Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Premier Edition
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Premier Edition
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition from EA will delight gamers who enjoy real-time strategy games. Red Alert 3 features an intriguing story with new powers, new units, and a whole lot of fun, and fans will be thrilled with bonus material and extras such as video content and exclusive maps.
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. |
There is over an hour of in-game video. View larger. |
Red Alert 3 introduces new units and a brand new faction. View larger. |
Premier Edition Extras
Fans of the Red Alert series won’t want to miss out on the Premier Edition, which gives a ton of bonus content. A bonus DVD has more than an hour of additional video content, including a making-of documentary with a behind-the-scenes look, concept art, bloopers and outtakes from the set, and some tips directly from the development team.
Also included is the official Red Alert 3 soundtrack, five exclusive multiplayer/skirmish maps, and an exclusive beta key to a future Command and Conquer game. All of this is stored inside a collector’s tin box.
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.
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.
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.
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows XP / Vista (32-bit) |
| CPU | XP: 2.0 GHz (Intel Pentium 4; AMD Athlon 2000+; Multiple Cores) / Vista: 2.2 GHz (Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon 2200+/Multiple Cores) |
| Memory | 512 MB for Windows XP; 1 GB for Vista |
| Hard Drive Space | 6 GB / 12GB for EA Link |
| DVD Drive | 8x Speed |
| Graphics Hardware | NVIDIA GeForce 6800, ATI Radeon X1800 or higher end DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card |
| Sound | DirectX 9.0c compatible (Creative Sound Blaster Audigy cards require a Intel P4 2.6 GHz or similar under Vista, Yamaha Xwave-512 not supported) |
| Online Multiplayer | 512Kbps or faster Internet connection |
| Input | Keyboard, mouse |
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Good and not so good at the same time
The game is good as expected since I am a fan of this series. And so I am very bias at the same time. The securom is really the culprit in killing the fun for me. The start-up of the game is VERY SLOW. I have a very fast computer with the latest hardware but I guess that’s how the securom works. Its a thrill killer. And it conflicts with my firewall too. Such a HASSLE! I feel sorry for the guys who made this when it got packed with this Securom. I haven’t bought another game with Securom after this. It’s not worth the hassle. It used to be fun when you play this kind of games especially if you BOUGHT it! Now it feels like their meddling in my computer’s system as well. Somehow, it feels wrong.
1 Star Incapatable with my PC
I would have loved to play this game, but I couldn’t as my PC can’t play it. When I upgrade my PC, I’ll try again, and I know I would have loved it as I loved its predecessors Red Alert and Red Alert 2.
3 Stars Excellent, but…
The game is excellent, good graphics, easy to learn, but the detail that you can install it just 5 times is the worst case scenario, please ! what about if you need to change computer or you can install it in the office, 5 times to install it is a VERY HARD restriction
4 Stars A good sequel for the saga
“It’s been 7 years since EA released Red Alert 2, Comrades. Now EA has come with the next game, What would happen if Einstein didn’t exist?” Well, this was a quote from EA’s website ([...]).
The games stages a new era for USA and Mother Russia, along with a COMPLETELY NEW FACTION, Empire of the Rising Sun. Its a pretty interesting game that includes some ol’ things form RA2 and mixes em’ up to create new ones. It’s a very good game, good graphics.
Good Job EA Los Angeles!
4 Stars A hit from EA
The third installment of the Red Alert series has finally come with exceptional results.
Storylines:
The storylines for each faction aren’t exactly predictable, but the climaxes are too much alike, especially the Soviets and Allies. The Empire starts to go down the same track, but varies. They aren’t exactly realistic, but neither is a Tesla Trooper and we still get a kick out of them, right?
Missions:
The missions work you, and require much more brain power and thinking that other Red Alert installments. The game really starts to put more and more pressure on you the longer you take in each mission, which puts the reality aspect into play - the faster, the better.
Characters:
Yes, sex does sell, but sex is not what is up for sale here. The game uses models for the women in the game. (Almost) all of them are dressed in a way the military would not accept them for, but again.. they’re models. The men in the game play a much more convincing role and it helps if you don’t know who they are and what films you’ve seen them in before, because the acting overall is on the fence when it comes to trying to convince you they’re actually trying to be a General, or in some cases, a crazy power hungry Russian.
Graphics:
The graphics are AMAZING in this game, especially if you can get all the graphics to the best quality possible around the board. The best improvement from the last Red Alert game is the water. It actually looks like water that not only moves in the wind, but moves when it’s interupted with something, like a ship…. or a sattelite.
Online play:
The game is too new to exactly rate online play because everyone is still new to the game… but there are still the crazy people who really know what theyre doing.
It’s a good buy and I’m sure you would enjoy it.
7.5/10
