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Definitely One of the Best Strategy Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: April 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is an extremely fun game.You should buy it. Now for my oft dreaded review:
GRAPHICS: Nothing special, but not terrible. Units are colorful and easy to tell apart. Some people may not like the "cartoony" look absent from previous C&C games.The scale isn't great(a Grizzly Light Tank is half the size of a baseball stadium)but it's still better then, for instance, StarCraft.
Landscape: Pretty good overall. Water and trees could use some work.
Textures: Uhhhh...
Shadows: Awful.
Effects: Explosions aren't great, but the fire is OK.
GRAPHICS OVERALL: 5.5

GAMEPLAY: Excellent. Very addictive and easy to get into. Only problem: missions are just too easy.
GAMEPLAY OVERALL: 8.5

SOUND: Pretty good. A lot of music tracks BUT- half the units say the same thing.
SOUND OVERALL: 6.5

CREATIVITY: Well...
CREATIVITY OVERALL: 2.5

GAME OVERALL: 9.0
Actually I'm 13. Sorry, amazon.com

THE BEST STRATEGY PC game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game blows all others away with great graphics, cool new catch frases when you click on units, and an almost endless amount of new units and buildings. You get nuke silo's and weather machines but those are only a few of the buildings. You go through an epic struggle to defeat the allies, or defeat the soviets who have a powerful mind controling weopon who's name is Yuri. It is definitely beatible because I beat the game with the allies.
Whether you want to win with the prism defense systems of the allies or the tesla technology of the soviets, There is no end to the excitement of beating the 20 levels or so on either team.

Great game that delivered where it needed to deliver

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First off, this is the second review I've written for this game...I guess Amazon deleted all the reviews or something. Oh well, on to the review!

Many people were turned off to the CC series with Tiberian Sun. "It was too slow, too boring!" they said. Fear not, for RA2 brings the fun back to this legendary series.

At first glance, the game units and graphics almost look like they were taken straight out of a cartoon compared to past CC games. But you'll soon come to appriciate the graphics and the visuals. The units are fairly large; no more losing units in the background. Both the Soviets and the Allies have some impressive new units and some good ole' renditions from the old RA game. The Tesla Coil is back, and now, the Tesla trooper is a mainstay. The allies have some beefed up troops, who can deploy into stationary gunners that can be the bane of advancing Soviet troops. And let's not forget Professor Einstein and all his wonderful creations that he's going to cook up for the allies. Yes, the Soviets are not as technically advanced, but you'll love the brute force that they possess. You'll know no horror like when you're playing the allies and you suddenly see 10 Zepplins heading straight for your base. Ouch time.

The cinimatics are better than most game movies, but they are fairly cheesy in some points (like the end movie for the allies). We finally get to see a living and breathing Eva and Tanya, and they're not to be taken lightly. And, they look good too (well, do you really think that EA and Westwood would choose Rosanne Barr to play Tanya?!?!).

Overall, this is a very good game that could have been made a little better by having a few more single player missions. The game pace is frantic, fun, fast-paced, and exciting. You'll never be bored while playing this. It is a must-own for all strategy fans, and most computer game fans the world over.

Pros and Cons

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Pros:

Their are several pros to this game. The engine itself is pretty good. If you played any of the other C&C games, you'll know exactly how to play this one. The game also doesn't have some of the problems that Tiberian Sun Possessed. In TS, the AI would just send a thousand sacrificial Engineers to your camp, you kill 999 of them, but one of them always made it through and took over your construction yard. RA2 has sacrificial engineers coming your way but they are balanced enough that they rarely ever make it through your front lines. The cinematics are great. Full Screen. What could be more fun then watching a terrorist with a bomb strapped to his chest and blow up a general.

Cons: These are my personal feelings. The game has a CD-key. I hate CD-Keys just because you can't just put the CD in a CD carry case and let it be. Also, the disk is protected by SafeDisc(like all new Westwood games.) It is pretty easy to get around if you know how. I'm not going to tell you how but it makes it an annoyance if you want to make a backup copy for archival purposes.

The game itself has little cons. It is just fun. It'll give you 20 hours or so of solid game play.

