Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2008-11-11
Publication Date: 2008-11
Brand: Electronic Arts
Feature:
・Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 for the Xbox 360 brings back the fan-favorite real-time strategy game
・The Soviets created a time-travel device which creates interesting plot twists
・Play as the Allies, the Soviets, or the Empire of the Rising Sun
・Red Alert 3 has land units, air units, and naval units, all integral parts of the game
・Cooperative campaign and head-to-head multiplayer modes provide hours of fun gameplay
Sales Rank: 2270
Customer Review Summary (Average Rating : 3.5 / 5.0)
・Crappy game play and overrated cut scenes
・Awesome Gaming...
・Good game
・Great fun
・Welcome back commander
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$9.20Editorial Review
Red Alert 3 asks the question "What If?" What if every bizarre research project and technology experiment for the last 70 years had actually borne fruit? What if the Philadelphia Experiment, time travel theory, teleportation, invisibility, Tesla technology, and a hundred other intriguing research projects had all paid off and gone mainstream? What if the Soviet Union survived and thrived; what would it look like 10 years in the future? What if the Japanese Empire had never fallen and instead became the ultimate high-tech military superpower? The end result is an imaginative and playful vision of an alternate future filled with possibility. The desperate leadership of a doomed Soviet Union travels back in time to change history and restore the glory of Mother Russia. The time travel mission goes awry, creating an alternate timeline where technology has followed an entirely different evolution, a new superpower has been thrust on to the world stage, and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun has risen in the East, making World War III a three-way struggle between the Soviets, the Allies, and the Empire with armies fielding wacky and wonderful weapons and technologies like Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation, armored bears, intelligent dolphins, floating island fortresses, and transforming tanks.
Editorial Review
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 from EA brings back the fan-favorite real-time strategy game with new features, powers, technologies, and a different world, all for the Xbox 360. In this newest version, you can play not just by yourself but also cooperatively with a friend as you take on the enemy in this glorious, over-the-top romp.
Co-operative mode lets you and a friend play together in campaign mode. View larger. |
Wage battle on sea as well as on land and in air. View larger. |
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 | Players:
Offline: 1-2
Online: 1-4
game play Modes:
Single player offline, multiplayer online cooperative, multiplayer competitive.
Video Format:
16:9 Widescreen on HDTV 480p/720p/1080i/1080p
Audio:
In-Game Dolby Digital |  | |
Intriguing Plot Twists In previous games, the war between the Allies and Soviets was coming to a close with the Allies nearing victory. In desperation, the Soviets created a time-travel device that they've used to assassinate Albert Einstein before he is able to develop the weapon technology the Allies later use to defeat the Soviets. Upon returning, they notice a new world, and there is a world war taking place between three groups for control of the world.
Red Alert 3 continues Command and Conquer's tradition of using live-action video scenes to tell the story. Presented in beautiful, high-definition video, Red Alert 3 features of an hour of footage with the largest cast ever assembled in the franchise. Play As Three Different Factions for Varied game play
In Red Alert 3, you have the choice to play as the Allies, the Soviets, or the Empire of the Rising Sun. Each faction has its own story-line and distinct units with advantages and disadvantages that you have to master in order to win. The new faction to the series is the Empire of the Rising Sun, derived from Imperial Japan, with an all-new cast of units and characters.
The three factions have many differences, which is exemplified by their wildly different types of units. The Soviets, for example, have armored attack bears, Allies have the Dolphin ship which can high jump and use a sonic attack, and the Empire of the Rising Sun features such quirky units as a giant transforming mecha and ninjas. As they've done with the series, EA injects humor into the game when possible, keeping a smile on your face as you wage war.
Fight on Land, in the Air, and on Sea
Red Alert 3 has land units, air units, and naval units, all integral parts of the game. Unlike most strategy games that don't bother with naval warfare, Red Alert 3 makes controlling the seas an essential part of the game. Controlling resources in the seas and mounting attacks from all directions are strategies that must be employed to achieve victory.
Cooperative Mode Lets You Team Up with Your Friends
Red Alert 3 has a fully co-operative campaign mode where you and a friend can play together to achieve victory. This means that you have to develop a strategy together, as well as execute it in synch in order to win. If your friends aren't online, you can also choose one of several AI commanders as your teammate.
Play Against Your Friends in Multiplayer
With the different units and play mechanics of each faction, you and your friends will have a great time playing against each other, perfecting different strategies to best suit the units you have and the maps you play on. And thanks to the balanced game play, no one will have an unfair advantage.
Innovative Interface for Xbox 360
Real-time strategy games have traditionally been the PC gamer's domain, but thanks to a new and enhanced version the CommandStick interface implemented in Red Alert 3, Xbox 360 gamers will have a control scheme that offers the speed and efficiency of the keyboard and mouse.
For previous fans of Command and Conquer, Red Alert 3 will provide the same light-hearted game play, but with more units, more strategies, and more fun. Newcomers to the game will soon see what all the fuss and laughter is about.
Customer ReviewsCrappy game play and overrated cut scenes2 / 5.0
Having heard all of the bashings on RTS games for consoles, I was not expecting much. However, this game was impossible to play. I plowed through a dozen missions just because 1) I like Tim Curry and 2) there was a lot of cleavage in the cut scenes. Unfortunately, the novelty soon wore off and I plan on never ever playing this game again.
Awesome Gaming...5 / 5.0
Product received as expected and in the condition expected. The game play was well worth the purchase.
Good game3 / 5.0
This game is very fun if you like real time strategy games. I rated it three stars only because of the online game joining interface. When you search for a game, it's sort of like a crap shoot because it places you in rooms automatically. It would be so much better if you could actually see, pick, and choose which game session you'd like to join. A lot of time is spent searching for games because it just dumps you into a room you don't want to play in.
Great fun5 / 5.0
I have been a long time RTS player on the PC and played and mastered skirmishes in games like AOE, AOM, Star Wars RTS, Red Alert 2 among others. This game stands its own among these. I would say compared to these games on the PC, options like number of factions, or unit types, or even buildings are few. Also resource collection in the Red Alert series is lame (have only one type of resource and an ore collector - most probably there will be a resource crunch throughout). Having said that I would still highly recommend this game for the skill level and the fun factor. The factions are very well thought out and designed. The graphics are great too. This game requires channelling all the resources to the war! So beware and be ready...
Welcome back commander5 / 5.0
Like the other command and conquers on a console , you use the command stick . There are 3 campaines , and each faction gets many units . Unlike other RTS titles water combat is well implimented . Fans of the series should recignize the trade mark silliness and the silly acting . The special powers , are aquired like in Generals .
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