C&C: Red Alert 3 is coming.

Sephirius · Post by **Sephirius** » 2008-02-14 05:36pm

Fuck this shit and color me unexcited. This is bullshit, I hated RA2 and every C&C game since, especially for these cartoony looking units.

World in Conflict was a better 'Red Alert' game than 2 and its addons.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2008-02-14 06:42pm

The graphics do look remarkably shitty at this point.

KlavoHunter · Post by **KlavoHunter** » 2008-02-14 07:12pm

Sephirius wrote:Fuck this shit and color me unexcited. This is bullshit, I hated RA2 and every C&C game since, especially for these cartoony looking units.

World in Conflict was a better 'Red Alert' game than 2 and its addons.

True enough, man. Even Tiberian Sun was mediocre and sucked, so it's safe to say that the last really great C&C game was.... Red Alert 1.

I'd say that I hoped that RA3 could regain the greatness of RA1, but, fuck it, it's EA. They have some sort of reverse Midas' Touch - everything they get their hands on turns to shit.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2008-02-14 07:27pm

TC Pilot wrote:Where do they keep getting this asinine idea that the Soviet Union was low tech?

Where are YOU getting that asinine idea? What about the USSR in the Red Alert timeline seems low-tech? The fact that their buildings are made out of iron and brick instead of ZOMG advanced! surgical steel?

I suspect the United States didn't get involved until late, and much like in World War I, was integral in rollling back the Soviet advance.

The US was heavily involved in the postwar reconstruction of Russia and Western Europe. The economic supremacy probably translated into political supremacy sometime in the 60s. By then the USSR really was a US puppet state. This is why the "Soviet" premier is actually heir to the royal family and, like Stalin before him, more reminiscent of an imperial tsar than a democratically elected official. He was a dictator, but he was "our" dictator. Operative word, "was".

KlavoHunter · Post by **KlavoHunter** » 2008-02-14 07:34pm

The explanation for why the Soviet Union rises and takes on the world a THIRD time, and why Japan is a major power...

Time travel.

If this were any other game I'd call "Lame!", but THIS IS RED ALERT!

Screenshots looks like mod for C&C3 but most of journalist on December presentation was pretty wondered of a quality of the game. Russian journalist said that it is one of the first innovation RTS game for the last time. Cool mix of units present in the game also.

* Units:cyberbear-paratroopers
* samurais with laser sabers
* airfighter-transformer
* Japan soldiers with HUGE plasmogun, but this unit also have a cap (hat) which provide shield field and allow for digging
* Mirage-tanks

* Factions:Alliance
* Soviet Union
* Japan (Ja-pan , who still can`t believe)

Storyline:
Red Alert 3 will begun recently after the win under USSR, Kremlin on the fire and Russians decide to .... turn on Time Machine !!!! For killing Einstein and corrupting all Alliance plans. When the expedition return (Einstein was captured) to "home" (present time), they understand that Kremlin is fine, Alliance are pretty weak and. Whatafucк - new Empire was born ------- JAPAN !

* Developers:Chris Corry - producer
* Amer Ajami - producer

* Multiplayer:Mode: Cooperative (play campaign with your mate) with GENERALS system (ZH, KW)

Demo already exist.

* Platforms:PC
* Xbox 360
* PS3

* Engine:Improved version of Sage for C&C3
* Physics building destruction, particle system

* Vido:Actors
* 190 minutes of video
* Comedy genre of the video

Phillip Hone · Post by **Phillip Hone** » 2008-02-14 07:35pm

Heh, judging from the screen shots, I think they're over doing the sci fi part of the game.

KlavoHunter · Post by **KlavoHunter** » 2008-02-14 07:37pm

After a seven-year hiatus, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced the return of Red Alert, one of the most beloved and best-selling real time strategy (RTS) series of all time. Command & Conquer™: Red Alert™ 3, for the PC, Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system and the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, takes players on an epic adventure to a breathtaking alternate future spawned by time travel run amok . Developed by EA Los Angeles, Red Alert 3 breaks new ground in the RTS genre, featuring a fully co-operative campaign while bringing back the series’ light-hearted style and classic, action-oriented gameplay.

“The Red Alert games are known for challenging hardcore strategy gamers with depth, variety, and innovative gameplay. But they also belong to that rare breed of games that can draw in more casual players with their over-the-top stories, instantly accessible mechanics, and straight-to-the-fun design,” said Mike Verdu, General Manager of EALA. “With Red Alert 3, our team is continuing that proud tradition by introducing genre-first features like co-operative campaign play, which rewards veterans and casual players alike. In Red Alert 3, friends and family can always have your back!”

