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This Game Rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: October 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

(Note: This is Writer50's son)

Red Alert 2 features a new storyline (not pertaining to the old one), new units, new graphics, new sounds, and more depth, all of which are pretty good! Some of the old units have new features which add depth to the game. Like a Chrono Miner and the engineers ability to fix bridgers. The graphics are great for a game of this kind and if you know how to, you can edit the game in nearly every way. If you like war-strategy games or you liked Red Alert- Get This!

Some people (like those other than me that wrote a review for this game) don't know what their talking about!
1. For those you complained about the story, they use the word DECEPTION, it isn't cheesy! It could happen!
2. People complaining about new weapons and the year: It's kind of hard to tell what year it takes place in, but the new units used in the game could be developed in the future!
3. Yuri is added to the game as the Second in Command for Russia, is that hard to understand? In the next game, Yuri wants to take over the world :)

This Game Is Great!

Good fun, must buy for any and all PC gamers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: February 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well this is Westwood's 4th C&C RTS game, and it's GREAT as usual. I gave this 4 1/2 stars, but I rounded that to 5 to display on the title.

Red Alert 2, like all it's predecesors, is a strategy/war game by Westwood,a strategy gaming company owned by the huge Electronic Arts for a while now. It features 2 campaigns, 1 for each side, that walk you through the plot and train you for the regular battles ahead. There is a skirmish mode, which lets you play a multiplayer-style game with the AI. I once used this mode to re-inact the Bay of Pigs invasion, there are so many little options. True fun comes, though, with multiplayer mode, which is the main focus of the game.

Although in previous C&Cs, especially Tiberian Sun, there was a quite a lot of blood and gore when an infantry guy got killed, Red Alert 2 has NO Blood and NO Gore. In fact, when an infantryman is killed now, sometimes he'll say things like "Do'h!" and then fall over and disappear. Still, it's rated "T"like most strategy games. No swearing, either; the president says in the intro movie, "I wouldn't give a wooden nickel about your legacy."

The story is simple: after Red Alert (original), where the Soviets invade Europe in about 1940 instead of Germany because of some complex time-travel assasination that nobody really understands, the Allies install a puppet leader
in Russia. Seeming at first to be an advocate of peace, he later invades the Allies' main supplier and most important fighter the U.S.A. using mind-control and quite a few other intresting technologies. FMV movies will tell you most of the plot.

Once again, Westwod has included graphics that succeed in telling the player what is happening, but not state-of-the-art. They have continued to use their MegaVoxel technology, which models the game in a sort of 2D/3D cross but makes
the units look like an army of mold campared to conventional graphics. (Well that's an exaggeration but they're still quite bad-looking). But as I said before, they still let the player see what's happening, and that's enough,
I think.

The good news is that it needs no such 3D graphics cards that some conventional graphics games do.

Like in the original Red Alert you can pick the Allies or Soviets on a quest for world domination. The Soviets have more in the way of general power, the Allies have intresting technologies to counter that, usually involving prisms
or time travel.

The gameplay is fun and easy to learn. Veterans of C&C will know the interface as soon as they load up the game, it's pratically the same except the the waypoints have gotten confusing and a new cursor has been added to tell you if you are in range to fire or if your units must move first. The tank rush
is easier to resist now, you now have better base defenses and you can garrison buildings with troops. Garrisons are extremely powerful, underestimation of them will lead to a failed assualt that costs you 100,000 credits. The gameplay has been made quicker now, allowing you to finish in about 30 minutes to 1 hour. New multiplayer modes include team alliance and others.

The sound is still sharp, and each class of units has a different selection of random words to say when they are selected, moved, and fired. The music is good, provides ambience and has more speach than any other C&C games. No,
not like somebody is actually singing, but rather every once in a while someone'll say something like, "Gentlemen, it's a nuclear device," or something inaudible in the background.

The game is stable, but like all games you'll get a complete hang once in a while.

This game is a good buy and I had some great fun. It has its set of disadvantages, like all games, but it's gotten better and C&C is starting to get better each release. Obviously destined to be in a museum one of these years. The Last Remaining Copy will behind glass, with a demonstration on a computer to the side. The sign'll say, "Red Alert 2. Archeologists confirm
that it was probobly the best game of the year in 2000."

Pros

+Fast paced, action gameplay
+Easy to learn
+Another bumper crop of new units

Cons
-Graphics not quite, eh, state of the art
-Confusing Waypoints.

For those of you who enjoy strategy games...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Anybody who as ever played a strategy game and enjoyed it, this is the game for you! I borrowed this game from a friend for one day, and the next day I was out at the store buying it. I have been playing it for as long as I can remember, and I still try to play it as much as possible.

Some people are saying that this game requires no strategy whatsoever. Well, people who say that are most likely not winning a game right now. That is because they do not play with strategy, they simply build thirty tanks and watch them get blown up by the enemy defenses. As with any RTS game, you need to use strategy. Build forty-five tanks, send fifteen to the enemy base, and distract them. Then, send your remaining thirty tanks and annihilate their base. Unless I am mistaken, that is considered a strategy.

Of course, I must admit, Westwood Studios COULD have made Red Alert 2 with a Three-Dimensional engine, but that's not important. Sure, it may have a cheesy story and ultra-cheeseball cutscenes, but none of these things interfere with the fun gameplay of Red Alert 2.

As for parents worried about their children playing bloody, gory games, fear not! Red Alert 2 has no blood or gore at all. Oh, and also, there is no swearing.

All that I can say to you now is: BUY RED ALERT 2! You will not be dissapointed!

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

An excellent game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has to be one of the best I have played in a long time. This is no Red Alert duplicate. It has tons of original gameplay and is all around an awesome game. I would highly recommend this game for anyone who is a fan of real-time strategy

The game that Command & Conquer 2 should have been.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Red Alert has always paved the way for technology (on the game engine side), with the original Red Alert making the leap into SVGA. Red Alert 2 features a truely enhanced 2D engine with huge structures.

You finally get to fight on US soil (none of the previous C&C engines could have done this justice like the Red Alert 2 engine does). Gameplay is more back to basic, User Interface has been revamped for the first time in the series.

This doesn't feel like a sequel. If you've ever enjoyed C&C, buy this now.

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.

Sheer enjoyment

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Just wanted to say that the Amazon review notes the cheesy cut scenes as a negative aspect, where as most people I have talked to, and myself, find the overt and excessive cheesy factor to be highly entertaining.
Overall a fantastic game. Gameplay adds just enough new naunces to give it a unique feel. And what the graphics lack in a technical aspect, they make up for in artistic value, and by really helping build up the atmosphere of outrageous sci-fi/history/comedy mishmash background. While not the most well rounded or ground-breaking games around, it is one of the most fun games I've ever played.

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

Command And Conquer Red Alert 2 rocks!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played quite a few computer games(Star craft, Red Alert 1, Brood War, C&C....) Out of all these games I think this game is the best. I would easily give it an A+. It is full of action. It has an enormous variety of units that you can build. The graphics is great. The terrain is destroyable and deformable. The buildings are really detaild. There are many ways to beat each mission. If you like PC Strategy games, this one should definitely be next on your list.

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