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Anyone have it? Since the only wussy store in my area took it off the shelves after 9/11(Bastards! They shall perish in the coming revolution!) and I don't have a credit card to order online, I had to get a friend to burn it. No movies, but works perfectly otherwise.

Kickass game.

It just so...rocks. Lots of great moments. Like, in the third Allied mission, where I built a dozen airforce bases, built 48 Harriers, and then just bombed everything Red off the map.

Great, great game.
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I've got it, but I had to take it off the comp, now, whenever I try to re-instal it, it stops halfway through the installation.
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I loved RA2 right from the first Soviet mission. What was that message from Lieutenant Zofia about three minutes into the game:

"Do not concern yourself overly with the lives of your men, comrade General..."

Dakka dakka "Agghhh!" Pompompom "M-M-Mommy!" Dakdakdakdak BOOM! "Aiieeee!!!"

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I love being the Soviets. :)
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The Soviets were so much cooler than the goody two shoes Allies.

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The original was better. Little can beat the classic Nineteen fifties WW3 senario with a leavening of late 80's technology.
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Sea Skimmer, while it was cool ... it made NO sense ... MiG-29Ms fighting alongside Yak-3s? Right .... :)
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Vympel wrote:Sea Skimmer, while it was cool ... it made NO sense ... MiG-29Ms fighting alongside Yak-3s? Right .... :)

I think there 9's, but then only once do we get a good enough look to make a call, the movie you get with Allied mission 7 has a close up of one. I can't tell. Not just MiG-29M's, but with Mavericks to boot..

One of the producers said in a interview they had intended for it to be 1950, thus Stalin and company and nukes being new, but also wanted modern technology so they just brought a few things back through time.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:
Vympel wrote:Sea Skimmer, while it was cool ... it made NO sense ... MiG-29Ms fighting alongside Yak-3s? Right .... :)

I think there 9's, but then only once do we get a good enough look to make a call, the movie you get with Allied mission 7 has a close up of one. I can't tell. Not just MiG-29M's, but with Mavericks to boot..

One of the producers said in a interview they had intended for it to be 1950, thus Stalin and company and nukes being new, but also wanted modern technology so they just brought a few things back through time.

What was the story with those double barrel tanks on the Soviet side though ... like really ... :roll:

All they needed to do was make the turret round instead of angled and hey Presto- instant Soviet tank.
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Vympel wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:
Vympel wrote:Sea Skimmer, while it was cool ... it made NO sense ... MiG-29Ms fighting alongside Yak-3s? Right .... :)

I think there 9's, but then only once do we get a good enough look to make a call, the movie you get with Allied mission 7 has a close up of one. I can't tell. Not just MiG-29M's, but with Mavericks to boot..

One of the producers said in a interview they had intended for it to be 1950, thus Stalin and company and nukes being new, but also wanted modern technology so they just brought a few things back through time.

What was the story with those double barrel tanks on the Soviet side though ... like really ... :roll:

All they needed to do was make the turret round instead of angled and hey Presto- instant Soviet tank.
While near useless in combat, multi gunned and or turreted tanks are undeniably cool. Thus there inclusion.
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