“It’s been too long.” said Chris Corry, Executive Producer at EALA. “Fans have been waiting for a new Red Alert game for seven years, and we’re working hard to ensure its well worth the wait. The team is staying true to the series’ roots while adding new elements like a co-operatively played story-driven campaign, an astounding new faction that will shake-up the Red Alert universe as we know it, and units that will help make Red Alert 3 everything our fans have been waiting for. And by bringing naval combat into the heart of the game design, we’re transporting that fast, fun and fluid C&C gameplay to the high-seas in ways that you’ve never seen before.”

In Red Alert 3, 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.

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.

Command & Conquer fans eager to experience Red Alert 3 before anyone else can get early access to the beta1 by picking up a copy of Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath or the Command & Conquer 3 Limited Collection later this year.

For fans of Red Alert and Command & Conquer, EA hosts a dedicated online Web cast that goes beyond the game and brings players all the latest series news, tips and strategies. The flagship show, BattleCastTM Primetime, is a unique program that offers a sportscast look and feel for featured fan multiplayer matches, including expert commentary. Command & Conquer, BattleCast Primetime can be seen on the official Command & Conquer website http://www.commandandconquer.com/.

This product is not yet rated by the ESRB, PEGI or USK. For more information about Red Alert 3 or the Command & Conquer series, please visit www.RedAlert3.com.

Invictus ChiKen · Post by **Invictus ChiKen** » 2008-02-14 08:01pm

Japan as a faction.... Is it wrong that all I can think about is ZOMG anime wank?

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2008-02-14 08:04pm

No, since it seems to be the general idea of their faction based on the laser-samurai and transforming airplanes.

Pint0 Xtreme · Post by **Pint0 Xtreme** » 2008-02-14 08:43pm

Sweet! I loved Red Alert 2. For some reason, World in Conflict, in contrast, bored me to no end. I didn't even finish the demo before taking it off my computer. However, I didn't play a lot of Red Alert 1 back in the day and didn't get far in it when I did try it out considering how much it "sucked" compared to Red Alert 2. If Red Alert 3 is following Red Alert 2's style, I might just be a few inches away from being sold. Die Waffen Legt An!

Post by **Vympel** » 2008-02-14 09:21pm

Armored Bears!!!! FWAR.

They must've taken that Soviet Bear Cavalry thing to heart.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2008-02-14 09:29pm

Vympel wrote:Armored Bears!!!! FWAR.

They must've taken that Soviet Bear Cavalry thing to heart.

Those totally should be Soviet troops. With Tanks.

TC Pilot · Post by **TC Pilot** » 2008-02-14 10:40pm

Darth Raptor wrote:Where are YOU getting that asinine idea? What about the USSR in the Red Alert timeline seems low-tech? The fact that their buildings are made out of iron and brick instead of ZOMG advanced! surgical steel?

KlavoHunter quoted an article saying "Soviet are numerous and not so high tech (just call'em low tech, Arnie)." And, among other things, the hordes of badly-armed conscripts in Red Alert 2 imply the "ZOMG quantity over quality" stereotype.

Of course, this is all a moot point if the rumors about more time travel are true.

ray245 · Post by **ray245** » 2008-02-15 01:28am

I love to see more AMV.

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2008-02-15 02:06am

TC Pilot wrote:
Darth Raptor wrote:Where are YOU getting that asinine idea? What about the USSR in the Red Alert timeline seems low-tech? The fact that their buildings are made out of iron and brick instead of ZOMG advanced! surgical steel?
KlavoHunter quoted an article saying "Soviet are numerous and not so high tech (just call'em low tech, Arnie)." And, among other things, the hordes of badly-armed conscripts in Red Alert 2 imply the "ZOMG quantity over quality" stereotype.

Of course, this is all a moot point if the rumors about more time travel are true.

Of course, the Allies are the only ones to have anything even resembling time travel devices. Chronosphere, Time Machine, Chrono Tank, Chrono... soldier?

I figured it's a 'So the Soviets stole the Time Machine again to win WW3 or the Yuri War EVEN BETTER than the Allies did in YR, then mess things up.'