Westwood rounds off its assets

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Judging completely nonobjectively, many observers may find themselves thinking of Red Alert 2 merely as another installment in a saga that has had neither large change nor thrilling inovation. In fact, this is not quite true. Speaking purely technically, this game offers what the other side of the Command and Conquer saga never could:an experience which was at least close to par with that of an actual wartime environment. See, the alternate side of the saga, or that which concerns the two warring organizations NOD and GDI, usually, at least from what I have seen of it, focused on "infiltration", Where as Red Alert, or at least Red Alert 2, focused mainly on "invasion". Look at the facts: in the command and conquer saga, units are stronger, more impervious to damage, they cost more, and the standard base (at least in Tiberian Sun)are protected by things such as automated security gates, guard towers, etc. Yet, in the Red Alert series, units are cheap, larger amounts of money are more easily acquired, units are more easily destroyed, and bases have no need for things like security gates and guard towers, but rather pill boxes and prism towers. These are all things that constitute the existence of large invasion forces composed of similar units. Yet, why then, I'm sure you ask, did I give the game only four stars? Well, very simply, I did it because the premise is SO rediculous. The reunification of the Soviet Union and their subsequent invasion of the United States? It's just too unlikely a premise. The title of "Premier" doesn't even exist over there anymore. Anyway, I also had to go against the movies that play between mission. Westwood: please try to get rid of some of the cheese in some of the cut scenes, for god's sake. In anycase, this is a great game, offering an engrossing interface while making the Command and Conquer saga a bit more well-rounded.

A great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: May 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of my favorite PC games. Despite the cheesy cutscenes and lame actors, the game does a good job of what its supposed to do: have battle sims. The story doesn't seem as cheesy to me as others say it is, and the skirmish is the most fun ive ever had on the computer(if you dont like the game, then blowing apart the enemy with 36+ fighter planes is something you should try!) Also, the demolition trucks and terrorists are pretty fun to just line up in an empty space and mass destroy(take that bin Laden ;) ) All in all, aside from cheesy cutscenes and [poor] acting, this game is top quality.

GregoryB Reveiw

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The best game out there sweet graphic and the sweetest gameplay
IS A MUST I REPEAT MUST BUY

This is the best game that ever hit the shelves

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have heard people make tons of complaints about this game that are nonsense(not on amazon.com.) First complaint that people make is that the graphics are bad (outdated.) What are you talking about!!? This game has excellent graphics(better than age of empires or starcraft.) Some people even go far enough to say that the movies and cut scenes are laughable. Again, the movies are really cool. Even my little brother has fun watching me play the single player games. The games are action packed. The graphics are excellent. The new features add lots of ways to beat each mission (putting soldiers in civilian buildings and blowing up bridges.) Also some people say that beating the missions depennds on buiding large amounts of units. Yet again wrong!! What if your opponent has heavy base defenses or large groups of units stationed around their base? There are so many kinds of untits for the Allies and Soviets(enginiers and spies add new possibilities for all missions. Some people say that the game depends on super units(such as prism or appocalipse tanks.) Not really. There are pwerful units bet the game does not depend on super units. The terrain IS deformable(when tanks blow up they leave marks and trees and bridles can be destroyes.) Every aspect of the game is heaven. From building my base to attacking the enemy. If you havn't bought it you should definately get it.

Red alert 2 a cool game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Red alert is an extremly frn game. Wether its the soviets or the alies you can be the ruler of all. In the alied campain you are more defensive then offensive. On the other hand, being the soviets you are ofensive. Also on the skirmish mode you can in a way make your own levels with up to eight players. You can also save maps you make and you can save skirmish levels in the middle. Being The alied you can have airplanes which are faster then the soveit's ziplins. In the begining of the skrimish games the soveits are faster at relasing attaks but the allies can teleport and get money faster. but usaly the soveits run out of money early and have to wait. A fun game and i would consider geting it. The game is a bit long to complete both campains

Great Competitive Online Atmosphere

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Electronic Arts gave XWIS (strike-team.net) all of Westwood's old games and the online servers. This has dramatically improved fair gameplay, support, and competition. XWIS offers prizes for top players each month. Great game to be able to get all of this for. Also one of the best RTS sellers of all time.

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