Those of you who have knowledge of the Red Alert series (or any command and conquer game, really) will know just how mad the whole thing is. Starting, of course with the over the top acting, then proceeding with weird units and fake science that would make Russel T. Davies blush. For some people, this has always been part of the charm, rolling their eyes knowingly at the total surrealness of it all.
But it seems Red Alert 3 wants to kick it up a notch...
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38591.html
BAM!
It's insane. It's snooker-loopy. It's batshit bonkers.
I will always wonder about this. Starting with the various lieutenants who still haven't managed to do their tops up properly. It seemed pretty impractical in Red Alert 2, with Lt. Zofia creaking whenever she moved in her spandex catsuit, but at least it seemed like some kind of possible alternate-timeline thing. But now her replacement seems to have decided that she needs to save as much material as possible for the war effort. Maybe the Soviet army has a somewhat lax dress code.
Of course, this pales in comparison to the whole actor allocation. The cheese sure is thick on the ground here. No, I refuse to take Johnathan Pryce seriously as my superior in the command structure. And pause the linked video at 1:25. Apparently your assisstant in directing the full military force of America will be a ten year old girl. Seems like I will never run out of giggles when playing this, quoting the other roles the actors have been in. Oh yes, and could someone explain why they've hired a Marilyn Monroe look alike to play Tanya? Last time, she seemed more like a cheap knock off of Lara Croft, right down to the dual-wielding pistols. I just want to know where ahe found a hair curler.
Yes it's crazy, but it's infectious; ths game is being released on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. And for whatever reason, I keep on getting the urge to buy it for the Xbox 360. "But GeoDaSponge!" I say to myself "That's insane! Even someone who's as much of a fanboy as you will recognise that playing an RTS on a console is like trying to read a book while wearing boxing gloves". As in, fine when you're just processing a single section or task, but when you try to do the next bit it all goes pear shaped.
My path of thought seems to be: Red Alert 3 is crazy, and aware of this. So therfore it should be played in the most crazy (yet aware) manner possible.
What do you think?
But it seems Red Alert 3 wants to kick it up a notch...
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/38591.html
BAM!
It's insane. It's snooker-loopy. It's batshit bonkers.
I will always wonder about this. Starting with the various lieutenants who still haven't managed to do their tops up properly. It seemed pretty impractical in Red Alert 2, with Lt. Zofia creaking whenever she moved in her spandex catsuit, but at least it seemed like some kind of possible alternate-timeline thing. But now her replacement seems to have decided that she needs to save as much material as possible for the war effort. Maybe the Soviet army has a somewhat lax dress code.
Of course, this pales in comparison to the whole actor allocation. The cheese sure is thick on the ground here. No, I refuse to take Johnathan Pryce seriously as my superior in the command structure. And pause the linked video at 1:25. Apparently your assisstant in directing the full military force of America will be a ten year old girl. Seems like I will never run out of giggles when playing this, quoting the other roles the actors have been in. Oh yes, and could someone explain why they've hired a Marilyn Monroe look alike to play Tanya? Last time, she seemed more like a cheap knock off of Lara Croft, right down to the dual-wielding pistols. I just want to know where ahe found a hair curler.
Yes it's crazy, but it's infectious; ths game is being released on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. And for whatever reason, I keep on getting the urge to buy it for the Xbox 360. "But GeoDaSponge!" I say to myself "That's insane! Even someone who's as much of a fanboy as you will recognise that playing an RTS on a console is like trying to read a book while wearing boxing gloves". As in, fine when you're just processing a single section or task, but when you try to do the next bit it all goes pear shaped.
My path of thought seems to be: Red Alert 3 is crazy, and aware of this. So therfore it should be played in the most crazy (yet aware) manner possible.
What do you think?
