In this mission, all you do is direct a robot from one point to the next and watch it smash things. Provided a sizeable community builds behind Red Alert 3, you could easily find a lot of replayablity in the online multiplayer games.
Thankfully, each of the three factions appears to be balanced well and each is interesting and unique enough that the skirmishes can be a nice, quick and intense RTS clash. You can play a free-for-all or with teams with various starting conditions for money across over 20 maps, but that's it as far as customizing your game goes.
There's just a straight skirmish, playable by up to four players. The versus modes are less restrictive, but don't offer the different types of game objectives that past C&C games on the Xbox 360 have. There's no option to search for other random players, so if you don't have friends with Red Alert 3 this feature will be closed off to you. For some reason, you can only invite friends to play with you. Playing the campaign cooperatively is a lot more fun than having to rely on a sometimes iffy AI companion, but it does have its limitations. I've found the AI to be a bit lacking and the easiest way around that is to play with humans. You can play through the campaign alone or skirmish against up to three AI opponents offline, but the most fun comes when playing online with a friend through the campaign or in four player skirmishes. For most people, the online play will be where they find the best of what Red Alert 3 has to offer. It's a lighthearted and interesting mix of units and each faction has its own distinct strengths that make them worth using. The Imperials can call in kamikaze planes, the Soviets have a power called the Iron Curtain that offers an indestructible shield for a brief period of time, and the allies have Jenny McCarthy as the commando Tanya. The cutscenes and overall presentation are a lot of fun and the units and powers each faction sport are so wacky they're great. It's a shame that the campaign often ranged from dull to annoying in terms of gameplay.
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At best it's just annoying to lose full control. This puts you at a sore disadvantage at worst. The trouble is that Red Alert 3 doesn't pause the action and the face takes the place of your mini-map. Faces often pop up mid-game to threaten or praise you. The live cutscenes are hilarious in a b-movie kind of way.Īnd while I enjoy the live-action cutscenes that made me laugh more than once, Red Alert 3 sometimes takes this idea a bit too far. Rather than adding variety to the gameplay, they add dull and boring sections. Too often, Red Alert 3 relies on mission objectives that simply involve following orders to jump through hoops or directing one small group of units around the battlefield to attack specific targets. The mission design very often kills the fun. In fact, if it weren't for the goofy and fun cutscenes and wacky units on the field, I wouldn't have found any reason to keep playing. This mediocrity is indicative of the entire campaign which didn't impress me. It's also annoying because you share resources with them. Other times the objective would be to attack a naval base and my co-commander would be busy building up an army of infantry.
For example, if I asked the AI commander to attack a barracks, they would often send in planes that could only attack other air units. I found the AI often had trouble deciding which units were fit for a job. You can deliver basic directives to your AI partner and they'll listen with some degree of intelligence, or you can just let them do their own thing. If you don't have any friends, or just prefer to not have them mess up your game, Red Alert 3 provides an AI co-commander that will take their place. The kicker is that every single mission can be played co-operatively. Each of the three factions has a 10-stage campaign to play through. It's a very tongue-in-cheek alternate history told through live action cutscenes and mid-battle updates that will entertain you in the way b-movies on the Sci-Fi channel do. The answer, according to EA, is that all women in the armed forces would wear clothes to show off as much cleavage as possible world war between the Allies, Soviets, and Japanese Imperials would continue to rage and attack bears and dolphins would play an integral part in conflicts. Like most of you, I've often sat up at night and wondered what would have happened had Soviet scientists created a time machine and then used it to go back in time and shake hands with Albert Einstein, thereby altering the entire time-space continuum.
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