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I knew Red Alert I from my student days, and now the kid is playing Red Alert II and Yuri's revenge all the time. It was easily installed on Windows XP, and works like a charm. Very high value for the money. After so many years I still can't find another game as fun as this one in its network mode.
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AT LAST THEY CAME OUT IN ONE GIGANTIC GAME OF THE DECADE. WESTWOOD ROCKS, I REALLY LIKE TANYA AND THE SUPPORT GIRL FROM THE RED ALERT 2 AND YURI'S REVENGE..... DO YOU KNOW THESE GIRLS... I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM AGAIN IN ONE GAME FROM WESTWOOD STUDIOS....... OVER ALL REVIEW IS FIVE *****
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I guess the worst thing about this collection of games (12, counting expansion packs) is how it will take over your life. The sheer number of hours you will spend taking over Africa or defending Europe, saving or conquering America, and building fleets, armies, and weapons of total destruction will shock you. And I haven't even gotten to the expansion packs, yet. The entertainment value is mindboggling if you consider replay value which is virtually infinite. But seriously if you like real-time strategy games with challenging ai and increasingly better graphics and mind-control squids, this is your cup of tea.
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Command and Conquer was my first pc game. And now i have all of them on 1 dvd. I'm not a fan of EA but they put together a great package here. Its great to play Tiberium Sun again on xp now. These are all great games for any fan.And you can't beat the price.
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I've absolutely loved going back and playing Red Alert 2 w/ Yuri - I forgot how much fun it was!!! The Oblisk of light! Those Tesla coils! The ChronoTroopers! Yuri Prime! I had forgotten so much. And I was laughing out loud as I played the original. The graphics are dated, the original C&C overdramatics are there - makes for a very entertaining time. It was a bit of nostalgia, but genuinely entertaining too. If you're anything like me and have never really had an "up-to-date" computer, you'll appreciate now being able to play the games without performance issues and at maximized resolutions & detail!
I never did buy Renegade, and boy am I glad. I'm enjoying it now only because I'm not pissed off from paying full price for it. It reminds me of a Star Wars FPS I played in 1997. Being set in the C&C world is it's only redeeming value. This bundle is a great way to check out a game you missed along the way.
For me, at least, the earlier games with the simpler units boils the game back down to being a *strategy* game - something that I feel has gotten lost as the franchise has pushed the graphics and extra features to compete with other games and keep them new. The newer the game, the more it's about racing to tech up and marching mega-units across the battlefield (either that or just rush - but again, not fun!). It has given new life to these games to rediscover the strategy element.
It runs great on my system - I've got XP SP2 on an Athlon 2.5, 1gig RAM and a Radeon 9800 (256mb). Hardly a cutting edge system, but every game in the bundle runs fine; and not a single setup snag or issue (no "Catastrophic failures" or "CRC errors" for me). I haven't needed to install any patches (If it ain't broke, don't fix it!). I wonder if others that have had problems are running SP2? I did notice that some of the FMV for Red Alert II was jumpy, but I haven't rebooted in a while.
I haven't (and probably won't) try the online connections. Couldn't say what's broken and what's not in that regard.
I had Generals installed when I popped the 'First Decade' DVD in, and it told me that 'First Decade' would conflict with it and very nicely guided me through uninstalling Generals. I didn't have to remove any disks, dig out the original Generals disks, or reboot - very smooth. When I started the 'First Decade' version of Generals, it was like it had never been touched. All my saved games, awards won, even options, screen resolution and performance settings were still intact! Nice. (Yeah, I know it's all in a folder in "My Documents" - but I feared that had changed with the 'First Decade' version and I was expecting to have to monkey around with it).
Upon installation, 'First Decade' lets you choose any or all of the games to be installed. It's a slight bummer that you have to enter a separate license code for each game, but you only have to do it once. All games (except Generals) are numeric only - at least you can blast through them if you know you way around the number pad. Then you start 'First Decade' and you get a menu screen where you launch any title you installed.
Just like (nearly) everybody else, I'm super-jazzed to be able to go back and play all these games! It's great fun, highly recommended. Sounds like even if you do have some technical issues, there's patches out now to get you going (though I had no problems at all and didn't need any of the patches).
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