Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 announced

**spmetla** · 02-20-2008, 08:45

RA3? Cool! Hopefully I'll be done replaying the whole C&C series before its released. Bought that first decade pack and have been finally able to play all those games again. The sheer novelty factor of hordes of attack dogs distracting enemy infantry and defenses while a powerful force attacks elsewhere can not be beat.

If it wasn't for Red Alert I wouldn't have learned about the many uses of Tesla coils

and Einstein's practical uses of time travel.

**Tratorix** · 02-20-2008, 20:55

Originally Posted by spmetla

If it wasn't for Red Alert I wouldn't have learned about the many uses of Tesla coils and Einstein's practical uses of time travel.

Yeah, I'm still not sure how the U.S. won the cold war when the Soviets had evil mind control powers on their side. Not to mention giant squids.

**Kekvit Irae** · 02-21-2008, 03:30

Originally Posted by Brave_Sir_Robin

Yeah, I'm still not sure how the U.S. won the cold war when the Soviets had evil mind control powers on their side. Not to mention giant squids.

One word: Tanya.

**spmetla** · 02-21-2008, 03:35

Well the soviets DID invade with giant uparmored blimps which was just asking to lose. Squids are just peons in the realm of the undersea threats, as are dolphins. If they used Octosquids then a US loss would have been assured.

**naut** · 02-21-2008, 05:27

YEY! Just made my day! Mindless unit spamming Red Alert style!

I'm looking forward to this so bad. Co-op campaign too!!!

**Martok** · 02-21-2008, 07:12

Originally Posted by Rythmic

Co-op campaign too!!!

I admit I'm somewhat intrigued by this idea. If it's done well, it could be a great way to play with friends without having to fight each other.

**Sardo** · 02-25-2008, 17:58

So, like most everyone else I'm very happy with this announcement, so much so that in anticipation of what will undoubtedly be another classic game (better make it so, EA!), I decided to fire up the good old RA2 once more. This is where I'm turning ever so slightly off-topic with a technical support question, so my apologies for that.
I tried the game on three different computers, and on each of them it will get all choppy and even hang up completely, apparently whenever a video is being played. The readme suggests that

if you find that the movie performance is choppy or jerky, try reducing the Windows 95/98 CD caching by going to the Start/Settings/Control Panel and double-clicking the System applet. In the System Properties dialog, click the Performance tab and then click the File System button. From the File System Properties dialog, click the CD-ROM tab and note the Supplemental Cache Size setting (so that you can reset the cache size if need be). Now set the Supplemental Cache Size to Small. This should have a marked effect on movie performance.

Of course, being on Windows XP, this advice is of no use whatsoever to me. Anyone know what to do here?

**Sarathos** · 05-21-2008, 02:41

Originally Posted by Nobunaga

I bet starcraft2 will be 100x better

Starcraft 2 will be good, better than starcraft 1. It may have the possiblity to equal RA but to be better I think its going a little too far.

Originally Posted by Nobunaga

blizzard is the best at making RTS games...

I too would disagree, Blizzard may have the most balanced/varied RTS but enjoyable is a whole other thing. To make a game which is good to look at and good to play isn't as easy as it sounds, and something Blizzard just can't do. Stick to the MMO's Bilzzard.

Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae

One word: Tanya.

Yes indeed, Tanya is one badass woman but don't forget Einstein's time abuse. See the Russians are actually from the future and never really existed in real time...