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After seven years, Red Alert returns! After a time travel mission goes awry, a new superpower has been thrust onto the world stage and World War III is raging. The Empire of the Rising Sun has risen in the East, making WW III a three-way struggle between the Soviets, the Allies, and the Empire with armies fielding wacky and wonderful weapons and technologies such as Tesla coils, heavily armed War Blimps, teleportation, armored bears, intelligent dolphins, floating island fortresses, and transforming tanks.
Experience the next chapter of the Red Alert saga.
Facts & Features
- Every unit has secondary functions. The allied tank for instance is able to concentrate radar beams to be used as a scouting unit
- Although not visible on the screens, there's going to be massive damaging in RA3, with weapons carving colossal craters into the ground
- Most structures are able to be bulit on water for extra cost
- Ships can only "land"/leave shore on sand, so its crucial to defend these areas
- The article writer claims that the impressive graphics don't shine through the screens. In his opinion, graphics are much better compared to CnC3, he's especially flabbergasted by the animations
- The Russians have a submarine called "Akula" which isn't simply deadly against ships, but is able to train divers as well
- The Bullfrog transport ship doesn't have to set shore, its able to "shoot" out the units it's carrying
- The Japanese Seawing bomber is able to transform into a submarine simply by falling into the water
- Sea battles will be crucial in this game
- The Japanese will have a water based tank called "Tsunami" which is both heavily armoured and powerful, and slower on land than in water
- The campaign can be co-operatively played with a friend from start to finish. If there's no one to play it with, you can choose between an array of AI allies to fight the war
- Starcraft 2's lead designer worked on RA3 before he went to Blizzard
- Gameplay will be much slower, an aspect, along with the beta, that the team concluded from Tiberium Wars. The writer confirms this slowdown.
- Enemy soldiers freeze upon Allied dogs barking
- The Mobile V4 is able to swim as well, but its main draw points is the precise and area effective attack.
- The Russians' submarine, the Stingray Nasad, sports Tesla-launchers, and is a rather small, but fast unit
- The writer praises the smooth animations, explosion effects and water in general again and again, its crazy!
- Live action FMVs are back mixed with CGI and outdoor scenes
- The writer holds that Red Alert 3 wont be as good as Starcraft 2, but damn close, and even better than Red Alert 2
- No Yuri
- Atmosphere is top notch
- Expansion pack is already planned
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