FrozenLiquidity
10-30-2000, 11:41 AM
As of 10/24 Red Alert 2 is finally out.
Go get it now! Looks like it uses a heavily modified version of the Tiberium Sun engine, it also supports resolutions of up to 1024*768. The movies are much better quality now.
Many various gameplay improvements have been made. Westwood made sure that every unit was important in one way or another.
Infantry can now barricade themselves in buildings, Allied ore trucks can chronoshift and the Soviet ore trucks have light machine guns on them. Unfortuneatly there seems to be a lack of air units. The Allies have Rocketters, Harriers, Nighthawk helicopters and Aircraft carrier jets. However the Soviets have only one air unit, which is the Blimp. The game is very well balanced, the tesla coils have been tuned down quite a bit, and the Allies now have a heavy defence building, the Prisim tower, which can channel energy from other nearby prisim towers and release a deadly beam. Allies also have a ground unit that will change properties depending on what kind of unit is riding in it. If you put a GI in it then it will have a chaingun, if you put a engineer in it, it will be a repair vehicle, if you put a tesla trooper in it, then it will be like a tesla-tank.
There are many other improvements, each country has it's own unique unit, for instance Great Britian has snipers, and Cuba has terrorists. The paratroopers now come in squads of around 8 people instead of the measily five in the first game. Each side has it's own different superweapons. Aliies have the Chronosphere (which now transports groups of units) and a weather control center (which can unleash a lightning storm, very deadly, reminds me of Earth 2150). Soviets have the nuke (duhhh, which is a bit better and it leaves bhind radiation that will kill units) and the Iron Curtian (now targets groups of units. Also, when a superweapon building is deployed, it will reveal the location to all players and display the time remaining before it will be online.
There are many different modes of multiplayer games, including a Co-op campaign against the computer.
Many of you are probably thinking that the game is a bit unbalanced in the allies favor since most of the new units are allied units. But fear not, the Soviets have several disticnt new units and buildings that greatly enhance the soviit army. One such building is the Nuclear Power plant, no longer do you have to build tons and tons of power plants to power your tesla coils. One Nuclear power plant can handle the power for an entire base. The downside is that if it gets destroyed.... you get the idea...
They also have a cloning facility that will produce an exact replica of any infantry unit you create, free of charge. Good way of getting an army up quickly. They also have the Apocolapse tank which many of you know as the Mammoth tank but it is beefed up a bit. Kills units in one or two hits most of the time. Also the tesla troopers, if they are near a tesla coil, can pump their energy into it, enchancing the damage that the tesla coil delivers.
The blimp is also a great weapon of mass destruciton, killing buildings and most units in one or two hits, but it is a very slow unit.
You will be in awe at the great Naval vessels that this game has to offer. You must check out the Crusader (I think that's what its called) that packs TWO V3 guided missiles. Similar to the Allied Crusier in the first game.
Anyway, enough chat, go out and get this game now!!
FrozenLiquidity
Go get it now! Looks like it uses a heavily modified version of the Tiberium Sun engine, it also supports resolutions of up to 1024*768. The movies are much better quality now.
Many various gameplay improvements have been made. Westwood made sure that every unit was important in one way or another.
Infantry can now barricade themselves in buildings, Allied ore trucks can chronoshift and the Soviet ore trucks have light machine guns on them. Unfortuneatly there seems to be a lack of air units. The Allies have Rocketters, Harriers, Nighthawk helicopters and Aircraft carrier jets. However the Soviets have only one air unit, which is the Blimp. The game is very well balanced, the tesla coils have been tuned down quite a bit, and the Allies now have a heavy defence building, the Prisim tower, which can channel energy from other nearby prisim towers and release a deadly beam. Allies also have a ground unit that will change properties depending on what kind of unit is riding in it. If you put a GI in it then it will have a chaingun, if you put a engineer in it, it will be a repair vehicle, if you put a tesla trooper in it, then it will be like a tesla-tank.
There are many other improvements, each country has it's own unique unit, for instance Great Britian has snipers, and Cuba has terrorists. The paratroopers now come in squads of around 8 people instead of the measily five in the first game. Each side has it's own different superweapons. Aliies have the Chronosphere (which now transports groups of units) and a weather control center (which can unleash a lightning storm, very deadly, reminds me of Earth 2150). Soviets have the nuke (duhhh, which is a bit better and it leaves bhind radiation that will kill units) and the Iron Curtian (now targets groups of units. Also, when a superweapon building is deployed, it will reveal the location to all players and display the time remaining before it will be online.
There are many different modes of multiplayer games, including a Co-op campaign against the computer.
Many of you are probably thinking that the game is a bit unbalanced in the allies favor since most of the new units are allied units. But fear not, the Soviets have several disticnt new units and buildings that greatly enhance the soviit army. One such building is the Nuclear Power plant, no longer do you have to build tons and tons of power plants to power your tesla coils. One Nuclear power plant can handle the power for an entire base. The downside is that if it gets destroyed.... you get the idea...
They also have a cloning facility that will produce an exact replica of any infantry unit you create, free of charge. Good way of getting an army up quickly. They also have the Apocolapse tank which many of you know as the Mammoth tank but it is beefed up a bit. Kills units in one or two hits most of the time. Also the tesla troopers, if they are near a tesla coil, can pump their energy into it, enchancing the damage that the tesla coil delivers.
The blimp is also a great weapon of mass destruciton, killing buildings and most units in one or two hits, but it is a very slow unit.
You will be in awe at the great Naval vessels that this game has to offer. You must check out the Crusader (I think that's what its called) that packs TWO V3 guided missiles. Similar to the Allied Crusier in the first game.
Anyway, enough chat, go out and get this game now!!
FrozenLiquidity