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2008-02-16 02:46pm

I am totally with Skimmer and TC. RA1 was the king of all awesome. I hate this goofy-shit interpretation. And transforming tanks? Laser-swords? Amphibious battleships? Give me a fucking break.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2008-02-16 03:45pm

The Japan side is a pretty transparent deference to the retardedly popular "oh your game only has two sides LOL STARCRAFT > YOU" mentality.

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2008-02-16 04:02pm

Uraniun235 wrote:The Japan side is a pretty transparent deference to the retardedly popular "oh your game only has two sides LOL STARCRAFT > YOU" mentality.

Or every single CNC game since RA2 have had 3 sides

Yuri's Revenge, Generals, CNC3...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-02-16 04:13pm

RA1, being the first true game I got on my first ever PC for my birthday back in December '96 has a permanent place in my heart. It sucked a LOT of my life away, especially after I found people at school and got the Internet the year after. It was, not to put too fine a point on it, awesome and the only way it can be improved is if it comes out on the DS with full Wi-Fi compatibility. If they can do Advance Wars, they can do this.

RA2 I never got. I knew people had fun with it, given the LAN parties I saw at college, but the tongue-in-cheek approach ruined the story set up in RA and that would obviously lead on to Tiberian Dawn and later Tiberian Sun and C&C3.

I never got C&C3, though that was down to my PC which can only just play large maps of Generals without dying.

I remain fairly apathetic. I think Westwood lost their way in the late '90s and EA buying them and their veteran staff leaving to greener pastures was the death knell.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2008-02-16 05:21pm

Sephirius wrote:Fuck this shit and color me unexcited. This is bullshit, I hated RA2 and every C&C game since, especially for these cartoony looking units.

World in Conflict was a better 'Red Alert' game than 2 and its addons.

I can’t share you hatred of all pf the recent C&C games, but I certainly agree that WiC is a better place to build from then they are. I’d fucking love to see that game turned into an RTS, and hell if you wanted you could still keep an option for the original multiplayer game mode.

Medic · Post by **Medic** » 2008-02-16 07:41pm

KlavoHunter wrote:The explanation for why the Soviet Union rises and takes on the world a THIRD time, and why Japan is a major power...

Time travel.

If this were any other game I'd call "Lame!", but THIS IS RED ALERT!

Your 1st instinct's usually the right one, chief.

Sidewinder · Post by **Sidewinder** » 2008-02-17 04:17pm

I like RTSs, but I prefer units that look more technically feasible. The frigate with tank treads (I suspect it has paper-thin armor, like all amphibious vehicles), the Allied tank with four treads that aren't arranged in a square (I suspect it can't turn in place like conventional tanks), the Soviet gunboat with the Tesla Coil (wouldn't rocket artillery be a better idea?), the samurai with laser sabers... It sounds like something out of a ten-year-old's daydreams, NOT something a real-world military would get.

Thanas · Post by **Thanas** » 2008-02-17 09:53pm

Pint0 Xtreme wrote:Die Waffen Legt An!

German speak you?

Sephirius · Post by **Sephirius** » 2008-02-17 10:07pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Sephirius wrote:Fuck this shit and color me unexcited. This is bullshit, I hated RA2 and every C&C game since, especially for these cartoony looking units.

World in Conflict was a better 'Red Alert' game than 2 and its addons.
I can’t share you hatred of all pf the recent C&C games, but I certainly agree that WiC is a better place to build from then they are. I’d fucking love to see that game turned into an RTS, and hell if you wanted you could still keep an option for the original multiplayer game mode.

You mean you don't consider WiC to be an RTS? I must be living in a parallel universe or something, I think it's a shining example of the genre.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2008-02-17 10:19pm

Sephirius wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:
Sephirius wrote:Fuck this shit and color me unexcited. This is bullshit, I hated RA2 and every C&C game since, especially for these cartoony looking units.

World in Conflict was a better 'Red Alert' game than 2 and its addons.
I can’t share you hatred of all pf the recent C&C games, but I certainly agree that WiC is a better place to build from then they are. I’d fucking love to see that game turned into an RTS, and hell if you wanted you could still keep an option for the original multiplayer game mode.
You mean you don't consider WiC to be an RTS? I must be living in a parallel universe or something, I think it's a shining example of the genre.

I think he means a "standard" RTS, with the base building and resource gathering. I'd consider it an action-RTS. And yes, it's a shining example of the genre. I just want a sequel or expansion NOW.