THIS OR RED ALERT 3

[CamelSAMA!]

as stated

[THEGoofyGoober24]

This

[Vega]

C&C3 has fast paced action with a better story & balancing, RA3 is slower but has more gameplay variety & a solid although far less serious story. They both have demos (not on Steam though to my knowledge.) so i'd give them a try if you only want one.

[Clord]

I would recommend both. They're dirty cheap right now.

[RetroGamingGalaxy]

To be honest, avoid Red Alert 3. Coming from RA 1 to RA 2 - YR it was a complete joke. If you enjoyed Tiberian Sun, get this game.

[Gralzeim]

Red Alert 3 has George Takai though. And of course the Red Alert 3 story isn't as serious, Red Alert has been getting less serious as the series has gone on. Red Alert 2 was far less serious than Red Alert, and Yuri's Revenge amped that up to eleven. Heck, the main timeline C&C games have never been truely 'serious', either. They have a sort of campy silliness as well, just not as off-the-wall as Red Alert.


Both are good games, though.

[Pigeons555]

I had a lot of fun with RA3. A lot of people bash it for being mildly goofy/not serious, which is basically overanalyzing humor until it's not funny anymore.


RA3 is pretty well balanced (no more Prism Tanks or those G.I.s), but when you counter effectively, it's so satisfying going through enemies like crap through a goose

Units in RA3 have great voice acting, none of them are boring or get stale. And the whole game is units basically

You will have a good time with RA3, I can promise you, as a huge fan of Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge (1000+ hours from childhood)

[Grizzk]

Red Alert is set within the past of Earth, RA1 with a "What if" world war II never happened. RA2 being a "What if" the cold war wasn't so cold but the world wasn't destroyed. RA3 is something along those lines I guess. Tiberium wars is the third in the original series of Command and Conquer games, stemming from the roughly 1960s set Global defence initiative against The freedom fighters of NOD lead be Kane, then evolved into post apocalyptic wars in Tiberian sun and no the slightly mucked up by EA Command and conquer 3. Tiberium wars is good though, the fourth one just... no. Kane's wrath is very nice expansion, my one shame to it is that the "steel talons" use a Mammoth MK III rather than the railgun walker "MKII" found in the Tiberian sun game that steel talons are based off. I would recommend Tiberium wars.

[CamelSAMA!]

Originally posted by Clord:

I would recommend both. They're dirty cheap right now.

yeah that's why i'm doubting, it might be tiberium

[CamelSAMA!]

Originally posted by Cmd_Grizzk_SAH_GWR:

Red Alert is set within the past of Earth, RA1 with a "What if" world war II never happened. RA2 being a "What if" the cold war wasn't so cold but the world wasn't destroyed. RA3 is something along those lines I guess. Tiberium wars is the third in the original series of Command and Conquer games, stemming from the roughly 1960s set Global defence initiative against The freedom fighters of NOD lead be Kane, then evolved into post apocalyptic wars in Tiberian sun and no the slightly mucked up by EA Command and conquer 3. Tiberium wars is good though, the fourth one just... no. Kane's wrath is very nice expansion, my one shame to it is that the "steel talons" use a Mammoth MK III rather than the railgun walker "MKII" found in the Tiberian sun game that steel talons are based off. I would recommend Tiberium wars.

Tiberium wars it is!

[Geffalrus]

RA3 has better acting. That's not saying much. But it's kind of fun to see Tim Curry and George Takei chew up their scenes.

[Gralzeim]

Originally posted by Geffalrus:

RA3 has better acting. That's not saying much. But it's kind of fun to see Tim Curry and George Takei chew up their scenes.

On the other hand, Tiberium Wars has Michael Ironside (General Granger) and Joe Kucan (Kane), and Billy Dee Williams (Director Boyle, but most people probably know him better as Lando Calrissian from Star Wars), who all deliver solid performances.

Of course, it's campy, but all C&C games are meant to be campy. Ignoring C&C4 which was less campy and more "What sort of drugs were they on when they wrote this drek". Commander, your cyber eyeballs can open the gateway! Let me just turn them on with this TV remote. (spoilers I guess)

[Treyzen]

or to settle their argument, get the Ultimate Collection on Origin [www.origin.com] and get full games from C&C1, RA1, Generals to RA3

other option is that you buy the C&C collection on Steam, you can atleast get a decent price on sale at times

[Hobo Misanthropus]

I didn't really like CnC3's campaign missions. The story (GDI Particularly, NOD is always fun just because of Kane) felt kind of directionless. Also, I don't like a lot of the mission design in the campaign. I get that maybe if you want good olde MCV Baserush gameplay, there's always skirmish. But I liked the whole standard CnC base-building gameplay being the rule and not the exception in CnC's campaign. (See; CnC95 and TibSun)

But CnC3's core Gameplay is really good. Better than Tiberian sun, which had some weaknesses, despite it being my favorite CnC game. Kane's Wrath is even better. And Kane's Wrath has that cool world conquest mode that adds a much needed Strategic layer in addition to the tactical RTS combat.


I didn't like Red Alert 3. Red Alert 2/Yuri's Revenge found a nearly perfect balance of Goofy, rooted in reality, and RA2 probably has the best online meta (CnC3/Kane's Wrath is really good too though). Red Alert 3 flies right off the rails in a Transforming mech.

If you want to play these games online, look up cncnet.