Red Alert 3 worth it???

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#1 jaybay723
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I have heard good and bad reviews from this game? I was wondering if its a good rts game.

Btw, I played the demo but I still cant judge the game if its worth my money.

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#2 cobrax75
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Its worth it just for the story + cutscenes....the gameplay isnt anything special...but the story and everything is really entertaining.
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#3 teardropmina
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self-conscious campy, with most colorful units in recent RTS and full of imagination...if you don't mind the intended silliness, a must get.

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#4 Jinroh_basic
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it's everything i wanted it to be and more. like what teardrop said, it fully inherits the series hallmark campiness and imaginative style. more importantly, there's a surprising layer of strategic depth to the gameplay. you have to play it to see it. it's anything but the "generic" and "shallow" rts that every nay-sayer ( who happens to never actually played the game ) claims it to be.
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I really like the story and campy lore of the game. The actural game tho is nothing to write home about. I found it stale quite fast. atleast better then sup comm, if that anything to go after.

I guess Ive been spoiled by Blizzard and Relic :(

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self-conscious campy, with most colorful units in recent RTS and full of imagination...if you don't mind the intended silliness, a must get.

teardropmina

i like how Tim Curry bops his head rhythmically while speaking, wolfish grin and all. :D

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#7 F1_2004
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I played the game and it is generic, but the cutscenes and story are worth seeing.
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Despite what the people who don't play the game tell you its rather fun and the meta game has evolved rather fast with many BO's for different maps. In comparison to CoH where German players are still doing medi-bunker spam against the Allies. Yeah I would say there is more depth to RA3 than that.
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I played the game and it is generic, but the cutscenes and story are worth seeing.F1_2004

compared to? it has 3 distinctly different yet perfectly balanced factions, with a myriad of strategic approaches available to you if you're really good at it. i would go as far as saying, in terms of what the traditional top down military rts has to offer, RA3 is as good as the genre can be.

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#10 Jinroh_basic
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another impressive thing about RA3 is its AI. i'm not saying it's perfect, coz no AI could ever be. but if you have seen another rts game in which bomber would detour around your AA defensive perimeter AFTER spotting it and waste the rear, you can come back and let me know RA3's AI is generic. and check this out -- there was a bunch of allied soldiers who tricked my Kirov airships into bombing my own base by running through it.
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#11 jaybay723
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Thanks, probably might buy this on steam sometime this weekend.

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#12 marcom
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I am a huge fan of Red Alert 2 and the community behind it, so there was a lot of expectations coming into Red Alert 3. I have to say they were mostly fulfilled and there's an expansion coming out now that should take care of some of the bugs this game has. It's nice to see that the units have a refreshing updated look to them, but they're still the same from RA2, with a dash of new units. The cut scenes, cast, weapons upgrades, storyline are all great reasons to buy this game now, but what got me to buy the game was the familiar updated gameplay. The only gripe I have is the pathfinding in this game is a bit out of wack. It's not going to ruin the game, but it could piss you off sometimes when you tell your units to go to the left and they all decide to find 10 different ways to get there ahhhhh! All in all go buy RA3, because it's worth it!
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Red Alert 1 was still the only one that's worth a serious taking from me, IMO. Red Alert 2 didn't expect me to take it seriously, so I didn't. As a result, my experience with the game quickly degenerated into bored tricks and cheap laughs (one hovercraft + five demo trucks + Crazy Ivan bombs + wait a while before deploying = hilarious.) And Red Alert 3' s kinda the same. The whole experience quickly degenerated into Hammer plus what equals what experiments, swarms of Molotov-chucking Conscripts, and ripping up bases with a psycho schoolgirl. But hey, they're fun, and that's all that matters, so both RA2 and RA3 have my wholehearted recommendations. Just explaining why neither rank among my top 10 RTSs.
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#14 Never-less
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I'm a big fan of RA3. I play it alot, regularly with a team online, the microing involved is quite entertaining.
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#15 wigginender
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Good game except for the japaenese school girls...;)
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#16 dannyw7982
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[QUOTE="Maddie_Larkin"]

I really like the story and campy lore of the game. The actural game tho is nothing to write home about. I found it stale quite fast. atleast better then sup comm, if that anything to go after.

I guess Ive been spoiled by Blizzard and Relic :(

Better than supcom?, wth have you been smoking??? Madness aside i am an avid rts gamer and so try most and if you liked the other redalert games you will like this. Like many have said, the story is one of the main strenghts of any c&c game and RA3 doesn't dissapoint.
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#17 Kolossi
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RA3 is definetly worth it. A whole lot more balanced than C&C3 and IMO much more fun, RA3 is nearing the same level of enjoyment as Westwood made C&C's.

If EA puts their back into it slightly more in the next C&C, we might even have a Westwood-era -like C&C.