dos version is included.

By: ascagnel

ascagnel — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:40:28 +0000

Any word on the DOS version of C&C:RA being included? I have a MacBook as my laptop, and being able to run this in Boxer (port of DosBox) would be killer awesome.

By: RaFannie

RaFannie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:57:20 +0000

Does the cutscene stutter in this version?

By: roBurky

roBurky — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:21:22 +0000

The iso part of the download is corrupted every time I download it with firefox.

Which saddens me slightly. I never did finish either of the RA campaigns when I was little.