Customer Reviews

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3

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This game is really fun. Especially when you play it with friends. The campaign is entertaining as well, although sometimes I wish the story was a bit more serious. I give this game five stars both for being really fun to play and it runs great on my 1 1/2 year old MacBook Pro. Finally some great games on a Mac! If you like C&C or RTS games, you won't regret buying this game.

As much as I love the Command & Conquer series, this one is a letdown. I think EA has become lazy or just isn't worrying much about Command & Conquer anymore. The C&C Generals was much better, but with the only negative being that they had taken out the ships from the weapons you could build. This time they brought it back, but limited some other areas. In Skirmish mode, you now have only 3 different factions. I'm pretty sure there were much more in Generals. Plus the fact that you can only have three different teams, instead of 4, and maps with the maximum of 6 players, instead of 8.
To make things worse, even if you play with a large screen resolution, some of the buildings are too tall, making your battle space cluttered up to a point that sometimes you can't find a smaller one, like the barracks.
To summarize, it just seems that EA doesn't care anymore.

I like Civ 3 and other games like Red Alert but the system requirements were very high to have any high quality video or graphics. I have an Apple Imac with a 2.4 Ghz Intel chip and still the I had to set the second lowest option for graphics. I had high hopes for this game because there are not many good Mac games available. I thank Amazon.com because they refunded me when I returned the game and credited me for the full amount.

My suggestion is if you are looking to buy this game, purchase it for PC which I believe is marked down now or there is a special edition available on PS3 which looks sweet. It has added bonus features in the PS3 version. Try the demo and see if its your cup of tea.

Like the previous games in the C&C series the mission briefings use real actors. It is a nice touch but the story is awful. Lump that together with clunky controls, AI that is a push over and you have a mediocre game. If you are a C&C fan you might enjoy it.

Looks like EA doesn't understand a bit from their customers. Fortunately I waited to purchase this item to confirm the existence of a draconian DRM in the game.

C&C Red Alert 3 can be installed on up to 5 computers. Each computer will get five free re-activations if you need to reinstall the game for any reason and beyond those five times EA will authorize any further re-activations on a case-by-case basis. The game will require you to sign onto the Internet to install the game.

Being on this way I just pass on this title. EA continues showing their lack of respect to their customers and I don't understand how EA did it again after the Spore critics. Since they insist to include DRM rootkits on their titles, then I insist in not buying anything from EA until all this useless crap is removed from their software.

If you use DRM then you'll not have my money.