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Fast, Furious, Fun and Looks Good!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am running the game with a Celeron 300A (no overclocking)with TNT (the first)and yet the game blazes through each mission like no tomorrow.

You can zoom in and out, rotate it and elevate it all angles without a drop of sweat. The graphics are great and the game is fast. No tedious micro-management, no resource gathering pain - just plan your attack strategy and send your troops out!

Beware Dark Reign 2 !

Good Game only for good Computers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

To all people going to buy this game. While this is a great game if you have tried the demo, it is not the greatest game to get the full version on. I had ordered the game from amazon and had downloaded it onto my computer. When it did not play / activate, I proceeded to the website where they had many patches to fixes problems (bugs) for the game. I had downloaded the patches and applied them to my computer and after a long time of trying It still didn't work, so I returned it. But hay if you think this review is bull, then feel free to learn the hard way for yourself, But I atleast hope it works for you

Excellent Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I only recently managed to acquire a computer capable of running this game and finally went out to get it after much anticipation. I have not been disappointed. It has a story that, if a little unimaginitive, I found to be quite enjoyable. As for the gameplay, the focus on tactics and effective use of your limited units against almost always numerically and technologically superior foes rather than constructing a hoard of disposable units was quite refreshing. The game's AI is generally great, occasionally it does some stupid things but I have encountered this in every game I've played. The normal difficulty can be quite punishing as the AI is very unforgiving, but this is a refreshing challenge. Also, I have found that in many levels the most obvious path is not always the best, often there is an alternate route to an objective that is less heavily defended. The use of terrain is quite important and the enemy knows this as well. One occasional annoyance is that sometimes you will get on the high ground and attempt to fire on a target below only find yourself unable to, however, I usually encounter this when I try to fire at something directly below a cliff face that I am sitting atop. Thus, I chalk this up to added realism, my tanks being unable to depress their guns sufficiently to assault the target. The solution to this problem is simple, just use artillery or other mortar style weapons. Another excellent feature is you are required to use combinations of units, going with all one type of unit can be a recipe for disaster. For example, one mission I deployed nothing but heavy tanks incapable of defending against air attacks, the AI then was able to slaughter my force with its ground attack aircraft and I could do nothing to defend my poor tanks. If I have any qualms it is that the tanks are somewhat ineffective against infantry, which is highly unrealistic, but I see the reason they did this as it helps keep the game from degenerating into a tank rush (infantry, bombs, or artillery in order of effectiveness are generally the best defense against other infantry). A very enjoyable feature I found was that midway through the game you switch sides, this is refreshing as some RTS games make you play as simply one side throughout. Though the side you switch to has overall better technology it is at a point when the other side (which you were previously on) has the upper hand, thus you still have a challenge. The graphics are also top notch and the totally free roaming camera are both nice features that simply serve to enhance an already great experience.

C&C went down the toilet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game I've played since C&C Red Alert! It's graphics are incredible, you can zoom in on you troops and watch them fight your enemies or command them to use special weapons from a more overhead veiw. The special weapons are awsome! They go from small mordors to nuclears bombs! There is a wide variety of units to command too. They go from marines, to tanks, to airplanes! I've stayed hooked on this game already longer than any other game I have played in my life! So if you are going to bye a RTS game or any other type of game for that matter in the near future bye this one!

only played demo but still 6 stars!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ive only played the demo version of this game but ive already become addicted! My parents say I buy too many games and I cant get any more(Oh man!)but if I could I would for sure buy GC. This game in a word ROCKS! Its well worth your money. And if u cant get it right away(like me) find someway to get the demo! Awsome units and the best graphics, a chalenge but still fun! Buy it.

Unreasonable Fustration !!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

After downloading the most recent video and audio drivers from my computer manufacture, updating my Bios...and downloading the 1008 patch from Sierra it still won't start. I'm not a computer geek. I don't want to reinvent an operating system or sit around for 3 hours downloading this and upgrading that just to make a da-n game, that I paid more for than a family trip to the movies, run like it should have out of the box. If Sierra fixes this game so it works, mabe I can actually review it. But for now, RETURN.

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