Is it just me or is Red Alert 3 a joke?

[KiKiweaky]

After buying my copy of Red Alert 3 from gamestop I went home expecting to gorge on the game for the entire weekend. When I started playing it I was let down big time, I did get it for the xbox so that might have something to do with it as the command interface for building, using unit powers etc causes major headaches. Also the cover was a wee bit off putting as it reminds me of Freedom Force a game that was good but was ya know, a laugh! Red Alert doesnt really seem to take itself seriously anymore. And having "big names" from the acting scene doesnt really effect me as I couldnt really care who does the cutscenes.

I'm embaressed to say it but my mum is quoted as saying "That looks like super Mario" after she said that I just turned it off and didnt have the heart to tell her that it had cost me 30 quid :\

So now i have the game on me atm and will be returning it on the way home. Just posted to find out that other people thought about it. My friends brother has the gma e for pc which I mite try at a later date.

 

[Mr_spamamam]

its better on pc. for the ease of control at least, cant speak for the graphics as i havent seen them for the xbox. personally i've always thought that stratagy games are a bugger to control on the consoles. pc for stratagy games and consoles for fps games. suppose you could split the difference for rpgs

 

[Antiparticle]

I'm playing a lot of Red Alert 3 on the 360 lately and I'm really enjoying it! But I admit, there are indeed a lot of button combinations in the game. LB + B, RB + A + A, LB (hold) + A, LB + A (hold), LB (hold) + A (hold), RB + X, well, it's a very long list, just check the first pages of the manual. But as soon as you learn those combinations (or at least the more important ones) it plays quite well. But I know RA3 is not so well received, I think it got like 7.0-ish scores on the big sites, so that's not so grand. But I really like it, maybe cause C&C is one of my favorite game series.

I do wonder in what way Red Alert 3 looks like Super Mario though, even to a mom!

 

[Brett Alex]

What exactly was the "joke" part of it?

 

[Gestapo Hunter]

i would love to play this game if it wasnt for secure rom

 

[S.H.A.R.P.]

Red Alert 1 was for me the best RTS in it's time. Red Alert 2 was very entertaining I think. Red Alert 3 just pushed the line though. All those cuddly colours and fluffy units :/ I just can't take it seriously any more. I played it on the PC, can't imagine it being any better on a console.

pc for stratagy games and consoles for fps games. suppose you could split the difference for rpgs

Hmm FPS on consoles.. To be honest, I never tried it, but I can't imagine playing for example UT2004 with a gamepad. I mean, how do you aim? Perhaps with a slower paced pause-able game like Mass Effect it is do-able. A bit off-topic though sorry...

 

[Ronwue]

It's a rental. Not worth buying really. Red alert stopped for me after Yuri's revenge.

 

[KiKiweaky]

After buying my copy of Red Alert 3 from gamestop I went home expecting to gorge on the game for the entire weekend. When I started playing it I was let down big time, I did get it for the xbox so that might have something to do with it as the command interface for building, using unit powers etc causes major headaches. Also the cover was a wee bit off putting as it reminds me of Freedom Force a game that was good but was ya know, a laugh! Red Alert doesnt really seem to take itself seriously anymore. And having "big names" from the acting scene doesnt really effect me as I couldnt really care who does the cutscenes.

I'm embaressed to say it but my mum is quoted as saying "That looks like super Mario" after she said that I just turned it off and didnt have the heart to tell her that it had cost me 30 quid :\

So now i have the game on me atm and will be returning it on the way home. Just posted to find out that other people thought about it. My friends brother has the gma e for pc which I mite try at a later date.

Cool. You still buy and play what you think would be acceptable to your parents? Get headphones, shut yourself in a room and enjoy. Same goes for music or anything else.

I suppose you actually never played RA 2, since it didn't take itself seriously too, but was considered a classic. Acording to RA fans, Red Alert 3 is excellent. I played the second one and therefore know from the firsthand that it wasn't serious.

I had c&c and c&c red alert on the playstation1 so i have played RA2 thanks, RA2 may not have been as rigid as the other games but it didnt have anything like the russian apc that can launch infantry from its back, or a massive stompy samurai robots walking around. I actually laughed when I saw that in the opening of the game.

Red alert on the console was fine as it was simple and units didnt have any unique abilities, I played all the other one's I have the first decade edition now for pc.(playstation died years ago)

As for me "buying whats acceptable by my parents" haha I was merely saying that even to her the game looked bad.

I will try it on the pc as it should be alot easier to handle, dont think I'm going to get my hopes up though

 

[Silver]

This is a good case of didn't do the research. Red Alert 1 was a great game, a serious war game depicting an interesting, thought-provoking twist on history.

The expansion packs for it got less and less serious. The sequel, Red Alert 2 was a parody. Still a pretty great game, but not the serious war game we knew and loved. It was a parody. Red Alert 3 promised to take that even further, and make everything even more ridiculous, and when they hired underwear models to do the cutscenes everyone should have known this wasn't the same game anymore.

It's supposed to be a joke. That's just the thing, they spent more money on making it ridiculous than they did making it a good game, the opposite was the only thing that made Red Alert 2 passable.

 

[zeroyourpunctuation]

I don't know about any of you guys but I love Red Alert 3 I try to play it whenever I get free time and it always seems to entertain me. I will agree that is pretty anoying when a computer drops a nuke right on your head but still thats what happens in real war right.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Cool. You still buy and play what you think would be acceptable to your parents? Get headphones, shut yourself in a room and enjoy. Same goes for music or anything else.

I don't think he actually said that he only plays games they approve...He just said his mom walked in.

 

[KeithA45]

Admittedly I've been a huge fan of the Red Alert series from the start and Red Alert 3 is kinda a let-down. It's just not the same for me

 

[KiKiweaky]

ye same I must say I'm really disapointed with it.

 

[Hamsterlad]

Read Alert 2 is still the best

 

[Archaon6044]

it's not just you, i tried the demos on both the PC and 360, and played the PC version at a mates house, and the first thing that always kicked me in the ehad was the sense that the whole thing had become somehow....... almost comical, and not actually funny. the whole thing just felt rediculous, espeically after the greatness of it's predecessors

 

[bor3ds0ul]

I think it was meant to be a joke. Like Tf2, EA from the start made the storyline and units wacky

 

[Elurindel]

Not liking the current Red Alert games for not being serious is like not liking Taco Bell for not being authentic Mexican food.

Also, playing strategy games, especially micromanagement-happy Red Alert 3 on the 360 is like trying to assemble a ship out of matches with one arm, while drunk, full of caffeine, and possibly lobotomised.

Try it out for the PC. I promise it's much better.