3 posts tagged “red alert”

FFS is every CURRENT commerical Game PC company anti LAN coop ?

Just read this :
http://planetcnc.gamespy.com/
" Red Alert 3 will support LAN play as our previous RTS Games have such as C&C 3 and Kane's Wrath,
BUT , you cannot play co- operative campaign over LAN.
Co-op with a friend is only supported through online play. "

Looks like another game I wont be supporting by buying the Intial retail full price
NO LAN coop
DRM infested

Two strikes against RA3

 By the looks of the official (finally) announcement of
 Red Alert 3  http://www.ea.com/redalert/press_release.jsp

 I am going to say its going to be crap which is a shame
 Red Alert 1 (PC) and Red Alert 2 (PC) are GREAT FUN games .

 Releasing a RTS on a console is a BAD IDEA it will only result
 in watered down game play , slower movement and
 reduced multi player player amount.

 If you look at all the other game series that EA games
 have ruined over the  years its no surpirse that this series
 would get effected as well.

 I supported buying Red Alert 1 and 2 and one of the exp packs
 I doubt Ill support Red Alert 3 (PC)

 co-operative campaign play is something that a LOT OF PEOPLE
 wanted with Red Alert 1 and 2 its a shame it took this long to add it.

 With the watered down process are they going to downgrade
 from 8 players in Multiplayer to 4 or actually shock gamers
 and increase it to 12 or 16

 A standalone dedicated server is a must . I remember playing
 RA2 games from Friday night to Sunday (yes the same game
 session  with sleep/eat breaks) the game would slow RIGHT
 down after a while.

 I guess only time will tell with the leak of the beta (no doubt it will be leaked)
 and the release of the Demo and retail

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For anyone that has never played Red Alert 1 or Red Alert 2 on PC I suggest getting it
trying it out before playing Red Alert 3 gets released

Some pics of Red Alert 2:

C&C3 - 2gig Multiplayer Only Slim Install tip by Charliebrownau:

C&C3 is a Duel Layer DVD (8gig) but once it installs it uses about
6 gig on the Hard Drive . I have found by DELETING the 3 movie
files that get used for Single player the game folder is now 2.1 gig

The movie files are in :
x:\path\Command & Conquer 3\Movies\1.0\

You could go a step further and remove the single player maps
which takes up 255 MB of disk space:
x:\path\Command & Conquer 3\SP\1.0\SPMaps.big

Just tested the game after deleting the SP maps , the tutorial does NOT work either !
The game folder is now about 1.9 gig in size !  So if you just want to play Multiplayer and
save 4 gig of free space feel free to delete those files awell.

Note: I didnt use any no intro patchs/cracks/programs , once you delete the movie files ,
 it wont show the EA LOGO when loading the game.