RED ALERT 3

The game graphics are not to be reckoned with, they are in simple terms...AMAZING!!! but again there is a downside, to play on Ultra High graphics you need a multiple core processor and a superior VGA card. I my self have a core 2 duo and the 8600 nvidia 512mb, and the game lagged like crazy on ultra graphics. Shame i should say that to experience the maximum out of the game you should have an extremely high specification pc (which sadly i cannot afford...sigh... :( ) but i did test the game on ultra high graphics and the water effects EA has achieved in the game is just pure poetry in motion (but then again you cant stare at the water graphics through the entire game like a brain dead vegetable i guess)!!! Even on high graphics the game is not all that bad for viewing pleasure.

All the draw backs in the graphics is completely out shone by the game play, which i have to say is just superb. The game is quite fast paced and enthralling (unlike some other strategy games that take hours to collect resources and build troops and advance in technology). The game also has a wide array of new units (love the bears....they remind me of one of my friends running around drunk). Stingrays, Akula submarines, Apollo fighters, Twinblades and a whole lot more. Some of the older units are seen to resurface in the game as well sometimes under new names and sometimes under the same old name, like the Allied Peacekeeper which was actually the basic assault unit in RA2 the soldiers/marines. The prism tanks in RA3 are replaced by Athena cannons which are more like a revamped versions of prism tanks and much more powerful, and finally you get the same units as the ones in previous RA games like the Mirage tanks and Tesla troopers.

The story line of the game is a bit weird though, and some of the characters in the cinematics either over act or not act at all!! I have seen quite a few of them in the silver screen (to the simple minded...the MOVIES) and they do their roles quite well in the movies, guess they tried to put in that little bit of extra effort on the game cut scenes and over shot it. Tanaya (Jenny McCarthy makes me laugh every time she tried to act tough, and every time Emperor Yoshiro (George Takei)says he is "God" I just crack up in doubles laughing.