EA Games Working on Red Alert 3?

[DasHogg]

I came across this article today saying that they migt be making a new Red Alert game.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=57351

What to do you think of it? Real, rumor, if real do you think it'll be good as the other C&C games or standard EA crap?

[gunner154]

Oh great. It sounds believable, considering that red alert 2 was FAR MORE popular than tiberian sun and generals...

But it doesn't clarify what it means by this "powerful engine". the generals engine or the ra2 engine? if it's generals engine, and they're going to 'expand' it, we'll have a lot of problems playing it...

I think one sequel is enough. EA isn't westwood. oh well.

[Dunenewt]

Can't wait personally :)

[Andrew]

It would be nice if they sticked with the Red Alert universe, those first games were awesome. Went downhill afterwards.

[Dunenewt]

I prefered the original Tib Dawn best, Tib Sun was awful, but RA2 was really fun.

[Andrew]

RA2 I did not enjoy as much as RA1, but it was still somewhat fun, although it ran slow on big maps with lots of units on my old pentium 2 300mhz. Which is why it probably never got played as much.

[AMIgaBot]

i have tip for ra 2 lol,  i think they maybe work in ra 3. 

make force attack on ur barracks, produce engineer and spy(if u are allies) then select two that units, select waypoints, first put near barracks, second in barracks, then start,  engineer repair barracks and spy infiltrate to your own barracks and u get more rank on them,  i tried that on construction yard and they halted my bulding while i was building it lol.

[bryorama]

RA over Tib for me. I might buy it, I don't know.

If it comes out.

[gunner154]

I prefered the original Tib Dawn best, ...

Well said!! I love Tiberian Dawn too! Excellent game! Classic! Magnificent! Wonderful! Ancien- Wait, nothing.

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Red Alert one was absolutely the best game at its time. I preffer RA1 over Tiberian Dawn. RA2 was also awesome!

and I guess RA3 will be just as good as RA2.

[Caid Ivik]

Both RAs were made for prepubertal freaks which wanted to see Kari Wuhrer somewhere else than in advertisment and never played a good RTS. Like original C&C or Tiberian Sun...

[AMIgaBot]

i have bad news. Red alert 3 will be based on cnc generals engine :( i got reply from EA :/ they make again f***d up game.  why they dont use Red alert engine.. ahhh sounds was good, but now they are poor. and unheardable :(

[DukeLeto]

Uh...no offense, but that's about the dumbest thing I've heard today.  "Why didn't they use the Red Alert engine"?  Because it's nearly 9 years old!  You'd never be able to sell a product these days using graphics from 1996! :O

Wait...You do realise that the engine being used only really affects the graphics quality, right?

[Khan]

People don't like change, they would rather have the Isometric Graphics of the previous C&C games that they know they already like, then take a gamble on graphics that they could end up disliking, a la Generals.

[DukeLeto]

But the graphics are irrelevant.  They could just as easily screw up a game using extremely dated graphics as make a terriffic game using new ones!

And RA1 wasn't isometric, it was 2D top-down viewpoint, a la WarCraft II.

[Khan]

You view the action from an isometric perspective typical of most other 2D real-time strategy games

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/commandconquerredalert2/review.html

Check again, Every C&C game was isometric up until Emperor.

[DukeLeto]

That's RA2.  We aren't talking about RA2.  We're talking about RA1.  And RA1 was top-down.

[Khan]

Look at the buildings, it is clearly not fully top down.

[DukeLeto]

It is generally considered top-down.  Tiberian Sun is acknowledged as the first Isometric C&C game.

[Wolf]

That's really too bad... I was looking forward to a Tiberian Twilight game series... I played RA1 before I tried any other Westwood game, and my favorites are still Dune 2000 and Tiberian Sun. I mean, for me at least, the story of Tiberian Sun, et. al is the most interesting -- next to Dune, of course, but Westwood didn't come up with Dune.

[Procyon]

Why RA3? EA have already crapped the C&C storyline with RA2. WHY RA3 and not

[Khan]

And WTF have happened with those pics that were of rumor about a TT?

That was westwood, this is EA. :(

[DukeLeto]

Some guy from EA has said there is a "very real chance" they will do C&C 3 some day.  This is just the order they've chosen to devolop them in, because the RA series sold better.  Deal with it.  Your b*tching about it won't change anything.

[gunner154]

Another business gimmick...

Procyon? I totally agree with you. Although I found the squids to be cool at first, they were really... I don't know. I just think it's stupid now.

Have you ever seen the Allied ending in RA2? It's a CARTOON! It's simply does not fit well with a game that is meant to have a more serious storyline. This is a post-cold war kind of story, between the Allied forces (primarily US) and the Soviet Union. And now bring in a  crappy storyline and ending? I seriously think Westwood/EA can do better than that.

I have nothing against the Generals engine. I think it's great. Both engines are wonderful. However, I fear that the Generals engine is a real bloodsucker that would greatly worsen the gaming experience if you can't run it.

Maybe EA could provide free video cards that could run the game ;D

[Procyon]

That was westwood, this is EA. :(

But don